Tooth powders and mouth washes.

Mialhi’s Tooth Powder—­Camphorated Chalk—­Quinine Tooth Powder—­Prepared
Charcoal—­Peruvian Bark Powder—­Homoeopathic Chalk—­Cuttle-Fish
Powder—­Borax and Myrrh—­Farina Piesse’s Dentifrice—­Rose Tooth
Powder—­Opiate Paste—­Violet Mouth Wash—­Eau Botot—­Botanic
Styptic—­Tincture of Myrrh and Borax—­Myrrh with Eau de
Cologne—­Camphorated Eau de Cologne

SECTION XVI.

Hair washes.

Rosemary Hair Wash—­Athenian Water—­Vegetable or Botanic Hair
Wash—­Astringent Extract of Roses and Rosemary—­Saponaceous Wash—­Egg
Julep—­Bandolines—­Rose and Almond Bandoline

Contents of Appendix.

Manufacture of Glycerine

Test for Alcohol in Essential Oils

Detection of Poppy and other drying Oils in Almond and Olive Oil

Coloring matter of Volatile Oils

Artificial Preparation of Otto of Cinnamon

Detection of Spike Oil and Turpentine in Lavender Oil

The Orange Flower Waters of Commerce

Concentrated Elder Water

Arnall on Spirits of Wine

Purification of Spirits by Filtration

Cobb on Otto of Lemons

Bastick on Benzoic Acid

On the Coloring matters of Flowers

Bleaching Bees’ Wax

Chemical Examination of Naples Soap

Manufacture of Soap

How to Ascertain the Commercial Value of Soap

On the Natural Fats

Perfumes as Preventives of Mouldiness

Bastick on Fusel Oil

BASTICK’S Pine Apple Flavor

WAGNER’S Essence of Quince

Preparation of Rum-ether

Artificial Fruit essences

Volatile Oil of Gaultheria

Application of Chemistry to Perfumery

Correspondence from the Journal of the Society of Arts

Quantities of Ottos yielded by various Plants

French and English Weights and Measures compared

Illustrations.

Drying House, Mitcham, Surrey, (Frontispiece.)

Smelling, from the Dresden Gallery, (Vignette.)

Pipette, to draw off small Portions of Otto from Water

Tap Funnel for separating Ottos from Waters, and Spirits from Oil

The Almond

Styrax Benzoin

Cassie Buds

The Clove

The Jasmine

The Orange

The Patchouly Plant

Santal-Wood

Tonquin

Vanilla

Vitivert

Civet Cat

Musk Pod

Musk Deer

The Censer

Perfume Lamp

Slab Soap Gauge

Barring Gauge

Squaring Gauge