COLD CREAM

A snow-white, bland ointment, about the consistence of good lard, and an admirable substitute for that excipient where expense is no object, especially for applications about the face. It is commonly sold as a lip-salve and as a healing application to abraded and chapped surfaces generally. The ordinary receipts are given under the head of Cosmetic Cerate (which see ). The following produces a superior article. Prep. (Dr L. Turn bull.) From white wax, 1 oz.; oil of almonds, 4 oz.; rose-water, 2 oz.; borax, 1 ⁄ 2 dr.; oil of roses, 5 drops. Melt, and di olve the wax in the oil of almonds by a gentle heat; di olve the borax in the rose-water, which is then to be warmed a little and added to the heated oil; lastly, add the oil of roses, stirred.