The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-06-27
Remedy for Freckles, Sunburn and
Mosquito Bites.

Freckles indicate as excess of iron in
the blood, we are told, the sun acting on
the PARTICLES In the skin as it does on in,
delible ink, bringing out the color. A
very simple way of removing them is
said to be as follows:
Take finely powdered nitre (saltpetre)
and apply it to the freckles by the fin
ger moistened with water and dipped in
the powder. When perfectly done and
judicously repeated, it will remove them
effectually and without trouble
An old English prescription for the
skin, is to take half pint of skim milk
so poor as to be blue-slce into it as
much cucumber as it will cover, and let it
stand an hour; then bathe the face and
hands, washing them off with fair water
when the cucumber extract is dry. The
latter is said to stimulate the growth of
hair where it is lacking, if well and fre
quently rubbed in. 1t would be worth
while to apply it to high foreheads and
bald crowns.
Rough skins, arising from exposure to
the winds in riding, rowing. or yachting,
trouble many ladies, who will be glad to
know that an application of cold cream
or glyeerine at night, washed off with
fine carbolic soap in the morning, will
render them presentable at the breakfast
table, without looking like women who
follow hounds, blowsy and burned. The
simplest way to obviate the bad effects
OF too free sun and wind, which are apt
on occasion to revenge themselves for the
neglect shown them by the fair sex too
often, Is to rub the face, throat and arms
well with cold cream or pure almond be-
fore going out. With this precaution,
one may come home frorh berry party
or sail without trace of. that ginger
bread effect too apt to follow these pleas.
ures. Cold cream made from almond oil.
with no lard or tallow about it, will ans.
wer every end proposed BY the use of but
ter milk, which youfg ladies can hardly
prefer as cosmetic on account Of its
odor
A very delicate and effective prepare.
tion for rough skins, eruptive diseases,
cuts, or ulcer, is found in mixture Of
glyccrine, half an ounce of rosemary aud
'"Su'D ulOpS VI UOIiC dClu lu lnOS6 |
dreaded irritations of the skin occurring |
in summer, such as hives or prickly heat,
this wash gives soothing relief The car,
boic acid at once neutralizcs the poison
of blood which causes the sore, purifies |
and disinfects the wound or blotcli and |
heats it rapidly. A solution of this acid
In glycerlne made much stronger, say'
fifty drops to an ounce of glycerine, forms
a protection from mosquitoes if applied |
at night Though many people consider
the remedy equal to the disease, constant
use very soon reconciles one to the creo
sotic odor of the carbolic acid, especially
if the pure crystalized form is used which
IS far less overpowerug in its fragrance
than that commonly put up. Those who
dislike it too much to use it at night will
ind the sting of the bites almost
cured and the blotches re.
moved by touching them with the mix
.ure in the morning. Babies and chill
lren should be touched with it to re
ieve the pain they feel from insect bites,
md do not know how to express except
'y worrying. Two or three drops of
'ttar of roses in the preparation disguises
he smell so as to render it toerable to
luman beings though not so to mosquitoes
-Harper's Ba@aar.