The whole world returns to a natural way of life. And it’s not surprising, that all leading cosmetic manufacturers certainly include vegetable extracts and oils in their creams’ compositions. Leading experts on thalassotherapy keep on inventing new programs, using various plants and minerals. Other thing is surprising: if one looks closely, you’ll see that at the heart of this beauty industry of many millions lie nothing but good old recipes, secrets of hereditary herbals and folk doctors.<\/p>\n
We pay a special attention to our way of life and inner senses. And receipts remain the same; we use the same plants, which have been keeping beauty of women for many thousands of years. Fruit extracts, flower essential oils, concentrated medicinal roots, and crushed spices – the entire culinary-cosmetic alchemy came to us from ancient days. And now it’s quite time to use it in our purposes – with its help we can recreate almost all the procedures of a -salon at home.<\/p>\n
Camomile: it can be used fresh and dry – added to baths and steam baths, used as a compresses and decoctions.
Honey: it excellently suits for masks, wrapping and as a base for a gentle scrub. It softens and smoothes.
Eggs: add them in face, body and hair masks. Yolks nourish, whites pull and clear skin.
Oatmeal: clears and softens skin, a wonderful base for scrub and nourishing masks.
Salt: tones up, takes out excessive liquid and saturates skin with minerals. A bath with sea salt prepares skin for other procedures.
Turmeric: it’s traditionally considered to be a female spice. An excellent base for masks and scrubs. Has a healing effect.
Sugar: you can add it in body scrubs to polish and soften your skin. Cucumber: has moistening, cooling and slightly astringent properties. Is used in masks and compresses. Oil: a vegetable oil suits for massage and nourishing masks. Apple-flower face tonic (refreshes and heals)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
1 peeled apple
1 tea-spoon of honey
2 drops of lemon essential oil
fresh rose petals<\/p>\n
Crush an apple to receive an apple sauce, add honey and petals, then boil with water. Leave for 20 minutes. Add essential oil and apply on a cleaned face with a cotton tampon. Wash off in 10-15 minutes. You can use this receipt for your steam bath. Pour this mixture with boiled water, cover your head with a towel and breathe scented steam during 10-15 minutes. You can replace rose petals by some collection of dry medicinal herbs or a usual tea. Baths and scrubs … will help to clean and refresh your skin, and scents of herbs and oils will raise your spirits. Salt feet bat (refreshes and deodorizes)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
200 g of sea salt
dry chamomile
sage
mint leaves
Boil herbs with 2 glasses of water and leave for a while. Dissolve sea salt in warm water in a bath or a basin and add your decoction there. Dip your feet in it for 10 minutes. Then massage your feet with a sugar-olive scrub. Sugar-olive hand scrub (peels and nourishes)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
1 tea-spoon of sugar
1 tea-spoon of olive oil (you can also add grounds, salt or spices)
Mix all ingredients right in your palm. Massage your hands and other parts of callous skin with this scrub. If you replace sugar by large sea salt, then you’ll receive an excellent remedy for anti-cellulite massage. And some cinnamon, crushed cloves or mint will help you to improve circulation of blood and increase skin tone. Rinse your skin with water after massage. Flower-herbal bath before going to bed (calms down and softens)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
a hand of dry lavender
a hand of chamomile flowers
1 small pack of valerian root collection.
Mix all herbs, put them in a linen pack and tie. Put this pack under warm water stream and fill in your bath. You can also boil herbs, filter and add to your bath.<\/p>\n
Balsams and wrappings
Massage a steamed out body with a scented balsam-scrub. Take contrast shower and do anti-cellulite wrapping. Shower balsam from Java Islan d(peels and smoothes)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
3\/4 glass of sugar
2 tea-spoons of turmeric
1\/3 glass of vegetable oil
a pinch of vanilla and several drops of essential oils
Mix all ingredients to a thin paste. Take a warm shower and massage your skin with this paste. Take a shower, run your skin with a sponge, and rinse with water again. Don’t be frightened if turmeric gives a yellow colour to your skin – hot water will wash it clean. Don’t use this scrub if your skin is sensitive or damaged.
