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ater, remelt, and pour into jars to keep. Oatmeal Lotion: Two tablespoonfuls fine oatmeal. Boil and strain. When cold add One dessertspoonful of wine (white Rhine preferred), and the juice of one lemon. Fluff over the face before going to bed, not wiping it all away. This is excellent for sallow complexion. Rose Toilet Vinegar: This toilet vinegar is made by taking one ounce of dried rose leaves, pouring over them half a pint of white wine vinegar, and letting stand for two weeks. Then strain, throwing rose leaves away, and add half a pint of rose-water. It can be used either pure or diluted, and is especially good for an oily skin. Lavender Lotion (to soften water): 4 ounces of alcohol. 1 ounce of ammonia. 1 dram oil of lavender. Add one teaspoonful to two quarts of water. A stringent Wash: Place in a half-pint bottle one ounce of cucumber juice, half fill bottle with elderflower water, and add two tablespoonfuls of eau de cologne. Shake well and add very slowly one-half ounce simple tincture of benzoin, shaking the mixture now and then. Fill bottle with elderflower water. This is very whitening, but its best mission is that of making large, open pores less noticeable and disfiguring. Cucumber Milk: Oil of sweet almonds, 2 ounces. Fresh cucumber juice, 10 ounces. White castile soap, 1/4 ounce. Essence of cucumbers, 3 ounces. Tincture of benzoin, 38 drops. Get the juice by slicing the cucumbers, unpeeled, boiling in a little water and straining carefully. The essence is made by mixing the juice with equal parts of alcohol. First dissolve the soap in the essence, add the juice, then the sweet almond oil very slowly, and finally the benzoin. Shake well for half an hour if possible. This is a most effective remedy for tan and sunburn. CARE OF THE HAIR Her luxuriant hair--it was like the sweep of a swift wing in visions.--_Willis._ Pretty hair can redeem a whole host of irregular features. With little waves and kinks, and clinging, cunning tendrils that lie close to the temples, a "crown of glory" will transform an ordinarily plain woman into one passably good to look upon. If you doubt this, just create a mental picture of yourself in the last stages of a shampoo! Isn't it awful? The
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