Many matrons who grieved in their youth over thestructural defects of the skin leading to enlarged pores are the envyof their daughters who are now passing through the same cycle”(Goodman, 1936). Goodman recommended the following astringentsto shrink pores: alcohol, tannins (in almond, cinnamon, rose,lavender, or lemon oils), alum, bismuth, acetic/boric/citric/lacticacid, balsam of Peru, active beta-naphthol, resoricin, sulfur, lecithin,and metal salts (Goodman, 1936).