If you notice, they always tell you to use Mrs.Somebody's pomade or face cream, and it's generally very expensive." "Oh, but this one's home-made!" declared Beatrice.

"Look here! It says: 'Take an ounce of spermaceti, and melt it in a pan with a teacupful of rose water.

When thoroughly mixed, add an ounce of Vodax, which may be obtained from any chemist, stir until quite cold, then put into pots.' I'm sure that sounds simple enough, in all conscience." "What about the Vodax, though?
If you went to the chemist's you'd find it is a patent preparation, and very expensive, and it would just knock the bottom out of the 'home-made' theory of the recipe." "There must be something in all these hints, though," said Mollie plaintively, "or the paper wouldn't publish them every week." "Well, perhaps there is, to a certain extent, but just think of the time it would take to carry them out, to say nothing of the expense of cosmetics.

Here, give me the book a sec, and a piece of pencil.

I want to make a calculation.