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Definition of Cold cream
1. Noun. A cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin.
Definition of Cold cream
1. Noun. (pharmacy): An emulsion of water and certain fats, usually including beeswax and various scent agents, designed to smooth skin and remove makeup. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Cold cream
1. A water-in-oil emulsion of various oils, waxes, and water; the standard formula, rose water ointment, contains expressed almond oil, rose water, spermaceti, white paraffin wax, and sodium borate; used as a cleansing or lubricating cream. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cold Cream
Literary usage of Cold cream
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"... two spoonfuls of sweet oil, and a piece of spermaceti of the size of half a
butternut, and turn all into a small box. 700. cold cream. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1904)
"There are several essential requisites to a perfect cold cream. ... A cold cream
having these characteristics may be obtained by exercising proper care in ..."
3. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1860)
"Angustus had rubbed my nose over with cold cream, and then he had torn off a bit
of my handkerchief, and cold-creamed that too, and then he put that on my ..."
4. American Druggist (1887)
"cold cream. White Wax 1230 grains. Spermaceti 1280 " Oil of Almond, ... Vaseline Cold
Cream. White Wax 1150 Spermaceti 1150 Vaseline 6J Oil of Almond, ..."
5. The Diseases of children by Fleetwood Churchill (1858)
"... we must adopt some means to relieve it, and to restrain child from adding to
the disfigurement by scratching or picking «If. cold cream, oil, ..."
6. The House and Home: A Practical Book by Lyman Abbott (1896)
"To prevent severe sunburn, rub a little cold cream into the skin before exposing
... Thanks to the cold cream, much of the powder will stick without being ..."
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