water. It is a coarse animal oil, very emollient, maceti will be as clear as crystal; and then, after and much used to softer leather. To Purify Trotter Oil. Put 1 qt. of trotter oil into a vessel containing 1 qt. of rose-water, and set them over a fire till the oil melts and mixes with the rose-water. Stir well with a spoon. When properly combined take the vessel from the fire, and let it cool. Now take off the oil with a spoon, and add rose-water as before. When the oil is again separated and cleansed, set it in a ros place. The principal use of trotter oil is for the making of cold cream, in which its qualities exceed those of every other oil. To Prepare Oil from Yolks of Eggs. Boil the eggs hard, and after separating the whites break the yolks into 2 or 3 pieces, and roast them in a fryingpan till the oil begins to exude; then press them with very great force. Fifty eggs yield about 5 oz. of oil. Old eggs yield the greatest quantity. Another Method. Dilute the raw yolks with a large proportion of water, and add spirit of wine to separate the albumen, when the oil will rise on the top after standing some time, and thus may be separated by a funnel. To Refine Spermaceti. it is cool, the only thing necessary to make it fit for sale, is to cut it into moderately small pieces, when it will break into that flakey appearance which it has in the shops. To Sweeten, Purify, and Refine Greenland Whale and Seal Oil. The oil, in its raw state, is filtered through bags about 41 inches long, with circular mouths extended by a wooden hoop about 15 inches in diameter, fixed thereto. These bags are made of jean lined with flannel, between which jean and flannel powdered charcoal is placed, throughout, to a regular thickness of about inch, for the purpose of retaining the glutinous particles of the oil and straining it from impurities: and the bags are quilted, to prevent the charcoal from becoming thicker in one part than another, and to keep the linings more compact. The oil is pumped into a large funnel made of tin, annexed to the pump through a perpendicular pipe, and passed from the funnel into another pipe placed over the bags horizontally, from whence it is introduced into them by cocks. The oil runs from the filteringbags into a cistern about 8 feet long by 4 feet broad, and 44 deep, made of wood and lined with lead, and containing water at the bottom about the depth of 5 or 6 inches, in which are dissolved ing down the glutinous and offensive particles of about 6 oz. of blue vitriol, for the purpose of drawthe oil which have escaped through the charcoal; and thereby rendering it clean and free from the unpleasant smell attendant upon the oil in the raw from the bags, they are hung in a frame or rack state; and in order to enable the oil thus to run Spermaceti is usually brought home in casks, and in some cases has so little oil mixed with it as to obtain the denomination of head matter. It is of the consistence of a stiff ointment, of a yelmatter, there is also a quantity of sperm obtained from the oil by filtration. Indeed, in all good spermaceti lamp oil, which is not transparent, par-made like a ladder, with the spokes or rails at ticles of the sperm may be seen floating. lowish color, and not tenacious. Besides the head in Having the head-matter, or filtered sperm, order to purify it, first put it into hair-cloths, and with an iron plate between each cloth to the number of half a dozen or more, submit it to the action of an iron screw-press; and, as the oil does not separate very readily, it will in general be necessary to let the cakes of sperm be pressed three different times. The third time the cakes will become so dry that they may be broken in small pieces with little trouble, and then put in a furnace containing water and 3 cake. Let the fire be raised sufficiently under the furnace to melt the cake, which it will do before the water begins to boil; after which boil the