SUNBURN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18439, 24 March 1922, Page 2

SUNBURN.

The best preventative of sunburn is said to be cucumber-water. Every year a certain quantity should be prepared for eariy use the following summer. Choose some fine cucumbers in perfect condition, and quite ripe, peel them, and cut them into thin slices, being careful to remove all seeds. Put the slices into a jar or widemouthed bottle, and fill it up without pressing the cucumbers; the pressure, if allowed, would spoil the result. Pour into the bottle some spirit of wine and add to it a few drops of essence of any flavoured perfume. Now seal, hermetically, the bottle and leave to untouched for four or five days, keeping it away from any fire. Then turn out the contents of the bottle on to a fine sieve and let the emulsion drip through without pressing It. Afterwards bottle it, and keep the bottle or bottles tightly corked. When required for use, pour sufliicent of the cucumber lotion into a basin of water to turn the water into a milky fluid. Apply with a sponge to the face night and morning, and let the lotion dry on skin without wiping the, latter. Those subject to sunburn should veil the face with a gauze or net veiling when going out of door in hot weather.