LOVELY HANDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 4

LOVELY HANDS

Fruit-Juices for Beauty . VALUE OF HOUSEWORK. First oC all, buy a pair of leather housemaid’s gloves and at every possible working moment wear them. Then, from the chemist, get loz each of glycerine, rose water and eau de Cologne. To this add the juice of one lemon, shake the bottle well, and keep it well corked. On washing day when your hands are spongy from long immersion in soap-suds, dry them well and rub a little of the lotion well in, clean your nails, press back the cuticle, and rub them with the polishing pad before you peg the clothes out to dry. The Housewife's Manicure After preparing potatoes or berry fruits, cleaning the hearthstone, or arranging flowers, always wash your hands and rub in a little lotion as i quickly as possible, as gloves cannot be worn at these jobs, and the hands suffer tremendously if they are not washed immediately. After mincing meat, cutting bread and butter, rubbing small chests with camphorated oil, applying ointment to bruises so often acquired by young limbs, mixing cakes and pastry, cutting lemons, tomatoes, grapes or cucumber, massage your hands well, and refrain from washing them as long as possible. The oily things make them smooth and soft and the fruits are w-ouderfully bleaching. Of course, if your hands have already become red and coarse from neglect, a little extra care will have to he taken at first in the way of soaking in lather made with a good soap and rubbing in glycerine the last thing at night, but after you once get them into trim, make the housework do the rest.