Some Beauty Recipes.
Perfumes should be indulged in by every one, for their stimulating and refreshing properties cannot be over estimated. They are health and beauty giving, especially lavender, lemon, roses, violets, sage and benzion. Those with pale complexions can ia time bring colour to their cheeks by bathing with benzion water or lait virginal. Thick lips can be reduced by rubbing with tannin. Pale lips can be induced to show colour by friction with black grapes.
Lemon, orange, aod cucumber peels are excellent for the complexion. Let them soak in your water jug, for they not only soften, tonify and freshen the complexion, keeping the flesh healthy and firm. When wiping the faoe always wipe upwards, foritsaves many a wrinkle and fullness under the ohin. The eyes should always be wiped towards the nose, as it presses out the few lines from the corners.
A good plantopraservetheskin from becoming set and old is to give the face perfect rest four or five times a day. No matter how busy one’s life is, if it is possible to lie down for even five minutes at a time, close the eyes and. keep the face in. repose. If this is done daily, it will prevent the haggard look noticeable with too many women.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 998, 17 April 1891, Page 5
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