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SUPERIOR MILK OF ROSES.

Boil fresh rose leaves in asses milk, and bottle it off for immediate
use; it will be found far more efficacious than the milk of roses sold
by perfumers.

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AN EXCELLENT RECEIPT FOR LIP SALVE.

Melt one ounce of spermacetti, soften sufficiently with oil of
almonds, color it with two or three grains of powdered cochineal, and
pour while warm into small toilet pots. We mention the cochineal to
colour the salve, it being usual to make lip salve of a pale rose
colour, but we should consider it far more healing in its effects
without it.

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A COSMETIC BATH.

Boil slowly one pound of starwort in two quarts of water, with half a
pound of linseed, six ounces of the roots of the water lily, and one
pound of bean meal; when these have boiled for two hours, strain the
liquor, and add to it two quarts of milk, one pint of rose water, and
a wine glass of spirits of camphor; stir this mixture into a bath of
about ninety-eight degrees.

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SUPERIOR COLD CREAM.

Melt together one drachm of spermacetti, the same quantity of white
wax, and two fluid ounces of oil of almond; while these are still
warm, beat up with them as much rose water as they will absorb. This
is a very healing kind of cold cream. The usual cold cream sold by
perfumers is nothing more than lard, beat up with rose-water, which is
heating and irritating to the skin.

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PASTE FOR RENDERING THE SKIN SUPPLE AND SMOOTH (AN ENGLISH RECEIPT).

Mix half a pound of mutton or goose fat well boiled down and beaten up
well with two eggs, previously whisked with a glass of rose-water; add
a table-spoonful of honey, and as much oatmeal as will make it into a
paste. Constant use of this paste will keep the skin delicately soft
and smooth.

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TO REMOVE TAN.

Cut a cucumber into pieces after having peeled it, and let the juice
drain from it for twelve hours, pour it off, and add to it an equal
quantity of orange flower-water, with a small piece of camphor
dissolved in a wine-glass of soft water, bottle the mixture, and wash
the parts that have been exposed to the sun two or three times in the
twenty-four hours.

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EAU DE COLOGNE.

Mix together one ounce of essence of be