HOUSEWIVES’ HANDS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 12

HOUSEWIVES’ HANDS

NOT INEVITABLE Far too many housewives let their hands betray their calling. Chapped, roughened hands, broken nails, swollen fingers, and ragged cuticles—they regard all these unhappy conditions as the inevitable accompaniments of washing, cleaning and scrubbing. But such things might be prevented with a little forethought. Rubber gloves are not expensive, and they may be worn for a number of dirty jobs, and also for washing. Much chapping and redness is caused

because the hands are not dried adequately after being immersed in water during some job or other. A second spent on drying the hands thoroughly would keep the hands smooth and white. When rubber gloves cannot be used the hands should be rubbed with cold cream, and the crevices between the nail-tips and the fingers filled with the cream or with soap. One of the best softened lotions for the hands is made by mixing equal parts of glycerine and rosewater and adding four or five drops of tincture of benzoin. It should be rubbed into the hands whenever they are used.