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Camphor Cold Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Camphor and rose work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 51 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Melt the white wax and camphor together in a double boiler.

  2. Add the sweet almond oil and mix well.

  3. In a separate container, dissolve the borax in distilled water.

  4. Combine the borax solution with the wax mixture, stirring continuously.

  5. Add the coumarin, rose oil, geranium oil, ylang-ylang oil, bitter almond oil, musk tincture, and civet tincture.

  6. Stir until fully blended and allow to cool before storing.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Camphor + rosetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Rose + geraniumtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together64 recipes

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

  3. Almond + rosetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Camphor + almondtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Almond + geraniumtop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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