COLD CREAM Cold Creams.—The basis of most cold creams is either white wax or spermaceti or both, with almond oil or rectified animal fats, as lard, suet, and the like, to which may be added various specifics for the complexion, and distilled waters, essences, or es sential oils to perfume as desired.
Cold cream is among the most use ful of all toilet preparations, both as a preventive and as a remedy for sunburn and reddening of the skin by exposure, chapped hands and lips, frostbite, and other local irritations. It is also useful for whitening the hands and to prevent wrinkles. For this purpose it should be applied at night and thoroughly washed off in the morning. The hands may be pro tected at night by a loose pair of kid or chamois gloves.
7 To prepare cold cream, melt in /a double boiler 2 drams of white wax, 1 ounce of spermaceti, and 3i ounces of oil of sweet almonds. Remove from the fire and add in a thin stream 2 fluid ounces of rose water, and stir constantly until cold. Those who can use glycerin with safety may add I ounce to 1 ounce before the sets.
Or, for a medicated cold cream, melt with gentle heat in a double boiler ounce of white wax, I ounce of spermaceti, and 4 ounces of al mond oil. Mix separately fluid ounce each of the tinctures of bal sam of Peru, tofu, and benzola, to which add in a thin stream 2 fluid ounces of elder-flower water. Beat in the mean time with an egg beater or otherwise to form a complete emulsion. Pour this emulsion in a thin stream into the melted wax and oil, meantime beating with an egg beater until all the ingredients are fully incorporated. When cold, this compound will set as a permanent cold cream which is highly recom mended as a cosmetic.
Or melt together in a double boiler with gentle heat 2 ounces of sperma ceti and 1 ounce of oil of almonds. Stir in 3 ounces of pure glycerin, and ounce of balsam of Peru. Remove from the fire and beat with an egg beater until cool enough to stir.