Today in stores you can find the most modern cosmetics - masks and creams for skin care. Typically, all this is chemistry, especially when for a lot of money you are offered to quickly remove wrinkles around the eyes, remove pigment spots on the face, improve the color and firmness( turgor) of the skin.
Be careful and prudent in your choice of cosmetics, and how long will their action - the advertised funds? Will not you sit on them forever? What happens if you decide not to use a certain kind of cosmetic products and switch to other types?
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How to make your face beautiful?
In this case, as in the choice of medications - do not rush to use the drugs of the last generation, it is better to start with simple options, and this is folk cosmetics - safe and reliable, proven for centuries, without the content of artificial chemical additives, and even more so - the gene modified.
Let's talk about natural beauty and natural cosmetics - masks and creams for skin care at home, which are always at hand! Ingredients you can buy at the pharmacy, relatively inexpensive.
Also in this publication we will look at masks, baths, creams for the care of the skin around the eyes, eyelids, neck, hands and feet at home.
Natural cosmetic masks and creams for facial skin care at home
Masks, like creams, are applied in the direction of skin lines:
- from the middle of the chin - to the lobes of the ears;
- from the corners of the mouth - towards the middle of the auricles;
- from the middle of the upper lip, the wings of the nose - to the top of the auricles;
- from the middle of the forehead - towards the temples;
- on the bridge of the nose - from the back to the tip of the nose, on the side surfaces of the nose and from the back to the base.
Before applying the mask, you need to wash or rub your face with a lotion that is appropriate for your skin type. The mask should not be applied to the skin around the eyes. This area should be greased with a nutritious cream, then for 2-3 minutes put on your face a linen napkin soaked in hot water. From heat, muscles relax, so that nutrients are better absorbed into the skin.
Compress is better to prepare with infusion of plants - chamomile flowers, coltsfoot leaves and sea buckthorn, yarrow flowers, etc. With sensitive skin from hot compress should be discarded.
The mask is left on the face for 15-20 minutes, then rinse with warm water and wash your face with cold.
Fruit masks can be made in winter, using fresh frozen berries and fruits for this purpose.
If the face is actively growing hard hair or dilated blood vessels, then the mask should not be done.
Masks for dry skin
Warm up any vegetable oil to a temperature of 38 degrees( just above body temperature), soak them with multilayer gauze and put it on your face. After a while, remove the mask with a swab dipped in hot water, after which it will get wet with a cool, damp towel.
Mix 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese and 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil. Put on face for 20 minutes, then rinse with warm water or kefir.
Yolk the eggs thoroughly grind with 1 teaspoon of olive oil, in which, for 10 minutes, in the water bath, the flowers of chamomile and turns in a ratio of 1: 1 were insisted. Mask the skin on a thin layer and after 10-15 minutes remove the medium brewed tea at room temperature. Dry the skin with a cream. The mask well narrows the expanded capillaries on a skin .
Mix 2 teaspoons of low-fat cottage cheese with 1 teaspoon of parsley juice and add 0.5 teaspoon of vitaminized fish oil or 1 teaspoon of flaxseed oil, as well as 1 lemon or orange peel. Apply the mask to the skin of the face, and after 10-15 minutes remove the cold decoction of parsley. Dry the skin with any fat cream.
Masks for dry and flabby skin
Mix 6-7 grams of fat cream with 0.5-1 teaspoon lemon juice and 0.5 teaspoon sour cream. The resulting mixture is applied to the skin for 20-25 minutes, and then remove with a swab soaked in a tonic lotion.
Mix 5-10 g of lanolin cream with 5-7 g of aged aloe juice and 5-10 ml of vegetable oil. Warm the mixture with massaging movements on the moist skin of the forehead and neck, after the preliminary warm salt compress. After 10-15 minutes, remove the mask with a spatula( or a spoon scoop) and apply a protein mask on top( 2 scoops of protein to grind with 0.5 teaspoon of fine salt).After 10 minutes, cleanse the skin with cotton wool soaked with St. John's wort infusion or sage, and then rinse with the same infusion and lubricate the skin with any liquid cream.
To prepare seasoned aloe juice, take a live plant( in a pot) and keep it in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf at a temperature of 2-3 degrees for 12-14 days. Grind 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese and 1 egg white with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Apply the mixture to cleansed face and neck.
Add 1 teaspoon of fennel and carrot juices to the mashed yolk. Stir and apply the mass to the face. Wash off the mask first with warm water and then with cold water. For very sensitive, irritated skin from the use of a mask, it is better to abstain .
Strain through the gauze juice of 100 g of raspberries and mix it with 2 tablespoons of fresh milk. Cut a mask from the gauze with holes for the nostrils and mouth, moisten it with the obtained composition and hold on the face for 15 minutes, then rinse your face with cool water.
Grate half the apple. Then mix with it 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 yolk, 1 teaspoon of ascorbic acid powder, vinegar and vegetable oil. The resulting mass is applied to the skin of the face for 30 minutes, then rinse with cool water.
To grind 1 teaspoon of honey with 1 tablespoon of milk. Keep the mixture on the face for 15-20 minutes. The mask is useful for dry, aging skin, especially effective in the spring .
Honey mixed with equal amounts of sour cream, milk, cream, cottage cheese. Apply with flaccid, dry, yellowish skin .
