The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-18
THE COMPLEXION.
How Best TO Keep the Skin from the Raw
ages of Time.

ages of Time
There are certain people, though
their number is growing less every
year, who consider that an attempt 10
preserve the complexion or TO prevent
the ravage of wrinkles is a work of the
evil one, and a wicked and useless
waste of time.
Tine folly of this belief has been fire.
quently exploited. 1t seems strange
that the woman who should seek 10
keep her gown in perfect repair should
yet not seek to keep from her skin the
ravages of time. 1t is perfectly true
that all sorts of dangerous lotions are
in use, but there are also harmless and
vet valuable ones, and to refuse 10 use
them where they are etficacious is
foolish concession To a foolish theory.
1t is impossible to find any one lotion
which agrees equally well with all
compilations. That which is zone
mans meat may be another
mans poison" To some compilations
glycerine is soothing and healing, to
others it is an irritant, when IL should
never be used unless it is mixed with
rose water. A cold cream, made from
the oil of almonds, is more generally
efIicacious to heal the chatting caused
By the wind and cold, and TO protect
the skin before going out on chilly
windy day, as well as in cases of sun
burn and other irritations of the skin.
When the complexion has lost its fresh
ness and needs some toning as prep
srstiOn which will give nutriment
through the pores of the skin nothing
is better than this same cold cream.
The ordinary cold cream, such as -
purchased in drug stores, Is made of
lard. Such animal fats as lard and
mutton tallow are penetrating, and
they sink into the pores, tend TO en-
large them and thus they render the
skin, in time, habby and full OF
wrinkles.
But emollients In the form Of oil of
almonds or cocoa butter are Of a
vegetable nature, and lay as sort OF
poultice over the outside of the skin,
healing and protecting il. Vaseline,
it should be remembered, tends 70 in
crease the growth of hair. and while il
is valuable for the scalp it should not
be tapplied to the face, as il is re-
sponsible for much of the prevalent
growth of superfluous hair on WON
ems lips and faces. A cold cream of
oil of almonds is easily made at home,
as follows:
Take four ounces OF oil of almonds,
half an ounce Of white wax and half
an ounce of spermacetL Put them IA
a cup. set the cup in boiling water,
and let them gradually melt together
at the back of the stove. II will take
half an hour or more before they are
thoroughly melted together. When
this is done. add two ounces
of violet essence, or Of orange
flower water. and pour the
liquid preparation into covered porce-
lain or metal box in which you intend
TO keep it. Where the skin needs M.
triton and care an application of this
cream 70 the hands and face a. night
on retiring 20 rest will prove efiica-
cious. The skin must first De washed
with scrupulous care. using warm
water and afterward steaming the skin
in water as hot as you can bear. Dry
il with a soft, bsOrbent towel. The
old-fashiOned damask towel Is alto
gether the best for this purpose; the
huckaback towel is too harsh. Then
apply the cold cream, rubbing u on the
skin with the hand Ia the morning
every portion Of this oily coat must DC
washed of with warm water, followed
by the appiica ton Of abundance of cold
water % give the skin tone. Apply the
cold cream also before going ont IN
wind 20 prevent chatting. or use . after
coming in from = walk. being careful
first 20 wash out any tust that u.ay
clog the pores This cold cream - 40
a healing ointment. which may - safe
u applied 10 any irritation of the 80 n
or Scalp.-N. y. Tribune