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Shaving Cream, Almond

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Rose and geranium work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 64 recipes. Both carry cis-rose oxide, which smells green, flower. The science ↓

Shaving Cream, Almond

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the white wax, spermaceti, and almond oil together.

  2. Beat in the best white soap and perfume until smooth.

  3. On a water bath, dissolve the Castile soap in rose water.

  4. Add the melted cocoa butter and oil of bitter almonds to the dissolved soap.

  5. While warm, mix in the tincture and essential oils, adding glycerine for desired consistency.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Rose + geraniumtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-rose oxide (green, flower).

  2. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + cocoa buttertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Almond + geraniumtop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Rose + cocoa buttertop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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