Masks for dry and normal skin
Grind 2 tablespoons of fatty cottage cheese with 1 tablespoon of warm milk or cream. Add on the tip of the knife salt and 1 spoon of warm vegetable oil. Mix everything until a uniform shiny mass is obtained. Remove the mask first with a spatula( or a handle of a spoon), and then with a wet cotton swab.
Wipe 2 well-washed medium-sized carrots and mix the resulting gruel with 1 egg yolk. Apply a thick coat to the face. After 20-25 minutes, cleanse the face with a cotton swab dipped in warm water. Such carrot masks are recommended to be done at least 1-2 times a week. mask well softens the skin and smooths wrinkles .
Stir in equal amounts of lime flowers, peppermint leaf, chamomile flowers, rosehip petals or roses. Shredded plants pour boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2.I could hardly cool down the broth. Saturate this broth gauze, folded in several layers, and place it on the washed face for 15-20 minutes, and then rinse your face with warm water.
Dilute yeast with 3% hydrogen peroxide or milk to a consistency of thick sour cream. After the mask, dry the face with a towel or paper towel and lightly powder. The yeast mask is useful for both dry and normal and oily skin. It vitaminizes, softens the skin , attaches to it elasticity .
Carefully mix the yolk, 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil, 0.5 teaspoons of fruit juice( apple or grape) and 0.5 teaspoon of honey or a nutritious cream. The mask is applied to the face skin washed by a warm infusion of linden with light, rubbing movements of the fingers of the right hand in two steps, with an interval of 5-7 minutes. Remove the mask with cotton wool soaked in cold linden broth.
Rub an egg yolk with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Keep on the face for 20-30 minutes.
Rub 2 teaspoons of yeast with an equal amount of warm milk. Add 0.5 teaspoon of honey and vitaminized fish oil or flaxseed oil. For a long time, you can put a lemon or orange peel. Put the mixture in hot water, at the first sign of fermentation, mix and warmly apply on the face, 20 minutes before, lightly lubricated with cream.
Mix 2 teaspoons of liquid cream with an equal amount of yolk. Put salt on the tip of the knife. After stirring, add 15-20 drops of vitamin A concentrate( retinol) in oil and vitamin E in oil. Apply to dry skin after hot saline compress. Remove recommended cold, weak tea.
Mix 2 teaspoons of yolk with 0.5-1 teaspoon of lemon and pumpkin juice and 1-2 teaspoons of sour cream. Tones up the skin and lightens it lightly .
Dilute 10 g of yeast in warm milk to the consistency of sour cream. Apply the mixture and the neck and hold for 10-15 minutes.
Masks for oily skin
For oily, porous or sweaty skin in the morning, it is useful to rinse your face with a cold infusion of plants - St. John's wort, sage, coltsfoot, yarrow: pour one tablespoon of herbal mixture 1 cup of boiling water and leave in a sealed container fornight. Or , St. John's wort, a leaf of sorrel, a leaf of coltsfoot, flower baskets of calendula in equal parts by volume, chop, mix and pour boiling water in the ratio 1: 2.After boiling, let the broth cool down.
Broth soak a multilayer gauze, which should be placed on a clean face for 15-20 minutes, and then wash your face with warm water.
Add 1 teaspoon of berry, fruit or vegetable juice( raspberries, strawberries, watermelon, cucumbers, grapes, etc.) to the mashed egg yolk and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil and sour cream. All gradually blend( sour cream add to the last).
Pour 2 teaspoons ground chopped or finely chopped dry sage leaves, 1 teaspoon of dog rose and 0.5 teaspoon of mint 1.5 cups of boiling water. Put into hot water for 30 minutes in a tightly closed container. Warm infusion slightly patting movements to put on the skin of the face. Then apply a thick mixture on the cheesecloth with holes for the eyes and mouth. The mask is applied to the face( gauze up), the face covered with a towel. After 20 minutes, remove the mask, after 3-5 minutes, dry the skin with a cream. This mask perfectly narrows the pores of .
Mix 2 teaspoons of cottage cheese with an equal amount of fruit or vegetable juice( any), add 0.25 teaspoons of vitamin E( apothecary) and apply to the skin. After 10 minutes, apply the mask again and after 15 minutes remove with a spatula, and then with salt water. Softens and narrows the pores of .
This mask besides softening nourishes and strengthens any skin of , and disinfects it. Cut 3-5 leaves of dandelion into small pieces, grind with a wooden spoon and mix with 2 teaspoons of low-fat cottage cheese. Before applying the mask, the affected areas of the skin should be lubricated with juice. After 15-20 minutes, remove the mask with a spatula and wipe the skin with sour milk. With dry skin, the leaves of dandelion, like the leaves of sorrel, mix with cottage cheese, and with oily skin - with protein.
Rub 6-8 leaves of sorrel with a wooden spoon and mix thoroughly with 2 teaspoons of protein. Before applying the mask, apply the juice to the affected areas, squeezed from the leaves. Within 10-15 minutes, apply the mask 2-3 times, washing off with tea solution.
Shake the yolk with the protein and apply to pre-cleaned and greased skin. Keep on the face for 15-20 minutes, then rinse with cold water.
Preheat 2 tablespoons of honey in a water bath, add 1 tablespoon of flour and beaten protein. Apply the mixture on face for 30 minutes.
