A YOUTHFUL NECK.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17964, 8 March 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

A YOUTHFUL NECK.

SOME SIMPLE DIRECTIONS. The secret of a youthful neck Is to begin taking oare of it while it is young. It’s a difficult business trying to restore youth when once you’ve let it fade, although even the most neglected neck may be improved with care and a generous amount of patience. When you give your face its warm lathering at night, treat your neck to an equal amount of soap and friction—if not more. Rub the lather energetically into the skin, and just as thoroughly rinse it out again with fresh water. When you cream your face, cream your neck, 100. Pat it In with your finger tips—use the three middle fingers of each hand. Work from the base of the throat upwards and outwards, and let each “tap” finish with a little upward and outwards circular movement, too. At the base of the throat, if there's ever such a faint suggestion of salt cellars, or when such a thing appears, be more vigorous. Here you should pinch and knead the flesh, massaging the tissues well. Use oream or skinlood freely. Before you start your creaming fill a small basin with the coldest water possible, and add to it a few drops of simple tincture of benzoin. When your skin has had its fill of cream and your tapping is done, moisten a little ! spongf, or a pad of cotton wool, in : this ai sringent mixture, and wipe over the whole surface of the skin. This helps to close the pores, and has a lonic effect on the skin. Should you fear an extra chin, use this cold water and benzoin for splashing the superfluous flesh. Slapping it on with a w'et folded handkerchief is even better than splashing, and you may repeat Lhe treatment in the morning, too. A hand 'mirror is indispensable if you would do your best lor tour neck, otherwise the skin at the back is likely to get rough and discoloured without your knowing it. At this Lime of vear the discolouration may be due to Lhe after effects of summer imshine, in which case a nightly application of calamine lotion-.is a capital method of putting it right. Do not forget to cleanse oil' the calamine wild cream in the morning before you wash. . Ip the skin be sallow or grcyisn looking try first extra attention to the friction ami soap and water treatment afore mentioned. If this seems slow Its act, get a simple bleaching lotion containing benzoin of cucumber from your chemist. Apply this daily, using a l’rcsh pail of cotton wool or piece ot clean rag each time. (For applying snv kind of lotion, by the waj, use ihe medicated cotton wool to be bought from any chemist, not the greyish variety bought by the yard. This kind should he used for powder puffs also. It is quite inexpensive, and a sixpenny roll will last you a very long time). Supplement your very simple massage with a few- neck exercises. The first and most important is the daily deep breathing which you arc doubtless wise enough to practise anyhow, in the interests of your general health. Deep breathing ir, the sworn enemy of saltcellars and of neck wrinkles. Other exercises should be done with regular irregularity. Aou want to preserve a graceful roundness without over-developing muscles. Stand erect, with head well back, then bend the head slowly forward until the chin touches the chest. Pretend that someone is trying lo prevent your getting down so far, and that you arc pressing down against pressure. Next move your head backwards as far -as you can, again as resisting. Do this two or three times. Mow try tuning the head round slowly, first as far over your right shoulder as you can, and then over the left. You must not let your shoulders move though. When you have practised these movements every day for a week, take a fortnight’s rest, then renew thorn for another week, and so on Thev’ll occupy very few minutes, and you'can do them at any odd time you find most convenient.