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Lip-Salve

Ingredients

• 1 ounce white wax
• 1 ounce sweet oil
• 1 drachm spermaceti
• piece of alkanet root
• oil rose

Instructions

Melt white wax, sweet oil, spermaceti, and throw in alkanet root to color it, and when cooling, perfume it with oil rose, and then pour it into small white jars or boxes.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).