"WAGE AN OFFENSIVE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 19

"WAGE AN OFFENSIVE"

SPRING BEAUTY TROUBLES

DRY SKIN AND RED EYES

The end of winter is a difficult time for our looks, and a crop of minor beauty troubles often turns up to make a grey day seem greyer, states the "Sydney, Morning Herald."

A dry skin is one of these banes. Some girls suffer from cold blisters on the lips, while others find that after late Hours over fires, or a day in cold winds, the eyes have acquired a tendency to redness in the corners.

It often happens just now that one has "not the ability to throw off these small difficulties, and how depressed they can make one! But to give way to depression is just about the worst thing one can do both for one's health and one's appearance. Instead, one must just set to work to wage a real offensive against one's afflictions.

Let us begin with the cold blisterthat most unbecoming of ills. These small sores are due to a run-down condition, and are actually an inflammation at the end.of a nerve. Have you ever noticed, too, that they always appear just when one has. got some party planned and wants to look one's best? And there is that hot, itchy little blister on the lip, confronting us in all its ugliness in the glass. Well, first, hot water. Take' about half a glassful and into it put half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Bathe the lip with this, as hot as you comfortably can, for several minutes. Then dab on with a small pad of cotton-wool some spirits of camphor. Finish by dusting it with a little boracic powder. This treatment must be carried out at least three or four times a day if you want to get that blister dried up quick-1 ly. Never use any grease on these nerve sores, especially when they are getting better. The spot should be kept as dry as possible. Camphor, as it happens, is a valuable aid for this type of trouble. For instance, if one has a cold in the head, camphor ice rubbed into the upper lip and under the nose will prevent any redness or chafing of the skin there. If. after a cold, the lips or corners of the nose should get really chapped or split, a mixture of zinc ointment and cold cream should be rubbed in night and morning. DEPLETED NERVOUS SYSTEM. A dry skin is also a sign of a depleted nervous system. Everyone needs a good ionic at this time of year, and there is nothing better than cod-liver

oil in small doses. Do.not be afraid of getting fat, or, if you are, leave off some other article of diet, but- take twice daily that teaspoonful of codliver oil, which doctors tell us contains all the known vitamins and probably many more as well. Also, in addition to your usual skin food, rub into your skin at night a warmed oil, either almond or olive, or admixture of both. Girls with exceptionally dry skins should always warm their. complexion oils or. creams, because sometimes the application of a cold skin food simply causes the sensitive pores to qlose up, and so the skin absorbs no grease and derives hardly any benefit at all. Next comes the question of those reddened eyes. Here is a very good eye lotion:

Mix in a cupful of warm water, a third of a teaspoonful each of common salt, sugar, and boracic powder, and with this bathe the eyes three times a day. Another splendid soothing lotion is to put a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt into a two-ounce bottle of pure rosewater.

If the eyes are very red, try cold packs as well. Girls with any tendency to redness of the eyes should always carefully remove mascara from the lashes before going to sleep, and never forget that eye exercises are best of all for gradually building up eve strength and beauty.