whole together for about an hour, taking off during the boiling what scum and other extraneous bodies rise to the top; then let the whole be dipped out into a tub or other coolers. After it is completely cold, take off the cake of spermaceti, which will be on the top of the water, and cut it into pieces. Suppose, for example, that the cake weighs 1 cwt., it will be necessary to have a furnace, or rather a movable kettle, where the light is thrown in such a way that the process can be observed. Having taken 1 cwt. of the unrefined spermaceti prepared as above, melt it together with about 3 galls. of water. As soon as it begins to boil, add from time to time small portions of the following liquor, say pint at a time: Take of the alkaline salt, or potash, 7 lbs. ; pour on it 2 galls. of water; let them stand together 24 hours, and from the top dip off the lye as wanted, adding more water occasionally, till the alkali is exhausted. After boiling the spermaceti for about 4 hours, having during the process taken off the scum as it arose, let the kettle be removed from the fire; and after remaining about hour, dip off the spermaceti into suitable coolers. This process must in general be repeated 3 times. The third time, if the processes have been properly conducted, the sper sufficient distances to receive the hoop of the bag between two; and such frame or rack is placed in a horizontal position over the cistern. The oil is suffered to run into the cistern until it stands to the depth of about 2 feet in the water, and there to remain for 3 or 4 days. (according to the quality is fixed in the cistern a little above the water, into of the oil), and is then drawn off by a cock which a tub or other vessel, when it will be found to be considerably purified and refined; and the oil, after having undergone this operation, may be rendered through similar bags and cisterns. But the oil, still more pure by passing a second or third time after such second and third process, is drawn off into, and filtered through additional bags made of jean lined with flannel, inclosed in other bags made of jean, doubled, when the process is complete. Clarifying Coal-Oils. In a close vessel are placed 100 lbs. of crude coal-oil, 25 qts. of water, 1 lb. of chloride of lime, 1 lb. of soda, and lb. of oxide of manganese. The mixture is violently agitated, and allowed to rest for 24 hours, when the clear oil is decanted and distilled. The 100 lbs. of coal-oil are to be mixed with 25 lbs. of resin-oil; this is one of the principal points in the manipulation; it removes the gummy parts from the oil, and renders them inodorous. The distillation spoken of may terminate the process, or the oils may be distilled before they are defecated and precipitated. To Bleach and Purify Fixed Oils. Fish and other fat oils are improved in smell and color by passing hot air or steam through them. Dunn's method is to heat the oil by steam to 170° or 200°, and force a current of air through it, under a chimney, till it is bleached and purified. Mr. Cameron's method of bleaching palm oil is to keep it at 230°, with continual agitation, by passing into it high pressure steam through leaden pipes of 2 inches diameter. Four tons of oil require 19 hours' straining. Palm oil is also bleached by chloride of lime. Take from 7 to 14 lbs. of chloride of lime, triturate in a mortar, adding gradually 12 times the quantity of water, so as to form a smooth cream. Liquefy 112 lbs. of palm oil, remove it from the fire, add the solution of chloride of lime, and stir well with a wooden stirrer. Allow it to cool, and when become solid, break it into small fragments, and expose it to the air for 2 or 3 weeks, then put into a cast-iron boiler lined with lead, diluted with 20 parts of water. Boil with a moderate heat till the oil drops clear from the stirrer; then let it cool. To remove the fœtor from fish oils, treat them in the same way (except the