Georgian Cold Cream

Take:

• 2 ounces of sweet oil of almonds
• 3 drachms of white wax
• 3 drachms of spermaceti
• 2 ounces of rose-water
• 1 drachm of oil of bergamot
• 15 drops of oil of lavender
• 15 drops of otto of roses

Melt the wax and spermaceti in the oil of almonds, by placing them together in a jar, which should be plunged into boiling water. Heat a mortar (which should, if possible, be marble) by pouring boiling water into it, and letting it remain there until the mortar is uniformly heated ; the water is to be poured away, and the mortar dried well. Pour the melted wax and spermaceti into the warm mortar, and add rose-water gradually, while the mixture is constantly stirred or whisked with an egg-whisp, until the whole is cold, and, when nearly finished, add the oils and otto of roses. In the absence of a mortar, a basin plunged into an other containing boiling water will answer the purpose.