Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — BEAUTY CHATS by Edna Kent Forbes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BEAUTY CHATS

by Edna Kent Forbes

HOME-MADE COSMETICS SO MANY very particular women choose to make their own cosmetics that the making has become almost a fad. The woman who can make her own creams knows them to. be pure, and knows she can get three times the quality and quantity for less than the price of the purchased article. Cold creams are easily made, if one has a good recipe. The oils and waxes are melted slowly in a double boiler, the waters added slowly and the whole beaten and beaten as it cools, until a light frothy cream-re-sults. Powders are more difficult to make. I never advise their* manufacture at home. It. is cheaper to pur-

chase unscented rice powder, a large i quantity of which can be bought for half a dollar, and to perfume or tint this at home. Bleaches are best made at home, hair tonics mixed by a good druggist according to prescription. Then one can purchase artistic jars and bottles and fill these with the preparations, the jars being an ornament to the dressing table, not a detriment, as most purchased affairs are. Then, too, one can buy a little of a desired expensive perfume, and use it for scenting all one’s toilet requisites. And one can choose some distinctive scent, and keep to it. Instead of mixing several odors into one indiscriminate combination. A good hair tonic, a good cream,

glycerine and rose water, face and talcum powder, vaseline for nails and eyebrows, and a nail polish are all a woman really needs, ordinarily, (Copyright.) O

If You Make Your Own Cosmetics You Know Their Quality.