Beauty Tips For Body Care
"The Home and It's Management" by Mabel Hyde Kittredge, Copyright 1918, (pages 226 - 228)https://books.google.com/books?id=WkEEAAAAYAAJ&num=15&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=falseThe Skin Every girl wants a clear skin. This is a mark of beauty the skin more than anything else is a sign of bodily health or disease. A smooth clear skin means that the tiny blood vessels are in good condition that the circulation is good that the right nourishment is being supplied to the body and that the digestion is normal. A dull sallow skin or pimples on the face indicate that the blood or circulation is out of order. To keep the skin in perfect condition: 1. Food Eat the right food at meals and eat it slowly. Eat nothing between meals. Study what is the right food and take pains to get it. Do not rely too much on advertisements. Remember that the writers of most advertisements are interested only in selling their goods. They do not care about you or your health. Do not drink tea or coffee while you are getting your growth. 2. Air Fresh air contains oxygen. We must breathe a great deal of oxygen into our lungs to make the skin clear and cheeks red. Impure air is filled with poisonous substances. It contains the refuse from the lungs it is filled with dust and germs and is lacking in oxygen. It is bad to breathe impure air as it is to drink impure water. You would not think of bathing in the water another person had bathed in but you forget that in a close room filled with people we breathe into our lungs the air which other people have exhaled. Bad air or not enough air affects digestion and circulation and shows in the skin. The signs are the disappearance of bright coloring suggestive of health pimples, dullness of skin and a puffy look especially around the eyes. The rebuilding of the body is largely done at night during sleep and oxygen is necessary for the process of rebuilding. For this reason the window must be open in a bedroom at night winter as well as summer and many times during the day the air in a room should be changed. 3. Sun In the first chapter you learned to have your house face south or west so as to get the sunny exposures. Disease germs live in dark places away from the sun. Sun is a disinfectant. A room with sun therefore is a more healthy room than one without. There have been cases of face eruptions traced to living in sunless rooms. If you cannot have sun in your room you can have air and then plan to be out in the sunlight as much as possible. 4. Exercise Exercise is absolutely necessary for a good circulation and good circulation is necessary to carry off the waste matter of the body otherwise this waste matter will clog and poison your systems. Nothing will ruin the skin more quickly than this kind of poison. Choose walking when possible rather than riding in a subway or a hot trolley car. Remember you are aiding circulation in the one case and retarding it in the other. 5. The Morning Bath The loose dirt which we accumulate from the outside is perhaps blacker but it is not more dangerous than the dirt consisting of the waste matter which is given off through the skin and which can be partially absorbed again to poison the body. The body should be bathed every day. Perspiration and oil are emitted through the pores of the body if not washed or rubbed off this hardens and clogs the pores it also gives off a disagreeable odor. Do not wash, only rub the skin hard every day. This is good for the nerves of the skin. The exercise makes them sound healthy and hardy. The good or bad treatment of the skin has a decided effect on general health. Remember we breathe through the skin as well as through the nose. We feel through the skin. The skin must be clean so that nothing will obstruct it in throwing obnoxious matter and in taking in oxygen. Absence of a bathroom in the house is no reason for not bathing. A good way to take a bath without a bathroom is: two basins of water one warm and one cold a wash cloth for each soap and a towel. Stand in a third basin or tin tub. With the warm water and soap wash every part of the body. With the cold water rinse the body. Dry and rub hard with a coarse towel. Rinse out all basins wash out cloths and put in sun to dry. Never allow any one else to use your wash cloths or towel.
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