The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-01
AS TO HAIR AND SKIN.
Fresh-Baked White Yeast Bread a Source
of Evil-Warts, Noles and Pimples.

Fresh-Baked White Yeast Bread Source
of Evil-Warts, MoIes and Pimples.
Olive. ST beg that you will tell me
what you consider the best thing for pre-
venting the hair from falling. Three
years ago my hair was twice as thick as it
is now. 1t has been slowly thinning all
of that time. 1t is very long and rather
fine. is inclined to be oily but not excess
sively so. have never used any kind OF
hair tonic. "
Nervous depression is at the root of the
symptoms mentioned in this and the
second query. Women neither eat nor
sleep as they should, and live too much in
the house. The heated dry air of our
houses is death to hair. An oily head
should be kept scrupulously clean by
brushing nightly, by the use of the
neglected fine comb, which is friendly to
moist hair, and by wiping with flannel.
Once fortnight it may be cleansed with
yolk of egg and rain water, rinsed and
carefully dried, not put up wet to take It's
time drying, which ruins hair. A lotion
of equal parts olive oil aud spirits of Law
ender, well shaken. may be brushed into
the roots OF the hair at night, and is more
effective for being heated before use.
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refine my skin? The pores are large and
there is occasional roughness from slight
eruption uuder the skin. haven't much
appetite, my digestion doesn t trouble
me; am quite thin and somewhat Ian
guid, but have no specific disorders. My
coloring is brunette, and | am twenty
five years Old.
Undoubtedly the fresh baked, white
yeast bread and raised biscuit are the
foes to clear complexion in nine-tenths
of the cases of coarse and rough skin. They
produce a state of ferment in the blood
which lessons all healthy activity of mind
or body; they clog the waste ducts so that
matter which should pass off otherwise
must force its way through the skin. A
change in diet, a hot bath with borax
and amonia in the water daily and spong
ing the face with equal parts alcohol and
rose water frequently will improve the
complexion speedily. Friction with fan
mel, enough to bring slight color to the
cheeks, is refining to a skin with large
pores.
Martha P. "Will preparation of al
mond paste, rose water and tincture of
benzoin injure the complexion?'' An
swer. 1t depends on the kind Of COM
plexion. Benzoin is highly irritant to
skins is like doing greasy face up IN a
mask of pastry, making bad matter
worse. A dry, leathery, dull skin might
be benefited by the preparation.
Airy Fairy Lillian. stMy face is COW
cred with pimples, and my skin is dark
and muddy. am very stout and grow
ing stouter, and thought by working
hard my flesh might be reduced, but IN
fortunately it is just the opposite.
grow stouter, fieshier. Is there any rem
edy.'
Try the compound powder of jalap; ex-
tract of jalap five ounces, cream of tartar
nine ounces, gincer one ounce, powdered.
Take from one-half to a full teaspoonful
once in a week or ten days. emitting each
fourth week. Reduce your diet to lean
meats, broths, green vegetables, fruit
and graham bread toasted brown ana
hard. Eat sparingly and slowly, work
daily and sleep in thoroughly aired
room alone. l cannot answer questions
of this sort by letter.
A. S. First-"I notice you advise the use
of saIycilic acid to remove warts and moles.
How do you use the acid? 1t comes only
in crystals. Do you dissolve it? If so
how?'
Answer-Use a 10 to 20 per cent. solu-
ton of the acid in alchohol. The drug
g1st will prepare it.
Second-''I have wart or mole on my
chin with a growth of hairs in it. 1t is
horribly annoying. have been extract
ing the growth with tweezers for several
years and the hairs keep multiplying.
Cutting them close with scissors makes
then coarse and seems to multiply them
Just the same. Would You advise the use
of salycilic acid in this case?D
By all means. It is the great destroyer
OF morbid growths like moles and warts.
Wet the mole freely with the solution,
repeating half dozen times in the day
The spot will perhaps grow sore and form
a scab which, healing, will show the mole
much reduced. Repeat the treatment if
necessary until the skin heals clear
SHIRLEY DARE.