A HEALTH TREATMENT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5206, 21 November 1927, Page 1

A HEALTH TREATMENT.

YEAST IN BEAUTY PARLOUR.

EXPLANATION BY AN EXPERT.

Yeast—plain, ordinary yeast, such as housewives and bakers put into bread—is one of the latest, materials to bej used in the beauty parlour. Possibly this is not surprising, for the value of yeast as an item, of the diet and for its vitamin B content is being widely recommended by doctors and dietetists, and no.wadays the sciences of medicinet health, and beauty walk hand-in-hand. The yeast facial pack has been developed under a staff of medical mep< and women. MAN IN BEAUTY PARLOUR. I had my first experience of it at the hands of its originator, Miss Rose Laird, who began experimenting with it after a chance remark of one of her clients, a man belonging to one of the big yeast firms in America (writes a contributor to the London Daily Mail). “A man client in a beauty parlour!” the untravelled Englishwoman might remark. “Yes," Miss Laird will reply unconcernedly, “we keep from 8 to 10 in the morning and from 4.30 until closing time in the afternoon for men on Wall Street, financiers, and all types of business and professional clients, who come and get their faces cleansed, toned up, and tired lines removed,” At her instruction I slipped off my dress tucked a sleeveless white drapery round me in the correct statuarydrapery fashion, and sat, down in an extending chair. The back was let down, a small towel v tied round my hair V.A.D. fashion, arid a, soft cleansing'cream rubbed into the, face. As Miss Laird massaged with strokes gentle yet vigorous, soothing yet stimulating, she talked sometimes in epigrams, but at all times on sane health lines, for that is the foundation of beauty treatments in these days.

BEAUTY MORE THAN SKIN DEEP. "Beauty is more than skin deep. It is muscle deep. As the muscles sag and. become flabby from lack of exercise they must be massaged and fed with creams to build them up. A clear skin is a great asset tp beauty. If a woman keeps the colour and the transparency of her skin she can get away with a few wrinkles, which, after all, may give character and meaning to' her face.

“But two-thirds of a woman’s attraction is her colour, and if her skin keeps its delicacy people say, ‘How we.,11 So-and-So looks!’ and not ‘She has such-and-such number of wrinkles,’ for those they don’t see. “The yeast facial pack is not a beauty, but a health, treatment,” she continued as she ceased massaging, wiped away most of cleansing cream, and then took away the remainder with an ether skin lotion. Then, picking up a glass bowl in which the yeast mixture had been prepared, she spread it over neck and face so completely that only the eyes, mouth, and nostrils were left free. I could not resist a surreptitious peep into one of the several mirrors, but hastily lay back again, for I did remind myself rather of a statue. SIX MONTHS’ EXPERIMENT. “It took about six months’ experimenting,” I was told, “before I was satisfied with the yeast preparation. At first I had the yeast mixed with peroxide, but it frothed a ud didn’t dry into the pores. Then I had it mixed with glycerine, but that wfis too sticky and wouldn’t dry. So I. tried using two tablespoonfuls of a special face lotion (carbolised), and that I, found satisfactory.” VIRTUE OF THE YEAST PACK. Meantime the yeast mixture was drying on my face, and as bhei minutes went by it cracked, and the skin beneath felt a little drawn and hot owing to the blood circulation being stimulated. We talked of other facial packs, of the hot milk, “wonderful for tired and baggy eyes,” of the white of egg, and of egg yolk; “but I like the yeast treatment best of all,” said Miss Laird, “because it does not clog and dilate the pores. Its purpose is to eliminate clogged secretions from them.”

A swift wipe; with a cold., wet, soft towel, and the dried, cracked yeast mask was removed. A vigorous, delicious, invigorating rub with a good big piece of ice wrapped in a towol followed. My face had that glorious, refreshing feeling one has after a shower bath or a swim, but “feel it,,” I was told. The skin felt as soft as a baby’s.