BEAUTY CULTURE IN THE HOME.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 15

BEAUTY CULTURE IN THE HOME.

(SIMPLE TREATMENT. Homely treatments for improving tlie skin, doing away with a double chin and making the hair grow are always in demand. Here are some good and tried remedies —you may rely upon them! The Double Chin.—No cosmetics in the world will remove a double chin, but simple exercise will—if you persist. Practise the following several times a day and watch the result: Stand erect, toes and heels together. Place the hands lightly on the hips, fingers forward. Drop the chin slowly on the collar-bone as far forward as the head can be carried; then throw the head back with a quick, even movement that is not a jerk, but yet puts all the muscles in quick play. Repeat ten times. Now turn the head rather sharply to the right, as if looking quickly over the right shoulder. Repeat this ten times; then turn it to the left ten times. Persevere with these exercises, and you may gradually increase the number of movements daily until each can be done about fifty times without discomfort.

To Remedy a Shiny .Skin.—Take a tcaspoonful of prepared toilet oatmeal in the palm of the hand and mix it to a soft paste with a few drops of orange-flower water. Rub this gently over the skin and continue rubbing until the oatmeal falls off in the form of dry powder; finally dust the face with a little pure powder. If the Water is Hard.—lt is better to use rain or distilled water for washing the face. If you cannot get either of these, you will find ordinary fine oatmeal, or, better still, prepared toilet oatmeal, an excellent water softener. If your hair is falling out, or becoming prematurely grey, there is nothing so good as scalp massage with the tips of the fingers. This brings the blood to the Toots of the hair and nourishes it. You may, if you like, use one drop of castor oil" in the finger-tips when you massage; do not use more, however, or you will clog the pores of the skin and do the scalp more harm than good.