Books about Cosmetics

The Ladies Book of Useful Information

Perfumes and their preparation : Containing complete directions for making handkerchief perfumes, smelling-salts, sachets, fumigating pastils; preparations for the care of the skin, the mouth, the hair; cosmetics, hair dyes, and other toilet articles

The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants

A practical treatise on the manufacture of perfumery : comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity

My secrets of beauty : Including more than 1,000 valuable recipes for preparations used and recommended by Mme. Cavalieri herself