A soap to clean clothes without rubbing: Take two pounds of sal soda,
two pounds of common bar soap and ten quarts of water. Cut the soap in
thin slices and boil together two hours; strain and it will be fit for
use. Put the clothes in soak the night before you wash, and to every
pailful of water in which you boil them add a pound of soap. They will
need no rubbing, but merely rinsing.