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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 bottle. This is a standard recipe for "Florida water." a Or, for a cheaper grade of "Florida water," put in a 2-quart fruit jar 1 ounce of oil of bergamot, ounce of lavender. Cover this with 1 pint of oil of lemon, and 4 ounce of oil of 95 per cent alcohol. Shake well and add dram each of oil of cloves and oil of cinnamon. Let stand 24 hours, add 1 quart of pure soft or distilled water, filter, and bottle for use.

Or, for a simple "Florida water," put in a corked fruit jar 1 ounce of oil of bergamot, 4 ounce of tincture of benzoin, and pint of 95 per cent alcohol. Dilute with pure soft or distilled water to the extent desired.

Or, to illustrate the great variety of ingredients that may be employed in this manner, the following recipes will be stated without comment. Any of these, while more expensive than the above, will be found to be of most excellent quality.

Mix pint of tincture of cedar wood, pint of tincture of myrrh, and + pint of tincture of krameria, and add 6 drops of oil of rose.

Or put in a glass fruit jar 1 dram each of oils of lemon, lavender, and bergamot, dram of oil of neroli, dram of tincture of turmeric, 16 drops of oil of balm, and 6 drops of attar of rose. Cover with 1 pint of pure alcohol and let stand a week or 10 days, shaking frequently.

Or mix pint each of the essence of rose, jasmine, orange flower, and clove gillyflower. Add 1 pint of deodorized alcohol, ounce each of essence of vanilla and musk, 4 ounce of red sanderswood, and pint each of orange-flower water and rose water.

Or put in a 2-quart fruit jar ounce each of essence of cloves and balsam of Peru, ounce each of musk and bergamot, 4 ounce each of essence of neroli and thyme, and pint of orange-flower water, and pour over all 1 quart of deodorized 95 per cent alcohol. This is the socalled "balsam of a thousand flowers." Or mix 2 ounces each of extract of violet, orange flower, and tuberose, ounce of tincture of musk, 1 dram of essence of cedrat, 6 drops of attar of rose, 1 dram of oil of bitter almonds, and 1 ounce each of rose water and orange-flower water. Cover all with 1½ pints of deodorized 95 per cent alcohol, and let stand a week or 10 days, shaking frequently, after which filter and preserve in tightly stoppered bottles.