1939-06-21 — Page 16

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

Various Ways Of Softening Hard Water

If the water you use for your Glycerin also tends to soften water skin, is not as soft as it should and smooth, protect and moisten the be, there are various methods softening it.

Un-

of skin but it must be diluted one tea-

spoonful to a pint of water.

irritating diluted glycerin is very and It should to the skin so never use it that

way.

Borax soothes greasy skins is slightly antiseptic.

be added in the proportion of one teaspoonful to a pint of water, or two teaspoonfuls to a small basin should be sufficient.

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Rain water, caught in a pail, boil- ed and strained through a cloth, is excellent to keep on hand for sham- poos and face washings, if you wish to have a nice complexion. Bottle it in large gallon containers and use. it as you need it.

Toilet vinegars serve as mild as- tringents and when they are added to washing water they ease face redness, if that is one of your skin problems.

Very greasy and sluggish skins are aided by being washed in dis- tilled water to which has been added a few drops of fluid extract of rose, lavender or orange, which you may or drug buy at a good chemist's store:

FOR BATHS

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Soft as the gardenia she holds is the skin texture of DOROTHY LAMOUR.

borax, a bit of perfumed ammonia, water is delightfully soft and our- occasionally a five-cent box of ordin-great grandmothers who had "rain: ary household baking soda with barrels" also had lovely complexions! borax, bath starch, or oatmeal bags well which you may prepare yourself if

the you wish to go to the trouble!

are

Of course there are many prepared water softeners for they bath available, and as usually nicely scented, they are well worth the money you spend on them. Bath salts, and oils, bubble baths, effervescent tablets and fragrant powders are all widely used. They range in price from twenty-five

dollars. cents to as high as ten

the quality of depending upon essence used in them.

HARD WATER SOAP

Then there are some splendid hard water soaps. Frequently the "sea soaps" lather nicely în hard water.

Of course very sensitive skinned women should most certainly either

CANDLES FOR THE PARTY

A few days before a formal par-- ty, I place my tall candles in the: refrigerator, and let them remain until just before calling the guests.. They burn throughout the party

But if your beauty budget does soften their bathing water well, or without trickling down the sides of not permit bath water -luxuries, catch rain water in which to bathe. the candle, as the wax is consumed.....

the water with Before it enters the ground, rain' as it melts. you may soften

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