Lacquer for Toilet Silver

• 1 pint Methylated spirits
• 1 ounce Shellac

Put the shellac in a bottle and dissolve with the methylated spirits, cork the bottle tightly, and let it stand for 24 hours, then pour off the clear liquid.

Heat the metal slightly, and paint the solution over it with a camel's-hair brush. Any metal ornament may be lacquered in the same way.

A little of this solution may be added with good results to the powder ordinarily used to clean silverware.

How to Clean Ivory Handled Toilet Articles

Toilet articles and manicure implements which have ivory handles that may have become darkened, may be cleaned by rubbing the handles with half a lemon, which has been dipped in salt. After treating them thus, then wash in warm water, and wipe dry.

To Clean a Swansdown Powder Puff

White swansdown may be washed in soap and water, after washing, shake it out, and when the down is somewhat raised, shake it before a clear fire to dry.

Balm of a Thousand Flowers

• 1 pint Deodorized Alcohol
• bar of fine, white soap

Shave the soap when putting it in, let stand in a warm place until dissolved, and then add the following.

• 1 drachm Oil of Citronella
• 1/2 drachm Oil of Neroli
• 1/2 drachm Oil of rosemary 

Erasmus Wilson's Hair Wash

Take:

• 1/2 oz Rectified spirit
• 1 oz Honey water
• 1 oz Spirit of rosemary
• 1 oz Strong solution of ammonia
• 1 oz Nut oil
• 8 oz Distilled water

 Mix. This wash differs from most others of the same nature, in that it does not separate for some time.

Pomade Victoria

This highly-praised and excellent pomade is made in the following way and if so  made, will be found to give a beautiful gloss and softness to the hair:

Quarter of a-pound of honey and half-an- ounce of bees' wax simmered together for a few minutes and then strain.

Add of oil of almonds, lavender, and  thyme, half-a-drachm each.

Be sure to continue stirring  till quite cold, or the honey and wax will separate.

12th Century Hair Bleach

For whitening the hair. Catch as many bees as possible in a new pot and set it to burn, and grind with oil, and then anoint the head.

12th Century Black Hair Dye

If the woman wishes to have long and black hair, take a green lizard and, having removed its head and tail, cook it in common oil. Anoint the head with this oil. It makes the hair long and black.

12th Century Scented Hair Powder

But when she combs her hair, let her have this powder. Take some dried roses, clove, nutmeg, watercress and galangal. Let all these, powdered, be mixed with rose water. With this water let her sprinkle her hair and comb it with a comb dipped in this same water so that her hair will smell better. And let her make furrows in her hair and sprinkle on the above mentioned powder, and it will smell marvelously.

Camphor Soap

• 28 lbs. Curd soap 
• 1-1/4 lb. Otto of rosemary 
• 1-1/4 lb.Otto of Camphor 

Reduce the camphor to powder by rubbing it in a mortar with the addition of an ounce or more of almond oil, then sift it. When the soap is melted and ready to turn out, add the camphor and rosemary, using the crutch for mixing.

Almond Soap

This soap, by some persons "supposed" to be made of "sweet almond oil,"
and by others to be a mystic combination of sweet and bitter almonds, is
in reality constituted thus:--

• 100 lbs.Finest curd soap
• 14 lbs. Finest oil soap
• 14 lbs Finest marine soap
• 1-1/2 lb. Otto of almonds
• 1/4 lb. Otto of cloves
• 1/2 lb. Otto of caraway

By the time that half the curd soap is melted, the marine soap is to be added; when this is well crutched, then add the oil soap, and finish with the remaining curd. When the whole is well melted, and just before turning it into the frame, crutch in the mixed perfume.

Some of the soap "houses" endeavored to use Mirabane or artificial essence of almonds (see ALMOND) for perfuming soap, it being far cheaper than the true otto of almonds; but the application has proved so unsatisfactory in practice, that it has been abandoned by Messrs. Gibbs, Pineau (of Paris), Gosnell, and others who used it.

Palm Soap

Cut thin two pounds of yellow soap into a double sauce-  pan, occasionally stirring it till it is melted, which will  be in a few minutes if the water is kept boiling around  it.
Then add:

• quarter of a pound of palm oil
• quarter of a pound of honey
• three pennyworth of true oil of cinnamon

Let all boil together another six or eight  minutes ; pour out and stand it by till next day; it is  then fit for immediate use. If made as these directions  it will be found to be a very superior soap.

Cherry Tooth Paste

Take:

• Otto of roses………………………10 drops
• Oil of cassia………………………..1/2 drm
• Oil of cloves………………………..1 drm
• Orris root, in powder……………….4 oz
• Cuttle fish…………………………..4 oz
• Precipitated chalk…………………..4 oz
• Prepared chalk, in powder…………1 pound
• Glycerine of borax………………….A sufficiency
• Liquid cochineal…………………….A sufficiency

 Mix well.