Mix 2 tablespoons of oatmeal or oatmeal with 4 tablespoons of milk. After 30 minutes( when the flakes are swollen), apply mass to the face and neck. After 20 minutes, rinse with warm water.
Crush very finely 1 tablespoon of flaxseed and dilute with hot milk to the state of gruel. Warm the mixture and put it on the neck. Cover with a napkin to keep the heat longer. After 20 minutes, rinse with warm water. This mask is most suitable for the fading skin of .
Dissolve 1 teaspoon of sea salt in a small amount of water. Lubricate face with vegetable oil. Moisten the cotton swab in salt water and apply circular movements to the face and neck. Lubricate the skin with cream. The mask is especially useful for the fading skin of .
Beat 1 protein, add 10-15 drops of camphor alcohol and juice 1 slice of lemon. Apply a mask on the face with a swab. When the protein mask is dried, a film is formed, which must be washed off with room temperature water after 10-15 minutes. Protein perfectly tightens the pores of .
Vitamin masks
Peel the cleaned banana with a small amount of milk. If the skin is too oily, then you need to add a few drops of lemon juice to the mass. After removing the mask, wipe the face with a swab dipped in raw milk.
Cut in half one or two berries of strawberries and apply juice to the face and neck, and lightly moisten the eyelids. You can suppress the berries and put this gruel on your face. The mask is laid down, otherwise it slips. Such masks work perfectly on skin , soften it, brighten freckles .
Cut 2-3 grape berries and their juice to lubricate the face and neck.
Mask from sauerkraut gives freshness and velvety to the skin of the face. Put on the face 100 grams of sauerkraut for 15-20 minutes. Then remove the mask and rinse your face.
Grate carrots on a fine grater, mix with egg white, add 1 teaspoon of olive or peach butter, a little starch and put on face and neck.
Take 1 tablespoon of fresh cottage cheese and 1 tablespoon of peach or olive oil, milk and carrot juice. Mix them and apply a mask on your face.
Chop spinach leaves and cook in unsalted water or in milk, put on gauze and place it on face and neck. Then remove and wipe the skin with lotion. Usually used for irritated skin.
Apple peel and grate. Add one tablespoon of olive oil, milk or sour cream.(In case of oily skin, add 1 egg white.)
Cut tomatoes into mugs, put on face and neck, and top with gauze.
Lettuce leaves finely chopped, poured with olive oil and add a few drops of lemon juice. Cover this face and neck with this mask.
Nourishing softening masks
All nourishing softening masks are applied for a period of 15 to 20 minutes. Masks with an oily base are not washed off with water: excess oil is removed with a paper towel. Honey-egg masks are washed off with warm water, after which a nourishing cream is applied to the skin.
Skin thoroughly wipe with a cotton swab dipped in vegetable oil( peach, olive or sunflower).Then re-lubricate the face and apply a raw egg yolk, rubbing it with fingers moistened with hot water. At the same time a white foamy mass resembling mayonnaise is formed on the face.
Preheat 100 g of honey and gently pour in 50 ml of heated water-alcohol solution( 1: 1), stirring all the time. The composition should be applied to the face with a cotton swab.
Mix 1 teaspoon of honey with 1 teaspoon of glycerin and 1 teaspoon of flour. The resulting mixture should be diluted with 3 teaspoons of water, rubbed and applied to the face and neck.
Bean glass soak in water for several hours, then boil and rub through a sieve. Add the juice of half a lemon and 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
Take 50 g of yolk, vegetable oil and honey, grind into a homogeneous mass. This mass of smeared face, neck, chest even layer. is recommended for dry, irritated skin with wrinkles, especially around the eyes of .
Pour 2-3 tablespoons of wheat flakes with hot milk or hot water. The received mass to grease the face. It is used to soften dry, weather-beaten, coarse skin.
Treatment masks
Dissolve 1 tablespoon of calendula tincture in 2 cups of water and then moisten a thin layer of cotton wool with this solution. Slightly wrung out, soaked with cotton wool, apply on face, leaving openings for eyes, mouth and nostrils. After 10 - 15 minutes, remove the mask, do not wash your face. Well disinfects the skin .
Well resolves infiltrates after acne and cleans the face of the paraffin mask .The paraffin is melted in a water bath, and then applied to the face with a flat brush. First you need to check how hot it is. To do this on the back of the forearm should be done with a brush with paraffin applied to it.
When applying a paraffin mask, it is necessary to lie( in general, one can apply paraffin alone to individual small areas - for example, to the wrinkles of the nose bridge, to the nasolabial folds, to the seals after the furuncle, etc.).In this case, the hair should be covered with a scarf, the neck - with a napkin, the eyes - with a moist tampon moistened with a solution of boric acid. Paraffin is applied in 2-3 layers. From above put a layer of cotton wool with holes for breathing( mouth, nostrils).
Over cotton wool - towel. The paraffin mask is applied for 15-20 minutes. After removing it, the face is cleansed.
When applying a paraffin mask on a dry skin, the face must first be wiped with refined vegetable oil, and after the procedure, apply a nourishing cream.
Paraffin masks are made 2 times a week or every other day. A full course can include up to 20 masks.
ATTENTION!The use of paraffin is contraindicated in the expansion of blood vessels and capillaries, with excessive hairiness, increased excitability of the autonomic nervous system, hypertension.
