The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-17
TOILET ARTICLES HOMEMADE.

Cologne, Jelly OF Roses and Other
Delights.
Toilet preparations Of the finest kinds
are so costly that people would certainly
make them for themselves II they only
knew how,n said Dr. John V. Shoemaker,
the distinguished authority on the skin, to a
writer for the Washington Star "If you
Ike, will tell you how you can manu-
facture at home several Of the best and
most expensive of such preparations at a
comparatively small outlay.
Take farina cologne, for example. You
can make that for yourself OF just as good
quality as yoa can buy by TAXI; & fourteen
ounces Of deodorized alchohol and putting
into it four drachHls Of OIL of lemon, one
drachm Of oil OF neroli and half a drachm of
oil of lavender. Add enough rose water to
bring the mixture up to plat in measure
ment, and you have one pint Of real farina
cologne,
"All these things YOU can buy at the
nearest spothecary snop, Possibly you
may prefer to use a recipe for eau de
cologne, which, In rrcent competition
among makers, was awarded the first
prize for excellence among 2l9 recipes SUBJ
mitted. 1T so. take one pint of tiipls-dis-
titled alcohol and mix with il one ounce OF
orange-fower water. Put into the mixture
two drachns Of bergamot. one drachm of
oil of lemon, twenty drops OF oil OF neroli.
twsaty drops OF oil of rosemary and six
dro7s Of oil Of origanum.
There are few colognes to be bought in
the world that can approach in excellence
the two you can make at home by those
recipes. They ought to be enough 10 sup
ply your dressing table, But there are
other delightful things for the toilet which
you can manufacture for yourself likewise
For instance, there is jelly OF roses. which
is a delightful preparation for the skin and
lips. To make it get two ounces OF pure
giycsrine aud half an ounce Of the best Rus
sian isinglass With these mix six ounces Of
rose water and put in ten drops of oil of
roses. Reep the Jelly in tinfoil, 50 as to ex.
clude the air as much as possible and retain
its freshness.
If you choose you can make for your
own use the perfection OF face po wder by
mixing one ounce Of impure carbonate OF
zinc, finely pulverized, with one ouncs of
carbonate of magnesium, Sdding Ave drops
Of oil of verbene. The result is powder
Of slightly piukish hue. with which the skin
may Do slightly busted. All these things
mention, you remember, are to be bought
Gt any frst-class drug shop. For a greasy,
shiny, rough or red condition OF the cuticle
nothing can be better than a powder made
from one ounce OF finest prepared chalk
with one ounce of subnitrate Of bismuth,
two drops Of oil Of roses being not for
gotten.
"More effective than powders as curative
agents, if the skin is greasy or rough, is a
properly compounded lotion. Such one ia
made by simply mixing one drachm Of
boric acid with four ounces of distilled
witch hazel. 1t should be applied with a
piece Of soft old muslin. Surprising that
you desire to refine and impart luster to the
surface of the nails, get two drachms Of
ointment of oleate of zinc and rub it
thoroughly in, particularly at the base Of
each nail
Il will tell you how to make delightful
pomede, but you must wait until the next
stra wberry season arrives, unless you care
to purchase some Of dollhouse cultivation.
Take thirteen ounces of fresh Strawberries,
twenty-five ounces of lard, fifteen ounces of
suet and forty ounces of cacao butter and
add to the mixture two drops Of otto OF
roses and two drops Of oil Of neroli. If you
do not wish TO turn out such large quantity
reduce the ingredients proportionately. The
process must DO carefully conducted Melt
the suet, lard and cacao butter together in a
water bath and put in the fresh strawber-
ries. The temperature must be kept very
low ana only high enough to keep the Iuass
| liquid; otherwise the strawberry aroma will
be lost. After the stuff has thus remained
| for several hours strain IL, and when il it
nearly cool add the oils Of roses and neroli.
almond meal Of the best kind, to keep
| the skin of the face and hands smooth and
pretty, you can make by mixing one pound
| Of ground almonds with one pound of wheat
| flour, adding half pound of powdered
| torris root, half an ounce of oil of lemon
and quarter of a drachm Of oil of bitter
almonds. Florida water as good as you
can buy you can compound from two
ounces of oil of lavender, oae ounce Of oil OF
| lemon, one ounce Of oil Of orange peel and
| five drachms of oil of cloves--all mixed in
one gallon of deodorizsd alcohol.
"a first rate bandoline is readily com
posed by taking seven ounces Of water and
mixing with it three ounces of proof spirit
aud drachm and a half of gum traga.
capth, adding ten drops Of otto of rose
| Let the mixture stand for a day, and then
/ strain it. To make brilliantine, mix TO-
| gether two ounces Of alcohol, one ounce oil
honey, half an ounce of glycerine aud hall
ounce of cologne. The best preparation
for bleaching the hair is simple peroxide
of hydrogen, which you can buy by the
gallon and turn your raven locks with it to
| golden or white, as you desire. II you want
to dye your hair you can DO it easily with q
| mixture of one drachm of precipitated sui
phur and like quantity Of acetate Of lead
| with four ounces OF rose water. Apply
I twice day until the desired depth of hue
is obtained. And, by the way. il you arc
bothered with dandruf, you can get rid OF
/ the trouble by rubbing into the scalp with q
sponge, every other night, a solution made
OF five ounces of cologne with two ounces OF
boracic acid"