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The powders used should be of the best possible quality. Before all they should not contain any metallic salts and especially not lead. Unhappily some of the very best powders are prepared with it, as lead gives to the powders a specially white and attractive aspect. But I should like to bring home to the ladies the fact, that these powders are the most apt, especially in persons who perspire easily, to create lines and wrinkles and to give to young faces in a short time an old appearance.

The best powders I consider those which consist of fine rice-powder, amylum, or talcum, and they produce the best effect, if they are not visible on the face. I have often seen the finest complexions ruined by the frequent usage of thick powders, pastes, and paints. The above-mentioned procedure of rubbing in fats and thereupon some of the finest hygienic powders should only be done every other day. To give to fading faces a certain tonicity I recommend the use of alcohol, diluted with three times as much water, which, in the same manner as diluted vinegar, will also improve the complexion. I have found that a very strongly diluted solution of the extract of the suprarenal glands has also a marked effect in toning up the muscles of the face, if rubbed in gently. Only small quantities of the diluted solution should be used for this purpose.