FOR LADY MOTORISTS

Shannon News, 21 October 1927, Page 4

FOR LADY MOTORISTS

A FEW BEAUTY HINTS. It is just as well to realise that the days of motoring, although they are very health-giving:, can be destructive to good looks if special care is not taken over the toilet. Eve's greatest enemy is dust. She must fight him daily, or her skin will suffer. At all costs the skin must have a thorough cleansing each night. The taster the goes the more harm thedust can do, because the deeper it forces its way into the pores. An excellent way to remove it is to rinse out a towel in very hot water, and apply it to the face. Repeat this three times, then very gently wipe the skin over with a soft handkerchief. In three or fou r minutes' time a little cream must be applied. The ci'eam used must be a manysided one, for it may have to heal up the effects of dust, wind and sunshine. The following will be found to supply all the face asks of it: Two ounces of lanoline, one ounce of solution of hamamelis, and one ounce of sweet almond oil. The lanoline must be very slightly melted, and then the oil and solution of hamamelis gradually added to it, beating up the preparation all the time with the pestle. If this is not prepared at home, any chemist would make it up.

If the skin has been chafed by wind, as so often happens in a car, a very healing lotion can be prepared by adding half an ounce of oxide of sine to two ounces of glycerine, and then adding four ounces of rosewater. It is best to have this preparation made up by a chemist.

Gloves soon go to the wind when out in the country, and then the hands are apt to suffer. This can be prevented if a little of the vanishing cream that has been applied to the face is used for them, too, and a little tinted powde r dusted over.

Perhaps the skin feels over-heated and smarts. If this is the case, it needs a cooling lotion—one that will both heal and cool it. Nothing is better for the purpose than a cucumber lotion. Some are for bathing the skin, other preparations are more in the nature of a paste, and must be. left on.