Sunburn

Cold sweet cream applied thoroughly on retiring is very soothing. Cold cream or lettuce cream. If the face, throat and hands are well rubbed with cold cream before exposure, danger of sun-burn will be almost done away with.

Lettuce Cream

2 cupfuls of young lettuce, cut fine, wash and stir into one cupful of boiling mutton suet, boil a few minutes strain, perfume to suit, beat until cold and pack in jars or cups. Extra for that redness of the skin and soreness known as sunburn, and very healing.

Camphor Ice

6 tablespoonfuls of boiling hot mutton suet, stir in 1 tablespoonfuljjlycerine, 1 tablespoonful powdered camphor, 1 tablespoonful olive oil. Remove from tbe*fire and stir until cold. Pack in small boxes or put in little molds. Excellent for chapped hands, lips, etc.

Bruises

Rubbing a bruise in sweet oil and then in spirits of turpentine will usually prevent the unsightly black and blue spot. Dusting this moistened surface with flesh colored powder will finish the work. Also see page 494.

Moth Patches

1 tablespoonful of flour of sulphur in a pint bottle of rum. Apply to the spots at night. This will cause them to disappear in two or three weeks. The moth patch is a vegetable fungus, and the sulphur is destructive to it. Carefully wash off in the morning. Of course this remedy will only succeed where the moth is not the immediate result of some bodily condition.

Scars

Cocoanut oil, or hen's oil, applied to; scar and rubbed gently for five minutes at a time, several times a day, will entirely obliterate a scar if commenced from the time the burn heals. The rubbing will loosen the skin and flesh from bone and muscle and cause thorough circulation. Even where the scar is of long standing this will be of much assistance, and perseverance will work wonders in scars left by cut, burn or bruise.

Face Powders

Entire cleanliness is necessary in applying. The first coating of powder should always be thoroughly cleansed from the face with water before a new coating is given, thus preventing the crust that naturally forms where one layer of powder after another is put on during the day.

Simple powders are always the best. Common prepared chalk subjected to baking in a moderate oven, or finely powdered pearl starch, are among the best. Pure French chalk is harmless, so is hose powder prepared from French chalk, and tinted with carmine and yellow ocher to a perfect flesh tint, or Violet powder, consisting of 3 parts of finely powdered pearl starch to 1 part orris root, powdered. Rice flour is often substituted for the starch. This is used, not only for the face, but is found convenient for infants. Arrowroot may be substituted for starch.

How To Apply Powder

Another way is to take refined chalk in little pellets. See that the skin is clean and cool, then wrap a pellet of the chalk in coarse linen cloth and crush in water. Rub well between the fingers and wash quickly over the face. The wet powder oozes through the cloth in its finest state. When the face is dry remove all superfluous powder lightly.