Life Positive - The Art of Perfumery

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The Art of Perfumery

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Details methods for extracting the scents from flowers and herbs, and using them to produce a staggering array of cosmetic and healing preparations.

Contents:

1.   Introduction And History of Perfumes

2.   Methods of Obtaining the Odors

3.   Simple Extracts

4.   Animal Perfumes

5.   Smelling Salts

6.   Acetic Acid And Its Use In Perfumery

7.   Bouquets And Nosegays

8.   Perfumed Soap

9.   Emulsines

10.   Milks Or Emulsions

11.   Cold Creams

12.   Pomades And Oils

13.   Hair Dyes And Depilatories

14.   Absorbent Powders

15.   Tooth Powders And Mouth Washes

16.   Hair Washes

To give you an idea of the scope of this book, here is what is covered in the section on "Perfumed Soap":

Perfumed Soap--Ancient Origin of Soap--Early Records of the Soap Trade
in England--Perfumers not Soap Makers--Remelting--Primary Soaps--Curd
Soap--Oil Soap--Castile Soap--Marine Soap--Yellow Soap--Palm
Soap--Excise Duty on Soap--Fig Soft Soap--Naples Soft Soap--The
remelting Process--Soap cutting--Soap stamping--Scented Soaps
Almond Soap--Camphor Soap--Honey Soap--White Windsor Soap--Brown Windsor
Soap--Sand Soap--Fuller's Earth Soap--Scenting Soaps Hot--Scenting Soaps
Cold--Colored Soaps:--Red, Green, Blue, Brown Soaps--Otto of Rose
Soap--Tonquin Musk Soap--Orange-Flower Soap--Santal-wood
Soap--Spermaceti Soap--Citron Soap--Frangipanne Soap--Patchouly
Soap--Soft or Potash Soaps--Saponaceous Cream of Almonds--Soap
Powders--Rypophagon Soap--Ambrosial Cream--Transparent soft
Soap--Transparent hard Soap--Medicated Soaps--Juniper Tar Soap--Iodine
Soap--Sulphur Soap--Bromine Soap--Creosote Soap--Mercurial Soap--Croton
Oil Soap--Their Use in Cutaneous Diseases