This section is from the "Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas Recipes Processes" encyclopedia, by Norman W. Henley and others.
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.
Almond oil...... 400 parts
Lanoline........ 200 parts
White wax....... 60 parts
Spermaceti...... 60 parts
Rose water...... 300 parts
By weight.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
 
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