The skin, its care and treatment; teaching every detail of this important work in a simple, concise and practical manner . unnecessary but injurious,as it fails to remove the crusts while it invariably succeedsin irritating the scalp and causing more difficulty. For thepurpose, therefore, nothing is better than the application ofsome bland ointment or oil, such as olive oil, almond oil,lajd or any other substance that can thoroughly penetratethe crust. To be efficacious, the oil should be applied sev-eral times during the day, and again at night, using alsosome kind of a head covering to still
The skin, its care and treatment; teaching every detail of this important work in a simple, concise and practical manner . unnecessary but injurious,as it fails to remove the crusts while it invariably succeedsin irritating the scalp and causing more difficulty. For thepurpose, therefore, nothing is better than the application ofsome bland ointment or oil, such as olive oil, almond oil,lajd or any other substance that can thoroughly penetratethe crust. To be efficacious, the oil should be applied sev-eral times during the day, and again at night, using alsosome kind of a head covering to still further aid the most excellent mixture for this purpose may be easilymade by using these ingredients. SCALP CLEANSER. Lanoline . I § Carbolic acid ^ 5 Witch Hazel 45 Almond oil . 4 § Melt the lanoline and almond oil together and then whilestill warm pour in the witch hazel, adding the carbolic acidwhen the mixture is nearly cool. After the scalp has been soaked with this mixture andthe crusts seem to be thoroughly loosened, the oil and crustsmay be removed by applying the simple shampoo made bythis Figure Massage-Second Movement. THE SKIN. 213 SIMPLE SHAMPOO. Green soap . . 2 § Alcohol 2 § Rosemary Tinct y2 3 Dissolve the green soap in the alcohol and add the tinc-ture of rosemary and pour enough on the scalp to cover it,rubbing and applying enough water to make a good may be necessary to apply this shampoo several timesin order to thoroughly cleanse the scalp of the oil anddandruff. After it is cleaned it may be examined, and if itappears reddened and irritated, the following ointment maybe rubbed in carefully: BLAND OINTMENT. Almond oil 5 g Bals. Peru 1 5 Spermaceti 1 § In very severe cases, although this treatment seemswonderfully successful, the end of the second day will finda fresh deposit of the plates of dandruff, and it will benecessary to repeat the operation described for perhaps sixor seven times at intervals of every three o
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