St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20
HINTS TO WOMEN.
Proper Care and Treatment of
the Skin and Teeth.

Ladies wishing a smooth skin made with
out harm can obtain it by purchasing ten
cents worth of tincture of benzoin. Dissolve
it in pint of wine and use on the face at
night. The face should first be washed with
pure and fine soap, and then rinsed off in
clear, cold water. The benzoin can be dis
solved in water, but wine is preferable.
For rough or sunburned skin, use two
ounces of distilled water, one of glyeerine,
one of alcohol, and half an ounce of tincture
of benzoin. Without the water, and with the
addition of two ounces of prepared chalk,
free from bismuth, it makes fine cosmetic
for whitening the face, and is not injurious,
like the expensive ''balms'' or 'blooms'' so
highly advertised.
Boil small piece of green benzoin in spir-
its of wine until it becomes a rich tincture.
Fifteen drops of this poured into glass of
water will produce liquid that looks like
milk, and emits most agreeable perfume
This wash, while an excellent remedy for
spots, pimples and eruptions, renders the
skin clear and brilliant, and the cheeks a
beautiful rosy color. -..
Another wash is made of indicated soap,
which can be bought OF any druggist, melted
and made into balls, with finely ground oat-
meal Oatmeal and buttermilk together
possess wonderful identifying qualities, and
oatmeal by itself now occupies place on
many dressing tables. STEPPED in water in
small quantities, it's balsamic qualities and
glutinous oiliness makes the flesh beautifully
soft and white. A little lemon juice may be
added advantageously. -
If remedy is wanted to produce imme-
date and wonderful effects in whitening the
skin, use tar and olive oil heated together
and cooled. Use upon the face when going
to bed, with mask of thin old linen or mus
lin put on to prevent coming off-further
protecting the pillows by an old sheet thrown
over them. In the morning a bath of white
CASTLE soap and water brings the face out
pure and softly tinted as a childs. This is
not only the best, but one of the most harm
less and cheapest preparations that can be
procured.
If the skin be coarse looking and you de-
sire to improve the texture, battle it before
going to bed in very hot water and good
toilet soap and rub thoroughly with coarse
Turkish towel. IA
Wrinkles are less apparent under a kind of
varnish containing thirty-six grammes of
turpentine and three drachms of alcohol.
allowed to dry on the face. s
For pimples on the face use this recipe:
Thirty grains of bicarbonate of soda, one
drachm of glycerine and one ounce of
spermaceli ointment. Rub on the face: let
it remain for a quarter of an hour, and wipe
off all but slight film, with soft cloth.
To remove moth patches wash the patches
with solution of common bicarbonate of
soda and water several times during the day.
for two days, or until the patches are re-
moved, which will usually be in forty-eight
hours. After this process, wash with some
nice toilet soap and the skin will be left clean
and free from patches.
Peroxide of hydrogen rubbed on the face
two or three times day, for ten days, will
also free the skin of any discoloration.
simple remedy for removing freckles is
to put one ounce of alum and the same of
lemon juice in a pint of rose water; apply at
night.
To remove moles, moisten stick of nitrate
| of silver and touch the mole; it will turn
| black and sore, but will soon drv up and fall
| Off If not successful the first time, try
| again.
Rice powder for the face, though inexpen-
sive, is warranted perfectly harmless
Refined chalk is the safest thing to use and
costs far less than if put up under some other
name and sold in boxes. Cascarrilla powder
is much used by Cuban ladies, and is con-
sidered harmless. Wash the face with thick
suds of glycerine soap, and, when dry, dust