Pure Glycerine hurts the skin and reddens it. Rose-water should
be mixed with it to be efficacious. The nicest preparation for
chapped hands is composed of quince seed and whiskey. There is
no rule as to proportion. Put the seeds in a bottle, and pour in
enough whiskey to cover them✪ Chapped Hands Preparation. As this thickens, add more whis-
key until it is of the right consistency. This preparation dries off
quickly, and leaves a most agreeable odor.
Lavender Scent Bags. — Half a pound of lavender flowers free
from stalk, half an ounce of dried thyme and mint, a quarter of an
ounce of ground cloves and carraways, one ounce of dried common
salt✪ Lavender Scent Bags ; mix them well together, and put them into silk or cambric
bags.
A PERFECTLY harmless cosmetic is as follows : four ounces of al-
cohol, one ounce of gum benzoin; mix, bottle and shake well ; let
stand in a warm place three days, shaking occasionally ; strain, and
to one pint of rain water put a teaspoonful of the mixture✪ Harmless Cosmetic. Using
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this in the water you wash in will render the skin smooth and
white.
The Turkish Bath is the best medicine women can take who
lead sedentary lives. It is like sleep, a sweet restorer and tonic for
both mind and body.
Harmless Face-Powders. — Rice powder, though expensive, is
warranted perfectly harmless. Refined chalk is the safest thing to
use, and costs far less than if put up under some other name and
sold in boxes. Cascarilla powder is much used by Cuban ladies,
and is considered harmless. Wash the face with thick suds from gly-
cerine soap, and, when dry, dust on the powder with a puff or piece .
of chamois skin.
To Keep the Hands from Chapping. — Use white Castile soap ;
and always, after washing, dry and rub thoroughly with a coarse
towel. Sometimes the use of a little pulverized corn-starch will
absorb the moisture and prove beneficial.
For thoroughly Cleansing the Hair. — In a pint bottle put a
spoonful of olive oil, and add two ounces of best spirits of ammonia
or hartshorn ; shake ; then mix with three ounces of alcohol, and
when thoroughly mixed fill the bottle with soft water✪ Hair Cleansing Solution. Remember
to put in the order named, or you will have " stuff," and no chemical
union at all. To apply, take a spoonful or two of this with a little
warm water ; dip a sponge or rag in and wet the scalp thoroughly ;
now rinse off in plenty of warm water, and you will be surprised at
the amount of dirt, though you may have thought your head per-
fectly clean. For the heads of young infants it is just the thing,
as it instantly removes the dirty scurf without pain or trouble. It
should be rather weaker for a babe than for an adult.
Another Way of Cleaning the Scalp. — A teaspoonful of pow-
dered borax, and a teaspoonful of spirits of hartshorn, dissolved in a
quart of soft water and applied to the head with a soft sponge, and
then rubbed dry with a towel, is an excellent wash for cleaning
the scalp. Once a week is often enough to use it.
A good wash for the head, which will remove dandruff and prevent
3o8 THE hearthstone; or, life at home.
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Pure Glycerine hurts the skin and reddens it. Rose-water should be mixed with it to be efficacious. The nicest preparation for chapped hands is composed of quince seed and whiskey. There is no rule as to proportion. Put the seeds in a bottle, and pour in enough whiskey to cover them. As this thickens, add more whiskey until it is of the right consistency. This preparation dries off quickly, and leaves a most agreeable odor.
Lavender Scent Bags. — Half a pound of lavender flowers free from stalk, half an ounce of dried thyme and mint, a quarter of an ounce of ground cloves and carraways, one ounce of dried common salt ; mix them well together, and put them into silk or cambric bags.
A PERFECTLY harmless cosmetic is as follows : four ounces of alcohol, one ounce of gum benzoin; mix, bottle and shake well ; let stand in a warm place three days, shaking occasionally ; strain, and to one pint of rain water put a teaspoonful of the mixture. Using
THE TOILET. 3O7
this in the water you wash in will render the skin smooth and white.
The Turkish Bath is the best medicine women can take who lead sedentary lives. It is like sleep, a sweet restorer and tonic for both mind and body.
Harmless Face-Powders. — Rice powder, though expensive, is warranted perfectly harmless. Refined chalk is the safest thing to use, and costs far less than if put up under some other name and sold in boxes. Cascarilla powder is much used by Cuban ladies, and is considered harmless. Wash the face with thick suds from glycerine soap, and, when dry, dust on the powder with a puff or piece . of chamois skin.
To Keep the Hands from Chapping. — Use white Castile soap ; and always, after washing, dry and rub thoroughly with a coarse towel. Sometimes the use of a little pulverized corn-starch will absorb the moisture and prove beneficial.
For thoroughly Cleansing the Hair. — In a pint bottle put a spoonful of olive oil, and add two ounces of best spirits of ammonia or hartshorn ; shake ; then mix with three ounces of alcohol, and when thoroughly mixed fill the bottle with soft water. Remember to put in the order named, or you will have " stuff," and no chemical union at all. To apply, take a spoonful or two of this with a little warm water ; dip a sponge or rag in and wet the scalp thoroughly ; now rinse off in plenty of warm water, and you will be surprised at the amount of dirt, though you may have thought your head perfectly clean. For the heads of young infants it is just the thing, as it instantly removes the dirty scurf without pain or trouble. It should be rather weaker for a babe than for an adult.
Another Way of Cleaning the Scalp. — A teaspoonful of powdered borax, and a teaspoonful of spirits of hartshorn, dissolved in a quart of soft water and applied to the head with a soft sponge, and then rubbed dry with a towel, is an excellent wash for cleaning the scalp. Once a week is often enough to use it.
A good wash for the head, which will remove dandruff and prevent
3o8 THE hearthstone; or, life at home.
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