UNBECOMING FRECKLES

Shannon News, 15 February 1927, Page 4

UNBECOMING FRECKLES

The prevention of freckles may bo achieved in three ways. First, bs keeping out of the sun altogether, though this is not always possible 01 desirable second, by using red ot : brown sunshades which, however, must seriously restrict the rest ot one's colour scheme. And finally, by protecting the parts liable with any cream of which lanolin is an important constituent.

Our grandmothers used to euro freckles by washing in buttermilk, and often, when the freckles were not very bad, they had quite a considerable success. Nowadays some lactic acid (10 per cent.), two drams, glycerine, half an ounce, and water up to one ounce, or a wash of hydrogen peroxide in an equal part of water dabbed on with cotton _ wool twice a day is soTr.eiimes effective. Worth t;-ying are progressively increasing exposures of the vulnerable parts to the sun. Freckles are, as it were, uneven attempts of the skin to bronze in the sun.-, The skin does it badly and in patches, because it has not been ttained to it gradually. If the complexion is exposed to the sun, first for very short intervals, about a minuto each, and so increasing from day to day, often it decides to bronze evenly instead of in spots.