Fruit hair balsam
(renews and nourishes)<\/p>\n
you’ll need:
juice of 2 oranges
pulp of ½ apple
½ banana
1 teaspoon of caraway-seeds
Mix all ingredients in a blender. Rub the mixture in clean wet hair. Leave for 20 minutes. Cover your hair with warm towel for better result. Then rinse with warm water carefully and wash your hair with shampoo.<\/p>\n
Face compresses and masks
Close your eyes and think about something beautiful. Let this refreshing mask become a reason to find although a minute for yourself! Mask of oatmea l(calms down sensitive skin)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
1 tea-spoon of oatmeal
1 tea-spoon of cream
2 tea-spoons of water
some salt
Mix all ingredients and apply on your face for 10 minutes. Then massage it gently and rinse mask with warm water. This old recipe will help to smooth wrinkles and cal down all irritations. Cucumber-honey compress (softens dry skin)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
3 table-spoons of honey
10 drops of lemon juice
1 cooled cucumber
this eastern recipe will return freshness and radiance to your skin. Add lemon juice in honey, apply on your face and massage during 5 minutes. Don’t wash off. Then put slices of cucumber on your face and neck. Have a rest for 15 minutes. A luxurious balsam of banana (cleans and nourishes)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
½ banana
1 tea-spoon of fresh cream
1 tea-spoon of honey
Mash banana with a fork to receive puree. Warm up cream, mix with honey and pour in a banana puree. Apply this mask on your face and neck, leave for 15-20 minutes and then wash off with warm water. Mask of almond-milk (neutralizes greasy shine)<\/p>\n
You’ll need:
5-6 shelled almonds
4 tea-spoons of oatmeal
½ cucumber<\/p>\n
This is a great remedy for combined skin. First of all, cook almond-milk: pour nuts with ½ glass of cool boiled water, and then crush in a blender. Crush a cucumber (unpeeled) Pour off juice in separate plate, and add in almond-milk. Then pour oatmeal. Apply this mixture on your face, massage slightly and leave for 15 minutes. You can use cucumber juice as a separate cooling and toning mask. You can soak a piece of cotton wool in this juice and do eye compress.<\/p>\n
Skin Care…. Naturally
many of us have no idea about our skin type and what should be used on the skin to get the glow\/complexion. Instead of thinking about trying for the lotions available in the market, which turns to give 'nil result', try these simpler tips to gift yourself, the sensational skin. These are more of naturally nourishing, inexpensive and easy to prepare. Undoubtedly, following these tips would give you best of the results, only after using it at regular basis and at regular intervals. So, be ready to pamper your skin with these 'natural skin care' recipes.<\/p>\n
1. Caring Carrot Mask: Take a carrot, grate and mix it well with one spoon of honey. Apply this all over the face and leave it for
only 15 minutes. Now wash and feel the difference after regular use.<\/p>\n
2. Punch of a Pineapple: After mashing up well a pineapple slice, mix it with the juice of an orange or a lemon and add all these
ingredients with wheat flour. Apply this mixture on the face and neck. Scrub it off after some time, to get fresh and smooth
skin.<\/p>\n
3. Lemon-Egg Protector: Whip an egg white till it gets peak up and store it in the freezer for about 15 minutes. Now add the juice
of a lemon and a grated tomato with this. Apply on the skin; practice the same for minimum of a month to get the soft skin.<\/p>\n
4. Guava Grace: Mash one guava; stir it well with the mixture of oatmeal and lemon juice. Apply this now on the face for about 20
minutes and wash it off to see the better glow.<\/p>\n
5. Spinach Support: Take a cup of raw pureed spinach and one spoon of fresh cream, mix well all these and apply on the face.
Leave it for about half an hour and wash it off to see the charming skin to support your great looks.<\/p>\n
6. Ravishing Radish Touch: Take half grated fresh radish, one spoon of vinegar, one spoon of lemon juice and one spoon of
honey. Mix all these ingredients in a glass of distilled water and store in a bottle. Wipe your skin regularly to shrink open pores
and reduce greasiness.<\/p>\n
7. Healthy Honey treat: Mix one spoon of honey with the white of an egg and grated potato. Apply this on the face and let it dry.
Wash it off with cold water and feel the magic of freshness.<\/p>\n
8. Marvel milk treatment: Mix together 50 grams dried pea powder, lemon juice, one pinch of camphor and a little milk. Apply it
over the face and leave it for 15 minutes and scrub it off with milk. This is good for treating scars.<\/p>\n
9. Strawberry silky soft: Mix well about 5 strawberries, one spoon of china clay and the juice of a small orange. Apply this on the
face and scrub it after about 20minutes with a towel dipped in cold water.<\/p>\n
10. Tomato and Sandal pack: Mix well one grated tomato, one spoon of sandalwood powder. Mix again all these ingredients in
rose water and apply on the face, leave it for 20 minutes. Wash it off to feel tightened skin.<\/p>\n
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