Cold-Cream (Rose Cold Cream)

Cold-Cream (Rose Cold Cream)

Cold cream, the white, soft, and elegant unguent, derived its odor from rose water. It was used as a pleasant cooling application to heal irritated and excoriated surfaces, particularly chapped lips and hands. From 'King's American dispensatory' (1909): 'Rose cold-cream is made similarly of almond oil, rose water, each, 1 pound; white wax, spermaceti, each, 1 ounce; oil of roses, 1/2 drachm.'

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