Whitening masks
Such masks should be done before going to bed, since after them it is not recommended to go out into the sunlight. When using whitening masks regardless of the type of skin( oily, dry or normal), daily photoprotective creams should be used.
Mix 2 tablespoons of green peas with 2 tablespoons of whey. Stretch to obtain a homogeneous mass, and apply to the face. After 20-25 minutes rinse with cold water.
Grate cucumber and mix gruel with 1 tablespoon of any nutritious cream. With oily skin, the cucumber juice should be mixed with an equal amount of vodka and infused for 24 hours.
Gauze wipes moistened with a prepared solution and put on the face for 15-20 minutes, leaving your eyes, nose and mouth open. You can also cut the fresh cucumber in half and rub the face and neck with juice.
Boil potatoes in a uniform, peel, add milk and egg yolk. Rastoloch and put on a steam bath for 20-30 minutes. Then apply the received mass to the face, covering it with a dense cloth.
Freshly squeezed and filtered juice of 1 lemon is mixed with 100 g of honey. Daily, before washing for 10-30 minutes, apply on the face, neck and chest.
To 2 tablespoons of oatmeal or corn flour add whipped egg whites. Mix everything and put a mask on your face. After 15-20 minutes rinse with warm water.
Beat egg white foam and add 10-20 drops of 5-10% perhydrol solution( hydrogen peroxide).Apply to face. After 15 minutes, rinse with cool water.
For dry skin it is better to use the following composition: cream and lemon juice in equal proportions, 5-10 drops of a 10% solution of hydrogen peroxide. Stir thoroughly and apply cotton mixture on face. After 30-40 minutes rinse with warm water. To enhance the action of the mask, first wash your face with hot water and soap, and after drying put a thin layer of cotton.
Rub 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese with a raw yolk and a few drops of hydrogen peroxide. Dense, without lumps, a mask to put on the face and neck.
Take 1 teaspoon of honey and oat flakes, 2 teaspoons of raw milk and stir well. Apply the mask for 20 minutes.
Beat 3 teaspoons of cottage cheese and 1 teaspoon of honey. This mixture should be applied to the face for 20 minutes, then washed off with a swab soaked in cold milk.
Preheat any vegetable oil in a water bath. From cotton wool make a mask 1 cm thick with holes for the eyes and mouth. Heated oil to 36-38 degrees, put the oil on the inside of the mask and, without letting it cool, quickly put on the face. On top, you need to put a napkin and a terry towel. After 15 minutes, remove the mask, and remove the remaining oil with a warm, damp towel pressing the movements.
Oil masks are recommended for the beginning of aging of the facial skin, its dryness, the appearance of fine wrinkles in the corners of the eyes, mouth, and temporal areas of the .
Take in equal parts the flowers of chamomile, a leaf of sage, a leaf of mint, rose petals. Grass is well chopped, 2 tablespoons of the powder boil with boiling water to form a mushy mass, adding 0.5 teaspoon of vegetable oil( preferably olive or corn).Well mixed and cooled to 40 degrees, apply on face for 15-20 minutes, covering the top with gauze napkins and a terry towel.
These herbs are more suitable for dry skin .For oily skin, , uses camomile flowers, carrots, lime flowers, horsetail grass, and marigold flowers . oil in this case does not add .
Whit egg whites and add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Blend the mixture on your face for 20-30 minutes, then rinse with warm water.
Prepare an infusion of lime color: 1 tablespoon per glass of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes. Then add 1 teaspoon of honey to the infusion, cool it. Lubricate face and neck and wash off with warm water after 15 minutes. Repeat the procedure the next day.
Grate 1 carrot, add 1 yolk, a few drops of lemon juice and vegetable oil. The mask should be applied to the face for 20-25 minutes. Remove it with a cotton swab dipped in warm water.
Mix 1 grated carrots with egg whites, beaten in a firm foam, and add flour until a gruel-like mass is formed. Apply the mask for 15-20 minutes.
To 1 grated carrot add 1 teaspoon of potato starch or freshly prepared mashed potatoes and half of egg yolk. It's good to mix everything and apply a smooth layer on your face.
Cosmetic creams for face care at home
Creams for dry skin
Take 1 tablespoon of apple juice, 2 tablespoons of white cabbage juice, 35 g of lanolin and 20 ml of corn oil. Add a warm mixture of juices to the alloy of lanolin and oil by parts, mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mass forms. Keep refrigerated. This cream is suitable for normal skin type.
Take 1 tablespoon of pumpkin juice and pear juice, 10 g of beeswax and honey, 35 g of lanolin and 5 g of wheat starch. Preheated to a temperature of 40-45 degrees of juice mixed with honey and in parts add to the still liquid alloy of wax and lanolin in a water bath. With stirring, as the mass cools, add starch. The cream is useful to use with the fading face skin .
Pass the rose petals( 4-5 buds) through a meat grinder and carefully grind with butter melted in a water bath( 50 g) and beeswax( 10 g).The cream is also suitable for normal skin.
Take 1.5 tablespoons juice of fresh carrots, 2 egg yolks, 15 ml of sunflower oil and wax. Warm carrot juice mixed with whipped yolks and add with vigorous stirring( in a mortar or mixer) to a warm wax and butter mixture until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The cream perfectly cleanses the skin pores of .
