2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Today we will run through our summer cottages, trying to find among the ornamental plants those that will help us in caring for our skin. It is so nice when the skin is soft and silky, not disappointing. Often we think about the skin only when it starts to rebel, covered with a rash, acne and other "negligible", demanding our attention
Calendula
Single large baskets-inflorescences of bright orange calendula today are not uncommon in our summer cottages and in city flower beds. For its unpretentious seeds, resembling bird's claws, the plant has earned the popular name - Marigold.
A friendly family of useful substances has gathered in flower baskets, among which there are essential oils, organic acids, resins, bitterness, saponins, phytoncides and our old friend - carotene. Moreover, the richer the orange color of the inflorescence, the more vitamin A precursor in the flowers.
Water infusion or alcoholic tincture of flowers orange beauty will relieve irritation and inflammation of the skin, eliminate annoying pain. To reduce pores on the skin, reduce its fat content, a teaspoon of dried flowers and a glass of boiling water are enough. After 15 minutes, the infusion is ready for applying lotions and rubbing.
Porous oily skin needs more attention from calendula. Come in handy here
masks from cotton wool or gauze, soaked in a solution of 1 tablespoon
alcoholic tincture of flowers and half a glass of water. A mask is applied to the previously cleansed skin for 15 minutes, after which the skin is wiped with a dry swab.
But Calendula also heals dry skin. For this, an ointment is prepared by mixing
alcohol tincture of flowers with petroleum jelly. This ointment will help in the fight against acne, boils.
Fresh flower juice relieves pain and skin irritation from accidental stings of bees, mosquitoes, wild wasps, indispensable companions of a warm summer.
Peppermint
Leaves this yesterday's wild, perfectly fitting into country flower beds and garden beds, is used to prepare
water infusionsreceiving air
peppermint oil and clean
menthol, the main component of the oil.
One tablespoon of dry leaves and a glass of boiling water is enough for cooking
water infusion (insist for half an hour), relieves skin irritation.
To prevent expression and age wrinkles, rubbing the skin every night will help.
infusion of a mixture of leaves such plants as mint, yarrow, St. John's wort (the latter two are taken with flowers), and also linden, chamomile, and calendula flowers are added for the company. All this aromatic wealth is poured with two glasses of boiling water and left alone for half an hour. After straining, add two tablespoons of vodka to the infusion, and the healing potion is ready for use.
Looking back on the experience of empresses, who monitored the condition of their skin in order to set a worthy example for their subjects, today it has become fashionable to wipe the skin with ice cubes. To make the cubes not only cold, but also aromatic and vitamin, various herbs began to be added to them. Here is one of the recipes
refreshing ice, in which mint leaves take part:
Pour two cups of boiling water with a mixture of dry mint leaves and linden flowers and coltsfoot, taken in one tablespoon. After natural cooling of the infusion, it is poured into suitable containers and placed in the freezer. When you have such a magical remedy in your freezer, it is simply a sin not to start your morning with a refreshing procedure that gives elasticity and tenderness to the skin and vigor to the whole body for the whole working day.
Summary
Simple and accessible to everyone recipes for maintaining the skin - an excellent replacement for imported expensive cosmetics. You just need to love yourself a little and not be too lazy to bend down in order to rip off the gifts of nature, created for man by the Almighty.
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