Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes and Trade Secrets: The Classic "Do-It-Yourself" Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry

This fascinating book takes the reader back to a time when Americans were considered responsible enough to be given recipes for poisons, explosives, and highly addictive substances.A Depression-era guidebook to making your own products. Wouldn't it be economical to make your own glue, paint, crayons, lipstick, and deodorant? How about your own firecrackers, dynamite, and "medicinal" opium wine? This fascinating book, reprinted from the 1930s, takes the reader back to a time when Americans had free access to hard drugs; people were responsible enough to be given recipes for poisons, explosives, and highly addictive substances; and making such items as soap, disinfectants, and insecticides was commonplace. A useful piece of publishing, books such as this were seen in most homes next to the almanac, as important as ice coolers and canning equipment. Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes, and Trade Secrets provides instructions for making adhesives, paints and inks, garden elixirs such as insecticides and weed killers, lubricants, photo developers, polishes, and much more. Detailed instructions on how to make adhesives, paints, and inks, garden insecticides and weed killer, lubricants, photo developers, polishes, cosmetic and other household products ADHESIVES are gummy or gelatinous substances which are used to unite two surfaces. 00i-022 1 023-070 49 071-118 97 119-166 145 167-214 193 215-262 241 263-310 289