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4 Oldie Recipes To Make Absorbent Powder

A lady's toilet-table is incomplete without a box of some absorbent powder; indeed, from our earliest infancy, powder is used for drying the skin with the greatest benefit; no wonder that its use is continued in advanced years, if, by slight modifications in its composition, it can be employed not only as an absorbent, but as a means of "personal adornment."

They are principally composed of various starches, prepared from wheat, potatoes, and various nuts, mixed more or less with powdered talc—of Haüy, steatite (soap-stone), French chalk, oxide of bismuth, and oxide of zinc, etc.

The most popular is what is termed


1. Violet Powder.
Wheat starch = 12 lbs.
Orris-root powder = 2 lbs.
Otto of lemon = 1/2 oz.
Otto of bergamot = 3/4 oz.
Otto of cloves = 2 drachms.

2. Rose Face Powder.
Wheat starch = 7 lbs.
Rose Pink = 1/2 drachm.
Otto of rose = 2 drachms.
Otto of santal = 2 "

3. Face Powder.
Starch = 1 lb.
Oxide of Bismuth = 4 oz.

4. Perle Powder.
French chalk = 1 lb.
Oxide of bismuth = 1 oz.
Oxide of zinc = 1 oz.

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