HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 4 October 1916, Page 8

HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

In spring many people suffer from tender and swollen feet. For this condition, hqs sea water at night is a most restful bath. Borax, lor. and powdered alum, Joz, in lot -water with common salt makes an excellent mixture. Fresh lime and lard mixed together after 'being left .to stand till the lime is dissolved, are a very good remedy for corns. It is rubbed on like an ointment A few applications of tins treatment will soon make the corn disappear. For soft feet, rubbing with methylated spirits often does -wonders, while eau-de-Cologne, Condy-'s fluid diluted, and aluai dissolved in all beneficial. The discomfort of "perspiring feet may be alleviated by using a good, powder, sifting it into the boots. Chemists sell many preparations, and it will be found that most of j them hare salicylic acid or perborate of I soda in ■ them. Boraeie add powder hr water should be- used»as a footbath, and the stockings should .befehanged daily. - A home-made lotion has for its chief ingredients bichlorateof jMjtaesium added to distilled water, and perfumed with any preferred "essence of This should be swabbed" on Lwith cotton wool. A blis-' ter -should be. pricked with a hot sterilised needle, and'covered after it has gone down'with" a diachylon, piaster, lie -danger in a -bliitcr is that it mar admit fietoen genu t* tie f«rt.