REMOVING SUNBURN.
For whitening arid softening the skin and removing tan and sunburn there is no better preparation '; than lettuce cream. To make the cream take on* or more heads of lettuce and scald them with boiling water. . Allow them to stand' for fifteen minutes, then pour off the water, place the lettuces in an earthenware bow! and ; pound to; a pulp. Then strain through a cloth. Put one ounce of white wax and one ounce of spermacetti in an earthenware jar and stand in boiling water till melted. 1 Then add four ounces of pure almond oil and mix together thoroughly (it is best to add the oil while the jar is still standing in the boiling water), and lastly add the lettuce juice, in small'quantities at a time, beating with, a silver 'fork while addini ifc
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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138REMOVING SUNBURN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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