exposing to the air), using only 1 lb. of chloride of lime to 112 lbs. of oil. It does not remove the natural smell of the oil. Calcined magnesia has been used to deprive oils of their rancidity. Mr. Griseler finds that the addition of a few drops of nitric ether will prevent oils from becoming rancid. Mr. Watt's patented method of bleaching oil is by chromic acid. For palm oil it is thus used: The oil is heated in a steam vessel, allowed to settle and cool down to 130° Fahr., then removed into wooden vessels, taking care that no water or sediment accompany it. For a ton of palm oil, make a saturated solution of 25 lbs. of bichromate of potash; add 8 lbs. of sulphuric acid, and 50 lbs. of muriatic acid (or an equivalent quantity of salt and sulphuric acid). Put the mixture into the oil, and let it be constantly stirred till it becomes of a light-green color. If not sufficiently decolored, add more of the mixture. Let the oil settle for half an hour, then pump it into a wooden vat, boil it for a few minutes with fresh water, by means of a steam pipe, and let it settle. For linseed, rape, and mustard oils a dilute solution of chromic acid is used, with a little muriatic acid; for olive, almond, and castor oils no muriatic acid is required. Fish oils and fats are first boiled in a steam-apparatus with a weak soda lye (lb. of soda for every ton of fat) for half an hour; then 4 lb. of sulphuric acid, diluted with 3 lbs. of water, is added; the whole boiled for 15 minutes, and allowed to settle for an hour or more, when the water and sediment are drawn off, and the oil further bleached by a solution of 4 lbs. of bichromate of potash and 2 lbs. of sulphuric acid, properly diluted. Mr. Davidson treats whale oil first with a solution of tan, next with water and chloride of lime, and lastly with diluted sulphuric acid and warm water. Rape and other seed oils are also refined by means of sulphuric acid and twice as much water. Mr. Gray directs 2 lbs. of oil of vitriol to 112 lbs. of oil. The oil should be carefully washed from the acid and filtered. Mr. Bancroft's process for refining common olive oil, lard oil, etc., for lubricating purposes, is to agitate them with from 34 to 8 per cent. of caustio soda lye, of 1.2 specific gravity. If, on trial of a small quantity, the lye be found to settle clear at the bottom, enough has been added. The oil is allowed to rest for twenty-four hours, fo. the soapy matter to subside: the supernatant oil is then filtered. Another plan of purifying oils (especially lamp oils) is to agitate them with a strong solution of common salt. Purification of Castor Oil. Mix 1000 parts of the oil with 25 parts of animal charcoal, and 10 parts of calcined magnesia, and leave them together for 3 days at a temperature of 68° to 78° Fahr., often stirring or shaking the mixture. The oil is then filtered off, and is found to be limpid, colorless, without taste, and easily soluble in alcohol. It congeals, too, at a lower temperature than before, and is in that respect superior to the ordinary oil. 1. Expose the finest porpoise oil to the lowest natural temperature attainable. It will separate into two portions, a thick, solid mass at the bottom, and a thin, oily supernatant liquid. This is to be poured off while at the low temperature named, and is then fit for use. 2. Put into a matrass or glass flask, a portion of any fine oil, with 7 or 8 times its weight of alcohol, and heat the mixture almost to boiling, decant the clear upper stratum of fluid, and suffer it to cool; a solid portion of fatty matter separates, which is to be removed, and then the alcoholic solution evaporated in a retort or basin, until reduced to one-fifth of its bulk. The fluid part of the oil will be deposited. It should be colorless and tasteless, almost free from smell, without action on infusion of litmus, having the consistence of white olive oil, and not easily congealable. 