Complexion Beauty

Southland Times, Issue 21094, 28 May 1930, Page 12

Complexion Beauty

(By a Beauty Specialist.) When the complexion looks dull and lacking in “tone” nothing will restore its clear freshness more quickly than a milk and oatmeal treatment. First steam the face and neck. This is best done by- wringing pieces of Turkish towelling out in very hot water and laying them on the face and around the neck. As soon as the towel cools wring it out again in hot water, the process three times. Have ready some warm milk and a small pad of cotton wool. Dip the wool again and again in the milk and pat it into the skin. Apply it liberally, and when the whole face and throat have been well soaked with milk mix some fine oatmeal to a paste with some of the milk and spread it over the face and throat. Let it remain on for about ten minutes, and with the tip of the fingers rub it off, rubbing gently so that the oatmeal comes off in tiny flakes. Rub upward and outward when removing the' paste from the face —that is, start at the corners of the mouth and rub toward the ears and from the side of the nose toward the ears. From the eyebrows rub toward the roots of the hair. When the paste has been removed sponge the face with rosewater mixed with an equal quantity of orange-flower water to which a few drops of simple tincture of benzoin has been added.