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Jane Seymour's Secrets to Softer Skin
Excerpts from Home Remedies from the Old South
By: Emily Thacker

Skin Tonics

A refreshing skin tonic is made with:
1 cup distilled spirits
1 cup olive oil
5 drops almond oil or perfume

If the face is exposed to sun, or seems hot and flushed, bathe it in camomile tea every three hours. After cleansing, rinse the face with fresh from the churn buttermilk, to nourish and preserve the skin.

Best tonic to tone up sickly skin is made by chopping up:
1/2 cup dandelion root
1/2 cup dock root
1/2 cup rhubarb root
1/2 cup sassafras bark
1 cup red clover blossoms

Bring it all to a boil in a quart of water. Cover and let sit for three hours. Strain and mix a few tablespoons in a glass of water. Drink this every morning and evening for clear, blemish free skin.
Sickly looking skin can be brightened by chopping and boiling, two unpeeled oranges in a quart of water. Mash up real good and add to the lady's bath.

A refreshing tonic can be prepared by boiling leaves of the hazelnut tree in water.

Troubled skin may be cleared by wiping regularly with the broth of boiled cabbage.

Tonic made of borage leaves will improve the complexion greatly.

Cut the peels of 4 lemons into a quart of water and allow to soak for 24 hours. A handkerchief rung out of this water will refresh a face warm with perspiration.

Use water in which beebalm has been simmered to soften the skin.

Summer an uncut mallow root in a quart of water for 20 minutes. Use this broth to refine coarse skin and soften the shoulders and bosom.

If the skin is pale an dflabby, a strong infusion of orange blossoms will tone it up nicely.

Lily petals, simmered for an hour, produce a fine liquid for wiping down the face. This leaves a lady with fine testured, soft skin.

Mash a cup of chickweed into 3 cups of water. Put into a jar with a tight fitting lid and set in the sun, for a full day. Strain and use the liquid to refine coarse skin.

A strong infusion of yarrow will clear blackheads from the face and shoulders.

To guarantee lovely skin, wipe the body down regularly with a quart of milk to which the juice of 3 lemons has been added.

For an instant tonic for the face on warm days, rub down with the peel of a cucumber.

Winter dulled skin can be brightened up for spring with a nice milk wash. Scald 1 cup of fresh, sweet milk with 1/4 cup violets added to it. Let set for 10 minutes and strain. Pat onto the upper body twice a day to make the skin glow with health.

Controlling the Over Robust Appetite

Begin each meal with a nice bowl of freshly picked lettuce, dressed with 2 tablespoons of vinegar or 3 tablespoons of lemon juice.

1/4 cup sauerkraut juice, taken 1/2 hour before meals will dampen too robust an appetite.

Tonic to help lose extra pounds:
1/2 cup chickweed
1 quart water
2 tablespoons honey

Bring to a boil and let cool. Strain and sip when hunger creeps up on you.

Boil dandelion leaves and add a splash of vinegar to the strained water. Sip throughout the day and excess poundage will melt away.

Drink teas of fennel or chickweed to lessen the over active appetite.

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