Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
CLEANSING FLUIDS
COSMETICS USED INSTEAD OF
WATER BY MANY.
Cheap Articles Have No Favor What
ever-As to Hair
Dyes.

"All women use cosmetics of some kind
nowadays" says a prominent dealer in
toilet articles; that is, every woman who
has enough spending money to purchase
box of face powder. a lip salve or cold cream.
For those who live In the city realize that
they must really doctor their skins If the
latter are to be kept in normally healthy
condition, for in the congested and I'M
hygienic state in which we live, washing
with hard water that is harmful to sens-
tive flesh and getting gritty dirt into the
pores will in time coarsen and practically
ruin the finest and best-nourished skins
For these reasons cosmetics are used in
greater quantities every year, and with the
increase comes also the demand for better
and purer powders, lotions and salves.
"Women-that Is, those who have had
enough experience with various creams,
etc, for the face-know that inferior grades
of powders, crayons for lips eyebrows
should not be used, for many of them con-
tain injurious ingredients that really poison
the pores and either make the skin exceed
ingly dry or cause eruptions, as Is ire
quently the case with persons who have
SuperSenSitive skins, SO they demand the
best and purest of all toilet lotions and
for that reason there are excellent powders,
creams and rouges popularity sold today
for prices that once would have been i'm
possible to charge.
Never buy Sucdp SoSuAct1CS'
'Neyer buy a cheap cosmetic is my ad
vice to women. Go without any rather
than run the risk Of poisoning the lips with
an inexpensive salve that is made beau
tiful carmine color with an anilne dye
For ten cents such salve will look as well
and, perhaps, at first feel just as COM
Portable as the kind that sells for 81 a box
But in nine cases out of ten the results
will be widely different for while the pure
crayon or salve will improve the appear
ance and keep the lips soft. the adulterated
variety will make the skin red, but 1t will
also probably crack the lips.
'.There are many kinds of creams sold for
massage that should never be used, Tor
they are made from petroleum products
that after comparatively few applications
will bring out a hairy down on the skin,
that to the average woman Is exceedingly
possible But aside from the unpleasant
results oily ingredients give, some creams
contain tallow, lard and fatty acids. that
become rancid and act as astringent to
the skln-hterally parching 1t and drying
the natural oil out of the pores.
Cheap Powders Are Poisonous.
CHEAP powders are to be used sparingly
too for some of them are made UP with
oxide of zinc, oxide of lead and bismuth.
all of which are bad for the flesh. for
they dry out the oil. Lead and bismuth
more generally worked into powders. parch
the flesh, but are not as harmful as oxide
of lead, for the latter is real poison and
causes eruptions that are often unsightly.
These ingredients are put into cheap pow
ders to make them heavy SO that they will
stick to the skin and not be blown off, but
IL those. who use them knew the danger
they were counting by the application, they
would never invest again in ten cent boxes,
but would purchase the better grades that
cost 81 a package even IL they had to 90