SHORT CUTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 19

SHORT CUTS

BEAUTY WHILE YOU WAIT

The trouble with most beauty treatments is that you do wait, and you are warned beforehand that only after regular nightly application over a prolonged period can you expect to see results, states a writer in the "Melbourne Age." You cannot help feeling -. disappointed when there is no apparent improvement after a fortnight or so, and only the most determined spirit can continue hopefully for an- [ other spell.

A simple bleach which never fails for dull or muddy complexions is made by squeezing the juice of a lemon, adding half the quantity of milk, which will curdle slightly, and allowing the "mask" to dry on the skin at night. The complexion can be kept in perfect condition with an egg pack once a week—the white well beaten and thinned down with a teaspoonful of fresh milk. The pack is left to harden on the face and neck for fifteen minutes, and then removed with a towel rung out of very cold water.

Redness and roughness of the skin can be cured within a few days by glycerine milk, made with loz glycerine, 14 drachm powdered starch and £oz water, heated gently in a jam jar until they form a jelly, after which 1 drachm tincture of benzoin is stirred in, drop by drop. The milk should be dabbed on the red parts at night. To remedy rough elbows, small velvet powder-puffs moistened with the milk can be strapped round with sticking plaster, and left all night.