^ The Scented Qarden $£ 



make, with this mucilage, and the preceding Powders and 

 Oils, a stiff Paste, which is to be dried in the shade, and 

 formed into round balls. Nothing exceeds this Soap for 

 smoothing the skin, or rendering the hands delicately- 

 white. T j.j 



Ibid. 



To make Wash-Balls. 



Shave thin two pounds of new white soap into about a 

 tea-cupful of rose-water, then pour as much boiling-water 

 on as will soften it. Put into a brass pan a pint of sweet 

 oil, four-pennyworth of oil of almonds, half a pound of 

 spermaceti, and set all over the fire till dissolved ; then 

 add the soap, and half an ounce of camphor that has 

 first been reduced to powder by rubbing it in a mortar 

 with a few drops of spirit of wine, or lavender-water, or 

 any other scent. Boil ten minutes, then pour it into a 

 basin, and stir it till it is quite thick enough to roll up 

 into hard balls, which must then be done as soon as 

 possible. If essence is used, stir it in quick after it is taken 

 off the fire, that the flavour may not fly off. 



Domestic Cookery (1834). 



A delicate Washing Ball. 



Take three ounces of Orace, halfe an ounce of Cypres, 

 two ounces of Calamus Aromaticus, one ounce of Rose 

 leaves, two ounces of Lavender flowers : beat all these 

 together in a mortar searcing them thorow a fine Searce ; 

 then scrape some castill sope, and dissolve it with some 

 Rose-water, then incorporate all your powders therewith 

 by labouring them well in a mortar. 



Sir Hugh Platt. Delights for Ladies (1594). 

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