Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-10-01
YOUTHS RESTORER
FOR MIDDLE ACE
Massage, Intelligently Applied to
the Sagging Muscles Of the
Face and Throat, Will Prevent
Many Ravages of Dust and
Age.
beauty of the skin depends
to a great extent upon the

health of the sebaceous glands.
These are little underlying
ducts supplying the skin with the
grease needed, and if their secretions
are suppressed the pores are stopped
up and some complexion defect or 9th
er will result.
One must keep the pores of the skin
unhampered of old oil and dead GU
ticle to have a good complexion, and
when they seem inactive there is moth
ing to do but to resort to massage and
very thorough bathing with hot water
and a good soap. Cold water is use
less against the deep seated dust and
grease of the skin, even with the aid
of soap. Moreover, it tends to con-
tract the pores, making it still harder
for them to yield their contents. So.
as a preparation for helpful massage.
which is meant further to clear the
stopped up pores, the face bath must
not only be hot, but very complete.
There is much contention that soap
is injurious to the skin, but this is by
no means true. The influences of soap
are tonic, antiseptic and cleansing, so
that a soap must really be- very bad to
hurt the skin-contain, y fact, the
strong alkali which scorches and irri-
tates. A good face bath with very hot
water and a bland soap leaves a smooth
skin like marble, and with repeated
and systematic bathing the rough
is much improved. Work thick soap
suds or a soap jelly well into the pores
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it partly dry with a soft old towel and
then sit down with a pot of good cold
cream or a little almond oil and pro-
coed with the massage.
Begin by massaging the muscles of
the cheek just in front of the upper
half of the ear, using the first three
fingers of both hands. Rub outward
and upward in a circular manner with
a firm yet gentle touch, covering a
spot about the size of a silver dollar.
If the muscles are correctly located
the upward motion will pull the skin
taut about the corners of the mouth,
rubbing out the dropping line at the
side of the nose If the face is heavily
lined here massage will In time so
strengthen the muscles that the fur
rows will be much softer or disappear
entirely.
The cheek muscles, running from the
corners of the mouth up over the
cheek bones, are massaged with a quick
clawing movement, which, however,
must be light and not pinching. This
operation, if continued for some
months, will positively fill out hollow
cheeks through giving frmness to the
underlying tissues. The forehead is
rubbed in the circular upward
from the inner corners of the eyes and
outward to remove horizontal lines,
while the vertical furrow, which bad
habits or weak eyes wear between the
eyes, must be rubbed with the two
forefingers only. Figure to yourself
two long ovals passing owe this en-
trail forehead wrinkle and use the
right and left forefinger at the same
time about them, running them in con-
trary directions. This is a very hard
line to efface, but with patient mas
sage and the use of a wrinkle plaster
at night the deepest furrow will GER
tainly be much softened in time.
Above and below the eyes the fin
gers must touch very lightly, as the
tissues here are very delicate, and the
Y itself, the most precious of the
body's organs, is very easily injured.
Use a ~vibratory movement at these
points, working from the nose to the
temples.
The skin of the nose itself is given
to morbid conditions, and blackheads
frequently infest the corners, but the
massage of this feature is necessarily
light, as it is easily got u of shape.
Rub gently from the tip of the nose
upward to the top, gently brushing the
sides of the bridge in the same
ner. Then, with the same upward
movement, attack the corners where
the blackheads are.
To make the throat firm and round
attack the muscles in a slanting di-
rection from under the chin to the
shoulder and then from the middle of
the throat backward and upward to-
ward the ears. AS a final move, after
the whole face and neck have been
massaged, go all over the skin with a
light vibratory movement and then
softly stroke it, the hands passing al
ways upward and outward.
Massage done in this systematic
keeps the muscles in a firm
condition and also brings the blood
to the surface of the skin, which in
a short time will much improve it's
coloring. The dry, hard, coarse skin
is decidedly walked up with this finger
manipulation, for, besides clearing the
pores. the rubbing imparts a degree
Of electricity which is very tonic in
its effect.