BATHS FOR BEAUTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 8

BATHS FOR BEAUTY

STIMULANT TO HEALTH. TONING UP THE SYSTEM. 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 10 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 three 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 while 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. When you have had ■a heavy day doing some unusual occupation or pleasure, and the muscles are aching and tired, the following vinegar batn will quickly remove all your aches and pains: Mix together ,}oz simple tincture of benzoin and 2oz of eau de Cologne. Then add one 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.

When the skin is extremely dry and sensitive add a pint of fresh milk 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 of rubbing the body with snow. You can experience these same sensations by 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.