3. Take a white glass bottle of pure olive or almond oil, put into it a coiled strip of lead, and expose it to the sun's rays until a white curdy matter ceases to be deposited. To Prevent Fats and Oils from becoming Rancid. Heat the oil or melted fat for a few minutes with powdered slippery-elm bark, in the proportion of 1 dr. of the powder to 1 lb. of fat. The bark shrinks and gradually subsides, after which the fat is poured off. It communicates an odor like that of the hickory-nut. Butter thus treated has been kept unchanged for a year. Musk, a secretion of the Musk deer (Moschus | 5 oz.; essence of cedrat, 124 drs.; essence of bermoschatus), which inhabits Eastern Asia. There gamot, 4 oz.; essence of lavender, 1 oz.; tincture are three varieties. The Tonquin or Chinese is of benzoin, 1 oz. the finer, but is apt to be adulterated. Civet, a secretion of the Civet cat (Viverra ci- Recipes for Cologne Water, from Redwood Gray's veta), and Castor, from the beaver (Castor fiber), are used in small quantities. The Essence of Mirbane and flavoring ethers are obtained by the chemist. Lard, suet, and the fixed oils are used as vehi oles. Alcohol employed in perfumery should be free from all smell of fusel or other oils. Atwood's (patent) alcohol is generally preferred. It is deodorized by distillation over permanganate of potassa. Deodorizing Alcohol. 1. Spirit of wine, brandy, or alcohol distilled over soap lose their empyreumatic odors and tastes entirely. At about 215° the soap retains neither alcohol nor wood. spirit. 2. The empyreumatic oil, which remains in combination with the soap which forms the residuum of the distillation, is carried off at a higher temperature by the vapor of water, which is formed during a second distillation, the product of which is a soap free from empyreuma, and fit to be used again for similar purposes. 3. The concentration of the alcohol increases in this operation more than when soap is not employed, because this compound retains the water, and the alcoholic vapors which pass over are richer. Supplement. oil of lavender, 34 drs.; oil of neroli, 24 drs.; oil 2. Oil of bergamot, 3 oz.; oil of lemon, 2 oz.; of origanum, 2 drs.; oil of rosemary, 1 dr.: essence of vanilla, 2 drs.; musk, 10 grs.; rectified spirits, 13 pts.; rose-water, 1 qt.; orange-flower water, 1 pt. Mix the oils; dissolve them in 10 pts. of the spirits; then add the musk, and finally the waters, previously mixed with the remainder of the spirits, and, after standing 2 weeks, filter. Florida Water. Alcohol at 90°, 50 qts.; essence of lemon and Portugal, each 4 oz.; essence of lavender and clove, each 8 oz.; canella, oz.; water, 20 qts. Hungary Water. Rectified alcohol, 1 gall.; oil of English rosemary, 2 oz.; oil of lemon-peel, 1 oz.; oil of balm (melissa) 1 oz.; oil of mint, dr.; esprit de rose, 1 pt.; extract de fleur d'orange, 1 pt. 4. Thirty-three lbs. of soap is enough for 100 galls. of empyreumatic brandy, and direct experi-oz. ments have shown that under the most favorable circumstances the soap can retain 20 per cent. of empyreumatic oil. Extract of Verbena. Rectified spirits, 1 pt.; oil of lemon-grass, 3 drs.; oil of lemon-peel, 2 oz.; oil of orange-peel, After standing together for a few hours, and then filtering, it is fit for sale. Another mixture of this kind, presumed by the public to be made from the same plant, but of a finer quality, is composed thus; it is sold under the title of Extrait de Verveine. 