CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

THE CARE OF THE SKIN.

USEFUL REMEDIES

(By A PARIS BEAUTY SPECIALIST.)

You would not be without it in the kitchen or on the dining-table, but how often on your dressing-table? Have you ever seriously considered it? Aside from an ingredient of your salad dressing, or a substance for greasing your fryingpan? There is perhaps not one woman in a hundred who doesn't include a generous bottle or can in her kitchen cabinet, and not one in a hundred who includes it among her face lotions, cold creams, powders and hair tonics. It pleases the palate as it arrives via the lettuce or endive root. You know that, from the experience of years. Your dinner is spoilt if it absents iteelf from ; your table, or, at least, the enjoyment of the meal is increased by its presence. Give it a one-way ticket from the dining-room to the boudoir, and watch it work. The best results are obtained from the oil if it is applied warm—not hot; for oil burns quickly and leaves an ugly scar; but even the cold oil is marvellously- beneficial. First, remove the day's make-up and the city's dust with your usual application of cleansing cream, then dip your fingers into the oil and massage it well into the skin, using all that the skin will absorb. Leave it on for a ifew minutes, in order that the hungry may feed upon it, and then reiMi-ve the superfluous grease with abciuibent cotton. You will be surprised at the fresh live appearance of the skin after even one treatment.

An application of oil before powdering the face is considered by many much more satisfactory than cold cream or the so-called vanishing creams, which generally contain chalk and zinc—very drying for the skin. '

The small quantity of the liquid that is bound to remain on the skin, no matter l:ow conscientiously you try to remove it, not only forms an undersurface for the powder, but also nourishes the skin and keeps it from becoming dry and hard from exposure to the weather.

And the cells of the hair take to it just as kindly as do the cells of the skin. Part the hair in tiny strands and apply the oil directly ta the scalp, massaging it in carefully with the tips of the fingers. Of course, an over-application, or an application to the hair instead of the scalp, will give the looks that oily appearance that every, well-groomed woman ehuns. But the proper amount, faithfully rubbed and massaged into the roots, will add to your bob or ehingle a new life and glisten, besides nourishing the cells and facilitating the growth.

The advantage of warm oil in the case of both hair and skin is that it penetrates more quickly and more effectively, and thus increases the nourishing pro-; perties. Beauty Hints. Since making-up in public is to be avoided, because it is so inartistic, so vulgar, every woman should strive to select such cosmetics as'will remain on all day when applied in the morning. Very few, if any,, makes of dry rouge and lip-etick put up in stick 'form, can be found that will endure for more than a few hours. Many women have found that liquid rouge and lip-stain are preferable. Liquid rouge, applied lightly in the morning and a little more heavily on the lips, lasts a whole day. Little powder is needed, just enough to take that greasy look away—a whiff at most. "Make-up" should be most delicately done, otherwise it ages a woman frightfully.

To reduce, don't take things that are advertised, and that you know nothing about, but work harder, eat leee,. exercise more. You will not only look better, but you will feel better.

Speaking of advertisements that we know nothing about, women are not.the only ones who "fair for them. Recently a young Frenchman took a beauty powder sent him by mail that guaranteed to change his complexion within 24 hours. It did. He died quite suddenly after taking the powder.

The French consider the juice of. the cucumber a wonderful cosmetic. But unless properly prepared and used it may prove irritating instead of cooling. It should be prepared thus: Exprees the juice from the cucumbers, and bring it to a boiling point over a quick fire. Cool it rapidly and securely bottle it. One part of the juice to two quarts of soft water may be applied daily. This is also said to be an excellent cure and preventive of wrinkles.

The women of the Orient envelop their hands every night in large gloves fitted with a paste made of barley flour and milk, which produces soft, 'white, lovely hands. Rice flour and milk make a paste that is equally good.

Dandruff is probably the greatest cause of baldness. Glean combe and brushes, daily massage of the scalp, and occasional shampooings are dandruff's deadly enemies.

To make a vanishing cream, stearic acid and glycerine, or sodium carbonate, or borax, are generally used. These vanishing creams, though, are frightfully drying, and as all other cold creams uniting lubricant oils are. much better, why use anything on your skin to dry and wrinkle it?

I can now see that there is no reason for Hiiy woman to allow herself to get too thin, or too stout, when a few hours' exercise can make her fit. One need not go to an.expensive etudio either, but at the fame time no one should attempt exercises without some knowledge of : what.they are doing , . ■ All doctors agree thnt boracic acid is sroodfor the eves, and it \e aleo a remedy for jrranulated lids.

Red vaseline is said to make the eye brows and eyelashes crow.

Lemon iuice is good for sore sums and ulcers, but it should, not be applied to the teeth.