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Show Green Soap For the Hair. Green soap is an indispensable preparation prep-aration to the woman who would preserve pre-serve the luster and richness of her hair. It is prepared and prescribed by ail persons who make a specialty of scalp treatment. The following recipe was obtained from the wife of a prominent prom-inent physician who prepares the liquid liq-uid soap for her husband: Take equal parts of the very best green castile soap, water, alcohol and glycerin. Heat the water and shave the soap into it Then Stir it over tho-flro nr.ni perfectly smooth. Add the glycerin and stir again very thoroughly. The alcohol is added last of all, mixed with two ounces of essential oil of any preferred pre-ferred scent. A small quantity of oil i of orris gives a suggestion of violet, white oil of verbena or' oil of sweet geranium gives an old-fashioned,whole-some scent. Of course the alcohol is volatile and inflammable and should not be carelessly distributed over a hot fire. Otherwise green soap making is extremely simple, v |