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Sultana Cold Cream
Take + cosmetic, particularly for chapped lips, hands, ounce avoirdupois each, pure spermaceti and &c. It is sometimes colored with a little white wax; almond-oil, and butter of cacao, palm-oil. Scent may be added at will. It is each pound; melt, and stir in of balsam of highly esteemed by some persons as a hair Peru, 2 drachms. After repose, pour off the pomade. clear portion, add orange-flower water, 2 Imperial fluid drachms, and stir it briskly until it concretes. Used like cold cream, lip-salve, &c. of sweet almonds, 5 ounces. Melt together, 1128. Crême de Cathay. Melt together and pour in Mecca balsam, 1 drachm; and over a water bath, white wax and spermaceti, stir until the mass congeals, then add 10 each 2 drachms; then add oil of sweet al- grains powdered acetate of lead. monds, 4 ounces, and Mecca balsam, 3 1138. Lait Virginal. Orange-flower drachms; next perfume with rose-water, 6 water, 8 ounces; and tincture of benzoin, 2 drachms; stir until cold. 1