CHATS ABOUT BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 8, 9 January 1914, Page 8

CHATS ABOUT BEAUTY.

VALUABLE AXD rNTERESTIXG*' RECIPES CULLED FBOM SMMTC SOURCES.—FACE, HAIE AXD EYES. OXYGEN , BEMOVES A BAD COMPLEXION. ■•Practical SuggestioßS." Oxygen is now used to dear the complexiou. Its peculiar property of destroying waste matter and not injuriig healthy tissue is well known. Bad complexions are merely the accumulation of half dead waste matter on the skin surface This accumulation shows ia the form of sallowness, moth patches and a generally lifeless appearance. Smart women now clear off these imperfections by getting some mercolized wax from the chemists and applying it for a fevr nig-hts like cold cream. This wax contains oxygen which attacks and re-, moves the disfiguring waste matter. It is pleasant to use and perfectly harmless. The fresh healthy skin which has been covered up is soon revealed ia all its beauty and tine face so treated looks ■much younger and prettier as a result. * * * *To bring a natural red colour to the lips rub them with a soft stick of prolactum. *. * * For tired, hot or perepiring feet use a teaspoonful of powdered onalite in a foot bath. GETTING KID OF ZEMAIiE MOUSTACHES. "Practical Suggestions." To women who are annoyed by disfiguring downy hair grcrwihs a method of permanently eradicating the same w:U come as a piece of good newe. For tnie pnrpotse pure powdered pbemiuol may be used. Almoet any chemfet 6hould be able to supply an ounce of tiie drug. The recommended treatment is designed no; only to remove the disfiguring growth "instantly, leaving no trace, but also to actually "kill the hair roots without irritating "the skin. * * * Objectionable body odours resulting from perspiration and other causes may be aetanily banished by simply applying * little "po wdered (white) pergol to the affected surface occasionally. * * * Smart women are rapidly adopting the use of the natural allacite of orange blossons when the complexion i<s inclined to be oily. It makes a capital greaselea cream, holds the powder perfectly, and dots not encourage hair growths. NATURALLY WAVY HAIB. "Home Chemistry." Good Stallax not only makes the.beat possible shampoo, but Sas the peculiar property of leaving the hair with a pronounced natural "wave," an effect presumably deeired by many ladice. A teaspoonful of tie stallax granules. dssolved in a cup of hot, water » a-mple for a luxurious head wash, and leaves the hair with a peculiar lustre and fluffinces obtainable from nothing ctee as far as known. Tc is perfectly barm-Itt-e and can be obtained from moss chemists, although sioce it hae been so little used for this purpose it conns only in sealed original package*, enough to make up twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos. ** * For an actual hair grower nothing equals pure boraniuin. It is quite harmless, and sets the hair roots tingling with new life. ** . ■"" use of rouge is almost always obvioito, but powdered collian-dum gives a perfectly natural colour and defies detection. HOME BEAUTY AIDS. "Houseliold Hinte." A persistently shiny ncee or a diCi lifdees complexion drivre many a woman to cosmetics and consequent despairAnd -all the time a simple remedy Ho» a* hand in the home. It you have no cleminite in the house you need only o ei about an ourrce from your chenra. »M add just sufficient water to dissolve It. A little of this simple lotion is X. atur ?* own beautifier. It is very good lor «c skin and instantly pyre the comply a soft velvety, youthful bloom that an.r woman might en-vv. It laete all day or evening, renders p*owdcring entirely unnecessary, and absolutely defies detection. * •"• To make the eyelashes gr» w long, dark and curling, apply a !lt -' e mennaline with the finger tips occasionally. It is absolutely and ■beautifies the eyebron-s ac we!l - PUenta soap ie the most satisfactory for all complexions. It even works «•" in cold or hard water.