ROUGE Rouge Paste and Powder. — The base of rouge for the lips and cheeks is usually French chalk, almond oil, or other animal fat, or oil, or one of the gums, as gum tragacanth, colored with cochineal, carmine, vermilion, alkanet, or other red coloring matter, and perfumed to taste. To this may be added a mild astringent, as alum, acetic acid, and the like.
For carmine rouge, raise to a boil in an aluminum or copper vessel 1 quart of distilled water, to which add 1 ounce of the best pulverized cochi neal. After 5 or 6 minutes stir in carefully 30 grains of powdered Ro man alum. Continue boiling 3 to 5 minutes and set aside to cool. When lukewarm, but before the mixture set tles, pour off the clear liquor from the sediment through a piece of white silk or chiffon into a glass fruit jar. Let stand 3 or 4 days and again pour off through white silk into an other vessel. Allow the resulting liquor to settle; pour off the clear liquor from the top, and dry the sediment carefully in a cool, shady place. The result is a very finely divided powder, making a rouge of the best quality.
Or finely powdered carmine can be used by taking a piece of fine un scented pomatum about the size of a pea, and placing on it a bit of car mine the size of a pin head. Mix the two together and apply with a bit of cotton.
Or mix 4 ounces of powdered French chalk with 2 drams of oil of almonds and 1 dram of powdered carmine.
Or powdered French chalk, 4 ounces; rectified lard, 4 ounces; pow dered carmine, 1 ounce. Perfume with essential oils as desired.
Or the rouge ordinarily used for theatrical purposes may be prepared by mixing fine French chalk with any quantity of powdered cafmine neces sary to give the required color.
Or the so-called Turkish rouge may be prepared by putting 1 ounce of alkanet in a glass fruit jar and pouring over it 1 ounce of alcohol. Let stand for a week or 10 days, shaking frequently; strain and bottle for use.
Or vinegar rouge may be prepared by mixing together 1i drams each of powdered cochineal and carmine lake and 3 drams of alcohol. Pour over
these pint of alcohol and let stand 2 or 3 weeks; afterwards strain and bottle for use. Perfume with essen tial oils according to taste.
Or, for another vinegar rouge, dis solve 25 grains of balsam of Peru in 12 ounces of alcohol; dissolve sepa rately 15 grains of alum in 6 ounces of rose water; mix the two solutions and add 2 drams of acetic acid; let stand 3 or 4 hours, shaking occasion ally; and finally add 1 dram of the finest quality of powdered carmine dissolved in dram of aqua ammonia. Shake well, allow to settle for 10 or 15 minutes, and pour off the clear liquor.
Or dissolve ounce of gum traga canth in hot water and color with vermilion; add a few drops of al mond oil, and evaporate the excess of moisture with gentle heat.
Liquid Rouge. — Rouge in liquid form is variously known as " bloom of youth," " bloom of roses," " al mond bloom," " Turkish bloom," etc. These various preparations are based upon distilled water and alcohol, or other spirit, as vehicles, and are col ored with Brazil wood, red sanders, cochineal, and various other red col oring matter. In some instances they contain an adhesive ingredient, as isinglass, and various specifics, as benzoin, alum, borax, and the like.
Put in a glass fruit jar 2 drams of dragon's blood, 2 ounces of red san ders, and If ounces of gum benzoin; pour over these 9 ounces of 90 per cent alcohol and 4 ounces of pure soft water. Seal the jar and let stand a week or 10 days, shaking fre quently; filter and bottle for use.
Or put in a glass fruit jar 4 ounces of finely powdered cochineal; add 4 fluid ounces of distilled water and the same amount of aqua am monia; cover with a wet cloth and let simmer 3 or 4 hours in a double boiler. This preparation is ready for use as soon as it is cool.
Or, for a larger quantity, put in a 2-gallon glass fruit jar 1 pound of gum benzoin, 91 ounces of dragon's blood, and If pounds of red sanders. Cover with 1 gallon of alcohol; let stand 2 weeks or more, shaking fre quently; strain or filter for use.