Enjoy Sane Sunbathing This Year Putting Shape Into Muscles

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 14

Enjoy Sane Sunbathing This Year Putting Shape Into Muscles

"With the lirst warm rays of the summer sun, it is a great temptation to Iie relaxed, absorbing all the warmth your sim-starved body craves. But be wise! Don't be a sun hog!— early in ihe season, anyway; or before you have decided whether you are going to be black, brown or brindle. Overseas a deep tan was not consldered smart-during their last summer, the trend being toward pale toast and beige shades— very good for blondes For brunettes, a milk white skin is. the correet thing. The trouble with sun-tanning, once started, it is so difficult to control and it seems no time before it gets to the mahogany or 4,burnt black" stage. There are many reliable sun-tanning oils to assist and hasten the tarming prooess, as there are protective creams and lotions. Some are to prevent sun-burn and promote tan, others to act as a coriiplete protection against the sun. Most of the oils and protective creams make good powder foundations, but if make-up bothers you dispense with powder and rouge— but never your lipstick. Superfluous advice this, for most women woiild rather go without a meal than discard their lipstick. *3f the lips are dry, it is a good idea to use a white emollient lipstick under the coloured one, or there are coloured emollient lipsticks, which keep the lips in good condition, but do not stay "put" particularly well. Remove Make-up. " ^ T ' r-. After exposure to the sun never fail to remove whatever make-up is used with a soft emollient cream— cleansing

creams have a tendency to irritate sunbumt skins. If you are a soap and water addict, then use warm water, or if very burnt, hot water— but be sparing with the soap. Afterwards apply a generous allowance of the emollient cream. This takes the place of the natural oil of the skin dried out by exposure, in addition to healing and soothing any soreness. Skin* that is frequently exposed without adequate protection, is easily recognised by its thickened coarse appearance. Glare glasses are a distinct comfort and prevent squint wrinkles. If your skin persists in browning in spite of all precaution and you feel that your charm lies in an ivory white pallor, or a pink and white fragility, then give yourself a weekly bleaching pack. There are many bleaching preparations on the market, but the following is an effective home treatment: Mix about two tablespoons of fuller's earth to a paste with equal parts of peroxide and witch hazel— apply evenly with a brush or a moistened pad of cotton wool to tlie already cleansed skin of the face and neck. Give the arms and hands an application too, for they are probably more tanned than the face. . The pack should be left- on for quite 30 minutes and kept moist with warm packs made by wringing a towel out of hot water. The heat hastens the bleaching action. To remove, sponge with warm water and when it is quite certain that no trace of the powder is left in the pores, apply liberally a ricli skin food. Tliis

peroxide. Expert's Advice.

If you want shapely muscles, sunbathe! Dr. Fritz Duras told school-teachers at Sydney in a lecture that ultra-violet rays in sunlight seemed to have a shaping influence on the outer muscles, and sun-browned skins often showed the muscular structure more clearly than others. Dr. Duras, a' German expert in physical education, "is now director of that department at Melbourne University. Sun-bathing should not be mixed with air-bathing, he said. The former was a much stronger stimulation^ and care should be exercised, especially in the first exposure of the body to direct sunlight. For this, 10 minutes was nrobably the limit. / Exposure to Air. "Air-bathing is a wonderful tonic," he said. "Exposure of.the body to the fresh air stimulates the skin vessels to contract and dilate, improving the tone of the skin, and the circulation, respiration and general metabolism. "Heat regulation of the body is 'performed through the skin, and here is the real key to the hardening of the body against colds and such ailments, since this depends on the skin's ability to react quickly to external changes." Children should not enter water for swimming immediately after undressing, said Dr. Duras. There must be time for easy adjustment to air and sim. Swimming, by improving respiration, built up resistance to tuberculosis. Children should learn different styles of swimming, and not be specialised too early. The exercise should increase chest expansion. Swimming was the only exercise which gave this relaxation to the spine; the body was carried by the water.