Bitter almond oil 10 parts
Mix and stir with this salve base a solution of
Borax 1 part
Glycerine 15 parts
Hydrogen peroxide 15 parts
For impure skin the following composition is recommended:
II.—White mercurial ointment 5 grams
Zinc ointment 5 grams
Lanolin 30 grams
Bitter almond oil 10 grams
And gradually stir into this a solution of
Borax 2 grams
Glycerine 30 grams
Rose water 10 grams
Concentrated nitric acid 5 drops
III.—Lanolin 30 grams
Oil sweet almond 10 grams
Borax 1 gram
Glycerine 15 grams
Solution hydrogen peroxide 15 grams
Mix the lanolin and oil, then incorporate the borax previously
dissolved in the mixture of glycerine and peroxide solution.
IV.—Ointment ammoniac mercury 5 grams
Ointment zinc oxide 5 grams
Lanolin 30 grams
Oil sweet almond 10 grams
Borax 2 grams
Glycerine 30 grams
Rose water 10 grams
Nitric acid, C. P. 5 drops
Prepare in a similar manner as the foregoing. Rose oil in either
ointment makes a good perfume. Both ointments may, of course, be
employed as a general skin bleach, which, in fact, is their real
office—cosmetic creams.
«Emollient Skin Balm.»—
Quince seed 1 ounce
Water 7 ounces
Glycerine 1 1/2 ounces
Alcohol 4 1/2 ounces
Salicylic acid 6 grains
Carbolic acid 10 grains
Oil of bay 10 drops
Oil of cloves 5 drops
Oil of orange peel 10 drops
Oil of wintergreen 8 drops
Oil of rose 2 drops
Digest the quince seed in the water for 24 hours, and then press
through a cloth; dissolve the salicylic acid in the alcohol; add the
carbolic acid to the glycerine; put all together, shake well, and
bottle.
«Skin Lotion.»—
Zinc sulphocarbolate 30 grains
Alcohol (90 per cent) 4 fluidrachms
Glycerine 2 fluidrachms
Tincture of cochineal 1 fluidrachm
Orange-flower water 1 1/2 fluidounces
Rose water (triple) to make 6 fluidounces
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«Skin Discoloration.»—Discoloration of the neck may be removed by
the use of acids, the simplest of which is that in buttermilk, but
if the action of this is too slow try 4 ounces of lactic acid, 2 of
glycerine, and 1 of rose water. These will mix without heating. Apply
several times daily with a soft linen rag; pour a small quantity into
a saucer and dip the cloth into this. If the skin becomes sore use
less of the remedy and allay the redness and smarting with a good cold
cream. It is always an acid that removes freckles and discolorations,
by burning them off. It is well to be slow in its use until you find
how severe its action is. It is not wise to try for home making any of
the prescriptions which include corrosive sublimate or any other deadly
poison. Peroxide of hydrogen diluted with 5 times as much water, also
will bleach discolorations. Do not try any of these bleaches on a skin
freshly sunburned. For that, wash in hot water, or add to the hot water
application enough witch-hazel to scent the water, and after that has
dried into the skin it will be soon enough to try other applications.
«Detergent for Skin Stains.»—Moritz Weiss has introduced a detergent
paste which will remove stains from the skin without attacking it, is
non-poisonous, and can be used without hot water. Moisten the hands
with a little cold water, apply a small quantity of the paste to the
stained skin, rub the hands together for a few minutes, and rinse with
cold water. The preparation is a mixture of soft soap and hard tallow,
melted together over the fire and incorporated with a little emery
powder, flint, glass, sand, quartz, pumice stone, etc., with a little
essential oil to mask the smell of the soap. The mixture sets to a mass
like putty, but does not dry hard. The approximate proportions of the
ingredients are: Soft soap, 30 per cent; tallow, 15 per cent; emery
powder, 55 per cent, and a few drops of essential oil.
If an extra detergent quality is desired, 4 ounces of sodium carbonate
may be added, and the quantity of soap may be reduced. Paste thus made
will attack grease, etc., more readily, but it is harder on the skin.
«Removing Inground Dirt.»—
Egg albumen 8 parts
Boric acid 1 part
Glycerine 32 parts
Perfume to suit.
