IRISH BEAUTY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 9

IRISH BEAUTY

ADVANTAGE OF CLIMATE

According to an overseas correspondent, the Irish girl makes the most of her climate as a beauty cure. On tho wet days, when thero i 3 a soft westerly wind, she goes out bareheaded for a good walk in the gentle rain. The skin thus gets a thorough "spraying" with soft water and soft air, and aothing will better bring- permanent roses to the cheeks. The hair benefits, too, by the wetting with soft water. The diet of the Irish girl is also often conducive to beauty, for many take very little meat, plenty of butter and green vegetables, and, after all, these are the main factors in a home "beauty diet." Cabbage, for instance, is one of the best vegetables to take for the sake of the complexion, as well as for the general health. It contains such a quantity of valuable mineral salts. Irish girls use milk (sour milk) and buttermilk to beautify their skin. The latter makes an excellent aid, and is said to be a cure for freckles and sunburn. One Irish girl (continues the writer) makes a beauty pack from the whites of two eggs beaten to a foam. She adds a few drops of lemon juice and spreads this over her face before going to_ a party. She washes it off again with cold rain water. This is a valuable anti-wrinkle pack. Irish girls do not, as a rule, shampoo their hair as often as do English girls. The natural oils aro not. dried up, and the hair retains its gloss. In between shampoos (which are always . carried out with a pure super-fatted soap and soft water) the hair is kept scrupulously clean by means of an extra combing with a fine steel comb after careful use of the ordinary one.