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is done by accident, or to destroy the hair foiiicles, treat the sore the same as a 

 bum. 



3. Superfluous Hair, To Destroy.— Under this head some writer 

 gives the following, which is so near like what I have proposed for othei-s, I 

 will copy it, as he has a plan of washing off with vinegar, which would be 

 good if either of the above depilatories (this is a depilatory) are used: " Take 

 fresh stone lime, 1 oz. ; pure potash, 1 dr. ; sulphuret of arsenic, 1 dr. Direc- 

 tions — Reduce them to a fine powder in an earthen or glass mortar, and add 

 enough soft water to make a thin paste. Then wash the hair in warm water, 

 and apply the i)aste, by rubbing gently a little on the spot where you wish to 

 remove the hair. As soon as the skin is much reddened, wash it off with 

 strong vinegar. Do not let it remain on more than 3 to 5 minutes. "Wash the 

 place with a flannel cloth, and the hair will be removed. The skin will be soft- 

 ened and improved in appearance. 



Bemarks. — This, of course, can be kept in the dry powder in closely stop- 

 pered bottles, as well as the others, but wet up only as much as you need to put 

 on at a time. It should be put on as thick as a case-knife blade, either of them. 



Camphor Ice, for Bough Pace, Lips, Chapped Hands, etc.— 

 Benzoated suet, 3^ lb. ; white wax, 3 ozs. ; powdered camphor, 1 oz. ; English 

 oil lavender, 1 dr. Directions — To make the benzoated suet, it is rendered and 

 strained and 2 drs. of powdered benzoin, or benzoic acid, stirred in; the wax 

 is melted in it by gentle heat ; the camphor gum has to be powdered by putting 

 a few drops of alcohol upon it (best let the druggist do this), then stirred into 

 the wax and suet mixture, and when quite cool, the lavender added, and 

 poured, into boxes or large mouthed bottles. Apply as often as needed to keep 

 soft. 



Remarks. — I think vaseline, as now kept by druggists, equal, if not better, 

 than the suet (lamb suet is used). 



1. Bay Bum, Barbers'.— Magnesia and powdered borax, each, 30 

 grs. ; oil of bay, %io\ dr. , alcohol, 2 ozs. ; dilute alcohol, 1 qt Directions^ 

 First, rub the magnesia, borax, and oil of bay in the 2 ozs. of strong alcohol, in 

 a mortar; then put into a filter and gradually pour on the dilute alcohol to per- 

 colate through the magnesia. — Mt. Vernon (0.) Barber. 



Remarks. — The more oil of bay the more it is like bay rum, It will prove 

 very satisfactory for the hair or to use about the person when sick, by washing 

 with a sponge and putting on the handkerchief, the same as cologne may be 

 used, then passing over the face, smelling, etc. It is a grateful relief to the 

 sick, thus used as freely as they desire. 



Wash for Ladies' Hands. — This very appropriately comes in here, as 

 it is really a toilet wash. Put powdered borax, 5 ozs. , into a bpttle with water, 

 1 pt. If this all dissolves, put in enough to always keep some borax, undis 

 solved, at the bottom. When the garden work is done for the day, put enough 

 into the water in which the hands are to be washed to make it soft or slip 

 pery as suds. " It is very cleansing," says Prof. Beal, of the Michigan Agri- 



