Or mix 12 ounces of olive oil, 1 dram of origanum, and 1 dram of oil of rosemary. Bottle and cork tightly until wanted. Apply every other day.
Or melt a piece of white beeswax about the size of a hickory nut in 1 ounce of olive oil, and perfume with a few drops of oil of neroli. This is simple and effective.
Or beat up the yolk of an egg, rub it into the hair, and let dry. Rinse off with clear warm water and apply a little bandoline or pomade when arranging the curls.
To Compound Curling Fluids. Put the above solids or oils in a saucepan and simmer with gentle heat. When solids are melted or oil is well warmed, add other ingredients, except perfume. Strain, cool, and add perfume when nearly cold.
Hair Powders.—The basis of pow ders for the hair was formerly wheat starch, but potato farina is now more commonly used, as it is whiter and more lustrous. This is the ordinary plain hair powder of commerce, to which may be added for a black pow der powdered charcoal or ivory black, or, for a sparkling effect, white frost ing. Various perfumes are used ac cording to taste. These may be used as a dry powder in the form of sa chet, or they may be dropped on loaf sugar, which is afterwards pulverized in a mortar.
The following preparations are rec ommended; Mix and sift together through a fine hair or other sieve 8 ounces of pow dered wheat bran and 1 ounce of powdered orris root.
Or mix 8 ounces of starch powder with 2 ounces of rose sachet.
Or, for musk hair powder, mix 1 scruple of musk with 3 pounds of wheat starch or farina.
Or mix 12 ounces of starch or fa rina with 3 ounces of powdered am bergris; or 12 ounces of starch or farina with 3 ounces of violet sachet.
Or, for a blond hair poWder, mix 4 ounces each of powdered starch or farina and powdered orris root; add 1 ounce of powdered yellow ocher.
Or, for a black hair powder, mix 4 ounces each of powdered starch or farina and powdered orris root, and add ounce each of powdered char coal and ivory black.
Or, for a sparkling effect, grind white frostings to a powder in a mortar.
Compounding Hair Powders. These powders are merely mechani cal mixtures. The ingredients should be thoroughly mixed in a mortar or other suitable receptacle, or sifted through a fine hair or wire sieve.