Lip Salves and Rouges

Creme de Psyche - for the Lips:

Take:

• 1 ounce White wax 
• 1 ounce spermaceti
• 5 ounces oil of sweet almonds

Melt together, and pour in Mecca balsam, 1 drachm; and stir until the mass congeals, then add 10 grains powdered acetate of lead.

Superior Lip Salve:

White wax, two and a half  ounces ; spermaceti, three quarters of an ounce ; oil of  almonds, four ounces. Mix well together, and apply a  little to the lips at night.

German Lip Salve:

Butter of cacao, 1/2 ounce; oil of almonds, 1/4 ounce; melt together with a gentle heat, and add 6 drops essence of lemon.

French Lip Salve:

Mix together 16 ounces lard, 2 ounces white wax, nitre and alum in fine powder, of each, 1/2 ounce; alkanet to color.

Glycerine Lip Salve:

This is prepared by adding 1/6 to 1/8 part of glycerine to any one of the above whilst in the melted state, and stirring the mixture assiduously until it begins to cool.

White Lip Salve:

Take 1/2 pound spermaceti ointment, liquify it by the heat of warm water, and stir in 1/2 drachm neroli or essence de petitgrain as before.

White Lip Salve #2:

• 1/4 lb Almond oil
• 1 oz Wax
• 1 oz Spermaceti
• 1/2 drachm Otto of almonds
• 1/4 drachm Otto of geranium

After lip salve is poured into the pots and got cold, a red-hot iron must be held over them for a minute or so, in order that the heat radiated from the irons may melt the surface of the salve and give it an even face.

Peruvian Red Lip Salve:

Take:

• 1/2 pound spermaceti ointment
• 3 or 4 drachms alkanet root

Digest, at a gentle heat, until the first has acquired a rich deep red color, then pass it through a coarse strainer. "When the liquid fat has cooled a little, stir in thoroughly 3 drachms balsam of Peru. In a few minutes pour off the clear portion from the dregs (if any), and add 20 to 30 drops oil of cloves. Lastly, before it cools, pour it into the pots or boxes. The product forms the finest and most esteemed Up salve. 2 or 3 drops of essence of ambergris, or of essence royale, improve and vary it.

Rose Lip Salve:

As the above, but using only 1 1/2 drachms balsam of Peru, and replacing the oil of cloves with a few drops of attar of roses, or sufficient to give the mixture a marked odor of roses. Some makers omit the balsam altogether. If uncol-ored, it forms white rose lip salve.

Rose Lip Salve #2:

• 1/2 lb Almond oil 
• 2 oz Spermaceti and wax
• 2 oz Alkanet root
• 1/4 drachm Otto of roses

Place the wax, sperm, and oil on to the alkanet root in a vessel heated by steam or water-bath; after the materials are melted, they must digest on the alkanet to extract its color for at least four or five hours; finally, strain through fine muslin, then add the perfume just before it cools.

Common Lip Salve:

Is made simply of equal parts of lard and suet, colored with alkanet root, and perfumed with an ounce of bergamot to every pound of salve.

To Make Lip Salve:

Melt in a jar placed in a basin of boiling water a quarter of an ounce each of white wax and spermaceti, flour of benzoin fifteen grains, and half an ounce of the ]oil of almonds. Stir till the mixture is cool. Color red with alkanet root.

Pomade Rosat for the Lips:

Melt together:

• 2 ounces white wax
• 4 ounces oil of sweet almonds
• 3 drachms alkanet

Digest for several hours, strain, and add 12 drops attar of rose ; used for the lips.