A GUIDE TO CHARM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 14 June 1939, Page 2

A GUIDE TO CHARM

(By Jacqueline Hunt) BABY’S SKIN KEPT LOVELY BY OIL, MILK Have you a friend with a new baby for whom you would like to buy something? Then give her something for baby’s beauty wardrobe. A famous beautician, realising the importance of getting an early start in scientific intelligent skin care, has turned her attention to beauty for babies. "Beauty begins in cradle days,” she says. “It flourishes when rompers arc | donned and the measure to which it mounts in the ’teens and twenties is j frequently determined by the beauty | rites mothers employ during the first few years.” To make the daily nursery routine a beauty-building ritual, she has introduced three new preparations designed to guard and protect tender bay skins and keep them lovely. One preparation is a “bay version” of a pasteurised milk bath, processed and delicately perfumed for baby skins, while the after-the-bath preparation is a mild antiseptic body oil for the baby. It should be applied generously not only after the bath but often during the day to soothe and protect tender folds of sensitive skin from chafing and irritation. Then to finish the baby’s bath routine, there is a luxurious, fine, delicately scented dusting powder. Your list might include other beauty gifts for toddlers and older children, as brushes "just like mother’s,” babysized toothbrushes, and pretty nail brushes to encourage youngsters to keep their hands immaculate. Celluloid toys that float and hold small cakes of pure castile soap for washing grubby little hands and gently cleasing the child’s sensitive skin are good, too. Any little girl would love to have her ow r n box of dusting powder or can of delicately scented talcum. The young miss of ten or twelve would get a thrill out of having her own “perfume”—really a delicately scented eau de Cologne in an atomizer bottle. For a young man of the same age a smart set of military brushes “just like Dad’s,” a business-like bath brush, a bottle of hair tonic or a bottle of lotion containing a little fine oil that will keep his hair in place.