How To Make Bandolines
Bandolines
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Various preparations are used to assist in dressing the hair in any particular form.
Some persons use for that purpose a hard pomatum containing wax, made up into rolls, called thence Baton Fixeteur.
The little "feathers" of hair, with which some ladies are troubled, are by the aid of these batons made to lie down smooth.
The liquid bandolines are principally of a gummy nature, being made either with Iceland moss, or linseed and water variously perfumed, also by boiling quince-seed with water.
Perfumers, however, chiefly make bandoline from gum tragacanth, which exudes from a shrub of that name which grows plentifully in Greece and Turkey.
Rose Bandoline Recipe
Gum tragacanth, 6 oz.
Rose-water, 1 gallon.
Otto of roses, 1/2 oz.
Steep the gum in the water for a day or so.
As it swells and forms a thick gelatinous mass, it must from time to time be well agitated.
After about forty-eight hours' maceration it is then to be squeezed through a coarse clean linen cloth, and again left to stand for a few days, and passed through a linen cloth a second time, to insure uniformity of consistency; when this is the case, the otto of rose is to be thoroughly incorporated.
The cheap bandoline is made without the otto; for colored bandoline, it is to be tinted with ammoniacal solution of carmine, i.e. Bloom of Roses.
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Almond Bandoline
Is made precisely as the above, scenting with a quarter of an ounce of otto of almonds in place of the roses.
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