Choosing the Right Skin Food

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

Choosing the Right Skin Food

Some Treatments for Different Textures

"DEAUTY culturists are always being asked about skin foods, because so many" girls seem to find a good deal of difficulty in choosing just the right complexion cream or food for their particular type of skin. "My complexion is naturally bo oily," one complains, " that I never can find a cream to suit it." And yet it is agreed that every skin needs a good feeding cream to keep it fresh and youthful. Then there is the girl whose skin is dry and delicate and has a tendency to early lines. Hers is quite another problem, and requires equal thought and care. As a matter of fact, the average girl has very little idea of the effect on the skin of the different ingredients contained in_ skin foods. So let us 'see how these things work, and what to choose and what to avoid. The blonde with a fine, delicate skin, dry, and easily given to lines after fatigue or hard work, must get a skin food made on a basis of animal fats, and she must avoid all drastic astringents. Mild toning lotions she may use occasionally, but she should not choose, for her regular nightly use, a skin food which contains lemon, benzoin, witch hazel, alum, or any other astringent. The fair, dry skin has one great advantage; it rarely has any tendency to superfluous hair, and therefore there is no fear in choosing a building cream which contains lanoline, or even cocoa butter. Skin foods should always be patted into the face, not rubbed. By skilful patting the tissues are awakened and the oils penetrate the pores and do their nourishing work. A good skin food used regularly keeps sun and wind burn away, aiid is, of course, a grand preventive of wrinkles. It should be used on a clean skin after the cleansing cream or sponging with warm water. Another hint for the girl with the dry skin is to use an oily powder base. A few drops of oil, mixed with the same amount of eau de Cologne and rubbed in well before powdering, give the right degree of moistness to keep the face fresh and the skin flexible throughout the day. Now comes the question of the oily, dark-complexioned girl. She, too, must use a nourishing cream, but one made on a basis of vegetable oils iB best for her. Also it is a good plan if some slightly astringent property is included in it, as skins which secrete a great deal of natural oil sometimes develop coarse pores, or even blackheads, unless the skin food used tones as well as feeds.

Skin foods containing camphor cannot be bettered for girls whose skinß are definitely of the downy type. CamEbor creams discourage the growth of air oa the face ; and are, also refreshing and bleaching. A toning lotion should be used every morning by the girj' whose skin is dark and inclined to coarse pores. Equdl parts of lemon juice and iced water, make an easy and effective lotion. Slap it on until the face feels cold and refreshed.: