For Chapped Hands (A Country Remedy. Bessie's.)
Origin: Cape Town, South Africa
Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon glycerine
- 1 tablespoon castor oil
- 1 tablespoon spirits of wine
- 1 tablespoon goat lard (buck fat)
- beeswax
- 0.5 ounce camphor
- 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon eau de cologne
Instructions
- Melt the beeswax and goat lard together.
- Stir in the castor oil.
- Stir in the glycerine.
- Remove from the fire.
- Stir in the camphor dissolved in spirits of wine.
- Stir in the tablespoon of eau de cologne.
- Add the juice of the lemon.
- Stir all ingredients well together until the mixture is quite cold.
- Put into pomade pots.