Areca Nut Tooth Paste

Take:

• 8 oz Precipitated chalk
• 4 oz Powdered areca nut
• 2 oz White castile soap
• 4 oz Powdered orris root
• 1/2 oz Bole Armenian (finely levigated)
• 2 ½ fl oz Glycerine
• 2 ½ fl oz Rose water
• 4 minims Otto of roses
• 5 minims Oil of cloves
• 5 minims Oil of pimento

12th Century Tooth Powder

The teeth are whitened thus. Take burnt white marble and burnt date pits and white natron, a red tile, salt, and pumice. From all of these make a powder in which damp wool has been wrapped in a fine linen cloth. Rub the teeth inside and out. 

Alexandra Bouquet Perfume

• Bergamot oil 3-1/2 drs 
• Rose geranium oil 1/2 dr 
• Rose oil 1/2 dr 
• Cassia oil 15 ml 
• Spirit 1 pt 

Rose Sachet Recipes

Rose Sachet #1

• Orris root 200 parts 
• Rose leaves 600 parts 
• Sandalwood 100 parts 
• Patchouli 100 parts 
• Rose geranium oil 3 parts 
• Rose oil 2 parts 

Rose Sachet #2

• 1/2 pound Powdered Orris 
• 1 1/2 pound Ground Rose Leaves 
• 4 ounces Ground Sandalwood 
• 2 ounces Ground Patchouly 
• 1/2 ounce Extract Civet  
• 30 minims Oil French Geranium 
• 20 minims Otto Rose  

Mix.



Rose Sachet #3:

• 1 lb Rose hips
• 1/2 lb powdered sandal wood
• 1/4 oz. otto of roses

Rose Sachet #4:

• 8 oz Powdered florentine orris root
• 10 oz Rose leaves (air dried)
• 20 grains of powdered Musk 
• 2 oz Lavender flowers
• 10 grains of Civet

Rose Scented Sachet Powder


Rose. Powdered starch 3 oz., carmine to colour, otto of roses 3 drops, orris powder 1 oz. Violet. Orris powder 4 oz., essence of bergamot 20 drops, essence of ambergris 20 drops. Poudre de Chypre. Oak-moss is macerated in clean water for a day or two, and strongly pressed in a cloth; it is then moistened with rose-water mixed with a third of orange-flower water for two days, pressed, and pulverized.

It serves as a basis for other perfumes, the power of which it is said to increase. and sandal-wood, each

Esprit de Jasmine Perfume

• Jasmine extrait 1 pt 
• Ambergris essence dram 
• Neroli oil 8 ml
• Spirit 10 ozs 

Mix. 

Incense Mixtures

Incense Mixture #1.

• Benzoin 4 ozs 
• Olibanum 6 ozs 
• Myrrh 6 ozs 
• Cascarilla tincture 1 pt 
• Lavender oil 10 drops 
• Bergamot oil 20 drops 
• Clove oil 10 drops 
• Cinnamon oil 8 drops 

Incense Mixture #2.

• Olibanum 7 parts 
• Benzoin 2 parts 
• Cascarilla tincture 10 parts 

Incense Mixture #3.

• Olibanum 4 parts 
• Benzoin 1 part 
• Liquid Styrax 1 part 
• Lavender oil 1 part 

Incense Blend #4. 

Mix together:

• 1 lb olibanum tears
• 1 1/2 oz powdered benzoin
• 1 oz powdered cascarilla bark
• 1/2 oz styrax calamita

Incense Blend #5. 

Mix together:

• 1 1/4 lb olibanum tears
• 6 oz benzoin powder
• 5 oz cascarilla bark powder
• 2 oz cloves
• 2 oz cassia

Various Heliotrope Perfumes

Heliotrope #1:

• Heliotropin 60 parts 
• Coumarin 3 parts 
• Peru balsam 5 parts 
• Vanillin 2 parts 
• Terpineol 5 parts 
• Alcohol deodorized 10,000 parts 
• Water distilled 6,300 parts 

Mix the water and alcohol and dissolve the essences in the mixture.



Heliotrope #2:

• 120,0 Essence of Vanilla
• 60,0 Essence of Rose
• 48,0 Essence of Neroli
• 4,0 Essence of Amber
• 5 drops Bitter Almond Oil

Mixed, infused for 7 days, filter.


Heliotrope Bouquet (Fleurs Solsticiales):

• 13.5 oz cassie extract
• 5 oz tincture of ambergris
• 2.5 oz jasmine extract
• 5 oz tincture of musk
• 5 pts rose extract
• 2.5 pints violet extract
• 13.5 oz verbena extract
• 2.5 pints rose essence
• 4 oz "Heliotropine"
• 1 dram Musk xylene, 100%

Marquez Heliotrope Extract:

• Vanilla 6 grams

Triturate and put in 500 grams of alcohol at 85 degrees. Add 90 grams of orange blossom water and leave to macerate for two or three days. Color with cochineal tincture and filter.