Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 25 | London Soap Supply is Being Limited

LONDON SOAP SUPPLY IS BEING LIMITED Actual 3hortagc Does Not Exist, but Pound Bars Are J-Iuch in Demand. -x " By International News Service. LONDON. Feb. I. A eustoYncr who ordered three one-pound bars of household house-hold soap at a Brixton shop was allowed one. but on; three-pound bar was offered. of-fered. The shopkeeper wants to save as many one-pound bars as possible. "There is no real siiortage of soap." said J. YV. Hop, managing director of John Knight, Limited, soapinakers, Sil-vertown, Sil-vertown, E., "but there are transport difficulties. dif-ficulties. In the seed-crushing trade tiie seeds have been alio-'a ted to th mills nearest the sources of supply, and then the cake and oils have been distributed in the areas nearest the mills. The same should be done in the soap trade." As the output of margarine increases that of soap may diminish., because palrn-kernel palrn-kernel oil is used for both. Soap, therefore, there-fore, must not be wasted.