Snow-drift Shampoo
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the soap bark with the water and strain.
When cold, add the carbonate of potash and orange flower water.
Finally, stir in the ammonia water.
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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