Cosmetics In The Vegetable Garden. Part 4

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Familiar and beloved vegetables are suitable not only for the dinner table to add vitamins and energy to the human body, but can help overcome skin problems by being medicines that attack pathogenic microbes and viruses

Cucumbers

It would seem that a cucumber, which is 96 percent water, can add to the preventive effect of water on the human body? Thousands of years of cultivation of cucumbers in culture have shown that the cucumber is capable of many things. Indeed, the remaining 4-5 percent contains a lot of fiber, minerals, vitamins of all kinds, carotene, the role of which in the metabolic processes of the human body cannot be overestimated.

Irreplaceable multifunctional

acid "methionine"contained in these four percent, helps to fight rosacea, seborrhea (increased sebum secretion that is painful for the skin), helps to strengthen the hair. Of course, its content in cucumbers is not as high as in Brazil nuts, soybeans or raw salmon fillets, but these products do not appear on our tables as often.

The content of vitamins, enzymes, iodine has a beneficial effect on the skin of the face and body, preserving its softness and whiteness, if you use cucumber juice in skin care.

Manufacturers of cosmetics are actively using the properties of cucumber in lotions, cucumber masks, cream, advertising their products as a panacea for giving the skin elasticity, eliminating expression and age wrinkles, getting rid of annoying acne.

Although

cucumber juice It is easy to cook at home or in the country by picking ripe cucumbers from the garden, which are too big for fresh salads and pickling. Chopping the cucumbers, squeeze the juice, to which vodka or alcohol is added at the rate of 3 parts of juice 1 part of alcohol. By pouring a healing potion into vials with well-screwed caps, you can forget about expensive beauty salons. Self-made lotion will help keep the skin clean, protect it from the effects of acids that lead to early skin aging, prolong youth and good mood. For a single use, you can also use pure cucumber juice, wiping your face with a cotton swab dipped in the juice.

Carrot

A girl sitting in a dungeon does not waste time in vain, accumulating a lot of useful substances in her elegant root vegetable, among which carotene, which turns into vitamin A in the human body, in the "career ladder" of vegetables, is second only to red in terms of carotene content. pepper, knowing perfectly well what it is like to live in the dark, and therefore helping a person to maintain vision.

But our conversation with you today is not about vision, although this is also very important, but about maintaining our protective shell, skin, in an elastic and vigorous state. It turns out that vitamin A, born from the carotene of carrots eaten by humans (preferably eaten with fats that dissolve carotene, helping it turn into a vitamin) contributes to healthy skin.

Carrots have one little trick. She likes to place healing substances directly under the thin shell-skin. Therefore, you should not peel the carrots with a knife, cutting off all the useful components into the trash can, but simply rinse thoroughly from the remnants of the earth with a sponge.

Pure root vegetables are crushed using a variety of kitchen equipment, or armed with a familiar and reliable grater. Add raw chicken egg yolk to the grated orange shavings, mix and apply the resulting nourishing mask to the washed face, laying it in a thick and dense layer.

It is necessary to choose a time when the household will forget about you for half an hour, so that, resting this half hour with

carrot mask on your face, you could dream, listen to music, or praise yourself for the work done in the garden during the day and outline a plan of work for tomorrow. Do not forget to praise yourself, not expecting praise from the outside, which you can not wait and complex on empty. Best of all, your merits are known only to you, do not hesitate to praise yourself, this will add a good mood, hence health, including the skin, in addition to the carrot mask.

After half an hour of pleasantly spent time, the carrots are removed with a damp swab and the face is smeared with a refreshing cream. One such mask per week will help maintain the elasticity and tenderness of the skin for many years.