An Ointment for Burns
A fine ointment for burns is made by frying white clover blossoms in lard. Make it rich with the clover blossoms; then strain it and put it away in covered glasses. If a bad blister forms almost immediately, beat an egg into a teaspoonful of olive oil, spread it on a bit of linen, and cover the blister with it.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
Warts – To Remove
Apply oil of cinnamon to the wart for three successive days, and it will disappear very shortly.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Milk Soothes Sunburnt or Rough Skin
There is nothing that will more quickly soothe a sunburnt skin than a frequent bath of milk, and if the skin has become dry or rough with wind, washing in warm milk is excellent.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
Cure for Ringworm
Wash the part affected with a little lemon juice; then rub in with the finger a little indigo which has been bruised in a mortar. Do this gently about twice a day.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
A Very Useful Liniment
One ounce oil of origanum, two ounces spirits of turpentine, shake up well and apply on soft linen; to some persons this liniment has an unpleasant odor, but it is very efficacious; there is no better for burns, sprains, cuts, etc., in cases where the skin is not broken; pour a little into the hand, and rub well on the parts affected two or three times a day.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
For Morphew, or Freckles, and to clear the Skin
Take the Blood of any Fowl or Beast, and wipe your Face all over with it every night when you go to bed for a fortnight together, and the next day wash it all off with White Wine, and white Sugar Candy, and sometimes hold your face over the smoke of Brimstone for a while, and shut your eyes, if you add the Juice of a Limon to the white Wine, it will be the better.
Source: The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet, Hannah Wolley
For Erysipelas
For erysipelas and all high inflammation of the skin, make a poultice of raw cranberries pounded to a fine pulp.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
To make a Paste to wash your hands withal
Take a Pound of bitter Almonds, blanch them and beat them very fine in a Mortar with four Ounces of Figgs, when it is come to a paste, put it into a Gallipot and keep it for your use; a little at a time will serve.
Source: The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet, Hannah Wolley
A Simple Remedy for Ringworm
Use thinly-made mustard. With the top of the finger rub this semi-liquid first outside the sore, then over it, always rubbing in a circle and gently, and for a few seconds only. Repeat twice a day while necessary. For a child it is a painful cure; but a grown-up person will not mind a few hours’ smarting, and will find the cure rapid and effectual.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
For Freckles
For freckles, grate horseradish fine. Let stand a few hours in buttermilk, then strain and use the wash night and morning. Most of the advertised remedies for freckles are poisonous, and cannot be used with safety. Freckles consist of deposits of carbonaceous or fatty matter beneath the skin.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts