BEAUTY WHILE YOU WAIT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 12

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. You cannot help feeling disappointed when there is no apparent improvements after a fortnight or so, and only the most determined spirits can continue hopefully for another spell. While time must obviously be allowed for increasing the growth of eyelashes, as an example, the general improvement in appearance which most women want can be effected by safe

and simple methods within the 11rut week. Naturally, these are not the elaborate treatments devised by beauty specialists, nor do they involve expensive loloms, for no fortunes would be made by ’ beauticians (as they call themselves) or by manufacturers of cosmetics if their treatments could be dispensed with in a brief period. Short Cuts Redness and roughness of the shin can be cured within a few days by glycerine milk, made with loz glycerine, I 2 drachms powdered starch, and loz water, heated gently in a jam jar until they form a jelly, after which I drachm tincture of benzoin is stirred in, drop by drop. The milk should be dabbed on the red parts at night. 1 o remedy rough elbows, small velvet powder-puffs moistened with the milk can be strapped round with sticking-plaster and left all night. A simple bleach which never lails 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. Ihe 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 wrung out of very cold water. Hands will respond at once if the dregs of the milk bottles are poured over them at night and left to dry. Before special occasions they can have a honey pack, made with live drops of liquid honey, five of glycerine, and enough fine oatmeal to form a stiff paste which is rubbed into the hands before they are quite dry after washing. Ihe pack is left on overnight under an old pair of loose gloves. Greasy hair can be corrected overnight by combing a little powdered starch through it. When brushed out next morning, the hair will be fluffy and free from grease, without being too soft to be manageable.—Dorothy Penrose.