| Lard | 1 lb. |
| Expressed oil of almond | 1 lb. |
| Spermaceti | 1¾ oz. |
| Carmine | 150 grains. |
| Tincture of cantharides | ¾ oz. |
| Tincture of storax | 1 oz. |
| Tincture of tolu | 1 oz. |
Beard Producer.
| Lard | 1 lb. |
| Expressed oil of almond | 1 lb. |
| Spermaceti | ¾ oz. |
| Cantharides | ¾ oz. |
| Carmine | 150 grains. |
| Oil of bergamot | 75 grains. |
| Oil of lavender | 75 grains. |
| Oil of santal | 75 grains. |
Rub the cantharides with the carmine to the finest possible powder; add this with the essential oils to the other ingredients.
Formulas for similar hair tonics might be given to the number of several hundreds; but we repeat what we have said above—they do not produce the desired result.
While the well-known bay rum is used more as a face lotion or refreshing skin tonic, particularly after shaving, or when perspiring in hot weather, yet it is also often used as a wash for the scalp, and is popularly believed to stimulate the growth of hair, which is in reality not the case. We shall therefore give a formula for its preparation here:
Bay Rum.
| Oil of bay (from Myrcia acris) | 240 grains. |
| Oil of orange (bigarade) | 16 grains. |
| Oil of Pimenta | 16 grains. |
| Alcohol | 1 qt. |
| Water | 25 fl. oz. |
Dissolve the oils in the alcohol and add the water. Mix the liquid with about 2 oz. of precipitated phosphate of lime, and filter. It will improve by age.
Genuine bay rum is imported from the West Indies (St. Thomas, etc.), where a crude kind of alcohol, obtained in connection with the manufacture of rum from molasses, is distilled with the fresh leaves of the bay-tree (Myrcia acris). The oil of bay obtained from this must not be confounded with the oil of sweet bay. The latter, as it appears in commerce, is a crude mixture of a fixed with a volatile oil.