Care of the Face...*

All actresses and many women with beautiful skins hardly use soap and water for the face. Instead, they use a cleansing cream as often as they would ordinarily use water. After railroad traveling in the dust and dirt, in "autoing" or driving, one should immediately on reaching home use a cleansing cream instead of water. It is wonderful to see how much more thorough a cleansing cream will clean the skin than soap and water. Most people, however, feel that it it a necessity to wash the face with soap and water, at least every morning. Use a good soap for this and plenty of warm water. If the face is very oily, then wash with cold water after the warm is used.

If ivory or castile soap agrees with your skin, use it, as it is of the very purest. If it does not, however, agree with the skin, use Dr. Pierce's Medicinal Soap. if your druggist does not keep this soap, write to the Invalid's Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y., and send three dimes for a cake.

A GOOD CLEANSING CREAM:

White Wax............................................................15 grains

Ivory Soap(shaved very fine)...............................1/2 ounce

Oil of Lavender......................................................10 drops

Oil of Sweet Almonds..........................................160 drops

Beat hard.

Before retiring use the following skin food every night, and if your face is very dry use every morning as well:

Oil of Sweet Almonds.............................................80 drops

Lanolin....................................................................4 drams

Fresh Cucumber Juice..............................................1 ounce

Borax......................................................................10 grains

White Wax...............................................................1/2 dram

Oil of Rose................................................................4 drops

For such persons as have oily or greasy skins, the following prescription, which can be obtained at the drug store for a trifling amount, is splendid. It can be made up at home after purchasing the following ingredients:

Witch Hazel.................................................................1 ounce

Cologne Spirits.............................................................1 ounce

Epsom Salts..................................................................1/2 dram

Heat the Witch-hazel and melt the Epsom Salts. When cooled, pour into the Cologne Spirirts, and perfume with syringa, four drops.

Chapped Lips

Compound Tincture Benzoin..........................................2 drams

Glycerin.........................................................................6 drams

Mix. Apply three or four times a day with a camel's hair pencil.

*This article is reprinted from a Teens era patent medicine pamphlet advertiseing Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The advice is a good example of the beauty practices of the time, but use CAUTION if you decide to try any of the recipes.