FOR ROUGH SKINS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 8

FOR ROUGH SKINS

AN EXCELLENT TREATMENT, A treatment, which is not only excellent for removing wrinkles, but which is also very soothing on the skin after a day spent out of doors, is one which is carried out with oil and milk.

First pour a little olive oil into a cup, and then stand the cup in hot water so that the oil will become thinned and warm. While you are allowing the oil to warm, prepare two cupfuls of milk, one of which should be hot and the other cold. Cleanse the face with a pad of cotton-wool, which has been soaked in the cold milk, then apply alternately pads of cottonwool which have been soaked in the hot and cold milk.

Dab the face dry with a soft towel, dip the fingers in the warm oil. and then thoroughly massage the face with an upwards and outwards movement. All movements must be light and upwards, always massaging against, and not with, the wrinkles. After the face has been thoroughly massaged remove the surplus oil with facial tissues, pat the skin with a good skin tonic, and then lightly dry with a soft towel. If, after facing a day in the wind, your skin is rough, red, and sore, add a few drops of olive oil to some milk, warm the milk to blood temperature, and then dip a piece of cottonwool in the liquid and draw it very gently over the skin.

Keep on smoothing the liquid into the skin until all traces of dirt and grit have been removed, then with a facial tissue gently blot up any surplus milk which may remain- on the skin, at the same time allowing as much oil as possible to cling to the face so that the skin is left slightly oily.