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Otago Witness, Issue 3331, 16 January 1918, Page 50

Miss Gladys Cooper Explains Some Beauty Secrets.

The Popular London Star Favours Simple Methods.

I heave been asked to give a few simple recipes that I know, either through personal use or by observation, to be valuable to the toilet, and which are within the reach of the average woman. In these days of £IOO facial treatments' and elaborate and expensive beautifying processes my suggestions may read like lessons in economy, but they are not especially so intended. They are merely practical suggestions, in which the keynote is "effectiveness." All the materials or ingredients which I mention are either already at hand in the home or may be readily rrocured from the chemist. Fortunately I do not suffer from the ailments or troubles enumerated below, but some people who are not so fortunate have told me their experiences, and with your permission I« will set forth some remedies which they have found to be efficacious. * ✓

Home-made Hair Tonic. My acquaintances say that a good stimulant to he natural growth jof the hair is boranium. A very simple, effective, and safe stimulating lotion made up by mixing one ounce of boranium with a quarter of a pint of bay rum. This may be applied to the hair roots occasionally with the finger tips with good results. Complexion Renewals. Complexion experts advise me that a normal, healthy oomplexion is constantly renewing itself by dropping off tiny flakes of worn-out tissue, thus revealing the fresh young skin underneath. They say that, when this process is checked by age, exposure, or some of many causes, the complexion becomes dull and ugly. The rational treatment recommended is to help the skin perform the natural functions of "shedding" worn-out tissue. For this purpose, r am informed, there is nothing so good as pure mercolized wax, used for a few nights, just as you would use a face cream. It is olaimed that it possesses a special affinity for the effete scarf-skin, which it quickly removes by absorbing it. The faoe, I am assured, will soon look much younger and prettier under thitreatment. / The Curling Iron. Don't use a hot iron to carl your hair. Some of my friends make the cunningest sort of curls wherever they want them simply by dampening the hair with liquid silmerine before retiring at night. When the hair is dry in the morning it will be softly curly just where you. want it to be. This method is perfectly harmless, even beneficial to the hair; and the curls last a long time. The liquid is quite pleasant and neither sticky nor greasy. How to Shampoo. Most women, I am informed, do not know how to use stallax properly when shampooing with it. Unless the hair is naturally very oily, a stallax shampoo may sometimes leave it rather dry. But I am told, if you wilf apply olive oil freely to your hair and scalp just before shampooing with stallax, the result is most delightful. The hair will* be left clean, 6oft, bright, and wavy, the olive oil having properly balanced the action of this wonderful hair cleanser. Is Powder Necessary? , A great many women object to using powder, for various reasons. The following formula is a good one: Dissolve an ounce of cleminite in lour table-

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