The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-20
Remedy for Freckles, sunburn and
Mosquito Bites.

MOSVultO bittos
Frec1les 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 il to the frecl1les by the fin
ger moistened with water and dipped
in the powder. When perfectly done
and judiciously 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-slice 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 frequently 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 yacht
ing, trouble many ladies, who will be
glad to know that an application of cold
cream or glycerine at night, washed off
with fine carbolic soap in the morning,
will render them presentable at the
breakfast table, without looking like wo-
men 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 before going out
With this precaution, one may come
home from berry party or sail with
out Il trace of that gingerbread effect
too apt to follow these pleasures. Cold
cream made from almond oil, with nc
lard or tallow about it, will answer
every end proposed by the use of butter
milk, which young ladies can hardly
prefer as a cosmetic on account of its
odor.
A very delicate and effective prepara-
ton for rough skins, eruptive diseases,
cuts, or ulcers, is found in a mixture OF
glycerine, half an ounce of rosemary,
and twenty drops of carbolic acid. In
those dreaded irritations of the skin oc-
prickly heat, this wash gives soothing
relief The carbolic acid at once neu-
tralizes the poison of blood which causes
the sore, purifes and disinfects the
wound or blotch and heals it rapidly
A solution of this acid in glycerine 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 rem
edy equal to the disease, constant use
very soon reconciles one to the creosotit
odor of the carbolic acid, especially il
the pure crystalized form is used which
is far less overpowering in its fragrance
than that commonly put up. Those
who dislike it too much to use it at night
will find the sting of the bites almost
miraculously cured and the blotches re-
moved by touching them with the mix
ture in the morning. Babies and chill
dren should be touched with it to re
lieve the pain they feel from insect bites
and do not know how to express excep
by worrying. Two or three drops o
ottar of roses in the preparation dis
guises the smell so as to render it toler
able to human beings though not SO tc
mosquitoes.-IIa'per'S Bazaar.