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Chinese Depilatory
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Paste. 1223. To Apply a Depilatory as a (see Nos. 1219 to 1222) which are in the state In use, the chemical depilatories of powder, are made into a paste with warm water, and immediately applied to the part, by frequent application, darkens the hair. In previously shaved close, a little starch being the majority of cases, probably, a moderate generally added to those which do not conuse of such a lotion would be unattended tain it, in order to render the paste more with mischief; but it is worth remembering manageable. Sometimes soap-lye is used, inthat palsy has been known to be produced by stead of water, to form the paste. A wooden the long continued use of cosmetics contain- or bone knife should be used in preparing this ing lead. The following receipts show how paste. made: