Cheap-wax pomade (color as desired).—Best tallow 9½ lbs., ceresin ½ lb. Perfume: Lavender oil 1¾ ozs., cassia oil 1 oz., palma-rose oil 11 drachms; or, bergamot oil 1½ ozs., palmarosa oil 1 oz., lavender oil ½ oz.
Resin pomade No. 1.—Best tallow 10 lbs., yellow wax 2 lbs., pale resin 1 lb. Perfume: Bergamot oil 1¾ ozs., cassia oil 14 drachms, lavender oil 11 drachms, clove oil 8¼ drachms, thyme oil 5½ drachms.
Resin pomade No. 2.—Best tallow 10 lbs., yellow wax 2½ lbs., pale resin 1 lb., Venetian turpentine 4 ozs. Perfume: Cassia oil 2¾ ozs., lavender oil 1 oz., lemon-grass oil 11 drachms, clove oil and thyme oil each 5½ drachms.
Cheap resin pomade.—Best tallow 8½ lbs., pale resin and pale ceresin each 13 ozs. Perfume: Bergamot oil 3½ ozs., cassia oil 9½ drachms, thyme oil 5 drachms; or, Portugal oil 2¾ ozs., cassia oil 1 oz., lavender oil 5½ drachms.
Hair Oils.—Like pomades, hair oils are perfumed either with volatile oils or by treatment with larger quantities of fresh flowers. The oils obtained in the latter manner are known as Huiles antiques, and are the finest and most expensive. Vaseline oil, which is cheap and does not become rancid, is also at present much used as hair oil. To make the fat oils used as hair oils more durable and to protect them from becoming rancid, they are also treated with benzoin. For this purpose digest for three hours, with frequent stirring, in the water-bath 100 lbs. of the oil with 1 lb. of pulverized benzoin. With the exception of alkannin for red-colored oil and chlorophyl for herb oils, no coloring substances are used for hair oils. About 5½ to 8¼ drachms of perfume are required for 1 lb. of oil.
The Huiles antiques are obtained as follows:—
Huile antique à la rose.—Extract in the cold 1 lb. of fresh rose leaves with 1 lb. of best olive oil, and with the oil pressed off, extract, six times in succession, equal quantities of fresh leaves, leaving the rose-leaves each time in contact with the oil for 10 to 12 hours. The oil, when sufficiently perfumed, is filtered.
Huile antique au jasmin.—Extract in the manner above given 1 lb. of fresh jasmin flowers with 1 lb. of olive oil.
In the same manner the perfume of the different flowers can be withdrawn and utilized.
A number of receipts for the most popular hair oils are here given.