Melt 50 g of butter or margarine on a water bath, 2-3 teaspoons of vegetable oil. In the mixture add 2 yolks and grind. While stirring constantly, pour in a solution of honey( 2 teaspoons) and glycerin( 1 teaspoon) in chamomile infusion( 0.5 cup) and then 30 ml of camphor alcohol and continue stirring until completely cooled.
To make this chamomile, 1 tablespoon( top) of dry inflorescences, pour 0.5 cups of boiling water, cover and leave for 1 hour. Then strain, squeezing the grass. The resulting cream should be placed in a glass jar with ground glass stopper and stored in a cool place. The cream can be used with aging, wrinkled skin for the mask , which is applied for 20 minutes.
To grind 1 tablespoon gruel from persimmon fruit with 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 egg yolk and 1 teaspoon of honey until smooth. Apply the cream on face for 20-30 minutes, remove excess with a paper napkin. The cream is suitable for normal skin.
Take 20 ml of the juice of plantain leaves and the leaf of the mother-and-stepmother( 1 part of the leaf is poured with 5 parts of water and insists), 30 g of lanolin and sunflower oil. Warm up in a water bath lanolin, mixed with butter, add warm juice and infusion. Stir vigorously until a homogeneous mass forms.
Thoroughly grind 2 tablespoons pulp of pulp with 2-3 spoons of melted bone marrow, 1 yolk, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Rinse the mixture, drop by drop, add 1 tablespoon of camphor alcohol. Keep refrigerated. This cream is more suitable for withering, dry skin .
Mix well and heat on a water bath a mixture of the following ingredients: 2 tablespoons of cocoa butter and emulsifying wax, 1 tablespoon of beeswax, 4 tablespoons of olive or sunflower oil, 1 tablespoon of almond oil. When the whole mixture is completely melted, remove from heat and mix until cooled. You can add a few drops of perfume. Cream makes the skin smooth and lean .If there is no wax, take 2 tablespoons of lanolin and 8 tablespoons of almond oil( sesame or sunflower) and melt them in a water bath. This cream is very useful for dry skin, as well as for the skin care of elbows, knees, feet and neck. For oily skin in the cream, add 2 tablespoons of water.
Take 1 teaspoon of lime flowers, chamomile flowers, peppermint leaf, rose petals, jasmine petals and white lily petals and pour 0.5 liters of boiling water. Insist in a thermos for 30 minutes, then strain. Mix with an equal amount of flaxseed, nut or cottonseed oil until an emulsion is formed and drop 1 teaspoon of stone oil into the mixture until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Take 1 tablespoon chamomile flowers, rosemary, sage leaf, mother-and-stepmother leaf, horse chestnut flowers, dandelion leaf and althea grass and pour 1 cup of water. Brew for 10 minutes on low heat. Mix 2 tablespoons of broth with 2 tablespoons of camphor alcohol and 50 g of butter. Grind to a homogeneous mass and store in the refrigerator for no more than 2 weeks. For the stability of the cream should be added 2 ml of vitamin E( sold in pharmacies).
To grind 1 tablespoon of butter with 1 yolk, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of gruel from mashed fruits of mountain ash or plum to obtain a homogeneous mass. The resulting cream is applied to the face. After 20-30 minutes excess it or him to remove or take off a paper or a soft pure or clean cloth from a tissue.
Melt 3 tablespoons of coconut or peach oil on the water bath, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of almond oil, 0.5 tablespoon of beeswax. In a separate dish, dissolve 0.5 teaspoons of borax in 3 tablespoons of hot water. Then slowly pour this solution into a mixture of oils and wax and stir until completely cooled.
Melt 50 g of butter, 10 g of beeswax, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, add 10 g of fresh nettle leaves, ashberry, hops or parsley, currants, jasmine petals and roses passed through a meat grinder. Thoroughly grind this mixture.
Apply the cream to well-steamed skin. Suitable for aging, aging skin. Remove the brain from the tubular beef bone and melt it on a steam bath, stirring and stirring.
Strain through 2 layers of gauze, pour into a jar. Before solidification in the mass, add 1-2 tablespoons of castor and olive oil, 1 yolk and 1 teaspoon of honey. Store in a cool, dark place.
Creams for oily skin
Several overripe cucumbers to peel, cut along and spoon out seeds with juice. Half the cucumbers pass through a meat grinder and combine with juice and seeds. Put the mass in a large glass jar, add alcohol( or vodka) based on: 1 part of the mass of 2 parts of alcohol( vodka).Keep 3 weeks in the sun. During this time, the bank will be filled to the top with oil from the seeds of cucumbers. Pour it into small bottles and store in a cool place. Every morning, wipe your face with cotton wool soaked in cucumber cream.
In the mashed yolk, add 1 cup of cream or sour cream and grind everything. Gradually add to this mixture juice of 1 lemon, 0.5 glasses of vodka and 1 glass of boiled water. Shake the cream thoroughly and store it in a dry, cool place.
Take 2 tablespoons of mashed fruit or berries( currants, mountain ash, quince, persimmon, strawberry, citrus, etc.), 2-3 tablespoons of melted bone marrow, 1 yolk, 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 spoonful of vegetable oil. Thoroughly grind, adding to the mixture dropwise 1 tablespoon of camphor alcohol.
