Improved Process for Making Soap.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1897-Accepted, 28th Aug., 1897
UUMIDELE DI BUITIVATION.
Improved Process for Making Soap.
1, RICHARD GESELL, of 229 Kurfürsten Damm, Berlin, Germany, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of the present invention is to produce a soap which shall combine
certain advantages, which have hitherto only been contained separately in several
kinds of soaps. The finest and best toilette soaps should possess, as far as possible a
neutral character, i.e. neither of the soap forming agents, fat or alkali should
predominate. Soaps of this class may be finely perfumed and render the skin soft
and they will also remove slight impurities such as dust and the like from the
epidermis, but they are not available for cleansing the skin from dirt and impurities
caused by the rougher kinds of work nor will they remove inks or dyes from the
skin. In the latter case sharper purifying agents must be employed such as soaps
containing a surplus of alkali, such as soda soaps, or sand and pumice stone are
employed which tear and otherwise injure the epidermis. These agents remove the
Another class of toilette soaps
dirt but they render the skin hard and brittle.
comprises the so called medicinal soaps, which are employed not so much on account
of their purifying influence as regards dirt, but more owing to their antiseptic
influence. The number of disinfecting agents at present capable of being employed in
the production of medicinal soaps is proportionately small, since the same have to be
added to the soap mass in their natural condition and are consequently subjected to
external influences, which tend to deteriorate the antiseptic qualities of the in
course of time, so that the same will only keep a short time i.e. according to the
rate at which the antiseptic succumbs to external influences.
soap
The soap produced by the present process combines the advantages of the above
mentioned classes of soap at the same time obviating the disadvantages.
The main body of the present soap consists also of a neutral soap mass, obtained.
by saponifying fat or resinous substances of any kind. The cleansing of the skin
in the present soap is not attained by an excess of alkali nor by the addition of sand
or pumice stone. Instead of the above agents, asbestos and impregnated wood
fibres are added in varying proportions. The asbestos serves to gently rub the skin
and remove therefrom the particles of dirt and other impurities as also the dried
epithelial cells, which are absorbed by the asbestos. This action is considerably
enhanced by the wood fibres, which however serve an additional purpose in the
present case. The object of the wood fibre is to serve as a preserving agent for
perfumes and disinfecting means whereby especially the latter are retained and
rendered durable in the soap, so that medicinal soaps made on the present system
will keep better. The wood fibres are impregnated with boric acid or other
antiseptic and simultaneously with the required scent by means of compression, the
said agents being pressed into the fibres by suitable means, and are retained in the
wood cells and thus thoroughly protected against external influences. When in use
the walls of the wood cells are destroyed by the friction and the scent and antiseptic
will be imparted to the skin. The idea of confining scent and antiseptics in the
cells of wood fibres originated in the fact that cedar, rose wood and violet roots

page_text: 1% of pulverised bran,
.1% of pulverised oatmeal,
% Asbestos.
These ingredients are added to the soap mass and the whole is then impregnated
with a suitable percentage-5 % more or less of boric acid or any other cosmetic
agent.
....
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
and
The process for producing soap which consists in adding to the soap mass a
suitable percentage of pulverised wood fibres impregnated with suitable antiseptic,
disinfectant perfume, and also suitable percentage of pulverised bran, oatmeal
and asbestos substantially as described.
or
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.