Method of improving and simplifying the cold milling of soap and product obtained thereby

Claim 1

A CAKE OF MILLED TOILET SOAP CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT THE SOAP BASE MATERIAL FROM WHICH THE CAKE IS FORMED CONSISTS ESSENTIALLY OF A HOMOGENEOUS AND THOROUGHLY COALESCED MILLED MIXTURE OF FATTY ACID POTASH SOAP AND FATTY ACID SODA SOAP IN THE ULTRAMICROCRYSTALLINE STATE WHICH RESULTS FROM SUBJECTING THE MIXTURE OF POTASH AND SODA SOAP WHILE IN THE SOLIDIFIED STATE, AND AT A TEMPERATURE BELOW THE CRYSTALLINE REVERSION POINT OF THE SOAPS TO A MECHANICALLY PRODUCED SHEARING ACTION, AND WHICH STATE IS EVIDENCED BY A RUBBERY TRANSLUCENT WAXY TEXTURE, GOOD COLD WELDING PROPERTIES, A SUBSTANTIALLY NON-SWELLING GEL STRUCTURE, FREEDOM FROM OBJECTIONABLE SOAP DISH JELLY FORMATION, HIGH VISCOSITY AND EXCELLENT SOLUBILITY AND LATHERING ACTION; THE PERCENTAGE OF FATTY ACID POTASH SOAP IN SAID MILLED MIXTURE BEING 5 PER CENT TO 30 PER CENT THEREOF, AND THE BALANCE BEING FATTY ACID SODA SOAP, CONSIDERING THE MIXTURE IN THE ANHYDROUS STATE.