Toilet Preparations
Toilet Preparations
TOILET PREPARATIONS-SIMPLE HOME PREPARATIONS-ALMOND MILK CREAM AND PASTE-COLD CREAM-AROMATIC VINEGAR- TOILET POWDERS-ROUGE-ESSENCES AND…
Toilet Preparations: Bases
Bases. The standard bases for solid and semifluid preparations, as pastes, creams, and emulsions, are white wax, spermaceti, suet, lard…
Toilet Preparations: Agents
Remedial Agents. - This term is employed to describe certain ingredients used in toilet preparations which have specific curative…
Toilet Preparations: Distilled
Diluents or Vehicles. - Distilled water, various perfumed toilet waters, as rose water, together with alcohol, rectified spirits of wine…
Toilet Preparations: Apply
Or this mixture can be prepared by grating the soap, pouring over it the lemon juice and other ingredients, exposing it to direct sunlight…
Toilet Preparations: Milk
Cucumber Milk. - Slice three or four large cucumbers with the skin on, add pint of water, boil, stir to a soft pulp, cool, and strain. Mix…
Toilet Preparations: Honey
Honey. Honey is a favorite ingredient in various lotions under the name of "honey water," "balsam of honey," and the like. The term "honey…
Toilet Preparations: Glycerin
Glycerin. When pure, glycerin is a colorless viscid liquid, having a sweet taste and without odor. All the ordinary fats contain glycerin…
Toilet Preparations: Borax
Borax. Dissolve 5 drams of borax in 1 pint of pure soft or distilled water, and use as a wash for sore gums or nipples, boils, or any other…
Toilet Preparations: Almonds
Borax.. bly the nut or kernel of the almond, of which there are two sorts: the sweet and the bitter. The almond is the fruit of a tree very…
Toilet Preparations: Strain
Remove from the fire, and stir in a mixture of 6 ounces of alcohol, 5 drops of oil of bitter almonds, and 1 dram of oil of bergamot. Strain…
Toilet Preparations: Roses
Almonds, Sweet... 16 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz.
Toilet Preparations: White
Alcohol.... 1 pt. 2 oz. 6 oz. 1 gal. 3 qts. 2 qts. 1 gal. 1 oz.
Toilet Preparations: Spermaceti
When oil is used, perfume may be first mingled with the oil. Spermaceti, white and other soaps, may be first reduced to liquid form by…
Toilet Preparations: Paste
Almond Paste may be prepared in two ways: either in the cold or by cooking the almonds. To prepare almond paste in the cold, pound the dry…
Toilet Preparations: Cold
COLD CREAM Cold Creams. - The basis of most cold creams is either white wax or spermaceti or both, with almond oil or rectified animal…
Toilet Preparations: Remove
To prepare cold cream, melt in a double boiler 2 drams of white wax, 1 ounce of spermaceti, and 34 ounces of oil of sweet almonds. Remove…
Toilet Preparations: Cream
White Wax.... 4 oz. Oz. oz. 10 dr. oz. 5 dr.
Toilet Preparations: Vinegar
AROMATIC VINEGAR Aromatic Vinegar, or Toilet Vinegar, is a toilet preparation, the active principle of which is acetic acid-in the form of…
Toilet Preparations: French
TOILET POWDERS The bases of most toilet powders are compounds of magnesia, including talc or talcum-which chemically is magnesium silicate…
Toilet Preparations: Perfume
Or finely powdered carmine can be used by taking a piece of fine unscented pomatum about the size of a pea, and placing on it a bit of…
Toilet Preparations: Brazil
Liquid Rouge. - Rouge in liquid form is variously known as "bloom of youth," "bloom of roses," "almond bloom," "Turkish bloom," etc. These…
Toilet Preparations: Perfumes
ESSENCES AND PERFUMES Perfumes. - The subject of perfumery is perhaps not so important as it was formerly, because the use of strong…
Toilet Preparations: Oils
Volatile Oils. - These are found naturally in plants, and are usually obtained by distillation. They are distinguished by their pungent…
Toilet Preparations: Cologne
Cedrat...... 1 oz. 1 dr. 1 dr.
Toilet Preparations: Leaves
Lavender Flowers... 8 oz. 1 oz. lb.
Toilet Preparations: Thyme
Oil Bergamot. " Almonds "Lemon.... " Neroli..
Toilet Preparations: Pastilles
Gum Galbanum. 66 Frankincense. 66 Benzoin.... 46 Tragacanth.
Toilet Preparations: Rose
Orange-flower Water. 4 oz. q. s. pt. 4 oz. 6 oz. q. s.
Toilet Preparations: Smelling
Smelling Salts. - The base of the best quality of smelling salts is the true neutral carbonate of ammonia.
Toilet Preparations: Perfumed
Perfumed Toilet Waters. - These preparations are the product of distillation. The perfume-yielding ingredients are placed in a glass retort…
Toilet Preparations: Water
Rose Water. - Dissolve 1 dram of attar of rose, or a proportionate quantity of other essential oils, in 1 pint of rectified spirits; while…
Toilet Preparations: Rosemary
Rose Water.. 4 dr. 1 oz.
Toilet Preparations: Florida
TOILET PREPARATIONS 95 per cent alcohol. Let stand a month or 6 weeks, shake frequently, filter, and put in a tightly stoppered glass…