Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book

Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book, (c)1914 — the great household encyclopedia: cleaning, curing, building, baby care, and a whole cookbook bound in.

Toilet Preparations

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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…

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