Household discoveries by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Home economics, Formulas, recipes, etc, Cooking, American
Publisher: Petersburg, N.Y., Toledo, Ohio [etc.] Success company's branch offices
Published: 1913-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

TOILET PREPARATIONS

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powdered almonds, and beat into these 3 ounces of oil of almonds and 3 ounces of lemon juice, and dilute with equal parts of alcohol and rose water to make a paste of the right consistency.

Or cover the whites of 4 eggs with rose water and bring to a boil, stirring in I ounce of alum and ^ ounce of oil of almonds. Evaporate the water with gentle heat, and stir constantly imtil the paste is of the right consistency.

COLD CREAM

Cold Creams.—The basis of most cold creams is either white wax or spermaceti or both, with almond oil or rectified animal fats, as lard, suet, and the like, to which may be added various specifics for the complexion, and distilled waters, essences, or essential oils to perfume as desired.

Cold cream is among the most useful of all toilet preparations, both as a preventive and as a remedy for sunburn and reddening of the skin by exposure, chapped hands and lips, frostbite, and other local irritations. It is also useful for whitening the hands and to prevent wrinkles. For

this purpose it should be applied at night and thoroughly washed off in the morning. The hands may be protected at night by a loose pair of kid or chamois gloves.

To prepare cold cream, melt in a double boiler 2 drams of white wax, 1 ounce of spermaceti, and 3^ ounces of oil of sweet almonds. Remove from the fire and add in a thin stream 2 fluid ounces of rose water, and stir constantly until cold. Those who can use glycerin with safety may add i ounce to 1 ounce before the mixture sets.

Or, for a medicated cold cream, melt with gentle heat in a double boiler | ounce of white wax, A ounce of spermaceti, and 4 ounces of almond oil. Mix separately ^ fluid ounce each of the tinctures of balsam of Peru, tolu, and benzola, to which add in a thin stream 2 fluid ounces of elder-flower water. Beat in the mean time with an egg beater or otherwise to form a complete emulsion. Pour this emulsion in a thin stream into the melted wax and oil, meantime beating with an egg beater until all the ingredients are fully incorporated. When cold, this compoimd will set as a permanent

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