The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-18
Letters and Answers.

Letters and Answers.
Fern Jones: VIII you please tell me
a good face food for removing wrin-
kles and lines in the face?
Use glycerin cut with rose water
| Constant Reader: Here are a few of
my defects. Roughness on the upper
arm, hollows in the neck, three
brown spots on the face, few white
heads.
For the brown spots on your face
take any good liver remedy and use
the cucumber lotion For rough arms
use skin scrubbing brush and an oily
soap. For hollows in the neck mas
sage with clover cream, which was
the remedy our grandmothers used.
Glover cream will also remove white
heads from the face.
Gray Hair: am sorry for the cor
respondent who writes about her hair.
which is turning gray SO rapidly.
The latest advice for those whose
hair is growing gray is that they
touch the roots twice a week with
the tips of the fingers Moisten the
finger tips with sweet oil.
Margaret c.: am years old and
for the last year my hands have been
covered with brown blotches. The
blotches are now coming on my face
They are not freckles, but they are
large spots.
You have liver trouble You should
take regular course of treatment.
Multum in Parvo: l notice in one
of your answers to correspondents
that deep wrinkles between the eyes
can be removed. Kindly confer a ia
vor by letting me know the method. l
have tried to lessen mine with but
little success.
Use benzoinated vaseline.
Questioner: Please tell me how to |
make benzoinated vaseline. 1 notice |
that you advise it in many cases.
To make benzoinated vaseline take |
'ed yaseline and heat it in a double
boiler. To an ounce of vaseIine, melt
cd, add five drops of the tincture of
Massage the wrinkles be-
ween the eyes, letting your fingers
'un across the eyebrows at the same
ime.
Wrinkled Face: Kindly tell me the
way to massage wrinkles in the fore
lead.
A wrinkled forehead corresponds to
wrinkled piece of paper. If you will
ay a piece of tissue paper on your lap
nd will smooth out the wrinkles with
our finger tips you will notice the
1ethod. You must not run your fin
ers in the creases, but across them,
o as TO gradually smooth them out.
Mrs. Gray Hair: You recognize
lat mean you. Shampoo your hair
nee in two weeks with a tonic sham
90.
Tonic Shampoo: Take two ounces
white CASTLE soap and dissolve in
quart of boiling water; when cool
Id one pint of bay rum, one table
)oonfui of borax, thirty grains of BIZ T
llphate of quinine. Add a table
'oonful or two when you shampoo.
Young Girl: Here is a curling fluid:
axe Of powdered borax one-half
lnces; gum arabic, fifteen grains:
irits of camphor, three drains; warm
alter, ten ounces. Dissolve the bo- &
x and the gum in the water. When :"
oil add camphor. Moisten hair with C
ton and roll in small ringlets, pin il
ng with invisible hairpins until dry. il
Face: Local treatment will 81
re pimples, but you must attend W
the laws of hygiene. A daily bath I'll
tn flesh brush will stimulate the o7
actions of the skin. Once a day bl
ing a towel out of hot water and
it over the face, keeping it there
til the skin is steaming hot. Witch
eel is a good application for facial
options, especially when followed ~
h a sponging of eau de cologne, to I'd
ich pinch of borax has been add y.e
Treckled Face: Do not fret; freck- pc
invariably show clear, fine, white we
n, and usually disappear after one ilV
ches middle age. Be careful not sh
use soap and water on the face wv
t before going out in wind or sun, tn
directly after coming in. Protect Sol
skin with a chiffon veil and pu
ting of pure antiseptic complexion an
vder. At night sponge with this me
on, afterward using cold cream DIRE
ely: Borax, one dram; diluted crl
tic acid, one fluid ounce; rose wat CHI
one fluid ounce. the