The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber, Volume 1 Papyras Classics

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Chapter 82

Point XXIII

Women may change the Yellow, Pale, or Brown Colour of their Face, and hands, into a beautiful whiteness.

That an Egregious Cosmetick may be made of Nitre, calcined with white Talk (by which ill coloured skins may be whitened) is not to be doubted. For if Nitre fixed by the Regulus of Antimony alone, performeth that, why should it not yet do it better, if it be conjoined with some white Mineral Talk in the Calcination?