Mix 50 g of lanolin with 0.5 cup of herbal infusion: 1 tablespoon herb St. John's wort, calendula flowers, chamomile flowers, hop cones, pour 1 cup boiling water. Add 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
Take 3.5 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon of melted wax, 1 tablespoon of glycerin, 2 tablespoons of lemon( or cucumber) juice, 0.5 teaspoons of boric acid. Finely chopped wax filled with vegetable oil, add boric acid and put in a water bath. When the mass melts, it should be slightly cooled and, carefully rubbing, add glycerin and lemon( cucumber) juice.
Take 0.5 cups of fresh or frozen strawberry juice, 1 dessert spoonful of lanolin and powdered oat flour or flakes. First, dissolve lanolin in a water bath, then add oatmeal. Beat until smooth, gradually adding juice.
Beat egg white, add 100 ml of cologne, 100 ml of 5% alum solution, 1 lemon juice and 4-5 g of glycerin to it. If the skin is porous, but not very greasy, then to this mixture can add 4-5 ml of castor oil.
Take 50 g of honey, 80 g of glycerin, 6 g of gelatin, 0.5 glasses of water, 1 g of salicylic acid. Soak gelatin in water, and then add the glycerin, salicylic acid to the swollen mass, place the cup in a jar with hot water and dissolve the mixture. Then cool and beat.
Grind 2 yolks with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, add 1 teaspoon of liquid honey, 1 tablespoon of glycerin, 1.5 cups of water. Pour into a bottle, shake, add 2 teaspoons of camphor alcohol and shake again.
Creams for aging skin
Grind the zest for 3 lemons, pour 1 cup boiling water, infuse for 8-10 hours, then strain through gauze and squeeze well. The infusion is combined with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil, 3 lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of cream or milk, 3 tablespoons of cologne, 0.5 cups of pre-prepared and cooled infused rose petals, jasmine, white lily. Keep the cream in the refrigerator. Well suited for smoothing wrinkles on aging skin .
Rub 25 g of butter with 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of gruel from mashed ashberry fruit. After thorough grinding, pour in 15 ml of camphor alcohol and again carefully grind this mixture.
Mix 2 tablespoons of mashed strawberries( garden) with 2-3 tablespoons of melted bone marrow, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Rinse the mixture, add to it by drop, 1 tablespoon of camphor alcohol. The cream is useful for dry, fading skin .
Rub 2 tablespoons of lemon pulp with 2-3 tablespoons of melted bone marrow, 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Rinse the mixture, add to it dropwise 1 tablespoon of camphor alcohol. The cream is useful for with aging skin .
Grind the zest for 2 lemons, pour 1 cup boiling water, insist 8-10 hours and strain through cheesecloth, squeezed out the remainder well. To grind 100 g of butter with 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 yolk and 1 teaspoon of honey. In the mixture slowly, in portions, add the juice of 2 lemons, 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon of camphor alcohol( by drop) and infusion of zest. The cream is useful for for dry, fading skin .
Creams for any skin type
Thoroughly grind 25 grams of margarine or butter with 1 yolk and with flowers( roses, white lily, jasmine, lily of the valley, violets).Rip flowers carefully, not shaking off the pollen. The cream should not be stored in the refrigerator for more than a week.
Take 3 teaspoons of beeswax, 3 teaspoons of emulsifying wax, 0.5 cups of almond oil, 0.5 cups of peach oil, 3 tablespoons of rose water. Mix in enamel ware on a water bath wax, avocado oil( peach) and almond oil. With constant mixing of the mixture, add the heated rose water by drop. Remove from heat, stir until cooled. Add a few drops of perfume.
Preheat 120 g honey for a couple, add 240 grams of water lanolin and 100 ml of almond oil. Stir the mixture thoroughly, remove from heat and shake. Keep refrigerated.
Take 1 tablespoon of lanolin, 2 tablespoons of white wax( emulsifying), 6 tablespoons of beeswax, almond oil, herbal lotion or grass infusion comfrey. Melt the wax and oil in a water bath, cool and keep in the refrigerator. To 2 teaspoons of this cream( in the molten form) add 1 teaspoon of any lotion or infusion of herbs of your choice.
Mix 3 tablespoons of almond oil, 4 tablespoons of elderberry flowers and 1 tablespoon of lanolin in a dish in a water bath, boil the mixture for 1 hour, strain and slowly add warm water.
Cleansing creams
Take 1.5 tablespoons of beeswax or white paraffin, 1 tablespoon of emulsifying wax, 4 tablespoons of vaseline oil, 6 tablespoons of rose water, 0.5 teaspoons of borax, 2-3 drops of rose oil( for flavoring).Soften the wax and oil. At the same time, heat the bottom with the borax so that the drill completely dissolves. Remove both bowls from the fire and pour water into the oil.
Continue stirring until white cream is obtained. When the mixture starts to cool, add the rose oil to it. Continue stirring until the thickened mass.
Take 3 teaspoons of wax, 4 teaspoons of coconut oil, 5 teaspoons of olive oil, 4 tablespoons of cucumber juice, 1 teaspoon of glycerin, a pinch of borax. Melt the oils and wax in the usual way in a vessel with boiling water and simultaneously heat the cucumber juice, glycerin, and borax in a separate bowl.(Make sure that the drill has dissolved completely.) When the contents of both vessels heat up and melt, add water by drop to the oils, stirring constantly. Then remove the vessel and mix the contents until the mixture thickens and cools. Keep the cream in the fridge, as the cucumber juice quickly spoils.
