The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-15
RAZORLESS SHAVE
HERE IS THE FORMULA ALL
 FOR NOTHING.
Put the Paste on Your Face, Wipe It Of After Few Moments and
 the Beard is Also Gone.

Why use a razor? Why pay the barber fifteen cents for shave and ten cents extra for not cutting your throatT The
 answer isn't Let your whiskers grow.
 either for Dr. Wolfram D. Dreyfus, chief
 chemist of the Department of Public
 Charities, has compounded little mixture which, if rubbed over the face, will do the trick as quickly and as well as the finest Sheffield razor. says the New York
 Times. This Is the wonder-working com pound:
 Barrii sulphidi, % parts.
 Saponis pulvis, parts.
 Talci veneti pulvis, 35 parts.
 Tritici farinae, 35 parts.
 Benzaldehyoi, quarter solution. It appears in tho new hospital formu- lary which Dr. Dreyfus issued yester-
 day. This formulary contains Ss7 formu- las and Is the most extensive ever issued by hospital. Dr. Dreyfus has been working for a long time on this 'pulvis depilatorius," or shaving powder, and af- ter many experiments he says that he has found something that is satisfactory md harmless.
 The several ingredients mentioned above, when mixed together, make pow der. For the new scientific razorless shave you take one teaspoonful of the powder and mix 1t with three teaspoon | fuls of water, making a paste which you | apply to the face in a moderately thick and even layer with brush from youl otherwise discarded shaving outfit, After | four or five minutes, moisten the lather | with a sponge, and in five minutes more you can wash the mixture off, leaving a | beardless, gashless face. As pr. Dreyfus explained it, this new | shaving mixture didn't seem So wonder | full, after all. The essential ingredient is barium sulphide, which is contained In | all depilatory mixtures and is also used | extensively in tanning. A solution in which the barium sulphide is the chief ingredient is rubbed over the hide and
 the hair can easily be scraped of imme- diately after. Barium suIphide however, | is very powerful, and the trouble with all | depiiatory powders. even those which are | used as an adjunct to surgical operations, | Is that they are injurious to the skin. 1 Dr. Dreyfus the erefore looked around for | something that would render the power- full sulphide harmless.
 The ingredients wnich he found would have that effect, and which are sat down | in the formula given above, have strange | and impressive names, but they are real | ly our everyday friends. Saponis pulvis is plain powdered soap, which makes a | father. Talci veneti pulvis is talcum pow l der, and triticI farinae is wheat flour, both of which are cosmetic in their ef-- fects. Benzaldehyde is practically an ar-' | tificial almond oil, tho pleasant odor of which neutralizes that of the barium | sulphide, which is not so pleasant. A dash of this over the face. a ten- minute wait, a wash and there you. are, | looking as clean and feeling much bet l ter than if you had submitted to the old- l fashioned razor operations with Witch hazel or bay rum, sir?" accompaniments. The new hair grows in much more
 slowly. but otherwise the effect is the same as that of razor shave, except | the cost of the new process, which is | hardly worth considering. The "pulvis depilatorius" proposition was put up to Moses Prang, who works in barber shop on East Twepty-third street, and who Is famed for his expert ness with a razor. Nod for me-" said Moses, when the thing was explained to
 him. "Spose it'mix up with my, Schnurr- l barten?" he said, tondling the Kaiser ef- ! fects at the end of that appendage. "or if it smeared on my eyebrow! With the glue you don't know what happens. Nod for mine."