OATMEAL

Shannon News, 23 August 1927, Page 4

OATMEAL

Oatmeal is an -excclelnt and inexpensive medium for softening and beautifying skins other than dry ones. It has been .said many times, but cannot be repeated too often, that water of any kind —except on rare occasions, is harmful to dry skins. The finest quality oatmeal should be bought by the pound and used as follows: Put a heaped teaspoonful into each of several little muslin bags and squeeze one into a basin, three-parts full of warm water, till th. e water becomes cloudy, and then bathe the face and neck in the liquid for a few minutes. It is best to use a pieoa of Turkey toAvelling, or fine linen for the purpose as sponges need washing every time after being dipped in oatmeal water,, and it is difficult even then to keep them clean.