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Show HOME MADE COSMETICS. So many very particular women choose to make their own cosmetics that the making has become almost a fad. Cold creams are easily made. The oils and waxes are melted slowly in a double boiler, the waters added slowly and the whole beaten and beaten as it cool -, until a light frothy cream results. Powders are more difficult to make. It is cheaper to purchase unscented rice powder, a large quantity of which can be bought for half a dollar, and to perfume per-fume or tint this at home Bleaches are best made at home, hair tonics mixed by a good druggist. Then one can purchase artistic jars and bottles and fill these with tho preparations, the jars being an ornament orna-ment to the dressing table. 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 distinc-tive scent, and keep to it, Instead of mixing several odors Into ono indiscriminate indis-criminate combination. A good hair tonic, a good cream, glyeorine and rose water, face and talcum powder, vaseline for nails and eyebrows, and a nail polish are all a woman really needs, ordinarily. |