HAIR.
A Safe Depilatory. Take a strong solution of sulphuret of barium, and add enough finely powdered starch to make a paste. Apply to the roots of the hair and allow it to remain on a few minutes, then scrape off with the back edge of a knife-blade, and rub with sweet oil.
Quick Depilatory for _Removing Hair. Best slaked lime, 6 ounces; orpiment, fine powder, 1 ounce. Mix with a covered sieve and preserve in a dry place in closely stoppered bottles. In using mix the powder with enough water to form a paste, and apply to the hair to be removed. In about five minutes, or as soon as its caustic action is felt on the skin, remove, as in shaving, with an ivory or bone paper knife, rash with cold water freely, and apply cold cream.
Tricophermis for the Hair. Castor oil, alcohol, each, 1 pint; tinct. cantharides, one ounce; oil bergamot, ounce; alkanet coloring, to color as wished. Mix and. let it stand forty-eight hours, with occasional shaking, and then filter.
Liquid Shampoo. Take bay rum, 2,1 pints, water, pint, glycerine, 1 ounce, tinct. canthari des, 2 drachms, carbonate of ammonia, 2 drachms, borax, 4- ounce; or take of New Eng land rum, 1i pints, bay rum, 1 pint, water, pint, glycerine, 1 ounce, tinct. cantharides, 2 drachms, ammon. carbonate, 2 drachms, borax, ounce; the salts to be dissolved in water and the other ingredients to be added gradually.
Moustache Grower. Simple cerate, 1 ounce, oil bergamot, 10 minims, saturated tinct. of can tharides, 15 minims. Rub them together thor oughly, or melt the cerate and stir in the tinc ture while hot, and the oil as soon as it is nearly cold, then run into moulds or rolls. To be applied
as a pomade, rubbing in at the roots of the hair. Care must be used not to inflame the skin by too frequent application, Cleaning Hair Brushes. Put a teaspoonful or dessertspoonful of aqua ammonia into a basin half full of water, comb the loose hairs out of the brush, then agitate the water briskly with the brush, and rinse it well with clear water.
Burns and Scalds. Glycerite of lime is recommended as soothing the pain and lessening the inflammation of burns. It is made as fol lows: Freshly slaked lime, 1 part, glycerine, 50 parts, hydrochloric ether, 1 part. Rub the lime with a small portion of the glycerine into a smooth cream, then add the remaining glycerine and ether and thoroughly mix. Another recipe is, lime water and pure olive or linseed oil, equal parts, shake thoroughly to form a uniform and rather thin or liquid salve. Apply freely to burns or scalds, and bind the wounds in rags saturated with it. Lime water is made by pouring a gallon of water on a pound of unslaked lime, and after standing twelve hours decant or filter, and preserve for use when needed. An excellent and available remedy for burns at hand in every house, is the bicarbonate or ordi nary baking soda. Make a thin paste with water and apply promptly; it will quickly remove the pain and check inflammation.