5. The soap employed should contain no potassa; it must be a hard or soda soap, and ought to be completely free from any excess of fat acids or fluids, otherwise it may render the product Rectified spirits, 1 pt.; oil of orango-peel, 1 oz.; rancid and impure. Common soap, made with oil of lemon-peel, 2 oz.; oil of citron, 1 dr.; oil oleine and soda by the manufacture of stearine of lemon-grass, 24 drs.; extrait de fleur d'orange, candles, has satisfied all the conditions in practice.7 oz.; extrait de tubereuse, 7 oz.: esprit de rose, If this soap is employed, it will be better to add a little soda during the first distillation. pt. Imitation Essence of Wallflower. The hard soda-soaps, as exempt as possible Extrait fleur d'orange, 1 pt. ; extract of vanilla, from fluid fat-acids, remove completely the empy-pt.; esprit de rose, I pt.; extract of orris, pt.; reumatic odor. J. Maria Farina Cologne. Benzoin dissolved in alcohol, 4 oz.; essence of lavender, 8 oz.; essence of rosemary, 4 oz.; alcohol at 75°, 325 qts. To this solution add successively neroli, 21 oz.; petit grain, 21 oz.; cedrat, 21 oz.; Portugal, 24 lbs.; lemon, 24 lbs. ; alcoholic extract of geranium, 24 lbs. Shake several times; leave 14 days, and bottle. Fine Cologne Water. extract of cassia, pt.; essential oil of almonds, dr. Allow this mixture to be made for 2 or 3 weeks prior to putting it up for sale. Imitation Essence of Violet. Extract of cassia, 1 pt.; extract of rose, tineture of orris, extract of tuberose, each pint. Fleur d'Italie, or Italian Nosegay. Esprit de rose, from pomade, 2 pts.; esprit de rose, triple, 1 pt.; esprit de jasmin, esprit de violette, from pomade, each 1 pt.; extract of cassia, Take alcohol at 85°, 10 qts.; dissolve in it es-pt.; extract of musk, extract of ambergris, each sence of neroli petit grain, oz.; essence of rosemary, 2 drs.; essence of lavender, 1 drs.; essence of clove, dr.; essence of peppermint, dr.; essence of bergamot, 12 drs.; lemon 12 drs.; essence of Portugal, 7 drs.; tincture of benzoin, 14 drs. 2 oz. Jockey Club Bouquet (English formula). Extract of orris-root, 2 pts.; esprit de rose, triple, 1 pt.; esprit de rose de pomade, 1 pt.; extrait de cassia, extrait de tubereuse, de pomade, each pt.; extrait de ambergris, pt.; otto of bergamot, oz. Jockey Club Bouquet (French formula). Esprit de rose, de pomade, 1 pt.; esprit de tubereuse, de pomade, 1 pt; esprit de cassia, de pomade, pt.; esprit de jasmin, de pomade, pt.; extract of civet, de pomade, 3 oz. Kew Garden Nosegay. Esprit de neroli (Petale), 1 pt.; esprit de cas sie, esprit de tubereuse, esprit de jasmin, from pomade, each pt.; esprit de geranium, pt.; esprit de musk, esprit de ambergris, each, 3 oz. Eau de Millefleurs. Esprit de rose, triple, 1 pt.; esprit de rose, esprit de tubereuse, esprit de jasmin, esprit de fleur d'orange, esprit de cassie, esprit de violette, esprit de reseda (mignonette), from pomade, each pt.; esprit de vanilla, esprit de ambergris, esprit de musk, each 2 oz.; otto of almonds, otto of neroli, otto of cloves, each 10 drops; otto of bergamot, 1 oz. These ingredients are to remain together for at least a fortnight, then filtered prior to sale. Essence of Rondeletia. Eau Lustrale. Castor oil (deodorized), 21 lbs.; strongest alcohol (deodorized), 24 lbs.; cantharides, in powder, oz.; oil of bergamot, 24 oz.; otto of roses, 20 drops. Mix; let them stand a few days, and filter. To soften the hair, and prevent baldness. Honey-water for the Hair. Honey, 4 lbs. ; very dry sand, 5 lbs. Mix and put into a vessel that will hold 5 times as much; distill with a gentle heat a yellowish acid water. Vegetable Hair Wash. soap. Southernwood 2 oz.; box-leaves, 6 oz.; water, 4 pts. Boil gently for of an hour; strain, and to each pint of the liquid add 2 oz. spirit of roseSpirits (brandy 60 o. p.), 1 gall.; otto of laven-mary, and dr. of salt of tartar, or 1 dr. of Naples der, 2 oz.; otto of cloves, 1 oz.; otto of rose, 3 drs.; otto of bergamot, 1 oz.; extract of musk, extract of vanilla, extract of ambergris, each pt. The mixture must be made at least a month before it is fit for sale. Very excellent rondeletia may also be made with whiskey. Esterhazy Bouquet Extrait de fleur d'orange (from pomade), 1 pt.; esprit de rose (triple), 1 pt.; extract of vitivert, extract of vanilla, extract of orris, extract of tonquin, each 1 pt.; esprit de neroli, 1 pt.; extract of ambergris, pt.; otto