Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2011

1930s beauty tips

These tips are from a 1939 booklet I have from Linit laundry starch. It has several pages of other uses for the starch besides laundry. The manufacturers suggest using it in facial masks as well as bathing in it. In this booklet, they offer other helpful beauty advice, such as slapping yourself to avoid a double chin:

Many of these are actually good tips, such as drinking plenty of water and using lemon juice as a bleaching agent. I'm not sure how effective those ankle exercises would be though. :)

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Ten Helpful Beauty Hints - 1937

From The Housewife's Yearbook of Health and Homemaking, 1937:copyright 1937, Kellogg Co.