CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

CARE OF THE SKIN.

NIGHT TREATMENT.

(By A PAKIS BEAUTY SPECIALIST.)

If you are one of those lucky people! who have kept a rose-leaf complexion this article won't interest you. If, on the qther hand, your skin is too dry, presenting a shrivelled appearance, if it is too greasy,' if it is inclined to chap and redden when the winds are cold, if it is disfigured by blackheads, if the pores are enlarged, if it is blotchy, if wrinkles are forming, if the skin is

flabby, if you are on the way to acquire a double chin, or a fat chin, if you have a scraggy, corded neck—you will want to know how to combat these various evils. An Old Story. Everyone knows the story of grandmamma, who said to one of her small descendants, "I never used face creams and powders for my complexion when I was young," and received the answer, "And just look at it now!" And this same answer, perhaps rather more politely put, can be given to the majority of women who boast, actually boast, of neglecting their skins! Perhaps it is owing to the strenuous - ness of modern life, perhaps it is because we are inferior animals compared to our ancestors, perhaps it is just the general cussedness of the age. But, whatever may have been the case in the past, to-day few women have good complexions who don't look after them.

We can all be our own beauty doctors. Face treatments must necessarily differ in individual cases, but the general lines on which they are conducted are as follows:—First of all cleaning, to remove dirt. For this purpose you use a cleansing cream. Soap and water are not recommended where the face and neck are concerned. The next step is light massage with a skin food to nourish the surface tissues and to work out any waste matter that may still remain in the pores. This for your night treatment. In the morning use the face "tapper," which tones up the skin and hardens the muscles. You dip your tapper, which has been previously covered with cotton-wool, into cold boiled water and then into some astringent mixture, of equal quantities of rose-water and witch hazel for instance, and then you tap vigorously the heck and face, always using an upward movement. Tap lightly und6r the chin and around the contour of the face. Never tap the front of the neck. Then put a piece of ice, the size of your hand, into your handkerchief or towel, and rub over the face to brace it and finally close the pores.

You can also rub at the back of jour ears with it and arorund the muscles besides the lobes of the ears. When this "bracing-up" of the skin is finished put on your complexion cream and lightly powder your face with a delicately tinted face powder. Treatment for an "Oily" Skin. Quite a novel and. successful beffuty treatment is one tliat can be carried out easily at home. The face is simply brushed gently all over with a fine soft little one of the toothbrushes of badger hair is ideal. This treatment must not be undertaken by the girl or woman with a dry skin. But for an oily skin it works wonders. The brush is dipped in a warm lather of any superfatted soap. With a subsequent rinsing in tepid water, and splashing in cold water, an excellent cleansing treatment is obtained. Greasy skins require extra stimulation, in hot weather to throw off impurities. While patting briskly with the patsoaked in ice water and face tonic is indicated for local treatment, the newest idea is to invigorate the whole circulatory system as well. Rubbing the body with a strip of knitted camel's hair moistened with eau de cologne is effective. A dry massage with a coarse crash towel is equally so. Various medicated baths and sprays have a beautifying effect on the complexion. Pine baths are especially liked for this. Sleeping always with the head towards the north is recommended by one expert in women's wiles. It is seriously considered by many that this posture is more healthy; And you must always lie on your right side, or, if you prefer it, on your back. Pillows are, of course, abolished by those who value lovely contours of phin and neckg Put the Word Health into Your Minfl Life is short for many, but for others it is longer. Let us try to see how much happiness we can bring into our lives bv bringing greater happiness into the lives of our "fellow men.