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To make rose lip salve

Put eight 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; but in that form the colour is 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.