TREATMENT FOR THE SKIN.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 41, 24 May 1935, Page 3

TREATMENT FOR THE SKIN.

DON'T TRY EVERYTHING.

Quite a number of people are a little too enterprising when it comes to health and beauty hints (declares Georgia Rivers, Fashion and Beauty Expert of "The Australian Journal"). They will gaily launch out into the most extravagant "cures," irrespective of whether these really apply to their own case or not. I have known people who went on to milk diets, raw' vegetable diets, oil diets, one-meal-a-day diets and so forth, not because they felt in drastic need of a change, but simply because they heard such things were good for someone or other, and they liked to try anything ence. It's not a very wise scheme. Unless you feel so unwell that you are willing to try anything, it's better to keep off revolutionary ideas where your body is concerned until a doctor is consulted.

This reminds me of a girl I used to know who read somewhere that water was ruinous to the skin of the face, and that one should use nothing but cold cream as a cleanser. I remember she said at the time that she intended to follow out that advice. Well, I met her the other day, and really it hasn't proved a very good idea where she is concerned. Certainly her skin is very soft and smooth, but it seems to have lost some of its firm elasticity, and has a curiously pasty appearance except where it is rouged.

I was speaking to a really clever beauty specialist a day or so after this, and she smiled when I mentioned the strange, colourless effect.

"But naturally," she said. "Water is not only a cleanser, it's a skintonic I'm all on the side of creams' where nourishing and soothing is concerned, but people are very foolish (unless, of course, they have some definite skin trouble, and are warned off water for the time being' by a doctor) to discard it.

"Of course you can't do better now and then, particularly if you have a dry skin or live in a hot, dusty climate, than give your skin a good cream bath at bed-time. Buy some pure cold cream—the big, cheap tins which theatrical people use are admirable—and rub it softly into the face. Don't try too much hard massaging unless you happen to be an expert in that way, because you may find yourself running lines in, instead of out, and always be very careful in the way you handle the skin around the eyes. Being extremely delicate and fine, it should be patted gently with cream instead of being rubbed —if treated at all.

"Leave the cream on for a short time, then rub it off gently with a piece of the cleansing tissue that you can buy (several kinds of it) at almost any chemist's. Then wash the face in warm water and soap, then splash with cold water. You'll be surprised at the soft smoothness and the general easy elastic feel of your skin when you wake up next morning. ( But., as a regular thing, give me water every time! Be careful of too much hot water if your skin is dry, and never use highly scented soap, and be careful to wash every vestige of it off your face before drying. Those over-sensitive skins you see sometimes may be the result of the soap-on-the-towel habit.

"If your skin is dry. it is a good idea always to use a thin cream before you powder. Not vanishing cream, as this tends to dry the skin still more; but a cream which makes a natural base for powder, soothing it at the same time."