REFRESHING BATHS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 36, 6 November 1907, Page 3

REFRESHING BATHS.

Nothing acts more quickly on the system than a bath, hut the quality of the bath that most refreshes depends largely upon the individual. Sometimes, when hot, tired, and aching after a bfint of shopping or a vexing day in an office, nothing stimulates like a good hot bath, which rests the muscles and reduces the temperature. But not every one can stand this-treatment, and lest a fainting fit should follow bo wary of trying it. A cool tnbful of water (not thoroughly cold) is what suits most constitutions. without danger of depressing the heart, and is an excellent prescription with which to start the day.

liesides plain water, a sea bath may bo indulged in with little expense h* 1 purchasing

a bag of soa salt and dissolving two or three pounds in the bath tub. This is said to be stimulating but is not so cleansing as ordinary water, oil account- of the fact that soap will not lather in salt water. Salt-water soap is sold, however, and is greatly in demand on ocean steamers, where tlie sticky feeling after the bath can only be eradicated by the use of soap on the. skin.

Another refreshing mixture to add to the water is made h.v combining two ounces of tincture of camphor, half an ounce of tinetine of benzoin, and four ounces of can-do-cologne of alcohol. Put sufficient of this in the tub to make it arolnatic, and rest in it for fifteen minutes. It is said to soot-bo the head and skin in a delightful way. A simple cooler is a soda bath. It reduces the temperature of tho blood and generally cools and rests the body. Four or five ounces of common bicarbonate of soda arc added to a hath of cool water, and tho body soaked for a good quarter of an hour, so as to absorb tho soda.