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Natural Home Made Beauty Recipes

Orange Cleansing Cream

6 tbsp. creamy vegetable shortening
3 tbsp. distilled witch hazel
1 tsp. pure orange extract
1 drop orange food colouring*

Blend orange extract and food colouring throughly into shortening.  Add one teaspoon witch hazel and mix thoroughly.  Repeat until all the witch hazel has been added.  Pour into jars.  Note: If fragrance "fades" in a week or so, add more orange extract.

*See splash of cover page 2

Light Cucumber Cold Cream

1 oz. white beeswax
7 tbsp. light mineral oil
1 1/2 tsp. borax
2 tbsp. rose water
2 tbsp. fresh cucumber juice

Make cucumber juice beforehand (See recipe on page 2)  Grate wax and heat it with oil in a double boiler until well blended.  At the same time, dissolve boradx in rose water and heat to near boiling.  Remove both pots from heat at the same time and stirring constantly, add water solution slowly to blended oil and wax.  When combined, beat vigorously until cool.  Add cucumber juice.  Beat and put into jars.  Note:  See "The Easy Way to Cook Creams" on page beauty2 ).

Enriched Rose Water Cold Cream
1 oz. white beeswax
1 oz. spermaceti
10 tbsp. refined odorless castor oil.
1 1/2 tsp. borax
2 1/2 tbsp. distilled water
1 scant tbsp. rose water
2 drops of rose*

Grate wax and combine with spermaceti and oil in double boilder.  Heat and stir, until mixture is well blended.  At the same time, in a separate pot, dissolve borax in distilled and rose water.  Heat to near boiling.  Remove both from heat simultaneously and, stirring constantly, add the water mixture to the wax mixture.  When combined, beat vigorously until cool.  Add oil of rose and beat again.  Put in jars.  Note:  See "The Easy Way to Cook Creams" on page beauty2).

Lemon Cleansing Cream

1/2 oz. white beeswax
2 tbsp. yellow petroleum jelly
2 tbsp. light mineral oil
1 tbsp. anhydrous (waterless) lanolin
1 1/2 tbsp. distilled water
1 tbsp. freshly strained lemon juice
2 pinches benzoic acid powder
2 drops oil lemon

Grate wax and combine it with jelly, oil and lanolin in double boiler.  Heat and stir until mixture becomes a well blended liquid.  At the same time, in another pan, heat the water, lemon juice and benzoic acid.  Remove both from heat simultaneously and, stirring constantly, add water solution gradually to melted mixture.  Then beat vigorously until the cream is cool.  Add oil of lemon and beat again.  Note:  See "The Easy Way to Cook Creams on page beauty2).
 
 

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