Name: White Rose Toilet Cream
Ingredients: 20 grains gum of tragacanth; 20 grains borax; 1 ounce glycerin; 11 ounces water; 2 drams tincture of benzoin; extract of white rose (to taste)

White Rose Toilet Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Soak the gum of tragacanth in the water until soft.
Dissolve the borax in the glycerin.
Mix the two solutions together.
Add the tincture of benzoin and strain through a muslin cloth.
Color if desired.

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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White Rose Toilet Cream