Creme Celeste c1894

National Drug the following formula in a foreign journal:

• 80 Parts White cerate 
• 80 Parts Spermaceti 
• 600 Parts Oil of sweet almond 
• 120 Parts Glycerin 
• 120 Parts Distilled water 
• 5 Parts Borax 
• 0.03 Parts Coumarin
• 1 Part Attar of rose 
• 0.50 Parts Oil of bergamot 
• 0.50 Parts Essence of orange flower 
• 0.30 Parts Attar of ylang ylang 
• 0.10 Parts Attar of iris
• 0.30 Parts Tincture of amber 

Mix. If desired, color with alkaline dissolved in a part of the oil of almonds. 

Skin Bleaches or Whiteners c1902

• Lanolin 30 parts 
• Bitter almond oil 10 parts 
• Borax 1 part 
• Glycerine 15 parts 
• Hydrogen peroxide 15 parts 

Mix the lanolin and oil of almond, dissolve the borax in the glycerine and peroxide of hydrogen, and mix with the agitation. This preparation does by aid of the bleaching property peroxide.

For a muddy complexion, or a skin with blotched or dirty appearance, the following is commende:

• White mercurial oint 5 parts 
• White zinc ointment 5 parts 
• Lanolin 30 parts 
• Bitter almond oil 10 parts. 

Mix thoroughly then make the following solution

• Borax 2 parts 
• Glycerine 30 parts 

add ten parts of rose water and for 3 ounces of the preparation 5 drops concentrated nitric acid, and quickly it into first mixture. Any perfume be used with the preparation. Stir essential oils in the lanolin mixture.  

Petrolatum Cold Cream c1902

• Petrolatum white 7 ozs 
• Paraffin oz Lanolin 2 ozs 
• Water 3 ozs 
• Rose oil 3 drops 
• Alcohol 1 dram 

A small quantity of borax may be if desirable and the perfume may varied to suit the taste of the and his customers. 

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.