drachms; gamboge, 2 drachms; vervain oil, 10 drops; cinnamon oil, 20
drops; bergamot oil, 30 drops; rose oil, 3 drops. The spermaceti is
melted in the nut oil on a water bath and digested with the gamboge for
20 minutes; it is next strained, scented, and poured into cans which
are standing in water. The cooling must take place very slowly. Instead
of gamboge, butter color may be used. Any desired scent mixture may be
employed.
IV.—Herb Pomade.—
Vaseline oil, yellow 20,000 parts
Ceresine, yellow 5,000 parts
Chlorophyll 20 parts
Lemon oil 50 parts
Clove oil 20 parts
Geranium oil, African 12 parts
Curled mint oil. 4 parts
V.—Rose Pomade.—
Vaseline oil, white 20,000 parts
Ceresine, white 5,000 parts
Alkannin 15 parts
Geranium oil, African 50 parts
Palmarosa oil 30 parts
Lemon oil 20 parts
VI.—Strawberry Pomade.—When the strawberry season is on, and berries
are plenty and cheap, the following is timely:
Strawberries, ripe and fresh 4 parts
Lard, sweet and fresh 25 parts
Tallow, fresh 5 parts
Alkanet tincture, quantity sufficient.
Essential oil, quantity sufficient to perfume.
Melt lard and tallow together on the water bath at the temperature of
boiling water. Have the strawberries arranged on a straining cloth. Add
the alkanet tincture to the melted grease, stir in, and then pour the
mixture over the berries. Stir the strained fats until the mass {228}
begins to set, then add the perfume and stir in. A little artificial
essence of strawberries may be added. The odor usually employed is
rose, about 1 drop to every 2 pounds.
VII.—Stick Pomade.—
Tallow 500 parts
Ceresine 150 parts
Wax, yellow 50 parts
Rosin, light 200 parts
Paraffine oil (thick) 300 parts
Oil of cassia. 5 parts
Oil of bergamot 5 parts
Oil of clove 2 parts
VIII.—Vaseline Pomade.—Melt 250 parts of freshly rendered lard and 25
parts of white wax at moderate heat and mix well with 200 parts of
vaseline. Add 15 parts of bergamot oil, 3 parts of lavender oil, 2
parts of geranium oil, and 2 parts of lemon oil, mixing well.
IX.—Witch-Hazel Jelly.—
Oil of sweet almonds 256 parts
Extract of witch-hazel fluid 10 parts
Glycerine 32 parts
oft soap 20 parts
Tincture of musk, quantity sufficient to perfume.
Mix in a large mortar the glycerine and soft soap and stir until
incorporated. Add and rub in the witch-hazel, and then add the oil,
slowly, letting it fall in a very thin, small stream, under constant
agitation; add the perfume, keeping up the agitation until complete
incorporation is attained. Ten drops of musk to a quart of jelly is
sufficient. Any other perfume may be used.
«Colors for Pomade.»—Pomade may be colored red by infusing alkanet in
the grease; yellow may be obtained by using annotto in the same way; an
oil-soluble chlorophyll will give a green color by admixture.
In coloring grease by means of alkanet or annotto it is best to tie
the drug up in a piece of coarse cloth, place in a small portion of
the grease, heat gently, squeezing well with a rod from time to time;
and then adding this strongly colored grease to the remainder. This
procedure obviates exposing the entire mass to heat, and neither
decantation nor straining is needed.
«Brocq’s Pomade for Itching.»—
Acid phenic 1 part
Acid salicylic 2 parts
Acid tartaric 3 parts
Glycerole of starch 60 to 100 parts
Mix and make a pomade.
«White Cosmetique.»—
Jasmine pomade 2 ounces
Tuberose pomade 2 ounces
White wax 2 ounces
Refined suet 4 ounces
Rose oil 15 minims
Melt the wax and suet over a water bath, then add the pomades, and
finally the otto.
«Glycerine and Cucumber Jelly.»—
Gelatin 160 to 240 grains
Boric acid 240 grains
Glycerine 6 fluidounces
Water 10 fluidounces
Perfume to suit. The perfume must be one that mixes without
opalescence, otherwise it mars the beauty of the preparation.
Orange-flower water or rose water could be substituted for the water
if desired, or another perfume consisting of
Spirit of vanillin (15 grains per ounce) 2 fluidrachms
Spirit of coumarin (15 grains per ounce) 2 fluidrachms
Spirit of bitter almonds (1/8) 8 minims
to the quantities given above would prove agreeable.
