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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-07-06 09:57 PM
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Does anyone know what may chang is?
And where I can get it? I need it to make Florida Water which is a Vodou cleansing agent. Someone told me I could find it in an oriental store but I went to several and they never heard of it. The health food market here doesn't have it either.

Blue
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-07-06 10:11 PM
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1. Can't say I ever heard of it--Florida Water
is also a kind of popular fragrance: you can get a commercial version of it actually in the HBA aisle of the Pathmark near me (altho' that could be a regional thing because we have a strong Latino population--there's about 4' of Spanish products where you'd find it, so if you know a Latin area?). I did find two recipes for Florida Water w/o it:

FLORIDA WATER #1
oil of bergamot 3 fluid ounces
oil of lavender 1 fluid ounce
oil of lemon 1 fluid ounce
oil of cloves 1 1/4 fluid drachms
oil of cinnamon 2 1/2 fluid drachms
oil of neroli 1/2 fluid drachms
essence of jasmine 6 fluid ounces
essence of musk 2 fluid ounces
alcohol 8 pints
rose water 1 pint

Mix and, if cloudy, filter through
magnesium carbonate.
-- From "Fortunes in Formulas For Home, Farm, and Workshop"
edited by Garner D. Hiscox, M.E. and
Prof. T. O'Conner Sloane, A.B., A.M., Em., Ph.D.
(The Norman B. Henley Publishing Company, 1937)

FLORIDA WATER #2


oil of bergamot 3 fluid ounces
oil of lemon 1 fluid ounce
oil of ylang ylang 1 fluid ounce
oil of lavender 1/2 fluid ounce
oil of cinnamon 20 drops
oil of cloves 12 drops
oil of neroli 10 drops
alcohol 1 gallon
rose water 1 pint
(or distilled water plus light rose scent)

this is from http://www.luckymojo.com/floridakanangawater.html

But a web search informs me it's another name for litsea cubeba (which I don't think I've found in my local health food store, but I got this:

http://www.aromaweb.com/essentialoilsgo/maychang.asp

I never smelled it, but it sounds similar to bergamot.
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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-07-06 10:24 PM
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2. I will have to e-mail the Mambo that I have talked to and ask her
She was the one that gave me the recipe for it so maybe she may know of a subsitute.

Blue
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