Health and Beauty : A Book for Girls
1939-10 1939 1930s 27 pages ; illustrations home will have to fit in with other people, for some like their bath in the morning and others at night. If the worst comes to the worst and you have no bathroom in your house, it is still possible for you to have a daily wash all over in your bedroom. Pro...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : The Health & Cleanliness Council
October 1939
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/708C48C5-8F38-40D0-8E1D-91B616DF6B69 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/97B6FE48-8954-4B8E-9540-C6BD6090ECCD |
| Summary: | 1939-10
1939
1930s
27 pages ; illustrations
home will have to fit in with other people, for some like their bath in the morning and others at night. If the worst comes to the worst and you have no bathroom in your house, it is still possible for you to have a daily wash all over in your bedroom. Provide yourself with a can of hot water, a jug of cold, and a cake of really good toilet soap, and wash your body bit by bit while you stand in a foot-bath or even in the hand-basin. It is well worth while to take this extra bit of trouble to be really clean. Every day throughout the year, including those days every month when your body needs extra care in cleanliness, you should have a wash from head to foot. THE CULT OF SOAP AND WATER Why do we wash those parts of our bodies which under usual circumstances are covered by clothes and consequently are invisible to onlookers? Apart from its value as an essential to Beauty and decency, Cleanliness has a Health value. When we cleanse the outside of our bodies, we help the inside to cleanse itself very effectively. For the skin is more than a covering; it is, among other things, a medium for excretion. It shares the duty of the lungs in keeping the blood-stream pure; and, further, when healthily active responds to changes in temperature and allows the blood to come to the surface or to retire to the interior of the body, and thus to become cooled or kept warm as the necessity arises. If kept clean, it relieves the internal organs of a great deal of work. The skin, under ordinary conditions of external temperature, gets rid of about two pints of water in the form of sweat during the 24 hours — more in hot weather and on occasions of great exertion; and this sweat contains solid matter, salts, fats, waste products and other impurities. If these are allowed to remain on the skin they act as irritants. The outer skin is constantly flaking off; and these dead particles mix with the sweat and form a film which interferes with the absorption of oxygen and light. Dirt, too, is inevitable, and it is laden with living germs that only await a scratch or a cut, a 4
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