Toilette Recipes THE LATEST AND " SMARTEST BEAUTY RKCIPES. COLLECTED ' FROM VARIOUS EXPERT BEAUTY WRITERS.. What Women Hate. "Helpful Cossip/ , Every woman hates a shiny nose and a dull or complexion. Few know that then* is an instantaneous remedy at hand in the home, one that is absolutely harmless, and that defies detect lion "even under tho closest scrutiny. If you havo no Heminite in the house get about an ounce from your chemist", and add just sufficient water to'dissolve it. A littlo of this lotion applied to the fare will instantly cause the greasiness to disappear, and the skin will have a pc-rfectly natural, velvety, youthful bloom that any woman might envy. Tho effect will last for many hours, and no powder is required, even under the mast trying conditions, indoors or out. To prepare the face, neck", and arms for a long evening in a hot ball-room nothing can compare with this simple home-made lotion To make the eyelashes grow long, dark, and curling, apply a little menualine with the finger tips occasionally. It is absolutely harni]pss, and beautifies the eyebrows as well. . - . I*ilenta soap is the most satisfactory for all complexions. It even Works welf in cold or hard water. 1 Permanently Removing Superfluous Hair. "Toilet Gossip." How to permanently, not merely temporarily, remove a downy growth of disfiguring superfluous hair, is what many women wish to know. It is a pity that* it is not more generally known that pure powdered pheminol, obtainable from the chemists, may be used for this purpose. It is applied directly to the objectionable hair. The recommended treatment not only instantly removes the hair, leaving no trace, but is designed also to kill the roots completclv .. . The natural allacite of orange blossoms makes a capital greaseless face cream. It holds the powder perfectly, and the natural odour of this product is. of conrse, most delightful. \ianv- of the smartest women .are now using it exclusively, because it does not encourage a growth of hair on the face. The annoying body odour sometimes resulting," from perspiration, can be instantly neutralised by the occasional application of powdered (white) pergol. . A Strange Shampoo. "Cosy Corner Chats." ... I wae'much interested to' Jea [ n from this young woman with- the beautiful glossy hair that she never washes it with soap or artificial shampoo powders. Instead she makes her own shampoo by dissolving a teaspoonful of stallax granules in a cup ot hot water. "I make my chemist get tho staliax for mc." said .she. ".It comes only in sealed packages, enough to make tip twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos, and it smells so good I could almost eat it." . Certainly this, little lady's hair did look wonderful even it she has strange ideas of, a shampoo. 1 am templed to.try the plan myself. .. - •For an actual hair grower nothing canals pure boranium; It is quite harmless -and pets the hair .roots tingling v.-ith new life. .. . The use of rouge is almost ahvavs obvious, but powdered colliandum gives.' a perfectly natural colour and defies detection. Renewing Complexions with Oxygen. ' '-Handy. Recipes." , - ; Everyone knows that oxygen consumes waste matter in the body- A P°° r complexion is merely the accumulation of half deadened, or waste matter, upon the surface of the skin. It sticks on stubbornly, showing in the f6rm or sallowness, moth patches and a generally lifeless appearance. Oxygen may be used with advantage in; removing this disfiguration. Any chemist should be able to. supply mercohzed wax. This contains oxygen in a form that is released when it comes in contact with the skin. Naturally the. oxygen attacks-the deadened matter but rioes not,affect the healthy-skin at all. Thus a few applications of this perfectly harmless substance soon begins to clear the skin nud reveal the beautiful complexion which . ererv woman has just underneath, the ugly one. The process is Pleasant and harmless'and involves no inconvenience whatever. . . . Tobnng a natural red.colour to the lips, rub them with a eToft stick .'of/ pro-, lactnm. . . . For hot. tirrd or pprspirinc'feet. use a toaspoonful of powdered onalite in n a foot bath. ..',.. -
SAFE .DRINK FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE. The fiafest drink, for men and women over foriy, is Fine Did Whisky, well dilut«i with water, but tha Whisky must <lrv.. old and sood. Tho .'WHITE HORSE" WHISKY. » tlio highest, class in the market, and should De specially asked for. 14
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 8
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