Joan Crawford’s beauty routine notoriously included using handfuls of ice cubes and witch hazel astringent to close the pores and reduce swelling and puffiness. The witch hazel shown here is by Dickinson’s.
The same routine was shown in Mommy Dearest (1981) by Frank Perry, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford.
A freeze frame of the decanter in Mommie Dearest says Distilled Water.
People assume it was Alcohol of witch hazel.
Water would be necessary to break up the ice having sat in Mommies freezer overnighy.