Distilled water to make 50 parts
Dissolve the boric acid in a sufficient quantity of water; mix the
albumen and glycerine and pass through a silk strainer. Finally, mix
the two fluids and add the residue of water.
Every time the hands are washed, dry on a towel, and then moisten them
lightly but thoroughly with the liquid, and dry on a soft towel without
rubbing. At night, on retiring, apply the mixture and wipe slightly or
just enough to take up superfluous liquid; or, better still, sleep in a
pair of cotton gloves.
«TOILET CREAMS:»
«Almond Cold Creams.»—A liquid almond cream may be made by the appended
formula. It has been known as milk of almond:
I.—Sweet almonds 5 ounces
White castile soap 2 drachms
White wax 2 drachms
Spermaceti 2 drachms
Oil of bitter almonds 10 minims
Oil of bergamot 20 minims
Alcohol 6 fluidounces
Water, a sufficient quantity.
Beat the almonds in a smooth mortar until as much divided as their
nature will admit; then gradually add water in very small quantities,
continuing the beating until a smooth paste is obtained; add to this,
gradually, one pint of water, stirring well all the time. Strain the
resulting emulsion without pressure through a cotton cloth previously
well washed to remove all foreign matter. If new, the cloth will
contain starch, etc., which must be removed. Add, through the strainer,
enough water to bring the measure of the strained liquid to 1 pint.
While this operation is going on let the soap be shaved into thin
ribbons, and melted, with enough water to cover it, over a very gentle
fire or on a water bath. When fluid add the wax and spermaceti in large
pieces, so as to allow them to melt slowly, and thereby better effect
union with the soap. Stir occasionally. When all is melted place the
soapy mixture in a mortar, run into it slowly the emulsion, blending
the two all the while with the pestle. Care must be taken not to add
the emulsion faster than it can be incorporated with the soap. Lastly
add the alcohol in which the perfumes have been previously dissolved,
in the same manner, using great care.
This preparation is troublesome to make and rather expensive, and it
is perhaps no better for the purpose than glycerine. The mistake is
often made of applying the latter too freely, its “stickiness” being
unpleasant, and it is {236} best to dilute it largely with water. Such
a lotion may be made by mixing
Glycerine 1 part
Rose water 9 parts
Plain water may, of course, be used as the diluent, but a slightly
perfumed preparation is generally considered more desirable. The
perfume may easily be obtained by dissolving a very small proportion of
handkerchief “extract” or some essential oil in the glycerine, and then
mixing with plain water.
II.—White wax 1/4 ounce
Spermaceti 2 1/2 ounces
Oil of sweet almonds 2 1/2 ounces
Melt, remove from the fire, and add
Rose water 1 1/2 ounces
Beat until creamy: not until cold. When the cream begins to thicken add
a few drops of oil of rose. Only the finest almond oil should be used.
Be careful in weighing the wax and spermaceti. These precautions will
insure a good product.
III.—White wax 4 ounces
Spermaceti 3 ounces
Sweet almond oil 6 fluidounces
Glycerine 4 fluidounces
Oil of rose geranium 1 fluidrachm
Tincture of benzoin 4 fluidrachms
Melt the wax and spermaceti, add the oil of sweet almonds, then beat in
the glycerine, tincture of benzoin, and oil of rose geranium. When all
are incorporated to a smooth, creamy mass, pour into molds.
IV.—Sweet almonds, blanched 5 ounces
Castile soap, white 120 grains
White wax 120 grains
Spermaceti 120 grains
Oil of bitter almonds 10 drops
Oil of bergamot 20 drops
Alcohol 6 fluidounces
Water, sufficient.
Make an emulsion of the almonds with water so as to obtain 16
fluidounces of product, straining through cotton which has previously
been washed to remove starch. Dissolve the soap with the aid of heat
in the necessary amount of water to form a liquid, add the wax and
spermaceti, continue the heat until the latter is melted, transfer to
a mortar, and incorporate the almond emulsion slowly with constant
stirring until all has been added and a smooth cream has been formed.
Finally, add the two volatile oils.
V.—Melt, at moderate heat,
By weight.
White wax 100 parts
Spermaceti 1,000 parts
Then stir in
By weight.
Almond oil 500 parts
Rose water 260 parts
And scent with
By weight.
Bergamot oil 10 parts
Geranium oil 5 parts
Lemon oil 4 parts
By weight.
