Your Skin (Being Ugly Is Forbidden)

A woman's beauty lies in the softness of her skin, for this softness draws eyes to the face even if it is not beautiful. Nature grants some women softness of skin and denies it to others; but it is easy for these last to acquire what nature has denied them—and easily!

The secret of a beautiful skin lies in three points: the first is cleansing, the second coloring, and the third nourishment. Cleanliness is easily managed with water and soap, whereas color is not to be had by artifice but by quickening the courses of the blood beneath the skin: massage the skin of the face with a piece of ice and dry it with a hot towel, for expansion and contraction are necessary to the regularity of the blood's circulation.. Nourishment comes from using "cream" every night; but the "cream" differs with the difference of skin: if it is dry, "cold cream" suits it, to moisten and soften it; and if it is oily, then "vanishing cream" dries it and beautifies it.

Pimples of the skin

If you notice small pimples appearing on your face, treat them from within, by taking

a spoonful of fruit salts to cleanse the bowels, or brewer's yeast, which is sold in the pharmacies. But if the pimples grow rounded and turn white, cleanse them well with a little pure alcohol. And avoid your toilette until they are completely healed, to keep the infection from passing to another spot of the skin.