NEW-INVENTED COM- POSITION FOR SHAVING WITHOUT THE USE OF RAZOR, SOAP, OR WATER
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARCUS
HYMANS, of Exeter Street, Covent Garden, in the County of Middlesex, do
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Seventh day of February, in the forty-fourth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Marcus Hymans, my exors, adñors,
and assigns, His special licence that I, the said Marcus Hymans, my
exors, admors, and assigns, during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully. might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, a certain "NEW-INVENTED COM-
POSITION FOR SHAVING WITHOUT THE USE OF RAZOR, SOAP, OR WATER;" in which
Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Marcus Hymans,
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Hymans, do hereby declare that the said composition for shaving as
aforesaid is prepared and used in the manner following (that is to say) :-
Mix one pint and an half of clear lime water, two ounces of gum arabic, an
half of an ounce of isinglass, an eighth of an ounce of cochineal, a quarter of

page_text: an ounce of turmeric root made into powder, an eighth of an ounce of roach
allum, an eighth of an ounce of salt of tartar, and an eighth of an ounce of
cream of tar together; boil them for one hour at least, stirring up the mixture
during the whole time of boiling, and being careful not to let it boil over.
Clear it through a sieve; then add two pounds and an half of iron pumice
stone finely pulverized. Mix the whole together with the hands into one cake,
by the assistance of the white of two eggs well stirred up; then divide the cake
so made into twelve smaller cakes; dry them in the open air for three days,
put them into an oven of a moderate heat for twenty-four hours, when they
will be completely dry and fit for use. Apply them with a gentle friction to
the beard and they will produce the complete effect of shaving.
In witness whereof I, the said Marcus Hymans, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth-day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and four.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
P. W. WILLIAMS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1804, the aforesaid Marcus Hymans came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and four.