YOUR BEAUTY QUOTIENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

YOUR BEAUTY QUOTIENT

STEAM TREATMENT

Learn how to steam your face properly and you will have a clear and healthy skin, fine pores, and a good circulation of blood through the skin — an important thing, for this will also help keep away wrinkles. But if you steam the face the wrong way, you can enlarge the pores, dry the skin, and encourage wrinkles. The first step is to wring a small Turkish towel from fairly hot water, and to hold this over the face, wiping the skin as you take away the towel. Wring it again from hot water and hold over the face. Make a lather of suds from some good mild soap and rub this into the skin. Rinse out, using the hot wet towel. Now wring the towel onco

more from the water, and hold again over the fa/'e. By this time the skin will be clean, and the pores open. ■ Now rub cleansing cream into the 6kin, and steam this out—the cream gets well down into the pores, softening and loosening deeply embedded dirt. Renewing the hot towels three or four times removes the cream, and with it whatever this has loosened. It does make it seem as though your face were a sort of dirty floor to be mopped up—oddly enough, some appar-' ently clean faces are! At least apparently clear skins can field a surprising amount of dirt and waxy substance as well, down in the pores, and it takeß steaming and a lot of cleansing cream, or oil to get this out. A weekly face steaming will certainly clear away the most stubborn dirt and make fine the largest pores. It may not require more than three or four such treatments. Close the pores each time with cold water.