Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 283 Development

Hualei made up her mind.

I asked Uncle Zhao to prepare a lot of bamboo tubes for me, cleaned them, and picked a lot of fresh bamboo leaves, washed them with clean water, dried them, cut them into fine powder, poured them into powdered salt, and put the chicken gizzard lining left over from slaughtering chickens into a stone mortar, pounded them into fine powder, mixed them with salt, put them into the bamboo tubes, and pressed them tightly.

After leaving it alone overnight, cover the mouth of the bamboo tube with dry lotus leaves, seal it with yellow mud, and bury it in burning pine wood to roast it, which is very similar to how many country children in the past lived and buried sweet potatoes under the stove to roast them.

After the surface of the bamboo tube is completely carbonized, take it out and let it cool. Peel off the bamboo charcoal on the surface and put it into a stone mortar and pound it into powder. Then take out the salt that has lumps inside and grind it into fine powder. Mix the bamboo charcoal powder and salt powder evenly.

Add the fine powder of pearls that were not of good quality brought back from Liaodong Prefecture and mix them evenly. Finally, pour the water filtered by soaking plant ash into the mixed powder, stir it into a paste, and put it into a small jar. This is the bamboo salt toothpaste.

I tried some flower buds and the cleaning effect was good, but after brushing my teeth, there seemed to be a sticky feeling in my mouth, so I tried it again. When adding fresh bamboo leaves, I also added some fresh mint leaves.

After the baking is completed, add the bamboo charcoal powder and the dried mint leaves into a fine powder and add them in. Sure enough, the taste is much better. After brushing your teeth, your mouth is cool and refreshing without any stagnation.

Then, the mint bamboo salt toothpaste was put into the Flower Fairy Shop. As expected, there was no need to sell it hard. Many people from wealthy families took the toothpaste away when they came to buy goose down quilts and soaps. The mint bamboo salt toothpaste sold very well.

In order to make wealthy families more willing to pay for their own toothpaste and to increase their choices, Hualei made another batch of Astragalus Bamboo Salt Toothpaste. The method is the same as that of Mint Bamboo Salt Toothpaste, except that some finely ground Astragalus powder is added.

Although Astragalus is a traditional Chinese medicine and is relatively expensive, these wealthy families prefer to choose Astragalus Bamboo Salt Toothpaste in order to show their uniqueness and superiority. After more than half a month, Hualei discovered that Astragalus Bamboo Salt Toothpaste sold better than ordinary bamboo salt toothpaste.

In this case, Hualei did not hesitate to pick a batch of honeysuckle and make a batch of honeysuckle bamboo salt toothpaste. He also used dry lotus leaf powder instead of astragalus powder to make a batch of lotus leaf bamboo salt toothpaste, in order to meet the unique choices of these wealthy families.

Otherwise, the mint flavor is too monotonous and the money cannot be made fast enough. Although the price of toothpaste is not low, especially the newly launched astragalus, lotus leaf bamboo salt toothpaste and honeysuckle bamboo salt toothpaste, the price is even more expensive, but the sales are still very good.

Hualei is very happy. There are a lot of honeysuckle in Baihua Manor. She used them to make a lot of honeysuckle soap before, and now she can use them to make honeysuckle toothpaste. There is really no waste. In Yuanying Manor, she planted a lot of lotus roots to make lotus root powder, so she can use lotus leaves as much as she wants. Last year, Hualei also made a lot of dried lotus leaves from lotus leaves and kept them for making tea. Now she can use them to make lotus leaf bamboo salt toothpaste.

After the four different flavors of toothpaste were all on the market, Hualei combined the toothpaste and toothbrush into several sets and sold them together. So people who bought toothbrushes also bought toothpaste, and people who wanted to buy toothpaste also bought toothbrushes, and the money continued to come in.

Soon, Liang Xiangyi's fleet brought a large number of toothbrushes and toothpaste to the south, and ships to Yongjia Prefecture and Chengyun Prefecture also brought a batch. According to feedback, the products were selling very well in several prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River. The products were okay in Chengyun Prefecture, but a little unsalable in Yongjia Prefecture, which was also within Hua Lei's expectations.

However, Hualei had not expected the toothpaste business in Shangjing City. She really underestimated the ability of these aristocratic families to pursue quality of life. Hualei felt a little regretful. Her vision was still not good enough. She had a small peasant mentality.

I thought that if I couldn't afford it, no one else could either. I regretted it so much. When I think about those luxury goods owners in my previous life, they all made a lot of money. I should have launched toothpaste earlier. I wasted so much time.

Since these noble families have so much money to squander, they can't let it go, so Hualei started to look for ways to make skin care products. The weather in Shangjing City is very dry. It's still autumn now, but I feel my hands are a little hairy.

Hualei first made a simple osmanthus facial cream. Osmanthus is the most common now. I collected some fresh osmanthus, cleaned it, dried it, ground it into powder, poured it into a clean porcelain bowl, and then added freshly boiled lard, stirred it evenly, put it in a pot and heated it for an hour, then added some angelica powder and honey, stirred it evenly, poured it into a small porcelain jar and cooled it naturally, and it was a very useful osmanthus facial cream. Hualei tried it herself, it was very moisturizing, with a light osmanthus scent, very pleasant to the nose, and very effective for general chapped skin.

Because the workshop still had astragalus for making astragalus bamboo salt toothpaste, Hua Lei took out some more astragalus and went to Xicheng District to buy the best sake. He poured the sake into the astragalus and soaked it for two hours. Then he added the boiled lard, heated it in water and stirred it constantly.

At the same time, put another portion of lard with local honey into the pot, heat it in water for half an hour, then pour the upper layer of fat into the astragalus, stir evenly, filter out the astragalus and pour it into a small porcelain jar. Let it cool naturally to make astragalus facial cream.

If you add some ginseng and angelica when soaking astragalus, it will be astragalus ginseng facial cream. Hualei made some more according to the recipe in the book. In fact, these methods are not very troublesome, and the materials are not particularly difficult to obtain.

However, there are not many workshops in Shangjing City that produce these. After all, the prices of astragalus and ginseng are still very expensive. Those who are willing to pay for these are basically the wealthy families, so not many flower buds are made.

After making a batch, they put it in the Flower Fairy Shop for sale, and when it is almost sold out, they will continue to make the next batch. The business of this facial cream is much worse than that of toothpaste, but there are still many beauty-conscious young ladies from aristocratic families who come to buy it.

Hualei also made some for Zhenzhu and the other rooms in the Marquis's mansion. Of course, Xiaoyuan would not forget it either. Hualei specially made a smaller porcelain jar for Xiaoyuan to use in the Imperial College, and several classmates also gave some.