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Toilet Or Face Powder

pp. 580-581 · The White House Cook Book
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Take a quarter of a pound of wheat starch pounded fine; sift it

through a fine sieve, or a piece of lace; add to it eight drops of oil

of rose, oil of lemon thirty drops, oil of bergamot fifteen drops.

Rub thoroughly together.

The French throw this powder into alcohol, shaking it, letting it

settle, then pouring off the alcohol and drying the powder. In that

case, the perfume is added lastly.

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