COSMETICS AND HYGIENE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 8

COSMETICS AND HYGIENE

KEEP POWDER PUFF CLEAN. People who would indignantly repudiate any suggestion that they were careless about personal cleanliness often forget that hygiene should extend to the various articles used in the daily toilet or in making up the face. Dirt is not only distasteful, but dangerous. Powder-puffs and pads are among aids to beauty which soon become grubby, and can therefore also become a source of infection. Unless you are prepared to replace them as soon as signs of grubbiness appear, they should be washed at frequent intervals in a bath of soap-flakes and dried quickly in the sun or before a fire.

One good solution of the problem is to use cottonwool instead of puffs—remembering that the cottonwool should be left open to the air or only lightly wrapped in paper. It should be stored in a rubber bag or glass jar, and the bag or jar requires frequent washing with soap and water. It is just as well, too, to use pincers (cleaned often with alcohol) to pluck the cottonwool from the receptacle. Toothbrushes are commonly neglected. although their function is such an important one. They should preferably hang freely in the air, or be put in containers, which allow free access of air. The containers, including those used for travelling, should be cleaned with alcohol from time to time. Alcohol should likewise be used at least occasionally to clean all glass containers for cosmetics—especially those used for travelling. Washing them with soap and water with a thorough rinsing should be a general practice. Always make sure that the containers are completely dry before closing them, and if the tops have cork inlays these should be renewed from time to time so that they may do their job properly.