.

Eau de Cologne, 1 quart.
Camphor, 5 oz.

SECTION XVI.

HAIR WASHES.

ROSEMARY WATER.

Rosemary free from stalk, 10 lbs.
Water, 12 gallons.

Draw off by distillation ten gallons for use in perfumery manufacture.

ROSEMARY HAIR WASH.

Rosemary water, 1 gallon.
Rectified spirit, 1/2 pint.
Pearlash, 1 oz.

Tinted with brown coloring.

ATHENIAN WATER.

Rose-water, 1 gallon.
Alcohol, 1 pint.
Sassafras wood, 1/4 lb.
Pearlash, 1 oz.

Boil the wood in the rose-water in a glass vessel; then, when cold, add
the pearlash and spirit.

VEGETABLE OR BOTANIC EXTRACT.

Rose-water, }
Rectified spirits, } of each, 2 quarts.
Extrait de fleur d'orange, }
" jasmin, }
" acacia, } of each, 1/4 pint.
" rose, }
" tubereuse, }
Extract of vanilla, 1/2 pint.

This is a very beautifully-scented hair wash. It retails at a price
commensurate with its cost.

ASTRINGENT EXTRACT OF ROSES AND ROSEMARY.

Rosemary water, 2 quarts.
Esprit de rose, 1/2 pint.
Rectified spirit, 1-1/2 pint.
Extract of vanilla, 1 quart.
Magnesia to clear it, 2 oz.

Filter through paper.

SAPONACEOUS WASH.

Rectified spirit, 1 pint.
Rose-water, 1 gallon.
Extract of rondeletia, 1/2 pint.
Transparent soap, 1/2 oz.
Hay saffron, 1/2 drachm.

Shave up the soap very fine; boil it and the saffron in a quart of the
rose-water; when dissolved, add the remainder of the water, then the
spirit, finally the rondeletia, which is used by way of perfume. After
standing for two or three days, it is fit for bottling. By transmitted
light it is transparent, but by reflected light the liquid has a pearly
and singular wavy appearance when shaken. A similar preparation is
called Egg Julep.

BANDOLINES.

Various preparations are used to assist in dressing the hair in any
particular form. Some persons use for that purpose a hard pomatum
containing wax, made up into rolls, called thence _Baton Fixeteur._ The
little "feathers" of hair, with which some ladies are troubled, are by
the aid of these batons made to lie down smoot