SOAP AND WATER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4479, 17 July 1930, Page 4

SOAP AND WATER.

AIDS TO BEAUTY. Beauty specialists frequently tell us to use lotion instead of lionesl-lo-goodness soap and water. Not so the founder of a well-known salon, who has just returned from a Continental tour and is horrified by Englishwomen's sallow faces, says the: Daily Mirror. “It is all caused by the fact that so many women refuse to use water as well as cleansing cream last thing at night,” she said. “Every time I return to London I uotice that the much-vaunted milk-and-roses complexion is gradually becoming drier and less clear. “The average woman uses her cosmetics uuintelligently. She malices. up quite well, but her skin is not properly tended beneath her powder. It should be so healthy that she looks attractive after a swim oi- on walking in the morning. “Perfect cleanliness cannot he attained by the use of cream only. However carefully this is wiped off, a little will remain, and with it some dirt. Use water and either soap or a cleansing paste to remove this, and then give live minutes to ten minutes every night to massaging with feeding t cream. The seeds of a had complexion are frequently sown at school, where girls are careless about cleanliness.

; To teach girls how to care intelligently for their skins this specialist is contemplating giving special demonstrations to business girls, at convenient hours. (Every lime treatments only would be shown. Gritty powders and ointments are available (for those whose skin is more than usually oily. These have to .he used with water, being lathered on the face to supplement soap, and rubbing off the impurities that gather in the pores.