CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

COMPLEXION HINTS. LOTIONS AND POWDERS. (By A PARIS BEAUTX SPECIALIST.) Many homes possess a medicine cupr board with glass doors. This is the very J thing to turn into a beauty chest—something, somewhere, where you can be sure 7 of finding the right things at the right t moment, when you want to give yourself E a "facial" or just a manicure. Failing a r upboard, an old attache case will do very well for the beauty box. You will find with this methodical way r of setting about after one careful selection of articles that are absolutely necessary to stock your beauty shelf, you will need to spend very little in the future, as the preparations last a considerable time. And,you can add to them as each one gives out, or as the fancy takes you, although you must guard against this, as obeying fancy is often an expensive game. In this way, with all your needs bought in the beginning, you will be able to go ahead with your beautying without being brought to a dead stop in the middle of some interesting massage for want of an important item that is lacking in the beauty cupboard. A small and practical beauty shelf should contain: Skin food, astringent lotion, cold cream, eye-bath, tissues, cotton wool, orange sticks, vaseline, emery board, and nail polish. I have purposely omitted such tnings from ther beauty chest as face powder, cream, rouge and lip-stick, to avoid extra expense, as these can always be sneaked from the dressing-table. After all. the beauty chest is meant for holding that will feed the skin and brace ti :'ace muscles, not merely to paint the su.i.ice. With attending to the skin, tlie inside must not be forgotten, other-] wise your work will be doubled, and good results will be very slow in making an appearance. How to Treat the Complexion. A woman must use judgment when she selects lotions, pastes, and creams for her face. An oily skin requires different treatment from the dry stun. If she has a greasy, oily skin she should use sparingly all kinds of preparations containing glycerine, cold cream, and greasy unguents. A good astringent lotion is to be preferred, or, if she does not wish that, she should first thoroughly wash her face with hot water, after which ghe may apply eau de cologne, gin. alcohol, bay rum, toilette water or toilette vinegar. If she has a rough, hard, or diy skin she can make it soft and smooth by rubbing over it a few drops of the following lotion: Rose water 3oz, glycerine a little less than loz, carbolic acid ten drops. Any druggist will maks this up at trifling cost,.and it will be found highly beneficial and efficient. Some use olive oil instead, but I prefer the preparation above mentioned. A specialist in a celebrated beauty shop in Paris once advised me not to use cold cream too often or glycerine pure. She said that the constant use of cold cream is inclined to make the skin yellow, and that undiluted glycerine causes the face to shrivel and become like parchment. Perhaps tbia i 8 the reason why most of our best preparations for the face do not contain a large percentage of glycerine. However, it was the same specialist who gave me the prescription given above, and I have used it for a long time, and I know of many others who have always used it, and who would juft be without. I am"- not so familiar with the preparations used for dry rough skins. One thing, too much glycerine is harmful, though a little is beneficial. It is more efficient when diluted with rose, orange, elder, or rain water. If it produces a burning sensation, as it sometimes does on a sensitive skin, I advise using almond oil, olive oil vaseline, wood fat, or mutton tallow instead. I know a great many actresses i who—l am referring to those with oily • skins, mind you—after washing the face ; and hands with warm water, and before ' drying, use almond meal, which they rub •in thoroughly. This makes the skin soft and smooth, and no other emollients are then necessary—for the oily skin, mind you. As for facial massage, I favour it, but do not believe in it as a daily duty, and when it is done it should be done only by an expert. Finally, I ithink that the face should be washed at j least once a day. certainly at night. No iwise woman will leave her makeup on o\ er night, to say nothing of the accumulation of dirt and dust th; ; every face collects during the day, even if indoors ; all the time.

If You Want To Keep Young. If yor want to keep young—well, mv dear, it is not all in creams, rouges, and face powders, although they are splendid in their places. To live rightly and to think rightly is the great thing in keeping youthful. Plenty of out-door exercise, plenty of sleep, and wide-open windows. A healthful diet, good grooniiiip an active mind, and an absorbing interest in life. The busiest people are the happiest—and really happy people do not worry about keeping young, they are young eternally. Talcum Powder. Few women realise the value of talcum powder but if you stop to think that it is used freely on the skins of infants you must know how cooling and healing it is Use it freely after the bath, and if you are tired and your skin i 6 irritated it will feel refreshed in a few moments Trv talcum powder on your hands before putting on new gloves, and on vour feet before slipping on your silk stockines and see how easily they will draw on' Use it under your arms after you have used an astringent. There are foot powders prepared especially for the feet when overtired or painful. And there are deodorant powders on the market for keeping the body free from the odours of perspiration. Every woman has her own way of applying powder; many USe A" ny pads of abs orbent cotton and throw them away after usine tt bp " Take it off before retiring, using either a good cream or soap and water, hav nj due regard to the condition of your skTn The pores should be clean when retirin"' thus allowing the skin to "breathe " '