VI.—Castor oil 500 parts
White wax 100 parts
Almond oil 150 parts
Melt at moderate heat and scent with
By weight.
Geranium oil 6 parts
Lemon oil 5 parts
Bergamot oil 10 parts
By weight.
VII.—Almond oil 400 parts
Lanoline 200 parts
White wax 60 parts
Spermaceti 60 parts
Rose water 300 parts
By weight.
VIII.—White wax 6 parts
Tallow, freshly tried out 4 parts
Spermaceti 2 parts
Oil of sweet almonds 6 parts
Melt together and while still hot add, with constant stirring, 1 part
of sodium carbonate dissolved in 79 parts of hot water. Stir until
cold. Perfume to the taste.
IX.—Ointment of rose water 1 ounce
Oil of sweet almonds. 1 fluidounce
Glycerine 1 fluidounce
Boric acid 100 grains
Solution of soda 2 1/4 fluidounces
Mucilage of quince seed. 4 fluidounces
Water enough to make 40 fluidounces
Oil of rose, oil of bitter almonds, of each sufficient to perfume.
Heat the ointment, oil, and solution of soda together, stirring
constantly until an emulsion or saponaceous mixture is {237} formed.
Then warm together the glycerine, acid, and mucilage and about 30
fluidounces of water; mix with the emulsion, stir until cold, and add
the remainder of the water. Lastly, add the volatile oils.
The rose-water ointment used should be the “cold cream” of the United
States Pharmacopœia.
X.—Spermaceti 2 ounces
White wax 2 ounces
Sweet almond oil 14 fluidounces
Water, distilled 7 fluidounces
Borax, powder 60 grains
Coumarin 1/2 grain
Oil of bergamot 24 drops
Oil of rose 6 drops
Oil of bitter almonds 8 drops
Tincture of ambergris 5 drops
Melt the spermaceti and wax, add the sweet almond oil, incorporate the
water in which the borax has previously been dissolved, and finally add
the oils of bergamot, rose, and bitter almond.
XI.—Honey 2 av. ounces
Castile soap, white powder 1 av. ounce
Oil sweet almonds 26 fluidounces
Oil bitter almonds 1 fluidrachm
Oil bergamot 1/2 fluidrachm
Oil cloves 15 drops
Peru balsam 1 fluidrachm
Liquor potassa. Solution carmine, of each sufficient.
Mix the honey with the soap in a mortar, and add enough liquor potassa
(about 1 fluidrachm) to produce a nice cream. Mix the volatile oils and
balsam with the sweet almond oil, mix this with the cream, and continue
the trituration until thoroughly mixed. Finally add, if desired, enough
carmine solution to impart a rose tint.
XII.—White wax 800 parts
Spermaceti 800 parts
Sweet almond oil 5,600 parts
Distilled water 2,800 parts
Borax 50 parts
Bergamot oil 20 parts
Attar of rose 5 parts
Coumarin 0.1 part
Add for each pound of the cream 5 drops of etheric oil of bitter
almonds, and 3 drops tincture of ambra. Proceed as in making cold cream.
The following also makes a fine cream:
XIII.—Spermaceti 3 parts
White wax 2 parts
Oil of almonds, fresh 12 parts
Rose water, double 1 part
Glycerine, pure 1 part
Melt on a water bath the spermaceti and wax, add the oil (which should
be fresh), and pour the whole into a slightly warmed mortar, under
constant and lively stirring, to prevent granulation. Continue the
trituration until the mass has a white, creamy appearance, and is about
the consistence of butter at ordinary temperature. Add, little by
little, under constant stirring, the orange-flower water and glycerine
mixed, and finally the perfume as before. Continue the stirring for 15
or 20 minutes, then immediately put into containers.
«Chappine Cream.»—
Quince seed 2 drachms
Glycerine 1 1/2 ounces
Water 1 1/2 ounces
Lead acetate 10 grains
Flavoring, sufficient.
Macerate the quince seed in water, strain, add the glycerine and lead
acetate, previously dissolved in sufficient water; flavor with jockey
club or orange essence.
«Cucumber Creams.»—
I.—White wax 3 ounces
Spermaceti 3 ounces
Benzoinated lard 8 ounces
Cucumbers 3 ounces
Melt together the wax, spermaceti, and lard, and infuse in the liquid
the cucumbers previously grated. Allow to cool, stirring well; let
stand a day, remelt, strain and again stir the “cream” until cold.
