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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1825 Excerpt: ... neck, and arms. Roseate powder and other nostrums are sold for this purpose, but as these all contain arsenic, whatever the venders may assert to the contrary, they ought to be employed with the greatest caution. Where hairs grow from moles, you should know that any tampering with them is extremely apt to produce cancer. The best and safest depilatory which I know is the razor, or, if carefully used) the tweezers. COSMETICS, WITH RECEIPTS. One of the most indispensible things for the toilette of a lady, is a good selection of cosmetics. Many ladies never use paint, but it is necessary for you to be acquainted with paints, lest you may have to use them. Without going into a tedious detail on the nature of these cosmetics, I shall here lay down the way in which you may prepare them, at the same time cautioning you that the cosmetics usually sold under the imposing names of Kalydor, Gowland's Lotion, &c. are mostly all dangerous repellents, being composed of mercury, and other deleterious drugs. The directions which I have to give you, will come in with most interest under the heads of the defects of the skin, for which they are applied. Spots on the Skin.--Spots or moles sometimes gives a certain archness to the countenance, and expression to the looks, and serve as foils to set off the lustre of the skin, and in women of dark complexions, they are particularly becoming; for such spots are real patches which they have received from the hand of Nature. On the contrary, these marks, if too numerous, are real imperfections; they distort, and impart a coarseness to the features, and totally destroy the harmony of the figure. In this case, all the means which art can afford us should be used for their removal; but care must at the same time be taken to avoid those...