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Show For the Complexion. Cucumber Milk. Oil of sweet almonds, al-monds, two ounces; fresh cucumber juice, eight ounces; powdered wnite castile soap, one-fourth ounce; essence of cucumbers, three ounces; tincture of benzoin, fifteen drops. Take three good-6ized cucumbers, slice without peeling and boil in barely enough water wa-ter to keep from scorching, strain and cool, and to one and one-half ounces of the juice add an equal amount of alcohol. This is your cucumber essence. es-sence. Let stand over night, dissolve the soap in it, add eight ounces of the juice; then add the almond oil very slowly, shaking the mixture well, and finally adding the-, benzoin, drop by drop. Delightful for tan, sunburn, freckles and yellow skin. Lotion for Freckles. One dram of compound tincture of benzoin, one-half one-half fluid dram of glycerine, three ounces of rose water. Apply night and morning, afterward sponging the face with cucumber milk. For Sunburn. Bathe the face with a cupful of sweet milk, to which a pinch of soda has been added, after- ward applying creme marquise. Application for Tan. Borax, 160 grains; zinc oxide, 160 grains; glycerine glycer-ine one and one-half fluid ounces; bay rum, one and one-half fluid ounces; distilled water, five fluid ounces. Mix and apply freely twice a day. |