three
ounces tincture of civet. Filter the mixture.

ROSE-WATER.

Preferable to the distilled for a perfume, or for culinary purposes.
Attar of rose, twelve drops; rub it up with half an ounce of white
sugar and two drachms carbonate magnesia; then add gradually one quart
of water and two ounces of proof spirit, and filter through paper.

BAY RUM.

French proof spirit one gallon, extract bay six ounces. Mix and color
with caramel; needs no filtering.

LAVENDER WATER.

Oil of lavender two ounces, orris root half an ounce, spirits of wine
one pint. Mix and keep two or three weeks. It may then be strained
through two thicknesses of blotting-paper and is ready for use.

CREAM OF LILIES.

Best white castor oil; pour in a little strong solution of sal tartar
in water, and shake it until it looks thick and white. Perfume with
lavender.

CREAM OF ROSES.

Olive oil one pound, attar of roses fifty drops, oil of rosemary
twenty-five drops; mix, and color it with alkanet root.

COLD CREAM.

Melt one ounce oil of almonds, half ounce spermaceti, one drachm white
wax, and then add two ounces of rose-water, and stir it constantly
until cold.

LIP-SALVE.

Melt one ounce white wax, one ounce sweet oil, one drachm spermaceti,
and throw in a piece of alkanet root to color it, and when cooling,
perfume it with oil rose, and then pour it into small white jars or
boxes.

FOR DANDRUFF.

Take glycerine four ounces, tincture of cantharides five ounces, bay
rum four ounces, water two ounces. Mix, and apply once a day and rub
well down the scalp.

HAIR INVIGORATOR.

Bay rum two pints, alcohol one pint, castor oil one ounce, carb.
ammonia half an ounce, tincture of cantharides one ounce. Mix them
well. This compound will promote the growth of the hair and prevent it
from falling out.

MACASSAR OIL FOR THE HAIR.

Renowned for the past fifty years, is as follows: Take a quarter of an
ounce of the chippings of alkanet root, tie this in a bit of coarse
muslin and put it in a bottle containing eight ounces of sweet oil;
cover it to keep out the dust; let it stand several days; add to this
sixty drops of tincture of cantharides, ten drops of oil of rose,
neroli and lemon each sixty drops; let it stand one week and you will
have one of the most powerful stimulants for the growth of the hair
ever known.

_Another:_--To a pint of strong sage tea, a pint of bay rum and a
quarter of an ounce of the tinctur