«Cucumber Pomade.»—
Cucumber pomade 2 ounces
Powdered white soap 1/2 ounce
Powdered borax 2 drachms
Cherry-laurel water 3 ounces
Rectified spirit 3 ounces
Distilled water to make 48 ounces
Rub the pomade with the soap and borax until intimately mixed, then
add the distilled water (which may be warmed to blood heat), ounce by
ounce, to form a smooth and uniform cream. When 40 ounces of water have
been so incorporated, dissolve any essential oils desired as perfume
in the spirit, and add the cherry-laurel water, making up to 48 ounces
with plain water.
«ROUGES AND PAINTS:»
«Grease Paints.»—Theatrical face paints are sold in sticks, and there
are many varieties of color. Yellows are obtained with ocher; browns
with burnt umber; and blue is made with ultramarine. These colors
should in each case be levigated finely along with their own weight
{229} of equal parts of precipitated chalk and oxide of zinc and
diluted with the same to the tint required, then made into sticks with
mutton suet (or vaseline or paraffine, equal parts) well perfumed. By
blending these colors, other tints may thus be obtained.
«White Grease Paints.»—
I.—Prepared chalk 4 av. ounces
Zinc oxide 4 av. ounces
Bismuth subnitrate 4 av. ounces
Asbestos powder 4 av. ounces
Sweet almond oil, about 2 1/2 fluidounces
Camphor 40 grains
Oil peppermint 3 fluidrachms
Esobouquet extract 3 fluidrachms
Sufficient almond oil should be used to form a mass of proper
consistence.
II.—Zinc oxide. 8 parts
Bismuth subnitrate 8 parts
Aluminum oxychloride 8 parts
Almond oil, quantity sufficient, or 5–6 parts.
Perfume, quantity sufficient.
Mix the zinc, bismuth, and aluminum oxychloride thoroughly; make into a
paste with the oil. Any perfume may be added, but that generally used
is composed of 1 drachm of essence of bouquet, 12 grains of camphor,
and 12 minims of oil of peppermint for every 3 1/2 ounces of paste.
«Bright Red.»—
Zinc oxide 10 parts
Bismuth subnitrate 10 parts
Aluminum oxychloride 10 parts
Almond oil, quantity sufficient.
Mix the zinc, bismuth, and aluminum salts, and to every 4 ounces of the
mixture add 2 1/4 grains of eosine dissolved in a drachm of essence
of bouquet, 12 minims oil of peppermint, and 12 grains of camphor. Make
the whole into a paste with almond oil.
«Red.»—
Cacao butter 4 av. ounces
White wax 4 av. ounces
Olive oil 2 fluidounces
Oil of rose 8 drops
Oil of bergamot 3 drops
Oil of neroli 2 drops
Tincture musk 2 drops
Carmine 90 grains
Ammonia water 3 fluidrachms
«Deep, or Bordeaux, Red.»—
Zinc oxide 30 parts
Bismuth subnitrate 30 parts
Aluminum oxychloride 30 parts
Carmine 1 part
Ammonia water 5 parts
Essence bouquet 3 parts
Peppermint, camphor, etc., quantity sufficient.
Mix the zinc, bismuth, and aluminum salts. Dissolve the carmine in the
ammonia and add solution to the mixture. Add 24 grains of camphor, and
24 minims of oil of peppermint dissolved in the essence bouquet, and
make the whole into a paste with oil of sweet almonds.
«Vermilion.»—
Vermilion 18 parts
Tincture of saffron 12 parts
Orris root, powdered 30 parts
Chalk, precipitated 120 parts
Zinc oxide 120 parts
Camphor 2 parts
Essence bouquet 9 parts
Oil of peppermint 2 parts
Almond oil, quantity sufficient.
Mix as before.
«Pink.»—
Zinc carbonate 250 parts
Bismuth subnitrate 250 parts
Asbestos 250 parts
Expressed oil of almonds 100 parts
Camphor 55 parts
Oil of peppermint 55 parts
Perfume 25 parts
Eosine 1 part
«Dark Red.»—Like the preceding, but colored with a solution of carmine.
«Rouge.»—
Zinc oxide. 2 1/2 ounces
Bismuth subnitrate 2 1/2 ounces
Aluminum plumbate 2 1/2 ounces
Eosine 1 drachm
Essence bouquet 2 drachms
Camphor 6 drachms
Oil of peppermint 20 minims
Almond oil, quantity sufficient.
