TONIC SUN BATHS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 5

TONIC SUN BATHS

An Expert’s Advice The following rules on sun-bath ing have been sent in by a registered nurse who is also a certificated hellotherapist. They should help to save discomfort and the painful consequences of infrequent sun-bathing in the coming season:— . • 1. Remove all cream, oil, or powder —as the ultra-violet, or chemical rays of the sun will not penetrate an oiled surface. ' 1 ; , 2. Lie on a white towel (nothing green, yellow, orange? or red). 3. Cover your head and back of neck. 4. Expose your back for five minutes, then lie on your back for another five minutes. 5. Now apply olive oil of powder. 6. Next day. increase the time by ive minutes, until a maximum of half-an-hour, back and front (total one hour) twice a day has been reached. 7 Take your sun-baths between 10 .a.m. and 11 a.m.. arid 2.30 and 3.30 p.m. 8. Sit in the shade, or use a sunshade during midday. Of course, if you just want to become sunburned, the quickest way is to oil the body first; but no benefit from the sun is derived in this way. and in the long run you will get just as brown the other way.