BATHING FOR BEAUTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 10

BATHING FOR BEAUTY

REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING

For many years bathing has been regarded as a method of ensuring cleanliness, but recently, thanks to beauty specialists, it has been realised that not only cleanliness but also skin beauty can be cultivated by indulging in a beauty bath. There are baths for all types of skin conditions, and there is no reason why you cannot make your daily routine into one of luxury and beauty.

Here is a bath which is excellent for a skin which wrinkles easily. Place a handful of pearl barley in a pint of water and keep immersed until the barley grains have softened. Then strain the barley water through fine muslin or gauze, add ten drops of tincture of benzoin to the barley water, ■shake well together, and add to your bath.

When you arrive home tired out from a hot and strenuous day, try the benefits of a starch bath and notice how quickly you will feel refreshed. Dissolve rhree ounces of starch in a little hot water and then add an equal quantity of fresh milk. Mix well together and add to your bath water. If you are troubled with a sallow skin, or the skin needs slight bleaching so that it can return to its normal whiteness, there are many beauty baths which you can undertake. First there is the tomato and eau de Cologne bath. To prepare this bath you will require three or four thoroughly ripe tomatoes, cut them in half and squeeze so that all the juice is extracted. Then to each tablespoonful of the juice add 10 drops of eau de Cologne. Mix together and add to your bath water. Another excellent refresher and slightly bleaching bath is to throw your grapefruit remainders in the bath and allow them to soak whilst the water is running. Lemons can be used in the same manner. Either lemons or grapefruit will give an apparent silkiness to the skin which will remain for many hours.

For Greasy Skins. Perhaps you have one of those annoying greasy skins. During warm weather this type of skin can be a positive nuisance, as it marks our clothes and makes us feel very uncomfortable. This type of skin condition can be cured by taking bran baths. Pour enough boiling water over jib. coarse bran just to cover the bran, allow to stand until nearly cold, stirring occasionally the while. Then strain through fine muslin or mosquito-net, add 12 drops of spirits of camphor to the lotion, and stir well. Have the bath filled with water, add the above lotion, and immediately step into the bath. Once the lotion is added to the water the spirit will commence to evaporate, very little time should be allowed to elapse between adding the lotion and bathing. When you have had a heavy day doing some unusual occupation or pleassure. and the muscles are aching and tired, the following vinegar bath will quickly remove all your aches and pains: Mix together £oz. simple tineture of benzoin and 2oz. of eau de Cologne. Then add 1 pint of vinegar, stir the whole well together, allow to stand for five minutes, and then add to your bath water. After your bath dry yourself quickly with a coarse towel.

Milk For Luxury. When the skin is extremely dry and sensative add a pint of fresh rnilk to your bath water and you will then be able to revel in its luxuriousness. And, talking so much about baths reminds one that there is such a thing as salt rubs. You have heard of the exhilarating and tingling sensation ot rubbing the body with snow. You can experience these same sensations xby using salt. Place some ordinary table salt in the palms of your hands and massage your body from your chin to your toes. Rub it well in with the palms of your hands, allow it to remain on the skin for a minute, and then into your bath, or under the shower and wash the salt from the body. Finish with a brisk, thorough towelling, and you will feel more exhilarated than you have for many a day past.

Reducing Baths. And then there is the epsom salts reducing bath. This bath must be taken regularly for 14 days. If irregularly it is liable to cause irritation and skin trouble. Fill your bath with hot water and add one pound of epsom salts. At the same time fill a very iarge bowl with very hot water, and add a small quantity of borax and stand it close to the bath. Lie in the bath for 20 minutes, during which time the arms and the legs can be gently moved so that the water is stirred. Then step from the bath and thorough y wash yourself with the water m the bowl, fusing a good superfatted soap. Then vigorously massage the body With the palms of the hands and you will see the dead skin and Prison rub off the flesh. Return quickly to the bath for a few minutes, then dry thorough y with a rough towel wrap yourself up warmlv And off to bed. After two or three days you may feel a slight skin irritation, which is caused by the pressure of the poisons working their way through the skin. Be sure and keep yourself warmly wrapped after a bath of this type so that you will be guard ed against a chill. Next time you are bathing, try one of the above beauty baths and help yourself to further attractiveness.