RENOVATING NOTES
and readily removed. The best solvents for oil and grease that are cheap enough to use in large quantities are gasoline, benzine, and benzole. Any one of these liquids is satisfactory for cleaning providing it shows no oily deposit or foreign matter.
Caution: All of these solvents are very inflammable and form explosive mixtures with air. They should be used out-of-doors. if you use them in a room, have all the windows open and do not have a fire or flame in the room.
Just dipping a garment up and down in gasoline or a cleaning fluid does not clean the garment thoroughly. All dry cleaning establishments use a gasoline soap or powder which is especially prepared for this purpose. You can buy them at any drug store. You will obtain the best result by having three containers filled with gasoline or the cleaning fluid. The containers should be large enough to give room for rubbing the garment. Put the gasoline soap or dry cleaning powder into the first container and wash the garment in this. The soap or powder acts merely as soap would in water. Rinse the garment thoroughly in the other two containers. This process will remove grease spots and ordinary dirt but not stains. Hang the garment in
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