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 A FINE SOAP. Blanch and beat to a paste two ounces of bitter almonds, with a small piece of, and one ounce and a half of tincture of Benjamin; add one pound of in shavings, and beat and melt well together, and pour into moulds to get cool; the above is a very fine soap.

LIP SALVE. Mix together one ounce of white wax, the same of beef marrow, with a small piece of alkanet root tied up in ; perfume it according to fancy, strain, and pot while hot; the above is a fine salve for chapped lips.

CHESNUT PASTE FOR RENDERING THE HANDS WHITE AND SOFT. Boil a dozen fine large chesnuts, peeled and skinned, in milk; when soft beat them till perfectly smooth with ; a tea-spoonful of this mixture thrown into the water before washing the hands renders them beautifully white and soft.