The following mixtures of fat may serve as suitable foundations for white pomades:--
IV. Castor oil 6 lbs., vaseline 1½ lbs., wax 1 lb.
VIII. Lard 8 lbs., wax 1 lb., cocoa butter 1 lb.
IX. Pomade fat 12 lbs., soap 4 ozs., dissolved in hot water, borax ½ drachm. This mass will stand about ¼ water.
X. _In summer_: Fat 6 lbs., stearin 7 ozs.
To either mass given under X, add and combine thoroughly with it 14 drachms of borax dissolved in 1 quart of water.
The pomades, while still warm, are colored and finally perfumed. For _perfuming_, different volatile oils and perfume substances of suitable composition are used, 1 to 1½ ozs. of perfume being generally sufficient for 2 lbs. of fat.
Receipts for the best known and most popular pomades are as follows:--
_Apple pomade._--Digest for some time in the water bath 2 lbs. of fresh apple parings with 6 lbs. of lard and 2 lbs. of beef-tallow, press, color yellow, stir until cold, and perfume with 1 oz. amyl valerate, commonly called "apple oil."
_Bear's grease pomade._--Perfume purified bear's grease 8 lbs., or benzoated lard 6 lbs. and beef-tallow 2 lbs., with rose-geranium oil 2¾ ozs. and vanilla tincture 2 ozs.
_Quinine pomade No. 1._--Fresh lard 6 lbs., fresh beef-tallow 2½ lbs., quinotannic acid 13 ozs., tincture of cantharides and distilled water each 8 ozs., Peru balsam 4 ozs., rose-geranium oil 8 drachms.
_Quinine pomade No. 2._--Vaseline 4 lbs., paraffin 2 lbs., fat jasmine oil 1 lb., Peruvian bark extract ½ lb., tannin 5¼ ozs., Peru balsam 3½ ozs., rose-geranium oil 11 drachms.
Melt together the vaseline and paraffin, add the Peruvian bark extract previously rubbed up with as little water as possible, and stir in the tannin dissolved in the volatile oils.
_Quinine pomade (imitation) No. 1._--Benzoated lard 6 lbs., beef-tallow 2 lbs., colored with prepared cocoa powder about 14 ozs., and perfumed with Peruvian balsam 2¼ ozs., bergamot oil, citronella oil, and eau de Cologne each 5½ drachms, and oils of cloves, lavender, and cinnamon each 40 drops.
_Quinine pomade (imitation) No. 2._--Lard 6 lbs., beef-tallow 2½ lbs., cocoa powder 15¾ ozs., Peru balsam 2¼ ozs., cassia oil 1¾ ozs., clove oil 2¾ drachms, oil of bitter almonds 10 drops.