A French recipe, is excellent--because it is harmless--to use in
dressing hair to keep back any refractory locks.
_Recipe._ Simmer one ounce of quince seed in a quart of water, forty
minutes; strain cool, add a few drops of scent, and bottle, corking
tightly.
Another way of making “Bandoline” is with Iceland moss. Take a quarter
of an ounce, boiled in a quart of water, and a little rectified spirits
added, so that it may keep.
A weak solution of isinglass is the only curling fluid that is harmless.