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Colored Amandine

Amandine and white wax, 1 ounce, in 1 pound of sweet may be colored green with spinach-leaves, almond oil. Then remove from the fire, and and yellow and orange with palm oil or an- stir in Price's glycerine, 4 ounces; and when notto, by digesting or dissolving the sub- congealing, perfume with attar of rose, 20 stances in the oil before adding the scents. A drops. Other attars may be used as desired, beautiful scarlet or crimson may be given to it by adding a little liquid rouge or carmine (ammoniacal), just before removing it from the mortar. Olivine is a similar preparation to amandine, but made with olive-oil. It is often colored green. in place of rose.

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