Italy, is called tincture of pearls. It is an excellent cosmetic for removing freckles from the face, and for improving the complexion. 278. ALMOND BLOOM. Take of Brazil dust, 1 oz. water, 3 pints, isinglass, 6 drachms, cochineal, 2 do. alum, 1 oz. borax, 3 drachms. 279. ALMOND PASTE. Take of blanched sweet almonds, 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. Beat up with orange flower water, 280. COMMON ALMOND PASTE. To make this paste, take six pounds of fresh almonds, which blanch and beat in a stone mortar, with a sufficient quantity of rose-water. Now add a pound of finely drained honey, and mix the whole well together. This paste, which is exceedingly good for the hands, is to be put into small pots for sale. If this paste gets dry, rub it up on a marble slab, with rosewater. To prevent this dryness, put about half a tea-spoonful of this water on the top of each pot, before tying up. These ingredients are to be combined in the same manner as those for the hard pomatum. This pomatum is to be put up in pots, in the usual way, 283. COMMON POMATUM. Take 4 pounds of fresh and white mutton suet skinned and shredded very fine; which melt in about two quarts of spring water; and whilst hot, put the whole into a well-glazed earthen pan, small at bottom, and wide at the top. Let it stand until the fat is quite cold, and all the impurities fall to the bottom, which carefully scrape off. Now break the fat into small pieces, which put into a pan, with 2 gallons of spring water, for a whole day; stir and wash often. Next day change the water, and when poured off a second time, at the end of twenty-four hours, dry the fat by rubbing in a clean linen cloth. Now put the suet with 1 pound of fresh hog's-lard, into a large pan, and melt the whole over a gentle fire. When properly combined, put the whole into an earthen pan, and beat it with a wooden spatula, until cold. Whilst beating, add 6 drachms of essence of lemon, and 30 drops of oil of cloves, previously mixed together. Now continue beating, until the mixture be perfectly white, and afterwards put it up into small pots. Leave the pots open until the pomatum is quite cold; when cover them by pieces of bladder, &c. In summer, use more suet, and mix in a cool place :-in winter use more hog's-lard, and make the pomatum in a warm room. 234. HARD POMATUM. Take 30 pounds of suet, 1 pounds of white wax, 6 ounces of essence of bergamot, 1 oz. of lavender, 4 drachms of oil of rosemary, and 2 drachms of essence of ambergris. Shred and pick the suet clean, and melt in an earthen pan or pipkin. Then stir it well and strain; and when nearly cold, add the perfumes, stirring well as before; when properly mixed, pour it into tin moulds. 285. Another Method. Take 6 ounces of common pomatum, and add to it 3 ounces of white virgin wax, scraped fine. Melt them in an earthen pan, immersed in a larger one, containing boiling water; both being placed over a clear and steady fire. When properly incorporated, keep stirring, until it is nearly cold; then put it into small pots, or make it up into small rolls. Perfume it according to taste. 286. ROSEMARY POMATUM. Strip a large double handful of rosemary; boil it in a tin or copper vessel, with half a pound of common soft po matum, till it comes to about 3 or 4 ounces; strain it off, and keep it in the usual way. 287. PEARL POWDER, FOR THE FACE. There are several sorts: the finest is made from real pearls, and is the least hurtful to the skin. It gives the most beautiful appearance, but is too dear for common use; still the perfumer ought never to be without it, for the use of the curious and the rich. 288. BISMUTH PEARL POWDER. The next best pearl powder is made as follows:Take 4 ounces of the best magistery of bismuth, 2 ounces of fine starch powder. Mix them well together, and put them into a subsiding glass, wide at top and narrow at bottom; pour over them a pint and a half of proof spirit, and shake them well; let them remain a day or two. When the powder falls to the bottom, pour off the spirit, leaving it dry; then place the glass in the sun, to evaporate the moisture. Next turn out the white mass, the dirty parts of which form the top, whilst the pure ingredients remain at the bottom. If there be any dirty particles, scrape them off, and again pulverize the remaining part of the cake, and pour more proof spirit over it. Proceed as before; and, if there be any moisture remaining, place the cone on a large piece of smooth chalk, to absorb its moisture. Cover the whole with a bell-glass, to preserve it from dust, and set it in the sun to dry and whiten it. Next grind the mass with a muller on a marble stone, and keep the powder in a glass bottle, secured, by a ground stopper, from air. 289. ORANGE FLOWER PASTE, FOR THE HANDS. Blanch 5 or 6 pounds of bitter almonds, by boiling in water, and then beat them very fine in a marble mortar, with 2 pounds of orange flowers. If the paste be too oily, add to it some bean flour, finely sifted, but let no water enter the composition. This paste is made abroad, but comes here very damaged, the sea-air destroying its properties. 290. CORAL TOOTH POWDER. Take 4 ounces of coral, reduced to an impalpable powder, 8 ounces of very light Armenian bole, 1 ounce of Portugal snuff, 1 ounce of Havannah snuff, 1 ounce of good burnt tobacco ashes, and Mix them together, and sift them twice. 291. A GOOD TOOTH powder. To make a good tooth-powder, leave out the coral, and in its place put in pieces of brown stone-ware, reduced to a very fine powder. This is the common way of making it. 292. AN ASTRINGENT FOR THE TEETH. Take of fresh conserve of roses, 2 ounces, the juice of half a sour lemon, a little very rough claret, and 6 ounces of coral tooth-powder. Make them into a paste, which put into small pots; and, if it dry by standing, moisten with lemon juice and wine, as before. 293. TO CLEAN THE TEETH. Take of good soft water, 1 quart, juice of lemon, 2 ounces, burnt alum, 6 grains, common salt, 6 grains.-Mix. Boil them a minute in a cup, then strain and bottle for use: rub the teeth with a small bit of sponge tied to a stick, once a week. 294. TO MAKE THE TEETH WHITE. A mixture of honey with the purest charcoal will prove an admirable cleanser. 295. AN EXCELLENT OPIATE FOR THE TEeth. Well boil and skim 1 pound of honey; add to it a quarter of a pound of bole ammoniac, 1 oz. of dragon's blood, 1 of oil of sweet almonds, an ounce of oil of cloves, 8 drops of essence of bergamot, a gill of honey water, all mixed well together, and put into pots for use. 296. VEGETABLE TOOTH-BRUSHES. Take marine marsh-mallow roots, cut them into lengths of 5 or 6 inches, and of the thickness of a middling rattan cane. Dry them in the shade, but not so as to make them shrivel. Next finely pulverize two ounces of good dragon's blood, put it into a flat-bottomed glazed pan, with four ounces of highly rectified spirit, and half an ounce of fresh conserve of roses. Set it over a gentle charcoal fire, and stir it until the dragon's blood is dissolved; then put in about thirty of the marsh-mallow sticks; stir them about, and carefully turn them, that all parts may absorb the dye alike. Continue this until the bottom of the pan be quite dry, and shake and stir it over the fire, until the sticks are perfectly dry and hard. Both ends of each root or stick should, previous to immersion in the pan, be bruised gently by a hammer, for half an inch downwards, so as to open its fibres, and thereby form a brush. They are generally used by dipping one of the ends in the powder or opiate, and then, by rubbing them against the teeth, which they cleanse and whiten admirably. 297. Other Vegetable Tooth Brushes. There are several cheap sorts of these tooth-brushes which are made in the same manner, except that, as a basis, rattan cane, or even common deal, cut round, is used instead of the marsh-mallow roots. 298. ROSE LIP-SALVE. Put 8 ounces of the best olive oil into a wide-mouthed bottle, add two ounces of the small parts of alkanet-root. Stop up the bottle, and set it in the sun; shake it often, until it be of a beautiful crimson. Now strain the oil off very clear from the roots, and add to it, in a glazed pipkin, three ounces of very fine white wax, and the same quantity of fresh clean mutton suet. Deer-suet is too brittle, and also apt to turn yellow. Melt this by a slow fire, and perfume it when taken off, with forty drops of oil of rhodium, or of lavender. When cold, put it into small gallipots, or rather whilst in a liquid state. The common way is to make this salve up into small cakes; in that form the colour is very apt to be impaired. This salve never fails to cure chopped or sore lips, if applied pretty freely at bed-time, in the course of a day or two at farthest. 299. Another Method. Beat the alkanet-root in a mortar, until its fibres are properly bruised; then tie it up in a piece of clean linen rag, and put this in a clear pipkin with the oil. When the oil has begun to boil, it will be found of a deep red. The bag is now to be taken out, pressed and thrown away, and then the other ingredients are to be added as above. 300. WHITE LIP-SALVE. This may be made as above, except in the use of alkanet root, which is to be left out. Though called lip-salve, this composition is seldom applied to the lips; its principal use consisting in curing sore nipples, for which it is an excellent remedy. 301. TO SWEETEN THE BREATH. Take two ounces of Terra Japonica, half an ounce of sugar candy, both in powder. Grind one drachm of the best ambergris with ten grains of pure musk; and dissolve a quarter of an ounce of clean gum tragacanth in two ounces of orange-flower water. Mix all together, so as to form a |