Wax Baths For Slimming

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 10

Wax Baths For Slimming

A FRENCHMAN four years ago evolved wax baths for deepseated rheumatism. To-day dozens of London women are waxing themselves slim in special clinics once r. week. it is the latest and most fantastic method of losing weight. According to those who ttno-.v, the effects of Turkish baths are negligible compared with the pound's which vanish by this method. Recently a well-known actress was offered a film contract providing she lost five pounds in the week. Three wax baths, and she was able to sign the contiact, with the comfortable feeling that she was t'vo pounds less than she needed to be! Each wax bath needs 50 pounds of. wax mixed with various soothing oils to be really.-effective. Clinics are doing so well that they buy half a ton of wax at once to melt cowii for the rush of clients. The client strips, and lies in what appears to be an outsize bassinet, surrounded bv big sheets of wax paper. Dig handfuls of hot liquid wax are then poured over the patient from the tip of her chin to the ends of her toes. As it hardens it is patted evenly, so that the patient is covered completely. 'Then basinfuls arc slopped nil around the' patient until si.e lies embedded in an unbroken white was mould for 25 minutes. By. degrees the wax slides away frotn her body; the patient dries and weighs, and hopes to find that she has lost at least two pounds.