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Castor oil....... 500 parts

White wax...... 100 parts

Almond oil...... 150 parts

Melt at moderate heat and scent with By weight. Geranium oil. ... 6 parts

Lemon oil....... 5 parts

Bergamot oil. . .. 10 parts By weight.

VII

Almond oil...... 400 parts

Lanoline........ 200 parts

White wax....... 60 parts

Spermaceti...... 60 parts

Rose water...... 300 parts

By weight.

VIII

White wax...... 6 parts

Tallow, freshly tried out...... 4 parts

Spermaceti...... 2 parts

Oil of sweet almonds........ 6 parts

Melt together and while still hot add, with constant stirring, 1 part of sodium carbonate dissolved in 79 parts of hot water. Stir until cold. Perfume to the taste.

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Ointment of rose water... 1 ounce

Oil of sweet almonds .... 1 fluidounce

Glycerine..... 1 fluidounce

Boric acid.....100 grains

Solution of soda........ 2.25 fluidounces

Mucilage of quince seed . 4 fluidounces

Water enough to make....... 40 fluidounces

Oil of rose, oil of bitter almonds, of each sufficient to perfume.

Heat the ointment, oil, and solution of soda together, stirring constantly until an emulsion or saponaceous mixture is formed. Then warm together the glycerine, acid, and mucilage and about 30 fluidounces of water; mix with the emulsion, stir until cold, and add the remainder of the water. Lastly, add the volatile oils.

The rose-water ointment used should be the "cold cream" of the United States Pharmacopœia.

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Spermaceti....     2    ounces

White wax. ...     2    ounces

Sweet almond oil.........   14    fluidounces

Water, distilled    7    fluidounces

Borax, powder  60    grains

Coumarin.....       1/2 grain

Oil of bergamot  24    drops

Oil of rose.....     6    drops

Oil of bitter almonds....     8    drops Tincture of ambergris. ....     5    drops

Melt the spermaceti and wax, add the sweet almond oil, incorporate the water in which the borax has previously been dissolved, and finally add the oils of bergamot, rose, and bitter almond.

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Honey........ 2 av. ounces

Castile s o a p,

white powder 1 av. ounce Oil sweet almonds...... 26 fluidounces

Oil bitter almonds...... 1 fluidrachm

Oil bergamot.. 1/2 fluidrachm Oil cloves .... 15 drops Peru balsam... 1 fluidrachm Liquor potassa.

Solution carmine, of each sufficient. Mix the honey with the soap in a mortar, and add enough liquor potassa (about 1 fluidrachm) to produce a nice cream. Mix the volatile oils and balsam with the sweet almond oil, mix this with the cream, and continue the trituration until thoroughly mixed. Finally add, if desired, enough carmine solution to impart a rose tint.

XII

White wax..... 800 parts

Spermaceti..... 800 parts

Sweet almond oil..........5,600 parts

Distilled water.. 2,800 parts

Borax......... 50 parts

Bergamot oil. . . 20 parts Attar of rose. ...         5 parts

Coumarin...... 0.1 part

Add for each pound of the cream 5 drops of etheric oil of bitter almonds, and 3 drops tincture of ambra. Proceed as in making cold cream.

The following also makes a fine cream:

XIII

Spermaceti....... 3 parts

White wax....... 2 parts

Oil of almonds, fresh.......... 12 parts

Rose water, double 1 part Glycerine, pure. . . 1 part Melt on a water bath the spermaceti and wax, add the oil (which should be fresh), and pour the whole into a slightly wanned mortar, under constant and lively stirring, to prevent granulation. Continue the trituration until the mass has a white, creamy appearance, and is about the consistence of butter at ordinary temperature. Add, little by little, under constant stirring, the orange-flower water and glycerine mixed, and finally the perfume as before. Continue the stirring for 15 or 20 minutes, then immediately put into containers.