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Show For Blackheads. Wfing soft cloths out of warm water wa-ter and apply to the face, keeping the water at the same temperature, until the skin is soft and pink; then wash the face and neck with a good toilet soap and the palms of the hands or a Turkish cloth; rinse and dry; you will be surprised to find how many of those blackheads have disappeared in this process. While the skin is soft, press out any of the blackheads that can be without bruising the flesh, applying ap-plying a drop of half water, half alcohol al-cohol to each spot to contract the pore. Apply a lotion of a dram of boracic acid in four ounces distilled witch-hazel witch-hazel and let it dry tm: this is stringent; string-ent; then, beginning with the skin food, massage for it least ten minutes. min-utes. Do this at night; in the morning morn-ing use cold water, no soap, and rub in a little cold cream. |