Cosmetics From the Kitchen
Donnan
1972
Why head out to a drugstore when you can just grab some stuff from the kitchen? I was browsing this and I couldn’t remember the last time I heard the term cold cream. It was probably the 1970s.
I did cringe at the reference to suntan oil. Back in the 1970s, no one even thought about skin cancer. An updated version of this kind of book would probably be a great choice for any modern public library collection. This one, however, needs to be weeded.
Mary
Synthetic spermaceti wax…
Yeah, always in my pantry–er, right!
Based on the title, I expected honey, oatmeal, and olive oil. Instead, glycerin, urea, and sodium laurel sulfate are all ingredients “from the kitchen”? The 70s were even wilder than I’ve been led to believe!
When I was a kid in the 70’s and early 80’s I’d get sunburned at the beach, and then my mom would put Noxzema on it, which I guess is like cold cream, until it healed and I got really brown and was “immune” to the sun for the rest of the summer. Now my skin is lily-white all summer long. But hey, I’m no tanorexic. Anything is better than getting skin cancer or premature wrinkles.
I still have to correct myself that it is sun block and not sun tanning lotion anymore!
Sunscreen is even more correct than sunblock.
pg 21: USP bought NF shortly after this book was published and merged the specifications into USP-NF.