Prepare in the same manner all the pomades with essential oils.

Pomade in Sticks.

This pomade, which is used to smooth the hair, ought to present a hard body which will retain its form under pressure. The substances which enter into its composition are

Purified beef tallow

Wax.

10 ounces.

2 แ

Melt over a water bath, and when the mass begins to cool, aromatize according to taste; stir well, and run into moulds.

This pomade is colored in the following man

ner:

Black, with powdered charcoal or ivory black.
Yellow, with carbonate of iron or annotto.
Rose, with alkanet, lake, or cochineal.
Green, with chlorophyl, etc.

Digest the sandal and cinnamon in the oil, strain

Mix the whole, macerate one night, and filter.

288 ANTICALVITIC AND REGENERATIVE POMADES.

Triturate the leaves in a mortar, and, when mashed, throw them on the grease; melt over a water bath. When melted, check the heat, and digest for three days. Then melt, pass through a sieve, pour into it the tincture of parsley, and heat well; add the oils, and stir until perfectly incorporated.

Triturate in a mortar the tar and cinchona; add the tannin, with a little alcohol and soap, to dissolve it better; then put in the grease, and triturate until well mixed. Perfume with a few drops of oil of cloves and cinnamon.

Melt over a water bath, and pour into a mortar. Triturate and beat until a white cream free from grains is obtained, adding by degrees

Beat again. The more it is beaten the whiter and