CHAPPED HANDS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

CHAPPED HANDS.

\ Some Hints By a Beauty > Expert.

Do you still suffer from chapped hands in the winter? So many do, if their skin is delicate and has to be dipped in and out of hot and cold water goodness knows how many times a day. Of course, the first thing to be careful of is the drying of the hands, advises Georgia Bivers, Beauty Expert of “The Australian Journal.” I know how to tiresome it is to stand drying your fingers very carefully while all around you new work is crying out for attention, but it’s the quickest road in the long run, for comfortable hands will accomplish every task much moire quickly and efficiently than ovu tender ones. The daily discomfort of over-dry, ever-reddening skin which gradually cracks in tiny fissures and finally shows quite deep cuts at times is one of the worst ills the delicateskinned woman has to contend with in the winter months.

Not only dry them well after they have been in water, but keep on hand a little jar of fine oatmeal powder and dust them lightly now and then. If the. hands are only sligtly chapped a good skin lotion is probably all you need, but if the skin is very cracked try the homely old remedy of mutton suet. Fill a cup and place this in a saifcepan of boiling water, rendering down’-slowly. Strain carefully and add a few drops of rosewater if you do .mot like the odour of pure fat. Every night for perhaps a week rub this well into the hands and draw on an’ ? old pair of clhan cotton gloves. It is a good idea to buy a very cheap Pafr i,veg, as you will be able 1 to haye them a size larger than you would ordinarily need and this makes for comfort when wearing them at night. ’ ! ' I know of no simple remedy so good as this fat, and the comfort which follows its use is well worth any little trouble entailed.