The Making of Soap - Berenice Blackburn - Bog

The story of soap from a different perspective - that of the industrial chemist. Miss Blackburn worked many years in a laboratory given over to analysis of substances, and in later vears moved to a conglomerate making a range of retail goods of which soap and cosmetics were an important part of the brand. When she retired Miss Blackburn tended her vegetable garden and became largely self-sufficient.