Hints About Skin Treatment.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 87

Hints About Skin Treatment.

Where skin irritation exists, accompanied by itching, relief may be obtained by apply- ■ ing * lotion made by adding a teaspoonful of coal tar liquor to a small tumblerful o£ tepid water. Tfcas lotion may- be used aa frequently as may be necessary, and! should* be allowed to dry on the irritated parts. Sometimes a dusting powder is better adapted to relieve irritation ihasx liquid applications. A powder of great service in many; forms of 6kin irritation extending beyond those due to chill, and cold, is composed of half £ drachm each of powdered resorcin,boric'"acia, and along with three and a-iaJf drachms of powdered oxide o5 zinc.' This powder, djisted on an irritated surface,, should favour the healing, process in' the ease of chaps and excoriations of the hands or other parts of the bod/. A superfatted soap should- be used for washing, bufi it will be greatly to the advantage of the sufferer if as little soap es possible he used, ■ so long as the excoriations remain. The use of crude and strong soap? very often of itself produces chapping of the skin, and this hint should be borne in mind by those whose household duties necessitate the fre-' CJUeort nee -oC sncii crrofc eoaps. One of th© best applications for chaps and excoriations is lanoline ajpplied freely to the haiwls.