Dissolve the eosine in the essence bouquet, and mix with the camphor
and peppermint; add the powder and make into a paste with almond oil.
«Black Grease Paints.»—
I.—Soot 2 av. ounces
Sweet almond oil 2 fluidounces
Cacao butter 6 av. ounces
Perfume, sufficient.
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The soot should be derived from burning camphor and repeatedly washed
with alcohol. It should be triturated to a smooth mixture with the oil;
then add to the melted cacao butter; add the perfume, and form into
sticks.
Brown or other colors may be obtained by adding appropriate pigments,
such as finely levigated burned umber, sienna, ocher, jeweler’s rouge,
etc., to the foregoing base instead of lampblack.
II.—Best lampblack 1 drachm
Cacao butter 3 drachms
Olive oil 3 drachms
Oil of neroli 2 drops
Melt the cacao butter and oil, add the lampblack, and stir constantly
as the mixture cools, adding the perfume toward the end.
III.—Lampblack 1 part
Cacao butter 6 parts
Oil neroli, sufficient.
Melt the cacao butter and the lampblack, and while cooling make an
intimate mixture, adding the perfume toward the last.
IV.—Lampblack. 1 part
Expressed oil of almonds 1 part
Oil cocoanut 1 part
Perfume, sufficient.
Beat the lampblack into a stiff paste with glycerine. Apply with a
sponge; if necessary, mix a little water with it when using.
V.—Beat the finest lampblack into a stiff paste with glycerine and
apply with a sponge; if necessary, add a little water to the mixture
when using. Or you can make a grease paint as follows: Drop black, 2
drachms; almond oil, 2 drachms; cocoanut oil, 6 drachms; oil of lemon,
5 minims; oil of neroli, 1 minim. Mix.
«Fatty Face Powders.»—These have a small percentage of fat mixed with
them in order to make the powder adhere to the skin.
Dissolve 1 drachm anhydrous lanolin in 2 drachms of ether in a mortar.
Add 3 drachms of light magnesia. Mix well, dry, and then add the
following: French chalk, 2 ounces; powdered starch, 1 1/2 ounces;
boric acid, 1 drachm; perfume, a sufficient quantity. A good perfume is
coumarin, 2 grains, and attar of rose, 2 minims.
«Nose Putty.»—I.—Mix 1 ounce wheat flour with 2 drachms of powdered
tragacanth and tint with carmine. Take as much of the powder as
necessary, knead into a stiff paste with a little water and apply to
the nose, having previously painted it with spirit gum.
II.—White wax, 8 parts; rosin, white, 8 parts; mutton suet, 4 parts;
color to suit. Melt together.
«Rose Powder.»—As a base take 200 parts of powdered iris root, add 600
parts of rose petals, 100 parts of sandalwood, 100 parts of patchouli,
3 parts of oil of geranium, and 2 parts of true rose oil.
«Rouge Tablets.»—There are two distinct classes of these tablets: those
in which the coloring matter is carmine, and those in which the aniline
colors are used. The best are those prepared with carmine, or ammonium
carminate, to speak more correctly. The following is an excellent
formula:
Ammonium carminate 10 parts
Talc, in powder 25 parts
Dextrin 8 parts
Simple syrup, sufficient.
Perfume, to taste, sufficient.
Mix the talc and dextrin and add the perfume, preferably in the
shape of an essential oil (attar of rose, synthetic oil of jasmine,
or violet, etc.), using 6 to 8 drops to every 4 ounces of other
ingredients. Incorporate the ammonium carminate and add just enough
simple syrup to make a mass easily rolled out. Cut into tablets of
the desired size. The ammonium carminate is made by adding 1 part
of carmine to 2 1/2 parts of strong ammonia water. Mix in a vial,
cork tightly, and set aside until a solution is formed, shaking
occasionally. The ammonium carminate is made by dissolving carmine in
ammonia water to saturation.
«Rouge Palettes.»—To prepare rouge palettes rub up together:
Carmine 9 parts
French chalk 50 parts
Almond oil 12 parts
Add enough tragacanth mucilage to make the mass adhere and spread the
whole evenly on the porcelain palette.
