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Show Winter Plays Havoc WitE Skin, So Take Care BeMtT By Alicia Hart This is the time of year when soothing, creamy but nonstick lotions become most important to the beauty-minded wo-woRitn. wo-woRitn. Unless she uses one regularly on arms, legs, feet, boulders and back of neck, as well as hands and wrists, her skin will look, feel and be dry and uncomfortable. There are many, many lotions in this category, of course, I ranging from hand lotion (it does very well for feet and ' - 1 legs, incidentally) to the so-called body lotions in simple bottles and in de luxe ones. ' Regardless of its name or bottle, be sure that the lotion you select dries fairly quickly, leaving no oily film to come off on stockings or nightgown. At night after your bath, simply massage lotion into feet and legs, using it generously around ankles and back f heels where rough spots are most likely to develop during dur-ing cold weather. Put some on the back of your neck (you ' should use night cream on your throat and face) and down between shoulder blades as far as you can reach. Work it well into elbows and upper arms, i If, through neglect, the skin on your body is quite rough ' and chapped, do begin using your long-handled bath brush I regularly again. Vigorous scrubbing with brush not only ' 1 removes bits of dry, flaky skin, bualsojrtlmulatescjrcula slon a point hot to be overlooked. Be sure to use as mild, nondrying a soap for bathing as you do for cleansing face ' and neck. If after-bath body lotions don't strike your fancy, con- Kaer won which are to be applied before the bath. One particularly soothing, softening lotion of this type is to be massaged in generously from feet to neck four or five min-tes min-tes before you step under the shower or into the tub. It ' does not make soap lather leu easily and it does leave the akin smoother and more comfortable. |