Rose Lip Salve
Ingredients
Directions
Digest the oil of almonds and alkanet with gentle heat, then filter.
Melt the white wax and spermaceti with the filtered oil.
Stir until it begins to thicken, then add the otto.
Mix well and pour into a container to cool.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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