SOAP AND WATER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 8

SOAP AND WATER

GOOD AIDS TO BEAUTY. FOLLOW THIS ADVICE. Soap is mostly froth and bubble when it’s mixed with water, but those uncountable millions of tiny bubbles form one of the best cleansing and beautifying agents. It’s the one beauty treatment which is available to everybody. Daily bathing is a necessity, and it can be made a ritual for loveliness which will amply repay any extra time and care given to it.

Many beauty experts recommend their clients to wash the face with warm water and the correct type of soap for their skin. It will remove all traces of makeup and dirt. Another school recommends cold cream. Both arguments have much to commend them. Both creams and soaps are essential in beauty budgeting. Soap is most useful as a cleansing agent, and cream for rejuvenating and as a base for makeup.

Splash Your Face Well. Washing the face, if done correctly, is a treatment in itself. You must acquire the technique as carefully as you acquire a make-up technique. First the water. This should be lukewarm. Blood heat is the best temperature.

Cup the hands in the water and splash it liberally over the face. This will bring the skin to an even temperature with the water. Now apply soap to the face, preferably in the form of lather, and scrub it briskly. Use a rough face-cloth. The skin does not need a very gentle treatment. The harder and brisker the rubbing, the more quickly it will respond and become clear. Cup the hands in the warm water again and rinse the soap off with the same splashing motion. Gradually make the water hotter and keep splashing. Do this for three of four minutes. Then let the hot water run from the basin. Fill it with cold water and again splash the face. Dry carefully with a rough, coarse towel. ■ If the soap is not completely rinsed from the skin, a drawing tendency may be noted. This is fine lather drying on the face. Rinse again, and the sensation will disappear. Oily Skins can be Cured. ( Toilet soaps can be bought to suit any skin. There are lemon soaps which are slightly bleaching; oily soaps for dry skins; benzoin and alcohol soaps for oily skins, and the old-fashioned oatmeal soap which is good for any skin. A dry skin which burns easily out of doors needs some of the natural oil replaced. Superfatted and oatmeal soaps are specially made for this type. Wash the face, using either of these soaps, and' dry thoroughly. If the skin is very sensitive it will need special preventive treatment during summer months and it is wise to smear a thin coating of protective cream over it before venturing out of doors.

Oily skins can be cured by watching the diet, but at the same time a special soap must be used. Bathe the face exactly as described earlier but using an alcohol or a benzoin soap. After the final rinsing, an astringent and a brisk rub with a piece of ice which is wrapped in butter muslin will be found very refreshing. Skins which are subject to pimples or blackheads need a sulphur, oatmeal or coal-tar soap. There are other medicated soaps on the marke which are equally good and are well worthy of a trial. These soaps have been scientifically made for sufferers from skin, blemishes, and there are exact makes to suit individual needs.

The Danger of Acid. During summer days care must be taken to remove every vestige of perspiration from the skin. Apart from the disagreeable odour which is sometimes associated with perspiration, it has also a beauty-destroying effect.

The acids present will soon ruin the skin if perspiration is allowed to dry on the face. A good soap is especially needed in this case.

In the desire to feel and appear,fragrant always use soap, bath-salts and talc of the same perfume. This is quite easy as most manufacturers now make the three products. Choose a perfume which is delicate and elusive, nothing strong or all-pervading. With the many hundreds of varieties cf soap on the market there is no reason at all why every woman cannot find a soap to suit her individual need.