Soft toilet soaps or creams may be prepared from fresh lard with a small addition of cocoanut oil and caustic potash solution, by the cold process or by boiling. For the cold process, 23 parts of fresh lard and 2 parts of Cochin cocoanut oil are warmed in a jacketed pan, and when the temperature reaches 133° F., are treated with 9 parts of caustic potash and 2½ parts of caustic soda solution, both of 38° be. Strength, the whole being stirred until saponfication is complete. The soap is transferred to a large marble mortar and pounded along with the following scenting ingredients: 0.15 parts of oil of bitter almonds and 0.02 parts of oil of geranium rose, or 0.1 parts of the latter, and 0.05 parts of lemon oil. The warm process is preferable, experience having shown that boiling is essential to the proper saponfication of the fats. In this method, 80 parts of tard and 20 parts of Cochin cocoanut oil are melted together in a large pan, 100 parts of potash lye (20° Be) being then crutched in by degrees, and the mass raised to boiling point. The combined influence of the heat and crutching vaporizes part of the water in the lye, and the soap thickens. When the soap has combined, the fire is made up, and another 80 parts of the same potash lye are crutched in gradually. The soap getst thicker and thicker as the water is expelled and finally throws up “roses” on the surface, indicating that it is nearly finished.