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Glycerine Soap

Any mild toilet yellow deepened with a little red. Redsoap (as the basis of bouquet, rose, or Wind- red bole, sesquioxide of iron, or jeweler's sor soap) with which about 25 to 2 of its rouge. Yellow-bright yellow-ochre, or Dutch weight of Price's glycerine has been intimately incorporated whilst in the melted state. It is generally tinged of a red or rose color, with a little tincture of archil or of dragon's blood; or orange yellow, with a little annatta. It is variously scented; but oil of any color, or mixture of colors, may be propink. By varying the shade of color, which is done by diluting it with a little farina or chalk, and by using soap-dice separately coated with two or more colors, "mottled savonettes" of duced at will. bergamot, or rose-geranium (ginger-grass), supported with a little oil of cassia, or cassia 577. Mercurial Soap. Take of corrosupported with essential oil of almonds, appear to be its favorite perfumes. sive sublimate (crushed small), 1 drachm; rectified spirit (to dissolve, say) 1 fluid ounce; white Castile soap (in powder), 4

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