BEAUTY!

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 514, 17 November 1928, Page 20

BEAUTY!

Royalty’s Secrets LETTUCE AND EGG WHITE Many women have enjoyed and still enjoy making their own cosmetics. According to memoirs of her time, j that exceedingly tiresome person. Queen Caroline, the wife of George IV, would pass her spare hours in i preparing all manner of creams and ! lotions. There is a certain society beauty j who herself boils orange flower water j from Grasse night after night in a I silver etna, wherewith to smooth her face before getting into bed. She says she will “go on with the job j until the end.” j Another swears by a vanishing cream of her maid’s concoction. Even in this year of grace there are beauties who believe in the old dictum of the Empress Eugene, that to ward off wrinkles there is nothing like white of egg rubbed on the face the last thing at night. • The Method “Dip a piece of cotton wool in the white of an egg that has been dropped into a cup, and rub it well over the face and throat. If it draws the skin when it has dried in, so much the better Leave on for ten minute's, and then wash off with very cold water. Apply a perfect cream before : going to bed.” A well-known beauty has used many a cream put up by amateur hands, and one of the best is that | of her friend. Dorothea Conyers, the j well-known novelist, who, notwithstanding her outdoor life spent in I hunting, motoring, shooting, fishing and tennis, preserves her pretty Irish complexion to a wonderful degree. Here is her recipe: Heat 4oz almond oil, Joz of white wax, and loz of pure spermaceti in a jar placed in a saucepati of warm water, and when heated through very gradually beat in 2oz of orange flower water . When the cream is boiling hot, remove, pour into china pots and stand to cool.