II.—Benzoinated lard 5 ounces
Suet 3 ounces
Cucumber juice 10 ounces
Proceed as in making cold cream.
«Glycerine Creams.»—
I.—Oil of sweet almonds 100 parts
White wax 13 parts
Glycerine, pure 25 parts
Add a sufficient quantity of any suitable perfume.
Melt, on the water bath, the oil, wax, and glycerine together, remove
and as the mass cools down add the perfume in sufficient quantity to
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II.—Quince seed 1 ounce
Boric acid 16 grains
Starch 1 ounce
Glycerine 16 ounces
Carbolic acid 30 minims
Alcohol 12 ounces
Oil of lavender 30 minims
Oil of rose 10 drops
Extract of white rose 1 ounce
Water enough to make 64 ounces
Dissolve the boric acid in a quart of water and in this solution
macerate the quince seed for 3 hours; then strain. Heat together the
starch and the glycerine until the starch granules are broken, and
mix with this the carbolic acid. Dissolve the oils and the extract of
rose in the alcohol, and add to the quince-seed mucilage; then mix all
together, strain, and add water enough to make the product weigh 64
ounces.
III.—Glycerine 1 ounce
Borax 2 drachms
Boracic acid 1 drachm
Oil rose geranium 30 drops
Oil bitter almond 15 drops
Milk 1 gallon
Heat the milk until it curdles and allow it to stand 12 hours. Strain
it through cheese cloth and allow it to stand again for 12 hours. Mix
in the salts and glycerine and triturate in a mortar, finally adding
the odors and coloring if wanted. The curdled milk must be entirely
free from water to avoid separation. If the milk will not curdle fast
enough the addition of 1 ounce of water ammonia to a gallon will hasten
it. Take a gallon of milk, add 1 ounce ammonia water, heat (not boil),
allow to stand 24 hours, and no trouble will be found in forming a good
base for the cream.
IV.—This is offered as a substitute for cucumber cream for toilet
uses. Melt 15 parts, by weight, of gelatin in hot water containing 15
parts, by weight, of boracic acid as well as 150 parts, by weight, of
glycerine; the total amount of water used should not exceed 300 parts,
by weight. It may be perfumed or not.
«Lanolin Creams.»—
I.—Anhydrous lanolin 650 parts
Peach-kernel oil 200 parts
Water 150 parts
Perfume with about 15 drops of ionone or 20 drops of synthetic
ylang-ylang.
II.—Lanolin 40 parts
Olive oil 15 parts
Paraffine ointment 10 parts
Aqua naphæ 10 parts
Distilled water 15 parts
Glycerine 5 parts
Boric acid 4 parts
Borax 4 parts
Geranium oil, sufficient.
Extract, triple, of ylang-ylang, quantity sufficient.
III.—Anhydrous lanolin 650 drachms
Almond oil 200 drachms
Water 150 drachms
Oil of ylang-ylang 5 drops
Preparations which have been introduced years ago for the care of the
skin and complexion are the glycerine gelées, which have the advantage
over lanolin that they go further, but present the drawback of not
being so quickly absorbed by the skin. These products are filled either
into glasses or into tubes. The latter way is preferable and is more
and more adopted, owing to the convenience of handling.
A good recipe for such a gelée is the following:
Moisten white tragacanth powder, 50 parts, with glycerine, 200 parts,
and spirit of wine, 100 parts, and shake with a suitable amount of
perfume; then quickly mix and shake with warm distilled water, 650
parts.
A transparent slime will form immediately which can be drawn off at
once.
«Mucilage Creams.»—
I.—Starch 30 parts
Carrageen mucilage 480 parts
Boric acid 15 parts
Glycerine 240 parts
Cologne water 240 parts
Boil the starch in the carrageen mucilage, add the boric acid and the
glycerine. Let cool, and add the cologne water.
II.—Linseed mucilage 240 parts
Boric acid 2 parts
Salicylic acid 1.3 parts
Glycerine 60 parts
Cologne water 120 parts
Rose water 120 parts
Instead of the cologne water any extracts may be used. Lilac and
ylang-ylang are recommended.
