The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05
FOR TIRE SUMMER sun KISSED,
BLEACHING TIE SKIN AN ART or
IMPORTANCE TO WOMAN.

A Clear Complexicu tho Thing ia he Aimed
At-Its Color OF Less Conseaue ma
Milk Dleaches and Fruit Bleachea
-~Ptecautions TO q when Tanned.
sNot one person in Ave hundred said A
beauty specialist. knows how to bleach
the skin. Yet II Is q thing that every woman
ought to know.
Il visited q summer resort the other day
and noticed there two women In particular,
One had o skin as brown as a berry. She
said II was from automobiling.
sThe brown would not have been 90 bad
II II had been q clear brown, but II was q
thick, muddy color. The other had a blond
skin covered with spots.
"For an expert II would have been no
trouble at all to bleach the skin Of either
of these young women. As It was, they
did not know what to do. and each thing
they did made them look a little worse.
Il 60 on the principle that, no matter
how dark the sldn may be. You will be good
looking, IL only your skin Is clear. The
Japanese woman Is az brown as a berry.
yet she 10 pretty.
.The Cuban women are, many Of them;
q clear, ripe coffee color; yet they ara
beauties. The Malay women are as yellow
as saffron, yet they are pretty because their
skins are clear.
1T Is easy TO take a muddy skin and mako
IL clear. With one customer I began BY
going over her face with a hot needle spray.
This woke up tho skin a little. Then I
vent over 1t with a very mild electric bat.
cry. Tho face soubbing brush would
have been Just as good, but it would have
taken too much time. Pinching the skin
lightly with the finger tips also acts like an
electric battery.
'.Nert 7 spread anap Jelly upon the woman's
face and I let It stand is minutes until the
Jelly had had time to sink in. Then I
sprayed It of with hot water.
aThe trouble with most faces Is that they
do not get washed enough. A wash cloth
ia not Of much good, for It is too harsh,
and a sponge is little better. The finger
tips are best, and they should be followed
with a vigorous spraying. The facial
spray Is the best thing that was ever used
For my facial spray I Use something
much like a bath spray; except, that it Is
nothing else in the world will do.
sThen, after I had sprayed the face Of
the woman Win inc muunv SKIN, 1 rubbed
in enough skin food to fill out the pores
again. I had robbed them of their natural
oils by washing them 30 harshly, and
had to restore the texture of the skin.
There are women whose faces need to
be bleached at least once a day. One Of
my patients 30 situated uses ripe straw.
berries for the purpose, alternating with q
few bruised lettuce leaves.
Zone day she takes the lettuce leaves,
breaks them and rubs them on her face.
The next day she takes a soft berry and goes
over her skin with 1t. She keeps doing this
all the year around.
"In certain months she uses a ripe. cucunn-
Der. She cuts it, rubs the juice on her face
and then washes it of In warm water.
There are various ways Of bleaching the
skin. I have one patient who makes II q
practice to bleach her skin with a mixture
but one must be careful.
"To make a carbolized face wash re-
quires a little knowledge OF drugs. The
proportion Is something like ten drops to
q big basin Of warm water! This bleaches
the face and neck and hands in the most won.
derful manner.
There are good bleaches, though, that
can be made without going to the drug
store. One Of these Is corn meal bleach.
take enough corn meal to fill an after
meal ground very fine. There ought to 30
no Jumps in it, and no roughnees. 1t should
be as soft as face powder.
Next take q basin Of boiling water and
add a teaspoonful Of borax powder to It.
Into this throw the cup Of corn meal Let
"Use this mixture upon the face and hands.
It will make them soft and white The same
Ii true Of ordinary oatmeal. It is very
soothing to the skin.
i try 10 bleach, the skin with the fruit
and vegetable bleaohes, because Ts, they they
Of a 8 cent head Of lettuce squeezed into
q bowl OF water, with an equal amount OF
hot water added, will do a great deal for a
skin that is dark and ugly.
The red and sun burned skin requires
entirely different treatment. II your skin
is red and looks as though 1t had been
burned, 1t must be treated at once 1t must
lave its coat Of skin food and this skin food
must be Of the very best kind.
an the summer time every ray OF sun.
treated afterwsrd. Girls who 60 out In
the sun should take warning.
The skin becomes burned; II then grows
wrinkled; in time 1t begins to crack and peel;
and In q little while the skin comes on
leaving q ragged, ugly surface, pon't let
aThe buttermiik bath Is the best bleach
in the world. Take enough buttermilk
to ill q tub and get into it. The recipe 70
simplicity itself. Ten quarts ought, to be
u 1t will whiten the akin ana make
You look like q buttermilk beauty.
The woman who invented the milk bath
was a genius. But II is expensive. One or
two q week Is about all the most luxurious
Of summer girls oan afford.
There Is q French buttermilk bath which
IL recommended by French beauties. The
rule is something like this:
take one churnsul Of butternilk and
strain 1t to get out the floating particles
Of butter. Into q big tub put a quart OF
tepid water. Add the buttermilk' det
into the mixture and stay until you are
bleached.
THE sour milk bath IL the next best
thing. 1t employs nothing but sour milk
The acid OF the milk Is supposed to pene-
trate the pores OF the skin.
Lot the skin absorb all the milk that
will. Then rinse of the milk with warm
water. This should be followed by a rub
down with some good skin powder.
"Skinning the face is not to be advised
except for the worst Of cases, and even
In very bad instances it Is IN excellent plan
to try the fruit bleaches and the vegetable
bleachee first.
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