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lenient. Too much cannot be said in favour of this Wash- 

 ball, with regard to its cleansing and cosmetic property. 



The Toilet of Flora. 



To make Blue, Red or Purple Wash-Balls. 



Get some white soap and cut it into square pieces 

 about the bigness of dice ; let it lie in a band-box or a 

 sieve on the top of an oven to dry, beat it in a mortar to 

 a powder, and put it into a pan ; damp it with rose water, 

 mix it well with your hands, put in some hair-powder to 

 make it stiff, then scent it with oil of thyme, and oil of 

 carraway. 



If you would have them blue, put in some powder-blue, 

 if red, some vermilion, if purple, some rose-pink ; mix 

 them well together with your hands, and squeeze them 

 as close as possible ; make them very round, of a size agre- 

 able to your mind ; put them into a sieve two or three 

 days ; then scrape them a little with a wash-ball scraper 

 and let them lie in the sieve eight or nine days. After- 

 wards scrape them very smooth, and agreable to your 



mmd - Mrs. Glasse. The Art of Cookery (1784). 



White Almond Wash- Balls. 



Take some white soap and slice it thin and put it in a 

 band-box on the top of an oven to dry, three weeks or 

 more ; when it is dry beat it in a mortar till it is a powder ; 

 to every four ounces of soap add one ounce of hair-powder, 

 half an ounce of white-lead, put them into a pan, and 

 damp them with rose-water to make it of a proper 

 consistency; make them into balls as hard and close 

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