«Witch-Hazel Creams.»—
I.—Quince seed 90 grains
Boric acid 8 grains
Glycerine 4 fluidounces
Alcohol 6 fluidounces
Carbolic acid 6 drachms
Cologne water 4 fluidounces
Oil lavender flowers 40 drops {239}
Glycerite starch 4 av. ounces
Distilled witch-hazel extract enough to make 32 fluidounces.
Dissolve the boric acid in 16 ounces of the witch-hazel extract,
macerate the quince seed in the solution for 3 hours, strain, add the
glycerine, carbolic acid, and glycerite, and mix well. Mix the alcohol,
cologne water, lavender oil, and mucilages, incorporate with the
previous mixture, and add enough witch-hazel extract to bring to the
measure of 32 fluidounces.
II.—Quince seed 4 ounces
Hot water 16 ounces
Glycerine 32 ounces
Witch-hazel water 128 ounces
Boric acid 6 ounces
Rose extract 2 ounces
Violet extract 1 ounce
Macerate the quince seed in the hot water; add the glycerine and
witch-hazel, in which the boric acid has been previously dissolved; let
the mixture stand for 2 days, stirring occasionally; strain and add the
perfume.
«Skin Cream for Collapsible Tubes.»—
I.—White vaseline 6 ounces
White wax 1 ounce
Spermaceti 5 drachms
Subchloride bismuth 6 drachms
Attar of rose 6 minims
Oil of bitter almonds 1 minim
Rectified spirit 1/2 ounce
Melt the vaseline, wax, and spermaceti together, and while cooling
incorporate the subchloride of bismuth (in warm mortar). Dissolve the
oils in the alcohol, and add to the fatty mixture, stirring all until
uniform and cold. In cold weather the quantities of wax and spermaceti
may be reduced.
II.—Lanolin 1 ounce
Almond oil 1 ounce
Oleate of zinc (powder) 3 drachms
Extract of white rose 1 1/2 drachms
Glycerine 2 drachms
Rose water 2 drachms
«Face Cream Without Grease.»—
Quince seed 10 parts
Boiling water 1,000 parts
Borax 5 parts
Boric acid 5 parts
Glycerine 100 parts
Alcohol, 94 per cent 125 parts
Attar of rose, quantity sufficient to perfume.
Macerate the quince seed in half of the boiling water, with frequent
agitations, for 2 hours and 30 minutes, then strain off. In the
residue of the boiling water dissolve the borax and boric acid, add
the glycerine and the perfume, the latter dissolved in the alcohol.
Now add, little by little, the colate of quince seed, under constant
agitation, which should be kept up for 5 minutes after the last portion
of the colate is added.
«TOILET MILKS:»
«Cucumber Milk.»—
Simple cerate 2 pounds
Powdered borax 11 1/2 ounces
Powdered castile soap 10 ounces
Glycerine 26 ounces
Alcohol 24 ounces
Cucumber juice 32 ounces
Water to 5 gallons
Ionone 1 drachm
Jasmine 1/2 drachm
Neroli 1/2 drachm
Rhodinol 15 minims
To the melted cerate in a hot water bath add the soap and stir well,
keeping up the heat until perfectly mixed. Add 8 ounces of borax to 1
gallon of boiling water, and pour gradually into the hot melted soap
and cerate; add the remainder of the borax and hot water, then the
heated juice and glycerine, and lastly the alcohol. Shake well while
cooling, set aside for 48 hours, and siphon off any water that may
separate. Shake well, and repeat after standing again if necessary;
then perfume.
«Cucumber Juice.»—It is well to make a large quantity, as it keeps
indefinitely. Washed unpeeled cucumbers are grated and pressed; the
juice is heated, skimmed and boiled for 5 minutes, then cooled and
filtered. Add 1 part of alcohol to 2 parts of juice, let stand for 12
hours or more, and filter until clear.
«Glycerine Milk.»—
Glycerine 1,150 parts
Starch, powdered 160 parts
Distilled water 400 parts
Tincture of benzoin 20 parts
Rub up 80 parts of the starch with the glycerine, then put the mixture
on the steam bath and heat, under continuous stirring, until it forms a
jellylike mass. Remove from the bath and stir in the remainder of the
starch. Finally, add the water and tincture and stir till homogeneous.
