Every Woman Shoud Be Soap-Wise
By PATRICIA LINDSAY
Because soap plays such a stellar role in our lives, for it cleanses our bodies as well as our clothes and keeps our homes sanitary, every woman should know what it is made of, the difference between an alkali soap and a bland soap, and why some bars are more expensive than others. The quality of soap depends upon the quality of Its ingredients its alkalis and fatty bases."
There are two alkalis, soda and potash. Soda is used for the hard soaps, potash for the softer, more easily lathered soaps.
The fatty bases may consist of olive oil, cocoanut oil, palm of palm kernel oil, mutton tallow. Sometimes cat- tonseed oil, linseed oil, soy bean oil and castor oil are used. Most toilet soaps combined tallow with one or more oils and upon the way these are, blended, and their quality, depend the price. The best makes use only the purest, whitest and least odorous fats. Pure castile soap for instance, is made of the finest olive oil and soda, and both of these ingredients should be clearly printed on the label of the soap you buy. This is one of the mildest and purest soaps on the market.
HARD-WATER SOAP Soaps to lather in hard-water con- tain more alkali than other soaps so if your skin is dry or sensitive do
not use
such a soap on your face. You will be a wise lady if you will soften the hard water before bathing instead of using a hard-water soap! Once the water is softened you may use the mildest of soaps.
FLOATING SOAPS Generally speaking a soap that floats is no
purer than one which doesn't By mixing air in the soap formula while it is still liquid makes soap float. The mere fact that it floats has nothing whatever to do with its purity. However, people like to find soap floating when they. are bathing, and there are a couple of very good soaps which do float.
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SOME SOAP FACTS
Soap you use on your face should contain not more than from 14% to one per cent. of free alkali. This makes it neutral.
White or pastel soaps which hold their perfume and colour to the last sliver usually are made from pure ingredients. Don't use dark base soaps on your skip unless they are a tar or one of the finest transparent soaps. Cheap transparent soaps con- tain too much alcohol, glycerin and sugar plus alkali.
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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 30, 1939
Face skin requires a bland soap to prevent irritation. LYNN BARI has an exquisite texture which she cares for religiously.
Never wash your face with your liquid shampoo soap — it is too most once a day, or more often, take choice.
time to select a good brand. If you If you are ever in doubt, buy a are bewildered at the many makes pure castile, soap or one of the better on the market write me which skin super-fatted soaps especially for xture you have and I shall gladly young skins, or those which are dry As you use soap on your skin a suggest several. brands for your and sensitive.
Soap bargains are usually no bar gains unless very good soap brands are reduced for clearance.
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Reducing Hips & Thighs
By DONALD LOOMIS
Jean Chatburn could have held to a chair for this exer- cise. Stand with feet to- gether, as you breathe in deeply kick forward as high as you possibly can, then, still holding the breath, kick backward as high as possible. Exhale as you lower foot. Repeat with og posite leg. Remember to keep your
knees perfectly stiff while doing this exercise.
If you wish you can do this to music; so many times with one leg,
so many times with the other.
Myrna Loy has a naturally lovely figure. She does not need any spe- cial work for figure faults, but she comes in to keep herself from getting soft and flabby. She has delicate bones and doesn't care much for sports. She usually likes exercises
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such as the above, and stretching and so that you can lift yourself from the: bending t exercises that are no floor with its aid. Raise shoulders. strenuous.
and feet from the floor and roll on
As I told you before, your weight the hips; keeping steady with the aid and measurements vary with the of the rope.· weight of your bones. If you are a I find that overweight girls haven't. small-boned girl,, whose' age is be- as much will power as girls who are tween 19 and 24, and height 5 feet thin, so I advise
you to cultivate: 1 inch, your measurements should be: staying power if you need to take off Height, 5 feet 1 inch; weight, 105% poundage. It will not be easy, but it pounds; neck, 114 inches; bust, 32% will be well worth the effort. inches; waist, 22% inches; hips, 32 If you say you have no time for inches; wrist, 44 inches; thigh, 184 exercise, here is a waist-slimming inches; calf 111⁄2 inches; ankle, 7 exercise that requires no time at all. inches; upper arm, 84 inches.
When you put on your shoes in the The rope exercise is very good for morning, stand
up and bend over slimming down the hipline, but it is from the waist to buckle or tie your not easy. Do not do it, too many footwear.
J times at first. ·
When you drop anything, or wish
Tle a rope to a heavy doorknob, or to pick up something from the floor- to some fixed object that will not or sidewalk, remember to bend over break or give. Lie on the floor with without bending, the knees when you your head toward the rope, face up; secure it. This will help that bulge stretch your arms back and grasp the at the belt. rope with both of them high enough
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