Thus Bean Oil has found a new utility in the new direction
on being mixed with linseed oil and some other drying oil.
(6) Soar
Bean Oil, like all other kinds of oil, is extensively used
for making soap. Still, it is less suited for making hard
soap than either peanut, palm, copra oil, olive oil, or cotton
sed oil, being better adapted for making soft soap. Again,
Bean Oil is more popular as material for making laundry
or industrial soap, for which there is a very large demand,
than for making toilette soap of superior grade. Only
lately, hydrogenated oil made from Bean Oil has been
brought into use as soap-making material.
(7) GLYCERINE & FATTY ACID
During the Great War, Bean Oil was disintegrated by
a special process into glycerine and fatty acid. The
glycerine was employed for making gunpowder, for prepar-
ing medicines, and for toilette purposes. The fatty acid
was employed by the soap manufacturers.
(8) WATER PROOF
Aluminium of fatty acid being noted to possess a water
proof property, Mr. T. Suzuki (formerly in the 8.M.R. Co.
service, with which he is still indirectly connected) has
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