We append below some varieties of washing bottles. The round-bottomed are in more general requisition than the flat-bottomed description; although this latter presents the advantage of standing more firmly, and, if boiling water be required, of furnishing it more quickly than the bottle with the round base.
In some laboratories earthenware bottles are in use. These are not so easily broken as those made of glass, but, unlike these latter, water cannot be boiled in them, neither can we see whether they be full or empty.
WASHERWOMAN’S SCALL. See Psoriasis.
WASHES. The familiar name of lotions, more especially of those employed as cosmetics. See Freckles, Lotion, Milk of Roses, Skin cosmetics, &c., and the following page.
Washes, Hair. Prep. 1. From rosemary tops, 2 oz.; boiling water, 1 pint; infused together in a teapot or jug, either with or without the addition of rectified spirit, 1 fl. oz. (or rum, 2 fl. oz.) to the cold strained liquor.
2. Box leaves, a small handful; boiling water, 1 pint; digest for an hour, simmer 10 minutes, and strain. Both are used to improve the growth of and to strengthen the hair.
3. To clean the ‘partings,’ remove scurf, &c.—a. (Antipityrienne.) From sesquicarbonate of ammonia, 1 oz.; spirit of rosemary, 1⁄2 pint; rose of elder-flower water, 11⁄2 pint.
b. (Detergent essence.) From honey, 2 oz.; borax, 1 oz.; cochineal (bruised), 1⁄4 oz.; camphor, 1 dr.; (dissolved in) rectified spirit, 2 fl. oz.; soft water, 3⁄4 pint; oil of rosemary, 20 drops.
c. (Vegetable extract.) Take of salt of tartar, 1 oz.; rosemary water, 1 pint; burnt sugar, q. s. to tinge it brown; dissolve, filter, and add of essence of musk, 10 drops.
4. To darken the hair.—a. From pyrogallic acid, 1⁄4 oz.; distilled water, orange-flower water, and rectified spirit, of each 11⁄4 fl. oz.