New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-18
NOW 70 WASH The FACE.

Eureka said the girl with the sallow COM
piexion bursting into her friends studio. After
devouring beauty talks for years 1 have at last
found out how 10 wash my face"
''Disgorge that fact at once" laughingly de-
handed her companion. I and hundreds of other
women with muddy skins just like mine have
been waiting long and breahessly FOR this precious
knowledge But Joking aside I've noticed lately
that your skin is fresher and brighter
Well continued the first girl the other day
quizzed my masseuse. and the dear thing. who
hasn't bit OF rneanness in her makeup, told me
all she knew about the skin. Face washing. she
said, is quite performance. First, pin my hair
back from my brow and up from my neck Then
III a generous sized basin with hot not fepid
water, and with some vegetable oil soap and a
Gamers hair brush 90 to work. ! dip the brush in
The hot water and rub il the SOAP which is not
hard cake. but Jelly In a porcelain lar and then
actually scrub the skin / begin gently using a
snort rotary movement and continue about one
minute ana a half. In this time have covered MY
entire 1aoe. throat and neck. having dipped the
brush well resoaped several times in the hot water
Next l draw another basin OF water, not quite so
hot and use Turkish face cloth or bath glove
ana wash my face free from every trace of soap.
After this comes the refreshing part OF the wash
ING ! deluge face and neck in cold waterloo
water IS none too cold. Hot water and soaD free
me SKIN from grease and impurities, ana the cold
5eI acts as an astringent. hardening the tissues
But I told her I'd tried facial brushes. and they
nae always iTTitated my skin Rut she declared
tnat with the right kind of brush The most sensitive
skih could bear the treatment if the brush were
., She advised serubbing the face before going to
eea ana afterward applying a good skin food
cream, leaving II on all night
=. bll the very best part of my story is that the
nothing BUT the s0rs s ao q go6d dar and SR9
On, my dear, she confded to me that She is 1fty
q Couldn't believe IT, She doesn't look over thirty
ste. ana you know yourself that unless woman's
nuhqred at least. consideration on earth could
make nor add one little year her age
nhe tod me also about the care of the skin IN
stleIai Unless II is particularly thick, dirty ana
ssgeeaiihy looking she said. recommend the use
"a re brush only once daily, preferably at night
AZ one mas been out of doors exposed TO ar nm
s.eal amount OF dirt, IL is wise not TO use the
Mater ana brush until little cold cream has been
eoft cloth W WI"
80, As 70 massaging ones own skin. she said, # is
~ easy and u takes time. but il be done and
S9.s satisfactorily Too much care cannot be taken
We the gentle upward movements. which should
always De- given either when drying the face or
rkl-ying the cream. Never. never, she said uresa
le myers into the desh-neVer press the tissues
va stretching movement. The gentle soft touch
@iiinost careEg, is what the face requires
=. And another thing, she advised me- never 90
soach the upper eyelid in massage, for il not only
s Sseses the eyebail 70 natten giving the eye an
tho causes the eye to sink backward"