•^ Sweet *Bag, ^Pot-pourri and other Recipes fH£ 



A Wash-ball, an excellent Cosmetic for the Face and Hands. 

 Take a pound of Florentine Orrice, a quarter of a 

 pound of Storax, two ounces of Yellow Sanders, half an 

 ounce of Cloves, as much fine Cinnamon, a Nutmeg, and 

 twelve grains of Ambergrise ; beat the whole into very 

 fine powder, and sift them through a lawn sieve, all 

 except the Ambergrise, which is to be added afterwards. 

 Then take two pounds of the finest White Soap, shaved 

 small, and infuse it in three pints of Brandy, four or five 

 days. When it is dissolved, add a little Orange Flower- 

 water, and knead the whole into a very stiff Paste with 

 the best Starch finely powdered. Then mix the Amber- 

 grise, with a little Gum Tragacanth liquified in sweet- 

 scented Water. Of this Paste make Wash-balls ; dry 

 them in the shade, and polish them with a pasteboard or 

 Lignum Vitae cup. »,., 



A perfumed Soap. 



Take four ounces of Mash-mallow Roots skinned and 

 dried in the shade, powder them, and add an ounce of 

 Starch, the same quantity of Wheaten Flour, six drachms 

 of fresh Pine-nut Kernels, two ounces of blanched 

 Almonds, an ounce and a half of Orange Kernels husked, 

 two ounces of Oil of Tartar, the same quantity of Oil of 

 Sweet Almonds, and thirty grains of Musk ; thoroughly 

 incorporate the whole, and add to every ounce, half an 

 ounce of Florentine Orrice-root in fine powder. Then 

 steep half a pound of fresh Marsh-mallow Roots bruised 

 in the distilled Water of Mallows, or Orange Flowers, 

 for twelve hours, and forcibly squeezing out the liquor, 



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