Cocoa-nut and Vaseline Pomade
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the soft paraffin, cocoa-nut oil, and white wax together in a double boiler.
Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
Add perfume to the mixture according to your preference.
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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