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Smith's Hair Restorer
Charles Smith, of Buffalo New York registered a patent for "IMPROVED HAIR-RESTORER" in 1864 (Patent #41,791). The recipe was as follows:
The said composition is made of seven ingredients, used about in the following proportions--say for a quantity sufficient to fill one hundred bottels of two gills each: Take fifteen pounds of burdock-root, one pint of Peruvian wound-balsam, one-half pint lemon juice, five pints of best castor-oil, five pints (ninety-fice per cent.) alcohol, one ounce oil of rose, three gallons of rain-water. Thoroughly mix these ingredients together, substantially in the proportions as described, and it makes an excellent compound for the hair.