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Hair Restorative

Take 1 drachm drachms muriate of soda, 2 fluid ounces glycerine, 8 fluid ounces bay rum, 4 fluid ounces Jamaica rum, and 1 pint water. Mix togethshades, requires more consideration and experience than that of the black dyes. The complexion, and the natural color of the hair of the person operated on, with other attendant circumstances , must be carefully considered beforehand , and allowed for. Unless all these points be attended to, the party may, on looking in the mirror, suddenly find himself er, and shake before using. strangely altered in appearance, and probably for the worse. Hair dyes of all kinds will only act effectively and satisfactorily on perfectly clean hair. The presence or the slightest contamination of oily or greasy matter will arrest or greatly lessen their action, and render it unequal in different parts. Hence skin. The constituents of most of these are removing superfluous hair from the the hair, in all cases, should be first thor- lime, and the tersulphuret of arsenic (orpioughly washed with warm soap and water, ment ), but the use of orpiment is dangerous, then rinsed with tepid water, and lastly, especially in case of any abrasion of the skin. wiped dry previous to their application. A The safest depilatory is a strong solution of few grains of soda or of salt of tartar (carbon- sulphuret of barium made into a paste with ate of potassa) added to the first water, will facilitate its detergent action

1214. Το Bleach Hair. It has been found in the case of bleaching hair that gaseous chlorine is the most effectual. The hair should be cleaned for this purpose by a warm solution of soda, and washed afterwards with water.

Depilatories Preparations for powdered starch. It should be applied immain there for 5 or 10 minutes. (See Nos. mediately after it is mixed, and allowed to re- 1223 to 1225.) light coating of sulphuretted sulphide of cal-