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of soap; after a couple of clays roll them. — 2. Savonettes communes 

 de Bologne 3 packets, soften as before, and part in two : to each 

 half add a handful of powd. labdarium, a handful of the cake from 

 eau d'ange, bals. Peru 1 oz., neroli half an oz., a gallon of eau de 

 millefleurs; mix. 



Savonettes de Neroli. Dry purified soap 81b., moisten with orange 



flower or rose water; stir it twice a day till quite smooth, leave it 



ill sufficiently dry to beat, then add powder of fine labdanum lib., 



essence of neroli 2 oz. ; beat well : if it grows too hard soften with 



orange flower water. 



Sav. communes. Soap olb., starch 21b., essence of orange or 

 citron 1 oz., eau pour faire la barbe a gallon ; beat together, and 

 make it into balls. — 2. Soap 511)., starch 2lb., eau pour faire la 

 barbe 1 gall., oil of spike a spoonful, oil of orange (Bergamot) oi 

 citron half an oz., liquid storax 2 spoonsful. — 3. Soap cut small 

 'lb., eau de citron 2 pints, force it through a coarse cloth, add 

 turch 2lb., essence of orange or citron 1 oz., ceruss. 2 oz., diluted 

 with half a pint of water; beat it well together. 



Sav. bien parfumees. Sav. de Bol. 3 packets, soften with eau 

 d'ange and French milk of roses ; then divide in two, and perfume 

 each part thus : — grind 3ss civette with bals. Peru 2 oz., add ess. 

 of ambergris 3ij, a thread of oil of cinnamon, as much oil of cloves, 

 ;nd keep for use. To each half of soap add 2 handsful of poudre 

 .)mposee as above in 3-3rds: also, half your oils, a gallon of eau 

 !e mille fleurs, and half an oz. of neroli. 



iuit ( SE IN THE ARTS. 



I' J'liriiiinre cream. Pearl ash 2 oz., water half a gallon, dissolve 

 and filter; add white wax 5 oz., cut into shavings, dissolve with 

 heat; to be diluted with water, spread upon the wood with a 

 painter's brush, then j)olishcd with a hard brush or cloth. It may 

 Ik? applied to statues and the like.— 2. River water 10 pints, soap 

 a quarter of a lb., bees' wax lib., boil together, add 2 oz. of pearl 

 ash ; shake well : used for varnishing wood work. 



Blacking halls. Adip. pore, ceroe fl. ana 1 oz., bone black, fulig. 

 lamp., sacch. rubr. ana 8 oz., double glue size 4 oz.— 2. Bone black 

 8 oz., gum. tragac. 1 oz., sacchar. candi 2 oz., water 8 oz. : used 

 for blacking leather. 



Scourinfj Injlls for takinr/ grease out of cloth. Curd soap ilb., 

 ol. tereb. 1 oz., ox gall 4 spoonsful, lemon juice (j. s. to moisten 

 the mass, '•t.-irch (|. s. \n inaKc it into 1> tH. 



