HERB - soap with stuff in it

[Jenne Heise]

Here are the soap recipes quoted in Jeanne Rose's Herbal:

"A delicate Washing-Ball
Take three ounces of orris, half an ounce of cypress, two ounces of
Calamus aromaticus, one ounce of Rose leaves, two ounces of Lavender
flowers: beat all these together in a mortar, sieving them through a fine
sieve, then scrape some Castil sope, and dissolve it with some Rose-water,
then incorporate all your powders therewith, by labouring of them well in
a mortar." 	Ram's _Little Dodoen_, 1606.

"To make an Ipswitch ball
Take a pound of file white Castill Sope, shave it thin in a pinte of
Rose-water, and let it stand two or three dayes, then pour all the water
from it, and put to it half a pinte of fresh water, and so let it stand
one whole day, then pour out that, and put half a pinte more, and let it
stand a night more, then put to it half an ounce of powder called sweet
Marjoram, a quarter of an ounce of powder of Winter Savory, two or three
drops of the oyl of Spike, and the Oyl of Cloves, three grains of Musk,
and as much Ambergris, work all these together in a fair Mortar, with the
powder of an Almond Cake dryed, and beaten as small as fine  flour, so
roll it round in your hands in Rose-water"
	From _The Queen's Closet Opened_ by W.M., Cook to Queen Henrietta
					Maria, 1655

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa (Shire of Eisental; HERMS Cyclonus), mka Jennifer Heise	
jenne at tulgey.browser.net

"Healing the universe is an inside job." 


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