Bathing The Face

Hot milk and water is very nice to bathe the face in, freshening the skin and assisting to remove wrinkles. Hot water is very beneficial for the face and should be used night and morning; it opens the pores and removes a great deal of the natural oil, besides tightening the skin, thus keeping it firm and less likely to wrinkle. Hot milk and water, half and half, may be used instead, if more agreeable. Soap will not be necessary in this case. A flannel wash cloth should be used, taking a small square, renewing it as often as it grows thick and felt-like. This method of treating the face is declared by some to be a perfet substitute for any and all cosmetics, leaving the skin smooth, rosy and unwrinkled, and will be found beneficial in all eases. Washing the face nightly in hot suds, made from pure white Castile soap, or with hot milk, followed by a firm upward (never up and down) friction, with a moderately coarse towel is the recommended course of treatment for the black specks that rain so many complexions.

How To Whiten The Face And Remove Wrinkles

1 fluid ounce of tincture of benzoin, ½ ounce of pure glycerine, 7 ounces of distilled rose-water.

Bathe face, neck and hands with it at night and let dry on. Wash off in the morning with soft warm water and a very little white Castile soap. This is excellent for the skin in every way.

Wash For A Sallow Skin

1 pint of rain water, 2 drachma of iodide of potassium, 1 ounce of glycerine.

Mix and apply with a sponge once a day. This often works wonders in skins sallow by inherited disease. Adhere closely to the directions given for bathing.

Cold Cream

2 ounces of oil of sweet almonds. 1 ounce of pure glycerine. ½ ounce of spermaceti. 20 grains of white wax. 6 drops of oil of rose.

Melt all together, setting the cup over boiling water, then beat until perfectly cold and snowy white. Put up in glass or China. Excellent for face and hands.

Complexion Wash

1 ounce oil of sweet almonds, 1 ounce of glycerine, juice of 3 lemons.

Mix and apply at night. Let dry on, and in the morning wash off with very warm water.

Wash For An Oily Skin

½ ounce of powdered borax, 1 ounce of absolutely pure glycerine, 1 quart of camphor water. Mix and use twice a day, morning and evening, letting dry on and then, after a few minutes, washing off with rain water. This will prevent chapped skin, remove sun-burn and freckles, and keep the pores in a good condition. Also it will do away with that annoying redness of nose, cheeks and knuckles that afflicts so many.

Bay-Rum or rose-water, or the two half and half, may be used to advantage after bathing the face to remove the appearance of oiliness.

A saturated solution of borax is also very nice for an oily skin. Use as above. The mild alkali of the borax unites with the 'oily secretions and forms a sort of soap that cleanses the face and at the same time frees it from oil.