RECOMMENDED RECIPES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 15

RECOMMENDED RECIPES

FOB SUNBURN AND SCORCHING.

A less pleasant feature of the hot weather and sunshine -is .the painful burning which results from sea bathing or "days out" in the country. A writer in the Australasian gives the, following hints and recipes for remedies, which will probably be welcome to many peo- ! Pie of both sexes :—Every morning the lace and arms should be bathed with warm water and any good neutral soap preferably one of the many excellent makes of castile or olive oil soap, and then apply a little astringent lotion with or without some vanishing cream. A light dusting of fine powder will do all that is necessary, provided the- skin is not already badly burnt. Three excellent lo^ tions are as follows :—(1) Tincture of benzoin, one drachm; orange ■ flower water, two drachms; rosewater, two ounces; almond mixture, two ounces:' Let it dry after application, and then apply a. second time. (2) Mix two ounces of rosewater with the juice of a lemon and 10 drops of glycerine. (3) Mix three ounces of rosewater with one teaspobnful of tincture of benzoin and one ounce of glycerine. On coming in from bathing or motoring, the skin should ,be gently wiped, with a soft swab'vung but of the lotion, then dried, and some cold cream applied. After about 10 minutes the cream should be: gently' taken off with a.piece 'of soft muslin, and the skin' dusted with powder. No soap or water should be used directly on coming in, or if the skin is at all sore, but, if this cream treatment proves successful, a warm wash may be given at bedtime, and more cream or lotion applied.' Freckles.—For those who 'freckle easily, the following lotion from an old beauty book 'is most effective, and should be applied before going out in the sun or wind, and the skin when dry dusted with powder. Zinc oxide,, two drachms; powdered, calamine, two drachms; olive oil, three ounces; solution of ammonia, one ounce rosewater to six ounces. This lotion will not irritate the finest skin, ard is proof against sun or wind. If the skin lias .already become very burnt and sore, no better cure can be: imagined than the old-fashioned method of gently rubbing the sore part with thin slices of freshly cut cucumber, and then bathing with tepid water. After patting the'face dry, apply some cold; cream. A. much recommended sunburn remedy is made by shaking two ounces of lime water in a bottle or jar with two ounces of sweet oil of almonds, a teaspooiiful of glycerine, and the juice of half a lemon. This lotion should be left on for several minutes, and then gently wiped off, and the affected part lightly powdered. Bad freckles should be bathed with lemon juice, eau-de-cologne, or peroxide of hydrogen (one part to. four of water), and then dabbed with freckle lotion two or three times a dajr. . ''. : Sunburnt Arms.—For very red or sunburnt arms the following recipe will be found soothing, and should be applied every morning and dkectly after exposure or bathing. Citric acid, one and" a half drachms,; hydrochloric acid, half drachm; rectified spirits, one ounce; glycerine, 10 drachms; and rosewater to make. eight ounces. Another simpler .method is to rub the arms night and morning with equal parts cf rosewater, leitoon juice, and glycerine.* A good liquid powderl for evening- use while the neck and arms are badly tan^ ned or freckled is as follows.:—Starch powder, four drachms; zinc oxide, two drachms ; glycerine, two ounces; rosewater, six ounces. Shake well and apply all over the sunburnt part. If a soothing cream has been used regularly, and the skin has been kept smooth, the powder should be invisible.

Hard, water is very bad in all cases of sunburn, and should be softened by the addition of a few good bath crystals, some witch-hazel, a little powdered borax, or a teaspoonful of the following lotion to each basin of warm or tepid water. Alcohol, four ounces; ammonia, half an ounce; oil of lavender, half a drachm. Shake well before using. No recipes are included for either cold cream or vanishing cream, as in these matters it is largely a craestion of *ind:vidnal taste. Girls with a tendency to an oily, shiny skin should,onlv use an astringent lotion, and a vanishing cream—never cold cream—whereas eirls with dry skins can use vanishing and cold creams besides the lotion. Of the three astringent lotions (riven above, the first should be used with a vanishing cream, while the other- two sjlvcerine nrenaratinns will fulfil the functions of both lotion and crenm.