ECONOMY AT THE DRESSING TABLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 4

ECONOMY AT THE DRESSING TABLE

GOOD TOILET PREPARATIONS ARE EXPENSIVE, BUT BUY THE BEST AND USE THEM CAREFULLY Beauty creams and lotions, when j good, are almost always expensive. I Costly ingredients are used in their > i manufacture, so the price must be j high, but, as every sensible woman ! J knows, a small quantity of a really j i good preparation will be of more bene- . ! tit to the complexion than three times j j the amount of an inferior kind. And j if you are careful when applying your i j cosmetics you will not spend more in . the long run. When You Apply a Lotion Astringents and other lotions should be applied to the skin with medicated cotton-wool, and before the wool is damped with the lotion it should be dipped in slightly warm water and squeezed dry. The wool will then absorb only half the quantity of lotion, and your bottle will last twice as long. A hair lotion should always be put into a bottle with a sprinkler top, and shaken directly on the scalp instead of being poured into a saucer and dabbed on with a sponge, the most wasteful way of applying a tonic. When a setting lotion is used 101 preserving the waves in the hair, the most economical method is to pour the lotion into an old scent spray and spray it on the hair. In this way very little lotion is used, and a much better result is obtained. The Art of Applying Cream Almost every woman applies her face cream, whether it be a vanishing or a day cream, much too lavishly. It is not the amount of massage cream that is applied that softens and feeds the skin but the amount that the pores absorb. Generally speaking half the cream that is applied to the face is wiped off after the massage, involving a great waste of cream. Smear your cream very thinly over the skin when using a night or massage cream. You can always apply a little more if the pores absorb all you have given them (which is highly improbable), and bj noting how much you remove after the massage you will learn just the quantity to use every night. And the same advice may be given to* most women in regard to the use of vanishing creams. Apply it ver> sparingly, arid you will not onlye:ffect a decided economy m youi bill foi toilet creams, but you will get a better Vanishing . cream 'applied too heavily gives a patchy effect as ,-_soon as the skin grows warm, while if it. is \erj lightly smeared on, and the little used carefullv worked into the skin a velvety “matt” effect will/be obtained.