Distilled water, 90 fluid ounces; quince mucilage, 5 ounces; solution of soda, 11⁄2 ounces; boric acid, 1 ounce; cold cream, 1⁄2 ounce; sweet almond oil, 1⁄2 ounce; glycerine, 1⁄2 ounce. Stir cold cream, almond oil and solution of soda together until a uniform soapy cream is obtained. Dissolve the boric acid in 60 ounces of water, warmed, and to this add the glycerine and quince mucilage, then add this composition slowly and with regular stirring to the former. Add sufficient perfume and the rest of the water, stirring until uniform.
The drug stores sold a large quantity, and she added to her receipts by making it a mail order proposition.
PLAN No. 506. SOLD PREPARATION TO ERADICATE PERSPIRATION ODOR
A physician in New York, who had made a specialty of preparing various toilet accessories for women, gave one of his patients the following formula for destroying the odor of perspiration, and she was so well pleased with its effects that she put it up for sale. She made a success of it, first through agents, then through the drug stores, and later through advertising it in a number of ladies’ magazines. To-day it is one of the standard preparations for women’s use, and is enjoying a large sale. It does the work, and the following are the ingredients:
Borax, 10 grams; starch, 10 grams; salicylic acid, 3 grams; powdered alum, 5 grams; talcum powder, 50 grams; napthol, 5 grams.
However, if the odor is not excessive, ordinary cooking soda, applied under the arms with a powder puff, is often efficacious.
PLAN No. 507. SOLD PREPARATION TO PREVENT OR REMOVE SUNBURN
An eastern woman, who was particularly susceptible to sunburn, prepared the following, which proved both a preventive and a cure:
Orange flower water, 2 ounces; rosewater, 2 ounces; tincture of benzoin, 1⁄2 ounce; borax, 11⁄4 drams.
By applying this before going out, it prevented the skin from becoming sunburned, while in those cases where the mischief had already been done, she bathed her face with it several times a day, until the sunburn was removed.