«Lanolin Toilet Milk.»—
White castile soap, powdered 22 grains
Lanolin 1 ounce
Tincture benzoin 12 drachms
Water, enough.
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Dissolve the soap in 2 fluidounces of warm water, also mix the lanolin
with 2 fluidounces of warm water; then incorporate the two with each
other, finally adding the tincture. The latter may be replaced by 90
grains of powdered borax.
«Jasmine Milk.»—To 25 parts of water add gradually, with constant
stirring, 1 part of zinc white, 2 quarts of grain spirit, and 0.15 to
0.25 part of glycerine; finally stir in 0.07 to 0.10 part of jasmine
essence. Filter the mixture and fill into glass bottles. For use as a
cosmetic, rub on the raspberry paste on retiring at night, and in the
morning use the jasmine milk to remove the paste from the skin. The two
work together in their effect.
«SUNBURN AND FRECKLE REMEDIES.»
I.—Apply over the affected skin a solution of corrosive sublimate, 1 in
500, or, if the patient can stand it, 1 in 300, morning and evening,
and for the night apply emplastrum hydrargyri compositum to the spots.
In the morning remove the plaster and all remnants of it by rubbing
fresh butter or cold cream over the spots.
For redness of the skin apply each other day zinc oxide ointment or
ointment of bismuth subnitrate.
II.—Besnier recommends removal of the mercurial ointment with green
soap, and the use, at night, of an ointment composed of vaseline and
Vigo’s plaster (emplastrum hydrargyri compositum), in equal parts. In
the morning wash off with soap and warm water, and apply the following:
Vaseline, white 20 parts
Bismuth carbonate 5 parts
Kaolin 5 parts
Mix, and make an ointment.
III.—Leloir has found the following of service. Clean the affected part
with green soap or with alcohol, and then apply several coats of the
following:
Acid chrysophanic 15 parts
Chloroform 100 parts
Mix. Apply with a camel’s-hair pencil.
When the application dries thoroughly, go over it with a layer of
traumaticine. This application will loosen itself in several days, when
the process should be repeated.
IV.—When the skin is only slightly discolored use a pomade of salicylic
acid, or apply the following:
Acid chrysophanic, from 1 to 4 parts
Acid salicylic 1 to 2 parts
Collodion 40 parts
V.—When there is need for a more complicated treatment, the following
is used:
(_a_) Corrosive sublimate 1 part
Orange-flower water 7,500 parts
Acid, hydrochloric, dilute 500 parts
(_b_) Bitter almonds 4,500 parts
Glycerine 2,500 parts
Orange-flower water 25,000 parts
Rub up to an emulsion in a porcelain capsule. Filter and add, drop by
drop, and under constant stirring, 5 grams of tincture of benzoin.
Finally mix the two solutions, adding the second to the first.
This preparation is applied with a sponge, on retiring, to the affected
places, and allowed to dry on.
VI.—According to Brocq the following should be penciled over the
affected spots:
Fresh pure milk 50 parts
Glycerine 30 parts
Acid, hydrochloric, concentrated 5 parts
Ammonium chlorate 3 parts
VII.—Other external remedies that may be used are lactic acid diluted
with 3 volumes of water, applied with a glass rod; dilute nitric acid,
and, finally, peroxide of hydrogen, which last is a very powerful
agent. Should it cause too much inflammation, the latter may be
assuaged by using an ointment of zinc oxide or bismuth subnitrate—or
one may use the following:
Kaolin 4 parts
Vaseline 10 parts
Glycerine 4 parts
Magnesium carbonate 2 parts
Zinc oxide 2 parts
«Freckle Remedies.»—
I.—Poppy oil 1 part
Lead acetate 2 parts
Tincture benzoin 1 part
Tincture quillaia 5 parts
Spirit nitrous ether 1 part
Rose water 95 parts
Saponify the oil with the lead acetate; add the rose water, and follow
with the tinctures.
II.—Chloral hydrate 2 drachms
Carbolic acid 1 drachm {241}
Tincture iodine 60 drops
Glycerine 1 ounce
Mix and dissolve. Apply with a camel’s-hair pencil at night.
III.—Distilled vinegar 660 parts
Lemons, cut in small pieces 135 parts
Alcohol, 85 per cent 88 parts
Lavender oil 23 parts
Water 88 parts
Citron oil 6 parts