Potosi Journal

BATHING AND BEAUTY.

No Skin Can Be Clear with Pores Clogged Up
Keeping Clean Help to Beauty.

In summer great care must be taken to prevent any suspicion of perspiration, and to this end soap and warm water will have to be used in generous measure.

Summer hotels are often so exorbitant in their extra charge for the use of the bathroom that it may be found expedient to take a basin bath. In that case use much hotter water than that usually drawn for the plunge.

The main thing to be accomplished is the opening of the pores and then cleansing them with soap, following with a thorough rubbing with the hot towel.

This is more trouble, but infinitely better than omitting the daily bath altogether.

A tired woman will find it very refreshing after a day of nervous strain or overexertion to take a very hot bath, with some aromatic mixture added to it, just before dinner. It will take all the worn look away.

Frequent bathing, beside being cleanly and healthful, is beautifying. A perfect complexion is impossible without it.

When the skin of the body is not attending to its share of the work and it cannot when its pores are clogged, the face has to do double duty in throwing off effete matter, therefore when there is more than it can dispose of facial blemishes result.

There is an almost limitless number of contrivances used to make the bath as efficacious as it was in the cases of the dead and gone fair women of the past.

There are substitutes for the milk and wine baths to be found in the bran and oatmeal bags thrown into the tub to-day. The bran bath is emollient, and it is claimed makes the flesh white as well as the skin soft and velvety.

For the woman who can afford it there is, of course, the Turkish bath, which is the ideal method of cleansing the body, but which is still out of reach of the general public on account of the cost.