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From The Druggists circular formula book (1915).

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From The Druggists circular formula book (1915), printed page 118, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/10430370R.nlm.nih.gov

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  • Additives or old utensils. The text names something no longer considered safe in food or for cooking in, such as lead, alum, borax, bitter almonds or copper pans. Don't use it.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Mix equal parts of ammonium carbonate, borax, and soap, in fine dry powder, and perfume with oil of orris.
  2. One pound each of borax and powdered soap with about 4 ounces of sodium bicarbonate, perfumed with a mixture of 2 parts of coumarin and 1 part of heliotropin, makes a dry shampoo which is highly recommended.
  3. i Vv.
  4. BBY 0) hz to: Drama My RH dogs re Vt 20 grammes.
  5. ‘Potassium car- DONATO <0 erate eels 10 grammes.
  6. Ammonia water..
  7. 10 ec.
  8. (mils).
  9. IWEECE 4 dor sates Spee 500 e.c.
  10. (mils).
  11. 2 cc.
  12. (mils).
  13. 1 cc.
  14. (mils).
  15. pital erates to make Oil of bergamot..
  16. Oil of geranium..
  17. Aleohol Liquid Shampoos.
  18. a ‘ Ammonium sulphoricinate ..
  19. 200.0 grammes.
  20. Oil of orange, : terpeneless ..
  21. 0.5 gramme.
  22. aroxide, fs c84 80 grammes.
  23. Alcohol .
  24. 500 c.c.
  25. (mils).
  26. Potassium car- bonate 30 grammes.
  27. Dissolve the hydroxides in a mixture of the aleohol and 500 c.c.
  28. (mils) of water.
  29. Add the cottonseed oil little by ' little with vigorous shaking, and set the mixture aside until saponification .is complete.
  30. Add the rest of the water containing the carbonate, and finally” the terpineol.
  31. Elsewhere in this book are several formulas for liquid soaps, which may be used as liquid shampoos.