1939-03-03 — Page 24

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

Blemished Skin Aided By Sensible Treatment

Very often young boys' and men the blemishes were signs of one or write me carnestly about their another dreaded disease. Whereas, thin or hair problems, or ask for in the majority of cases, they were advice about something which is a form of "acne" which is thought troubling them. .

to be more local infection than one caused by internal impurities.

A pretty universal problem among these inquiring young men, is blemished facial akin. So to- day I devote this column to that distressing condition.-

Up until a very few years ago, little was done to help boys and men to clear their skin, and many suffered in silence, fearful that

Careless abaving habits en- courage a blemished skin. Check up on yours!

Dermatologists Urge This Sensible eating habits play an important part in any corrective treatment, and so do sade smoking and drinking habits.

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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1939

CIRLICACS

(Usprzight, 1939, by The Bell Syndicate, Ind.)

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Frequently dermatologists re- quest an acne patient to stop drink- ing alcohol and smoking while he is being treated. This request has nothing whatsoever to do with morals, or the physician's desire to stamp out what in older days were called "evil habits"! Indeed, not. But it has a lot to do with the patient's chance for quicker re- covery from the annoying skin ail- ment which embarrasses him no end. For alcohol and tobacco. (if inhaled or chewed) very often cause an unfavourable reaction in the body's blood which must carry the nourishment to the skin. So a must keep clean. boy who refrains from drinking Your shaving brush should be shaving -- cream, - and a medicated and smoking, and eating wrong sterilised in the same manner or after shaving lotion which you may foods at wrong hours, will help by rinsing it thoroughly in warm buy at a good cosmetic counter or himself greatly to acquire a water to which has been added a drugstore. They are not expensive healthy, clear skin, which every few drops of household ammonia, and if you are suffering with acne man desires.

Hang it so the water runs off the they might be worth trying. These Check Up On Shaving Habits -

brush and not down into the roots do away with inferior soaps to Your razor, shaving brush and of the bristles.

which your ailing skin might be strop, should be sterilised each At least twice a week run a cloth allergic,

and

their medicant day. After shaving separate your saturated with a good antiseptic properties help to alleviate the razor pour scalding water over it over your strop, if you use one. blemishes which trouble you, and dry it thoroughly. Put it away Then when you sharpen your razor, Of course if you "clip" a pimple in a covered case or box which you you will not carry infection germs with your razor while shaving, you

to your akin,

should immediately apply one of Buy Medicated Shaving Supplies your best antiseptica to it.

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