A short handbook of cosmetics / by Max Joseph.

  • Joseph, Max, 1860-1933.
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A short handbook of cosmetics / by Max Joseph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of such powders often consists of starch in the form of rice flour, to which have been added various scented vegetable powders. A simple white powder is to be found in finely ground and purified talc. As a rule, how- ever, the white cosmetic powders are com- pounded of talc, chalk, or meerscbaum, mixed witb such substances as oxide of zinc, carbonate of magnesia, baryta, white lead, bismutb, etc. Red Powder. (87) R Boli arm. subtiliss. ... 12'0 Carmin. ... 0'l-0-2-0'5 gr. clxxx. gi-. i.ss.-vii. Flesh-coloured Powder. (88) R Calcar. sulph. Magnes. alb. Amyl. pur. ... Carmin. .. 13*5 3iv. 3'0 gr. xlv. 20-0 3vi. 0'l-0'2-0'5 gr. i.ss.-vii. Pearl Paint. (89) R Bism. nitr. j ... ää 4*0 ää i Zinci oxydat. J Ext. pulv. subtiliss. ... 15'0 3v.