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Cinnamon Soap

This is usually Soap. Take 1/2 pound white curd or Castile a mixture of tallow and oil soaps, like that of soap (recent); 1 ounce best flowers of sulphur "savon au bouquet," colored with about + (levigated); 1 fluid ounce rectified spirit pound yellow ochre, and scented with 1 ounce oil of cinnamon (supported with a little oil of bergamot and sassafras), to each 7 pounds.

The following is the form of a celebrated maker of this soap, and is very fine: (strongly colored with alkanet); and sufficient attar of roses to strongly scent the mass.

Beat the whole together, to a smooth paste, in a marble or wedgwood ware mortar.

This is Sir H. Marsh's formula. Recom- 6 pounds finest white curd soap; 34 pounds mended in itch, and various other skin disfinest palm oil soap; 1 pound olive oil soap; eases. It is particularly serviceable as a com- 1½ ounce oil of cinnamon; 4 ounce oil of mon toilet soap, to persons troubled with bergamot; + ounce oil of sassafras; 1 drachm slight cutaneous cruptions. Its daily use English oil of lavender; and about pound tends to render the skin fair and smooth. levigated yellow ochre.

The spirit and coloring may be omitted at Oil of cassia is commonly substituted for will; and, as a toilet soap, only half the the oil of cinnamon; and always so in above quantity of sulphur is amply sufficient. second and inferior qualities. 579. Caution in using Medicated