A Feast of Beauty.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15892, 11 October 1913, Page 13

A Feast of Beauty.

A RARE COLLECTION PF UNUSUALLY MERITORIOUS BEAUTY RECIPES AND'GENERAL BEAUTY HINTS.

Home-Made Beauty. "Cosy-Corner Chats."

The very simplest things are often the most effective in making a woman beautiful. For instance, few people know that a dull or greasy complexion can be instantly brought to a pretty, youthful, natural bloom. merely by the application of ordinary clominite dissolved in water, Moreover, the method cannot be detected even under the closest scrutiny. The result will last all day long, and requires no powdering even under tho most trying conditions indoors or out. If you have no clominite in tho house, get about an ounce from tho chemist's, and add only enough water to dissolve it. Apply a little to the face. It is good for the skin and immeditaely produces that cool, velvety, natural "bloom" so much desired. To make the eyelashes grow long, dark, and curling apply a little mennaline with the finger tips occasionally. It is absolutely harmless and beautifies the eyebrows as well. * * * Pilenta soap is the most satisfactory for all complexions. It even works well in cold or hard water.

" Wavy " Shampoos, " Homely Hints."

Few people know that stallax can be used as a shampoo and is far better than anything else for the purpose. It seems to have a natural affinity for the hair, leaving it very glossy, Huffy, and with a pronounced natural "wave." A teaspoonful of stallax granules, dissolved m a cup of hot water, is more than sufficient. Genuine stallax comes to the chemist only in sealed tins, a quantity sufficient to make up 25 or 30 separate shampoos. The indescribable lustre it imparts to the hair is quite inimitable. * * *. For an actual hair grower nothing' equals boranium. It is quite harmless, and sets the hair roots tingling with new life. * * * The uso of rouge is almost always obvious, but powdered colliandum gives a perfectly natural colour and defies detection.

The Killing of Superfluous Hair. ■ " Boudoir Gossip." It is easy to remove superfluous hair temporarily, but to remove it permanently is quite another matter. Not many women know that for this purpose such a simple substance as powdered pheminol mav be used, applied directly to the hair. The recommended treatment is designed not merely to instantly remove the hair, but also to eventually kill the roots entirely. Almost any chemist could supply an ounce of pheminol, which quantityshould be sufficient. * * * A simDle way to quickly neutralise disagreeable, body odours is to dust the armpits occasionally with powdered (white) pcrgol. * * * The use of the natural allacite of orange blossoms as a greaseless cream is becoming prevalent among the smartest w'omen. It holds the powder perfectly, gives a delightful cool finish to the skin, and does not encourage the growth of hair. Oxygen to Remove Bad Complexions. " Useful Hints," Oxygen has the peculiar faculty of destroying waste matter in the body without affecting healthy tissues in the slightest degree. Sallow, blotchy, and lifeless complexions are caused by the accumulation of waste matter which adheres stubbornly to tho surface of the skin. The most practical way to apply oxygen to this waste matter is to use mercolised wax, such as may be obtained at the chemist shops. It should be rubbed well into the skin for several nights and waslied off in the mornings, like cold cream. In contact with tho skin.it releases oxygen,iand thus clears the skin of th<j disfigurirfg waste .matter. It is perfectly harmless, pleasant to use, and indeed very beneficial as a skin food, * * * To bring a natural red colour to the lips, rub them with a soft stick of prolactum. * * * ]i" or tired, hot, and .perspiring feet use a teaspoonful of powdered onalite in a foot bath. 1