«Liquid Rouge.»—
I.—Carmine 4 parts
Stronger ammonia water 4 parts
Essence of rose 16 parts
Rose water to make. 500 parts
Mix. A very delightful violet odor, if this is preferred, is obtained
by using ionone in place of rose essence. A cheaper preparation may be
made as follows: {231}
II.—Eosine 1 part
Distilled water 20 parts
Glycerine 5 parts
Cologne water 75 parts
Alcohol 100 parts
Mix.
Rub together with 10 parts of almond oil and add sufficient mucilage of
tragacanth to make the mass adhere to the porcelain palette.
III.—Carmine 1 part
Stronger ammonia water 1 part
Attar of rose 4 parts
Rose water 125 parts
Mix. Any other color may be used in place of rose, violet (ionone),
for instance, or heliotrope. A cheaper preparation may be made by
substituting eosine for the carmine, as follows:
IV.—Eosine 1 part
Distilled water 20 parts
Glycerine 5 parts
Cologne water 75 parts
Alcohol 100 parts
Mix.
«Peach Tint.»—
_a._—Buffalo eosine 4 drachms
Distilled water 16 fluidounces
Mix.
_b._—Pure hydrochloric acid 2 1/2 drachms
Distilled water 64 fluidounces
Mix.
Pour _a_ into _b_, shake, and set aside for a few hours; then pour
off the clear portion and collect the precipitate on a filter. Wash
with the same amount of _b_ and immediately throw the precipitate
into a glass measure, stirring in with a glass rod sufficient of _b_
to measure 16 ounces in all. Pass through a hair sieve to get out any
filtering paper. To every 16 ounces add 8 ounces of glycerine.
«Theater Rouge.»—Base:
Cornstarch 4 drachms
Powdered white talcum 6 drachms
Mix.
_a._—Carminoline 10 grains
Base 6 drachms
Water 4 drachms
Dissolve the carminoline in the water, mix with the base and dry.
_b._—Geranium red 10 grains
Base 6 drachms
Water 4 drachms
Mix as above and dry.
«SKIN FOODS.»
Wrinkles on the face yield to a wash consisting of 50 parts milk of
almonds (made with rose water) and 4 parts aluminum sulphate. Use
morning and night.
Rough skin is to be washed constantly in Vichy water. Besides this,
rough places are to have the following application twice daily—either a
few drops of:
I.—Rose water 100 parts
Glycerine 25 parts
Tannin 3/4 part
Mix. Or use:
II.—Orange-flower water 100 parts
Glycerine 10 parts
Borax 2 parts
Mix. Sig.: Apply twice daily.
«“Beauty Cream.”»—This formula gives the skin a beautiful, smooth, and
fresh appearance, and, at the same time, serves to protect and preserve
it:
Alum, powdered 10 grams
Whites of 2 eggs
Boric acid 3 grams
Tincture of benzoin 40 drops
Olive oil 40 drops
Mucilage of acacia 5 drops
Rice flour, quantity sufficient.
Perfume, quantity sufficient.
Mix the alum and the white of eggs, without any addition of water
whatever, in an earthen vessel, and dissolve the alum by the aid of
very gentle heat (derived from a lamp, or gaslight, regulated to a very
small flame), and constant, even, stirring. This must continue until
the aqueous content of the albumen is completely driven off. Care must
be taken to avoid coagulation of the albumen (which occurs very easily,
as all know). Let the mass obtained in this manner get completely cold,
then throw into a Wedgwood mortar, add the boric acid, tincture of
benzoin, oil, mucilage (instead of which a solution of fine gelatin may
be used), etc., and rub up together, thickening it with the addition of
sufficient rice flour to give the desired consistence, and perfuming
at will. Instead of olive oil any pure fat, or fatty oil, may be used,
even vaseline or glycerine.
«Face Bleach or Beautifier.»—
Syrupy lactic acid 40 ounces
Glycerine 80 ounces
Distilled water 5 gallons
Mix. Gradually add
Tincture of benzoin 3 ounces
Color by adding {232}
Carmine No. 40 40 grains
Glycerine 1 ounce
Ammonia solution 1/2 ounce
Water to 3 ounces
Heat this to drive off the ammonia, and mix all. Shake, set aside; then
filter, and add
Solution of ionone 1 drachm
Add a few drachms of kaolin and filter until bright.
«BLACKHEAD REMEDIES.»
I.—Lactic acid 1 drachm
Boric acid 1 drachm
Ceresine 1 drachm
Paraffine oil 6 drachms
Hydrous wool fat 1 1/2 ounces
Castor oil 6 drachms
II.—Unna advises hydrogen dioxide in the treatment of blackheads, his
prescription being:
Hydrogen dioxide 20 to 40 parts
Hydrous wool fat 10 parts
Petrolatum 30 parts
III.—Thymol 1 part
Boric acid 2 parts
Tincture of witch-hazel 18 parts
Rose water sufficient to make 200 parts
Mix. Apply to the face night and morning with a sponge, first washing
the face with hot water and castile soap, and drying it with a coarse
towel, using force enough to start the dried secretions. An excellent
plan is to steam the face by holding it over a basin of hot water,
keeping the head covered with a cloth.
IV.—Ichthyol 1 drachm
Zinc oxide 2 drachms
Starch 2 drachms
Petrolatum 3 drachms
This paste should be applied at night. The face should first be
thoroughly steamed or washed in water as hot as can be comfortably
borne. All pustules should then be opened and blackheads emptied with
as little violence as possible. After careful drying the paste should
be thoroughly rubbed into the affected areas. In the morning, after
removing the paste with a bland soap, bathe with cool water and dry
with little friction.
«HAND CREAMS AND LOTIONS:»
«Chapped Skin.»—
I.—Glycerine 8 parts
Bay rum 4 parts
Ammonia water 4 parts
Rose water 4 parts
Mix the bay rum and glycerine, add the ammonia water, and finally the
rose water. It is especially efficacious after shaving.
II.—As glycerine is bad for the skin of many people, here is a recipe
which will be found more generally satisfactory as it contains less
glycerine: Bay rum, 3 ounces; glycerine, 1 ounce; carbolic acid, 1/2
drachm (30 drops). Wash the hands well and apply while hands are soft,
preferably just before going to bed. Rub in thoroughly. This rarely
fails to cure the worst “chaps” in two nights.
III.—A sure remedy for chapped hands consists in keeping them carefully
dry and greasing them now and then with an anhydrous fat (not cold
cream). The best substances for the purpose are unguentum cereum or
oleum olivarum.
If the skin of the hands is already cracked the following preparation
will heal it:
Finely ground zinc oxide, 5.0 parts; bismuth oxychloride, 2.0 parts;
with fat oil, 12.0 parts; next add glycerine, 5.0 parts; lanolin, 30.0
parts; and scent with rose water, 10.0 parts.
IV.—Wax salve (olive oil 7 parts, and yellow wax 3 parts), or pure
olive oil.
«Hand-Cleaning Paste.»—Cleaning pastes are composed of soap and grit,
either with or without some free alkali. Any soap may be used, but a
white soap is preferred. Castile soap does not make as firm a paste
as soap made from animal fats, and the latter also lather better. For
grit, anything may be used, from powdered pumice to fine sand.
A good paste may be made by dissolving soap in the least possible
quantity of hot water, and as it cools and sets stirring in the grit. A
good formula is:
White soap 2 1/2 pounds
Fine sand 1 pound
Water 5 1/2 pints
«Lotion for the Hands.»—
Boric acid 1 drachm
Glycerine 6 drachms
Dissolve by heat and mix with
Lanolin 6 drachms
Vaseline 1 ounce
Add any perfume desired. The borated glycerine should be cooled before
mixing it with the lanolin.
«Cosmetic Jelly.»—
Tragacanth (white ribbon) 60 grains
Rose water 14 ounces
Macerate for two days and strain forcibly through coarse muslin or
cheese {233} cloth. Add glycerine and alcohol, of each 1 ounce. Perfume
to suit. Use immediately after bathing, rubbing in well until dry.
«Perspiring Hands.»—I.—Take rectified eau de cologne, 50 parts (by
weight); belladonna dye, 8 parts; glycerine, 3 parts; rub gently twice
or three times a day with half a tablespoonful of this mixture. One
may also employ chalk, carbonate of magnesia, rice starch, hot and
cold baths of the hands (as hot and as cold as can be borne), during 6
minutes, followed by a solution of 4 parts of tannin in 32 of glycerine.
II.—Rub the hands several times per day with the following mixture:
By weight
Rose water 125 parts
Borax 10 parts
Glycerine 8 parts
«Hand Bleach.»—Lanolin, 30 parts; glycerine, 20 parts; borax, 10 parts;
eucalyptol, 2 parts; essential oil of almonds, 1 part. After rubbing
the hands with this mixture, cover them with gloves during the night.
For the removal of developing stains, see Photography.
