The Archive · 1938

How to Choose a Sponge

th or face sponge need not be and many a man provides for cleaning his car-a better spe than that which, at twice the figure, he buys for his personal use. The public pays too much attention to ape, which accounts for half the and does not affect a quality unless the irre deep indentati t would make the fibre liable to tear. Nor does colour matter, for a light yellow tint is no more than the result of bleaching with: permanganate of potash, which is done before the usual cleaning with dilute hydrochloric acid and hyposulphite of sod that is sluggish a badly cleaned. in shops often fancy a y, or else smells

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