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Evening Star, Issue 12926, 14 April 1908, Page 8

Tiio most extraordinary ideas are rife with regard to the kind of toilet soap that is used for the daily ablations, the most unsuitable varieties being constantly employed, until at last the human epidermis, which is generally mcst long-nuffering. can stand it no longer, and so irritation o-f tiio skin is gradually set up. A eoap containing more than a trace of free alkali is very apt to cause irritation of th-e skin, as manifested hy varying degrees of erythema., which may lead on to a- condition of actual eczema.. The delicate skin of the face suffers most in this way in proportion to the length of time in which it is in contact with the soap. The very doubtful quality of "transparency'’ may' he due to the presence of sugar, and not to glycerine, as thought—The ‘Hospital.’ If you throw a man out. of a. window, what docs he fall against r—His inclination.