of santal, dr.; otto of cloves, dr. Essence of Bouquet. American Shampoo Liquor. Rum, 3 qts.; spirit of wine, 1 pt.; water, 1 pt.; tincture of cantharides, oz.; carbonate of ammonia, oz.; salt of tartar, 1 oz. Rub it on, and afterwards wash with water. By omitting the salt of tartar it nearly resembles Balm of Columbia. Glycerine and Cantharides Lotion. Rosemary water, 1 gall.; spirits of sal volatile, 1 oz.; tincture of cantharides, 2 oz.; glycerine, 4 To be used with a sponge or soft brush twice a day when the hair is falling off. Oz. Dupuytren's Pomade. Tincture of cantharides (1 part flies to 8 of proof spirit), purified beef marrow, each 1 oz.: sugar of lead, 1 dr.; balsam of Peru, 3 drs.; oils of cloves and canella, each 15 drops. Used to prevent baldness, and restore the hair. Borax Hair Wash. Borax, 1 oz.; camphor, oz.; boiling water, 1 qt. When cold filter for use. Excellent Hair Wash. Sufficient liquid ammonia added to a pint of water to make the whole pungent. Be careful not to have it too strong. Afterwards wash with clean water. Silver Hair-Dye. Nitrate of silver, 1 oz.; water, 9 oz., in blue bottle; sulphuret of potassium (fresh), 1 oz.; water, 8 oz., in white bottle. Moisten the hair first with the latter solution, and when dry add the silver solution. mordant (white bottle) in the foregoing, a substiAnother.-Owing to the unpleasant smell of the 3 oz. of bruised galls. When cold strain and bottute is made by pouring boiling water, pt., upon tle. For the blue bottle add to the solution, as above, ammonia, until the precipitate formed is redissolved. Brown Dye. To a saturated solution of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), add ammonia until the precipitate which falls is redissolved. For a mordant, to be first applied, as above, use a saturated solution of ferrocyanide of potassium. Orfila's Hair-Dye. Take 3 parts of litharge and 2 of quicklime, mix thoroughly; keep in a well stopped bottle. When used mix with water or milk, apply to the hair, and envelope in an oil-skin cap for 5 or 6 hours. To remove Superfluous Hair. Take of quicklime, 16 parts; pearlash, 2 parts; liver of sulphur, 2 parts. Mix thoroughly, and keep in a tight bottle. When used mix to the consistence of a paste, and after it has remained on 2 or 3 minutes remove with a wooden knife. Another. The following is more efficient, but must be used with care as it contains arsenic. Take of freshly slaked lime, oz.; orpiment, oz. Mix thoroughly, and keep in well closed bottles. When used apply as a paste with water until it begins to burn the skin, and shave off with an ordinary paper-knife. The time required will vary with different hair. Black hair takes longer than fair. All of the depilatories sold are founded upon the two foregoing receipts. Toilet Powders Are made of starch variously scented. Many of the powders and lotions sold contain bismuth, which will sometimes blacken. Violet Powder. Wheat starch, 12 lbs. ; powdered orris-root, 2 lbs.; oil of lemon, oz. ; oil of bergamot, oz.; oil of cloves, 2 dr. Mix. Bloom of Roses. Dissolve oz. of cinnamon in oz. of strong ammonia; after 2 days add 1 pt. rose-water, and oz. Esprit de Rose (triple). Mix and set aside for a week. Then pour off the liquid from any sediment that may be present. Pomade à la Rose. Take white grease, 1 lb.; nut-oil, 34 oz.; spermaceti, or white wax, 1 oz. Melt together and add the oil. Pass the warm mixture through a clean cloth, and then stir it in a mortar till cold. If the pomade must be white, add no coloring matter; but if colored introduce the proper mateterial. For red, soak dr. of powdered alkanet in the oil previously warmed. For yellow, add or dr. of annotto to the mixture of grease, when melted. Pass through a clean cloth, and perfume with essence of geranium, 14 dr.; essence of rose, dr.; essence of canella, 1-16 dr. Introduce the essences into the grease half fluid. Economical Pomade. Take