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Milk of Roses

Place over a tilled water is not used, this addition of acid water-bath, oil soap, 1 ounce; and melt it in should be made to prevent decomposition. 5 or 6 ounces rose-water; then add white Some persons dissolve the sublimate in 2 or 3 wax and spermaceti, 1 ounce, and continue the heat until they have melted. Next take 1 pound blanched almonds, beat them to a meal in a clean marble mortar, with 34 pints rose-water, admitted portionwise, during the trituration. (See No. 43.) The emulsion of fluid drachms rectified spirit before adding the water, to facilitate the process; but this also, though convenient, is unnecessary.

Apart from its value as a cosmetic, the above lotion is an excellent application in a variety of obstinate eruptions, and in obstinate sores almonds, thus made, is to be strained without and glandular swellings and indurations of a pressure through washed white muslin, and minor character; the first of which it seldom run very slowly into the previously formed fails to relieve, provided the bowels and diet soap-mixture; the whole being blended at be carefully attended to, and sufficient exerthe same time by energetic trituration. To- cise be taken daily. Ordinary mild cases of wards the end of this operation, 2 drachms itch rapidly disappear under its use. The attar of rose, dissolved in 8 ounces inodorous addition of about 1 ounce pure glycerine conalcohol, are to be let into the mixture very gradually, and in a thin stream, during constant rubbing of the mass. This cautious manipulation is indispensable to the smoothness and perfection of the milk. (See No. 43.) The last operation is to strain; and, after the liquid has had a day's repose, to bottle it. This is a highly esteemed cosmetic for the skin and complexion. Milk of cucumbers may be made in the same manner as milk of roses, by substituting juice of cucumbers for rose-water.