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What Women Want' SPECIALLY INTERESTING BEAUTY RECIPES CULLED "WITH CARE. WHAT TO DO AND WHAT TO AVOID DOING. To Kill Roots of Superfluous Hair. "Homo Science." Women annoyed with " * disfiguring growths of superfluous hair wish to know not merely how to temporarily remove the hair, but how to kill the hair roots permanently. For this purpose pure powdered pheminol may bo applied directly to the objectionable hair growth. The recommended treatment is designed not only to instantly remove the hair but to actually kill tho roots so that the growth will not return. About an ounce of pheminol, obtainable from the chemist, should be sufficient. . . . For complexions inclined to bo- oily many smart women are now using just the natural allacito of orange blossoms. It is perfectly harmless, makes a capital greasoless cream which holds the powder perfectly, and does not encourage the growth of hair. . . Disagreeable body odours can be instantly neutralised by the occasional application of a little powdered (white) pergol to the affected surfaces. The Powder Puff Passes. "Boudoir Talks." , Every normal woman is always interested in any plan by which she can quickly enhance her beauty, provided j the plan is perfectly safe and simple. Ever since the discovery that ordinary cleminite, such as any chemist can supply, is an instantaneous and harmless beautifier, there has been a growing demand for it from smart women everywhere. They usually get about an ounce and add just enough water to dissolve it. A little of this perfectly harmless lotion gives a beautiful complexion to any face instantly. It ren- j ders face powder quite unnecessary. Moreover, its use cannot bo detected. Tho skin is instantly beautified but appears perfectly natural under the closest scrutiny. ... To make the eyelashes grow long, dark and curling, J apply a little mennaline with the finger tips occasionally. It is absolutely harmless and beautifies the eyebrows as well. . . . Pilenta soap is tho most satisfactory for all complexions. It even works well in cold or hard water. Oxygen as a Complexion Remover. "Things One Should Know." The latest scientific method of improving the complexion is to "take from it instead of adding to it. The idea is to remove, by a gentle process of oxidisation, all the stifling and halfdead accumulations which adhere to the skin in the form of sallowness, moth patches, liver spots, etc. Ihe application of mercolised wax for a few nights in the same .manner that cold cream is applied, soon produces marked results. In contact with the skm this wax releases free oxygen .which destroys the waste matter but does not affect the healthy tissue m the least. The removal of the deadened and disfiguring waste matter reveals the beautiful young complexion *fhac_ every woman has just underneath the stained outer- one. The mercohsed wax, ns supplied by chemist shops, is perfectly havmless and very beneficial to tho skin, .- • . To bring a natural red colour to the lips rub them with a soft stick of prolactum. . ...... For tired, hot or perspiring feet, use a teaspoonfulof powered onahte m a foot bath. - The Magnetism of Beautiful Hair. '""Applied Arts." '-~'' * Beautiful hair adds immensely to the personal magnetism of both men and women. Actresses and smart women aro ever on the lookout for any harmless thing that will increase .the natural beauty of their hair. The latest method is to use pure stallax as a shampoo on account of the peculiarly glossy, fluffy and wavy effeot which it leaves. .As stallax has never been used much for this purpose it comes to the chemist only in sealed original packages, enough for twenty-five or thirty shampoos: A teaspoonful of the fragrant stallax granules, dissolved in „ cup of hot water, is more than sufficient for each shampoo. It is very benefical and stimulating to the hair, apart from its beautifying effect. . . For an actual hair grower nothing j equals pure boranium. It is quite I harmless, and sets the hair roottingling with new life. • *• • .The use of rouge is almost'always obvious, but powdered collandium gives a perfectly natural colour and defies detection. ''."■':• A 4

• If .1 jl *3 3| * iS^^^~39 pjjly braises, scrapes. Wp' burn*, or scalds, there Is m£ nothing like Zam-Btik. The reWf fined berb'al extracts from \L *hlch Zam-Buk Is prepared Vf sink into the tissues, soothe tbe pain, and by reason of their I powerful antiseptic qualities. prevent festering and bloodf Dolsoa. navlne purified a wound, r Zamßnk heat* it wl'h new skin.

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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 8

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744

Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 8

Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 8

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