white grease, 2 lbs.; essence of bergamot or lemon, 1 dr.; essence of cloves, 1 dr. Color with alkanet or carmine lake. Pomade of Bitter Almonds. Take pure white grease, 2 lbs.; natural essence of bitter almonde, 1 dr.; essence of lemon, cedrat, or Portugal, 1 dr. Pomade Canadienne. Melt over a water-bath, 4 lbs. of bear's grease, and infuse 8 lbs. of rose leaves, as directed for the Pomade à la Rose. Then strain, and perfume with essence of mint, oz.; essence of rose, 1 oz.; essence of vanilla, a few drops. Color rose with a little carmine. Pomade Divine. Beef marrow, 3 lbs. ; put it into an earthen vessel and cover it with cold water, and change the water daily for a few days, using rose-water the last day. Pour off and press out the water; add to the marrow 4 oz. each of the styrax, benzoin, and Chio turpentine; 1 oz. orris powder; oz. each of powdered cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Set the vessel in hot water, and keep the water boiling for 3 hours; then strain. Stick Pomatum. This pomade is generally composed of mutton suets, but is sometimes made of hard body, to which is added, in summer, 1 oz. of wax for every pound of body. Lard body can also be used, but the proportion of wax must be increased. In this preparation always melt the least fusible body first. In moulding care must be taken not to run the pomade while too hot, as cavities will occur in the centre, rendering the sticks liable to break. To perfume the usual odors are, for 1 lb. of pomade, essence of bergamot, lavender, thyme, orange peel, of each 1 dr. Color with annotto or saffron. Another method of preparing this pomade, also called cosmetic, is by melting 2 parts of tallew and 1 part of wax, in sheet-iron moulds, the size desired for the stick, the mass having been perfumed and colored. Philicomes and Cosmetics. Philicomes and cosmetics are composed in winter, of equal parts of lard and eartbnut oil, and in summer, of 2 parts of grease and 1 part oil. The greases are melted over a water-bath, and passed through a cloth. When the products begin to solidify the oils are added, and the mass is then run into jars or bottles. For the fine phili comes, the pominades à la rose, orange-flower, au bouquet, geranium, à la tubereuse, etc., are substituted for the lard. Beef Marrow Philicome. Take fat, 10 lbs. ; pommade à la rose, aux millefleurs, 1 lb.; oil of cassia, 2 lbs.; oil of jasmine, 2 lbs. ; spirit of roses 13 oz.; bergamot, 5 drs.; spirit of petit-grain, 24 drs.; spirit of geranium, 2 drs.; spirit of wintergreen, 4 drs. ; infusion of cinchona, 5 drs.; pure rum, 10 drs.; essence of roses, 5 drops. Macassar Oil. Take oil of benzoin, 8 qts.; oil of noisette, 4 qts.; alcohol, 1 qt.; essence bergamot, 3 oz.; spirit of musk, 3 oz.; spirit of Portugal, 2 oz.; essence of roses, 2 drs. Mix, and keep the whole over a water-bath for 1 hour. Then digest for a week, stirring several times daily. Color with alkanet. Amandine. Mix in a mortar gum arabie, 2 oz. ; white honey, 6 oz. Reduce to a thick mass and add 3 oz. of neutral white soap. This being gradually incorporated, add 2 oz. of fresh cold-pressed oil of sweet almonds, and finally, the yolks of 5 eggs. The paste has a firm consistence, and is reduced by a thick milk of pistachio, made of fresh peeled pistach nuts, 4 oz.; distilled rose-water, 4 oz. Aromatize withdr. of bitter almonds for 1 lb. of paste. A small portion, with a little warm water, produces a white lather of agreeable odor. This composition is used to whiten and soften the skin. Cold Cream, No. 1. Take of spermaceti and white wax, each 5 drs.; almond oil, 10 oz. Liquefy over a water-bath; pour into a marble mortar, heated by boiling water, stir quickly, and add 34 oz. of rose-water. 15 grs. essence of roses, and a few drops of potash lye. Camphor Cold Cream. Take of almond oil and rose-water, each 1 lb.; wax and spermaceti, 1 oz. ; camphor, 2 oz.; otto of rosemary, 1 dr. |