gum benzoin
Britishnoun
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Here is a piece of gum benzoin, the substance from which Friar's balsam is made.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various
Some of the largest wholesale perfumers use five or six pounds of gum benzoin per annum, but none use the benzoic acid.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
To Remove Wrinkles.—To one fluid ounce of tincture of gum benzoin add seven fluid ounces of distilled rose-water and one-half ounce of glycerine.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
It is kept moist with oil newly expressed from the coconut; but those persons who can afford it make use also of an empyreumatic oil extracted from gum benzoin, as a grateful perfume.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden
It is made of half a pint of the very best rectified spirits of wine, two drachms of shellac, and two drachms of gum benzoin.
From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Richard Bitmead
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