Take 20 ml of aloe leaf juice, 20 g of honey, 2 egg yolks, 10 ml of sunflower oil, 15 g of beeswax. In a water bath, melt the wax and mix with the oil. To the received warm alloy in parts add the mashed mixture of yolks, honey and warm aloe juice. With thorough mixing, a uniform cream mass is formed.
Neck skin care at home
Neck compresses
Pour a handful of chamomile inflorescences 1 glass of milk, boil, cool. Warm the mixture with a damp cloth and wrap around the neck. Top with polyethylene film and terry towel. Hold for 15 minutes. After a compress, the neck can not be washed, but you can wipe it with a towel and apply a cream. Such a compress is good for using with sluggish, stretched skin .
With the faded skin of the neck contrast compresses are useful. Hot compresses should be applied for 1-2 minutes, cold compresses should be applied for 5 minutes. Hot compress should be made from a leaf of mint leaves, as well as from infusion or decoction of a medicinal sage leaf.
Neck Cream
Mix 1 yolk, 1 teaspoon of honey, 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon of infusions of chamomile flowers, 15 ml of camphor alcohol and the same amount of lanolin or petroleum jelly. The cream is applied to the skin after a hot compress.
Eye Care at home
Soaps and compresses for eyes
Pour 1-3 tablespoons of blue cornflower flowers 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, then strain. Infusion to wash the upper and lower eyelids after removing the carcass - this will prevent them from irritation. Tampons moistened in warm infusions, periodically apply to the eyes and keep for 15-20 minutes with reddened eyelids, tired eyes that have lost their luster .
Pour 1-2 teaspoons of dried linden flowers 1 cup boiling water, infuse for 10-15 minutes, then strain. This infusion rinses the eyes with redness of the eyelids. Instead of washing, you can make lotions: moisten in a warm tincture gauze napkin or bandage, lightly squeeze and put on your eyes for 3-5 minutes. The procedure removes the puffiness of the eyelids, eye fatigue, is applied to wrinkles .
Pour 1 tablespoon of fresh birch leaves 1 glass of cold water, insist 8 hours, then strain. Well helps in the form of lotions with swelling of the eyelids .
If the skin around the eyes has darkened, apply fresh mashed peppermint leaves to the eyes. Pour 1-2 tablespoons of mint leaves with 2 glasses of hot water, boil on low heat for 5-10 minutes. When the temperature of the broth is reduced to room temperature, it must be filtered, soaked cotton swabs and applied to the eyes for 10 minutes( with swelling).
With inflamed eyes, tampons should be lowered into a warm liquid and applied to the eyes for 1-2 minutes, repeating this procedure 3-4 times in a row.
Pour 1-2 teaspoons of dried herbs and chamomile flowers in a pharmacy 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 10-15 minutes, then drain. Pieces of gauze or cotton wool moisten and infuse and apply to the eyelids for 3-5 minutes. Apply with eye fatigue, and also with their inflammation and redness of .
Mix 1 tablespoon lime flowers and chamomile flowers and pour 1 cup boiling water. After cooling to room temperature, infusion strain through gauze. With the resulting liquid, moisten the cotton swabs and apply them to the eyes for 10 minutes.
Lotions help the preserve the glitter of the eyes, clear the eyelids from the makeup and mascara .Pour 1-2 tablespoons dry chamomile inflorescences 1 glass of water, boil for 10 minutes, then cool, strain and pour into two cups. Put one cup in a water bath so that the broth is warm, then cool the second cup with the broth. Wadded or gauze swabs moistened with a warm broth, put on eyelids for 20 seconds, then replace with swabs soaked in cold broth, and leave them on the eyelids for 3-5 seconds. This procedure should be repeated 5-6 times, ending with a cold compress. Skin around the eyes after the end of the procedure, drain and lubricate with a nutritious cream, slightly driving in with fingertips. Apply with eye fatigue .
In stitched from soft cloth bags to pour a little dry inflorescences of chamomile, place them in a bowl with boiling water and leave for 5-10 minutes. Then, while the bags are still warm, put them on both eyes. This compress is used for heavily inflamed eyes and swollen eyelids. In addition, it protects from the early appearance of wrinkles around the eyes.
Pour 2 tablespoons herb horsetail field with 1 glass of water, boil for 30 minutes, then strain. In the broth obtained, moisten pieces of bandage or cotton wool and apply to the eyelids. Apply with eye fatigue and swelling around them.
Eye creams
Take 25 grams of any fat cream or butter, add 10 ml of water chamomile and lime blush and 5 ml of castor oil, carefully grind. Apply in the morning and in the evening, lightly driving in a damp( moistened in a water infusion of chamomile and lime-colored) cotton swab. Keep the cream in the refrigerator.
Take 1 tablespoon of lanolin, 1.5 tablespoons of almond oil, 1 teaspoon of lecithin in powder, 2 tablespoons of cold water. Melt the lanolin in a water bath and add the almond oil. Remove from the heat and slowly add lecithin, and then drop by drop - cold water. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon. Check for allergies.
Hand care at home
Hand baths
Pour 1 tablespoon of ground leaves of plantain 1 liter of water. Keep hands in the bath for 10-15 minutes, then wipe them dry with a towel and grease with a thick cream for hands.
Pour 1 tablespoon chamomile flowers 1 liter of water, put on a fire and boil for 5 minutes. In a bowl, pour the broth( temperature 40-42 degrees), put hands there for 15-20 minutes. After the procedure, rub the fat cream into the skin.
Pour 1 tablespoon of nettle leaves 1 liter of water. Effectively used as a tonic for hands. Keep hands in the infusion for 10-15 minutes, then wipe dry and grease with a nutritious hand cream.
Pour 2 tablespoons finely chopped sage medicinal leaves 2 cups of boiling water, insist until cooled, then strain. Do the bath. The duration of the bath is 10-15 minutes.
Celery root of medium size pour 1 liter of water and boil for 30 minutes. Make baths for hands.
Pour 2 teaspoons of potato starch with 1 glass of water, stir, add 300 ml of warm water and hold hands in this water until the water cools. After this procedure, lubricate hands with carrot oil, which can be left overnight. Carrot oil should be prepared as follows: grate a small red carrot on a small grater, fold into a cup, pour with vegetable oil, so that its level is 2 fingers above the carrot.
Masks for the skin of hands
Carefully wash the fresh leaves of coltsfoot, grind them and mix 2 tablespoons of gruel with 1 glass of milk. Apply to the skin for 15 minutes. Well helps with dry and weather-beaten skin of hands .
Boil the potatoes, rub through a sieve and mix with milk until it is mushy. Apply gruel in your hands for 10-15 minutes. The potato well whitens the skin of the hands .
Grind the peeled potatoes with milk to a mushy state and add 8-10 drops of castor oil. Prepared hot mass spread on the fabric and wrap it with hands. Keep the compress until the mixture is completely cool. Instead of potato paste, you can use a regular potato paste. For its preparation, dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 0.5 glasses of cold water and brew 1 liter of boiling water. Allow the mixture to cool slightly and add 10 drops of castor oil.
Creams for the skin of hands
Recipe № 1 .Pour 1 tablespoon of leaves of plantain 1 cup of boiling water, infuse for 8-9 hours, cover, then strain. To grind 50 g of butter with 1 teaspoon of honey, add 1 teaspoon of plantain infusion and mix thoroughly. Instead of plantain leaves you can use the flowers of chamomile pharmacy, herbaceous plants, flowers of calendula. Apply to the skin of hands.
Recipe No.2 .Mix and melt the following ingredients in a water bath: 2 tablespoons of lanolin, 1.5 teaspoons of cocoa butter, 1 tablespoon of beeswax, 5 teaspoons of liquid paraffin, 1 teaspoon of almond oil. Slowly add a thoroughly stirred to dissolve 0.25 teaspoon borax with 2 tablespoons of water.
Foot care at home
Pour 2 tablespoons of ground nettle leaves 1 liter of water, insist. Make foot baths. The duration of the bath is 10-15 minutes. After the procedure, wipe off your feet, lubricate with a nutritious cream or fat and massage lightly. With cracks in the legs .
Boil 50 g of hawthorn flowers in 1 liter of water for 10 minutes and strain. Take 2 basins, in one pour the broth, and in the other - cold water. After keeping the feet in the broth for 2 minutes, lower them for 10 seconds in cold water. Repeat the procedure 5 times, ending it with cold water.
Boil 2 tablespoons of ground nettle root in one glass of vegetable oil for 1 minute, cool. Lubricate the feet. The lotion is effective for peeling, itching, calluses, edema of the legs .
Pour 200 g of dry herb celandine 2 liters of boiling water and insist until it cools. To make baths at a sweating, unpleasant smell, an itch, a peeling of a skin of legs .
Pour 2 tablespoons of flaxseed into one liter of boiling water. Make foot baths.
Take 1 tablespoon leaves of ashberry, calendula flowers and herb wormwood and pour 1 cup boiling water. Infuse for 10 minutes. For 1 liter of foot bath water, add 1 tablespoon of infusion. Softens the skin, relieves pain, swelling of the .
Pour 2 tablespoons of a mixture of chamomile flowers, flaxseed and pine needles( 1: 1: 1) 1 liter of boiling water, insist. If possible, add 1 tablespoon of sea salt per 1 liter of infusion. The duration of the foot bath is 15-20 minutes.
Pour 2 tablespoons horsetail field 1 liter of water. The duration of the foot bath is 15-20 minutes.
Place 2 tablespoons of the crushed grass of the string in enameled dishes, pour in 0.5 liters of water and, stirring, heat on a water bath for 30 minutes. Then strain and add water to the original volume. The duration of the foot bath is 15-20 minutes.
Pour 3 tablespoons dried chamomile flowers 1 liter of boiling water, insist for 1 hour in a sealed container, then strain. For a bath, heat the infusion to a moderate temperature and keep the legs in it until it cools. Apply with sweating, unpleasant odor, itching, fatigue and heaviness at the feet of .
Pour 100 g of oak bark with 5 liters of water, boil. To do for the night daily baths at a sweating of legs .
Source: edition of the articles from the book "Travnik: golden recipes of folk medicine / Comp. A. Markov ».- M.: Eksmo;The Forum, 2007. - 928 p.