The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-26
THE CARE OF THE FACE.
Mrs. Bangtry's Partisan Expert on
Beauty and Regeneration.
CSan Francisco Examiner

(San Francisco Examiner)
A woman to be beautiful must have
q good complexion.
You may quote Madame This or
Madame shat as being charming, at
tractive, distinguished. SO she may
be, but no woman ever attained rep
utation for beauty of whom it was said,
But her skin is bad.''
All women may not be born fair, but
all women may by diet, by baths, by
exercise, have at least skins that may
be characterized under the general
term Of clear"
The skin may be cultivated in much
the same way as a flower. 1t may be
refreshed with cooling showers, nour-
ished by the proper life to an attractive
tint moulded with care to the proper
lines, kept free of external impurities
and nourished and fortified in various
ways.
BY complexion / do not mean merely
the color of a Woman's face, but the
tint and texture of her whoIa body.
Once attain a clear skin and / prom
Use you that defects of form will soon
be remedied. But without the proper
skin the finest form loses its attractive
ness.
Tho customs of our day, which de-
mand that women shall be vigorously
clothed. have cultivated a condition of
mind which might be called indiffer-
ence as to the care of their bodies. In
the ancient times, when the body of
woman was more or less exposed from
head TO foot it behooved the fair ladies
to keep their skin smooth and clear
elsewhere than upon their faces necks
and arms. Today women seem TO think
that it does not so much matter about
the parts that do not show. This is a
grieVOuS mistake, for there cannot be
impurities upon the surface of our
bodies in one place that do not in one
way or another affect all the rest.
The first requisite for maintaining
clearness of the skin is cleanliness, and
cleanliness is obtained by washing.
Nothing is to be more condemned
than the advice which is sometimes
given to women not to wash their faces
bu- to rub them with various. creams
and then wipe them dry. The creams
are all very well for softening the
skin or preserving it from sunburn,
etc, but they should never be applied
until after the face has been thorough
~ washed.
Do not be afraid to wash your face.
Wash ii at least twice day. morning
and night, with soap and water. For
bathing purposes rain water is best
but this is not always obtainable. Any
other water should be first thoroughly
boiled and allowed TO cool before us
ing-that is. if cold water is required.
Never cool the water intended for
your face by pouring cold water which
has not been boiled into it.
In washing the face the best plan
is to wash it first in moderately warm
water with pure soap and then rinse
IT in thoroughly cool water into which
a little toilet vinegar has been poured.
The cold water is to stimulate the
circulation. while the toilet vinegar
closes the pores which have been wide
ly opened by the warm water and pre-
vents the flesh of the face from be-
coming fiabby.
While l am on the subject of wash
ing the face-a thing of primary i'm
pOrtance in the care of it-let me say
a word about soaps. Let me inveigh
against those soaps OF which the mar
ket is full and which the ignorant are
always ready TO praise.
] always shudder when l hear a wo-
man say: oh. what d deliciously
strong perfume this soap has" And l
always feel like congratulating her
when she adds L can't afford to
battle with it because it is so expen-
sive.''
The dearest and most highly per-
fumed soaps are those which are only
slightly scented, or not at all. For
general use olive oil soap is as good as
any. though those who may object to
the odor of pure soap may use a slight
~ perfumed cake.
After washing, if the face has a ten
dency to dryness, it is well to apply a
softening cream This should be APP
piled always with a wad of absorbent
cotton. rubbing with a rotary motion
in an ascending direction-that is, from
the throat upward.
Massage the face gently for not more
than ten minutes twice a day with
good skin food. Under the eyes for
fullness use a gentle. caressing move
ment outward toward the temples I'm
der the chin the motions may be more
vigorous, but remember that they
should always be upward.
The skin of the face should never be
rubbed with a rough material. Do not
use patent gloves. rubber ContrivanceS
or any other similar inventions, which
only serve 10 coarsen the skin.
If you have a double chin it may be
leSsened by tying under it tight ban
dage dipped in some astringent. This
will harden the flesh and DIT the same
time mold it into shape.
Persons with a tendency to flushed.
red faces. should wash in very hot wa
ter while those with a tendency to
anaemic pallor should use cold water.
Always always, under all conditions.
thoroughly dry the skin A skin
which is left damp to dry by evapora-
ton viii invariably coarsen.
AS general rule the face should be
protected against q burning sun or
biting wind. Sunlight and breeze, how
ever. are both good for the skin. 1t is
the extremes which are bad.
Never fear the sun upon your face
unless it burns, or the wind unless 1t
be dust-laden or blistering cold
An excellent protection against sun
burn is a preparation composed of:
Grams
Sweet almond oil ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Spermacetti .--...-. $500. .........20
To this add
lose water .......... ............,...2O
Tincture of amber ...... .............20
Rub we'll into the face. wipe dry and
powder lightly with pure rice powder
Another and certain cure for sun
burn freckles is a preparation COM
posed of:
sweet buttef .......... .........5 90 grams
Which must be exposed i'm a china
or glass bowl for whole day When
the butter is thoroughly melted add
plsintair -vatar ............ 200 grams