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CREAM OF ROSES.
Olive oil, one pound; attar of roses, fifty drops; oil of rosemary, twenty-five
drops; mix, and color it with alkanet root.
COLD CREAM.
Melt one ounce oil of almonds, half-ounce spermaceti, one drachm white wax, and
then add two ounces of rose-water, and stir it constantly until cold.
LIP-SALVE.
Melt one ounce white wax, one ounce sweet oil, one drachm spermaceti, and throw
in a piece of alkanet root to color it, and, when cooling, perfume it with oil
rose, and then pour it into small white jars or boxes.
FOR DANDRUFF.
Take glycerine four ounces, tincture of cantharides five ounces, bay rum four
ounces, water two ounces. Mix, and apply once a day, and rub well down the
scalp.
HAIR INVIGORATOR.
Bay rum, two pints; alcohol, one pint; castor oil, one ounce; carb. ammonia,
half an ounce; tincture of cantharides, one ounce. Mix them well. This compound
will promote the growth of the hair and prevent it from falling out.
MACCASSAR OIL FOR THE HAIR.
Renowned for the past fifty years, is as follows: Take a quarter of an ounce of
the chippings of alkanet root, tie this in a bit of coarse muslin, and put it in
a bottle containing eight ounces of sweet oil; cover it to keep out the dust;
let it stand several days; add to this sixty drops of tincture of cantharides,
ten drops of oil of rose, neroli and lemon each sixty drops; let it stand one
week and you will have one of the most powerful stimulants for the growth of the
hair ever known.
Another:--To a pint of strong sage tea, a pint of bay rum and a quarter of an
ounce of the tincture of cantharides, add an ounce of castor oil and a
teaspoonful of rose, or other perfume. Shake well before applying to the hair,
as the oil will not mix.
PHALON'S INSTANTANEOUS HAIR DYE.
To one ounce of crystallized nitrate of silver, dissolved in one ounce of
concentrated aqua ammonia, add one ounce of gum arabic, and six ounces of soft
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