THOSE UNBECOMING FRECKLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19906, 28 September 1926, Page 14

THOSE UNBECOMING FRECKLES

The prevention of freckles may be achieved in three ways. First, by keeping out of the sun altogether, though this is not always possible or desirable; second, by using red or brown sunshades, which, however, must seriously restrict the rest of one’s colour scheme! And, finally, by protecting the parts liable with any cream of which lanolin is an important constituent. Our grandmothers used to cure freckles by washing in buttermilk, and often, when the freckles were not very bad, they had quite a considerable success. Nowadays some lactic acid preparation may be used, such as lactic acid (10 per cent.), two drams; glycerine, half an ounce; and water up to one ounce: or a wash of hydrogen peroxide in an eual pair of water dabbed on with cotton wool twice a day is sometimes effective. Worth trying are progressively increasing exposures of the vulnerable parts to the sun. Freckles are, as it were, uneven attempts of the skin to bronze in the sun. The skin does it badly and in patches, because it has not been trained to it gradually. If the complexion is exposed to the sun. first, for very short intervals about a minute each, and so increasing from day to day, often it decides to bronze evenly instead of in spots.