Grandma's Soap Recipe

This soap recipe was found in the 1909 RestRoom Guestbook
of my Grandmother Constance Warwick McGill's with other
saved memoiries that have been stashed away in our basement
 of treasures.  At least, I think it is a soap recipe!
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Coconut Oil 14.
KOH 90%  6.
NaOH  .5
Oleic Acid  10.
Glycerin 12.
Perfumed oil .5
Dis. H2O 57.

Dissolve KOH (potassium hydroxide) in 1/4 H2O melt
coconut oil and at 130 degree F. Stir in KOH solution.
Increase temp to 180 degree F and stir for 1 hour.
Allow to stand over night.  Boil 1/2 hour remaining
H2O and all the glycerin.  Then add soap in small
Heat rest of H2O to B.P. (boiling point) add NaOH
(sodium hydroxide) and stir into soap.
Heat Oleic Acid to 160 degree F. and add with steady
agitation to the soap solution.  Mix for 2 hours
until tests show complete saponifiction*.
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* sa·pon·i·fi·ca·tion  n. -- A reaction in which an
ester is heated with an alkali, such as sodium
hydroxide, producing a free alcohol and an acid
salt, especially alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or an
oil to make soap.

* sodium hydroxide  n. -- A strongly alkaline
compound, NaOH, used in the manufacture of
chemicals and soaps and in petroleum refining.
Also called caustic soda, lye.

* Nitrous oxide (N2O) -- This is s a by-product
of biological activity of a symbiotic bacteria
living in leguminous plant roots. It is a principal
greenhouse gas that absorbs in the infrared
wavelength region and unfortunately falls in an
IR "window" between IR absorbing features of water
and carbon dioxide (a characteristic of all the
"trace" greenhouse gases with significant
radiative forcing). It is also laughing gas
used in medicine as a gentle general anesthetic.
[Nature; v335; 528-529; 1988] [Atmospheric sulfur
and nitrogen oxides; George Hidy; p13; 1986;
Academic press: New York]

* KOH -- potassium hydroxide