IF YOUR SKIN IS GREASY
AVOID POWDER CREAM. Avoid making-up with powder cream —your .skin needs no more grease than it has already. Use instead*, vanishing cream and dry powder, or a liquid: powder ; both of these are drying. Here’s a useful lotion for oiliness and enlarged pores: One dram of boric acid and four ounces of witch-hazel, mixed well together. _ Yours is a complexion that will Stand: plenty of hot water, plenty of soap and vigorous nibbing with a rough facecloth, as these things help to keep down one of your main troubles—black-heads. Spirit is of course, very drying, and a wipe-over witli equal pairts of cold water and toilet eau-de-Cologne is most helpful on very shiny occasions ! Never massage your face with greasy creams. It doesn’t need the grease, being oily enough already, and you’ve no need to bother about massage to smooth out. lines—'luckily for you—it’s the dry skin that wrinkles easily.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1929, Page 17
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