«MASSAGE CREAMS:»
«Massage Application.»—
White potash soap, shaved 20 parts Glycerine 30 parts Water 30 parts
Alcohol (90 per cent) 10 parts
Dissolve the soap by heating it with the glycerine and water, mixed.
Add the alcohol, and for every 30 ounces of the solution add 5 or 6
drops of the mistura oleoso balsamica, German Pharmacopœia. Filter
while hot.
«Medicated Massage Balls.»—They are the balls of paraffine wax
molded with a smooth or rough surface with menthol, camphor, oil of
wintergreen, oil of peppermint, etc., added before shaping. Specially
useful in headaches, neuralgias, and rheumatic affections, and many
other afflictions of the skin and bones. The method of using them is
to roll the ball over the affected part by the aid of the palm of the
hand with pressure. Continue until relief is obtained or a sensation
of warmth. The only external method for the treatment of all kinds of
headaches is the menthol medicated massage ball. This may be made with
smooth or corrugated surfaces. Keep wrapped in foil in cool places.
«Casein Massage Cream.»—The basis of the modern massage cream is
casein. Casein is now produced very cheaply in the powdered form, and
by treatment with glycerine and perfumes it is possible to turn out a
satisfactory cream. The following formula is suggested:
Skimmed milk 1 gallon
Water of ammonia 1 ounce
Acetic acid 1 ounce
Oil of rose geranium 1 drachm
Oil of bitter almond 1 drachm
Oil of anise 2 drachms
Cold cream (see below), enough.
Carmine enough to color.
Add the water of ammonia to the milk and let it stand 24 hours. Then
add the acetic acid and let it stand another 24 hours. Then strain
through cheese cloth and add the oils. Work this thoroughly in a
Wedgwood mortar, adding enough carmine to color it a delicate pink. To
the product thus obtained add an equal amount of cold cream made by the
formula herewith given:
White wax 4 ounces
Spermaceti 4 ounces
White petrolatum 12 ounces
Rose water 14 ounces
Borax 80 grains
Melt the wax, spermaceti, and petrolatum together over a water bath;
dissolve the borax in the rose water and add to the melted mass at one
time. Agitate violently. Presumably the borax solution should be of the
same temperature as the melted mass.
«Massage Skin Foods.»—
This preparation is used in massage for removing wrinkles:
I.—White wax 1/2 ounce
Spermaceti 1/2 ounce
Cocoanut oil 1 ounce
Lanolin 1 ounce
Oil of sweet almonds 2 ounces
Melt in a porcelain dish, remove from the fire, and add
Orange-flower water 1 ounce
Tincture of benzoin 3 drops
Beat briskly until creamy.
II.—Snow-white cold cream 4 ounces
Lanolin 4 ounces
Oil of Theobroma 4 ounces
White petrolatum oil 4 ounces
Distilled water 4 ounces
In hot weather add
Spermaceti 1 1/2 drachms
White wax 2 1/2 drachms
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In winter the two latter are left out and the proportion of cocoa
butter is modified. Prepared and perfumed in proportion same as cold
cream.
III.—White petrolatum 7 av. ounces
Paraffine wax 1/2 ounce
Lanolin 2 av. ounces
Water 3 fluidounces
Oil of rose 3 drops
Vanillin 2 grains
Alcohol 1 fluidrachm
Melt the paraffine, add the lanolin and petrolatum, and when these
have melted pour the mixture into a warm mortar, and, with constant
stirring, incorporate the water. When nearly cold add the oil and
vanillin, dissolved in the alcohol.
Preparations of this kind should be rubbed into the skin vigorously, as
friction assists the absorbed fat in developing the muscles, and also
imparts softness and fullness to the skin.
«SKIN BLEACHES, BALMS, LOTIONS, ETC.:»
See also Cleaning Methods and Photography for removal of stains caused
by photographic developers.
«Astringent Wash for Flabby Skin.»—This is used to correct coarse
pores, and to remedy an oily or flabby skin. Apply with sponge night
and morning:
Cucumber juice 1 1/2 ounces
Tincture of benzoin 1/2 ounce
Cologne 1 ounce
Elder-flower water 5 ounces
Put the tincture of benzoin in an 8-ounce bottle, add the other
ingredients, previously mixed, and shake slightly. There will be some
precipitation of benzoin in this mixture, but it will settle out, or it
may be strained out through cheese cloth.
«Bleaching Skin Salves.»—A skin-bleaching action, due to the presence
of hydrogen peroxide, is possessed by the following mixtures: