CORNER'FOR BUSY BEES

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER'FOR BUSY BEES

\ SOMETHING NOVEL. BATH SALTS AND SMELLING SALTS (Conducted by TINKERBELL.) Etear Girls, Is there any girl, I woader, Who does not simply adore bath salts? am certain she does not exist. For myself I love them, and, alas, always seem, to be buying them. Consequently you can imagine how pleased I wa. I»* week when I happened on the following excellent recipe for making lavender bath wits: Take two or three pounds of good washing soda and roll it in such a manner as to crush all the large lumps. Now put it by handfuls in a sieve, and thus separate the powder from the crystal. When all has been so treated, put the powder with the kitchen supply, as you have no further use for rt. Now spread the crystals out on thicknesses of newspaper and put into a warm oven. Turn them over occasionally. When warm and dry place them in your washing bowl (previously washed and dried), pour over them some essence of lavender and mix well. Use a quarter of an ounce o£ the essence for every pound of crystale. As quickly as possible store in wide-mouthed stoppered bottles or airtight tins. Any desired scent can be substituted for the lavender. f have also obtained several reliable recipes for making smelling salts, and as these are always useful and make raost acceptable gifts I am passing them on to you. First of all obtain several empty scent bottles. If you wish to make inexhaustible smelling salts you must set about it in the following manner: Take eight drams of sal tartar, six drams ~of granulated muriate of ammonia, five drops of oil of neroli, five drops of oil of lavender flowers, three drops of oil of roses, and 15 drops of spirits of ammonia. Put into the scent bottle you are using as a container a piece of sponge, filling about one quarter of the space, then pour on it the proper portion of the oils. After this put in the mixed salts, pour on the spirits of ammonia and securely cork the bottle. You will find the following recipes for volatile salts extremely easy to make:— (1) One pint of liquor of ammonia fort, 1 dram of oil of lavender flowers, 1 dram of oil of rosemary (fine), J dram of oil of bergamot, 10 drops of oil of peppermint. Mix these ingredients thoroughly together and keep in a well corked bottle. (2) Ten ounces of Sesqui-carbcnate and five ounces of concentrated liquor of ammonia. Put the Sesqui-carbonaLe n a wide-mouthed bottle. Perfume the liquor of ammonia to suit your requirements and then pour it over the carbonate. Put in a cool placs and stir every other day for one week. Keep well closed for a further fortnight, when it may be used freely. I have many requests on hand from Busy Bees for special patterns and recipes, etc. These are not being overlooked, girls, and will be dealt with one by one in the very near future.