The Housekeeper Beautiful
Subtitle: age old concoctions, ideas, formulas and remedies of a by-gone era on the art of being beautiful
By: compiled, indexed, and researched by Patricia F. Childs
Publisher: Henkel Press, Inc.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New Market, VA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Copyright date: 1971
Notes: "This book represents ten years of research by the author through abandoned doctors' records, nurses, phamacists, midwives, etc." - Title page.
Table of contents: title: Why and how the busy wife and mother can retain her good looks; title: Cold cream; title: Care of the feet; title: Cure for hiccough; title: Bay rum : hair dressing; title: Keep the hair clean; title: Hair wash no. 2; title: Hair wash no. 3; title: Hair wash no. 4; title: Ox-marrow pomade; title: For dandruff; title: Hair invigorator; title: To increase the hair in the brows; title: Dye for white or light eyebrows; title: The bath beautiful; title: Complection wash; title: Powder for the face; title: Cologne water; title: Floral bouquet; title: Lavender water; title: Cream of lillies; title: Healthful hints; title: Healthful foods and why; title: Uses of ammonia; title: Rose water; title: Toilet recipes; title: Cure for pimples; title: Razor strop paste; title: Barbers shampoo mixture; title: Shaving compound; title: On the mouth and deep breathing; title: Lavendar salts as deodorant; title: To improve the chin and neck; title: Skin texture and discoloration; title: On being agreeable at meals; title: Baths; title: Bunions; title: On relaxation; title: Leanness; title: Hunters pills (female regulators); title: Granny's eye wash; title: Grandmother's family spring bitters; title: Grandmother's cough syrup; title: Hay fever; title: Simple remedy for hay fever; title: Beneficial bathing; title: Toilet items; title: Toilet soap; title: Odiferous or sweet scenting bags; title: The use of soaps; title: Olive oil and its uses; title: Little beauty hints; title: The neck; title: Answers to questions on health; title: Overcoming acne; title: To reduce an overdeveloped bust; title: Helpful hints for milady beautiful; title: Flat chest and prominent shoulder blades; title: Water as a beautifier; title: Vegetables as medicines; title: Treating wrinkles; title: Various cures for nervousness, all over the world; title: Healthful foods for the sick; title: Early toilet recipes; title: Amusing superstitions; title: Your complexion & powder; title: Exercises for grace; title: Tanning pomade and lotion for rough skin; title: Clover cushion; title: Freckle removal : dark and light; title: Famous tonic for developing the bust; title: Wee beauty hints; title: Dandruff shampoo for the sensitive scalp; title: The face and the complexion brush; title: Enlarged pores; title: Hair curling fluids; title: On oily skin; title: Special nail care; title: Despondency in middle age; title: A heavy neck; title: Now as to wrinkles; title: Passion potion for milady's bath; title: Bath potion no. 2; title: Lovely as the June roses; title: Just for fun; title: Shampoo for auburn hair; title: Hair receiver; title: Gall stones; title: Slippery elm tea; title: Powders for children; title: Flax-seed tea; title: Tamarind water; title: Flax-seed lemonade; title: Slippery elm bark tea; title: Arrowroot milk porridge; title: Egg gruel; title: Veal or mutton broth; title: Linseed tea; title: Draughts for the feet; title: Cure for ringworms; title: Cough mixture; title: Colds and hoarseness; title: Swaims vermifuge; title: Phalons instantaneous hair dye; title: Bad breath; title: "The sun's" cholera mixture; title: Grandmother's rubbing compound or linament; title: To take cinders from the eye; title: Eyewash; title: Chilblain linament; title: Camphorated oil; title: On water; title: A well regulated diet; title: The use of hot water; title: Curing growing pains; title: Nine rules for keeping well; title: Poultices; title: Remedy for boils; title: Famous freckle remover; title: The use of a parasol; title: Pearl smelling salts; title: Camphor ice; title: Simple disinfectant; title: Arthritic cure; title: Healthful effect of open fires; title: To cure creaking bedsteads; title: Bedbugs in a steady bedstead; title: Knock knees; title: Shock from grief; title: A magic revelation from oil & salt; title: Kindness; title: Amateur surgery at home; title: The secret of pleasing; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography