A hard cake of soap boiled from tallow and ash lye, milled and lightly scented — softer and harsher soaps are made at home in every household, but a bought cake is mild enough for skin rather than only for cloth. Perfumers make the scented sort as a sideline and it sells briskly, since it is the cheapest thing in the shop that makes a person feel wealthy.
Soap
Hard milled soap of tallow and ash lye, lightly scented.