Then manufacturers began to use fixed and preservatives. Shelf life of drugs has increased several times, but not all women were pleased - many appeared allergies, dermatitis and other unpleasant reactions.
Today, cosmetic companies, armed with new methods of preservation of biologically active environments, drastically return old "Grandmother's" recipes - History has shown that in fact they use and the bioavailability is significantly higher than many high-tech "notions" chemists.
What substances are returned to the makeup?
Milk
Perhaps one of the oldest cosmetics. Even Cleopatra took baths buffalo and donkey's milk to keep her skin young and fresh. In Russia, it was believed that the cream - the best way to fight wrinkles, cottage cheese, mashed with parsley - displays the face of spots and freckles, buttermilk - the perfect "balm-conditioner" for the field of hair washing.
Today beauticians include bio-cosmetics series products based on milk (cows, goats) - As a rule, they are part of the age lines. It turned out that milk cosmetics - the optimum choice for owners of sensitive skin, especially the light, the one that needs intensive protection from the sun. On the basis of whey and milk proteins released bioshampuni - They can be applied to all who do not have dandruff.
Home milk bath for hands: boil two liters of water with a tablespoon of sea salt, cooled to 60 ° C and mixed with one liter of fresh raw milk. Pour into a small bowl and immersed in a solution of the hands up to the elbow for 15-20 minutes. Then, wet a towel and lubricate pi tatelnym cream.
Caution - a bath can not be done during acute eczema or nail fungus.
Equally ancient cosmetic ingredient. In every corner of the Earth have used their oil: in the Middle East and the Mediterranean - olive oil, in South America - cocoa butter, in Russia - hemp and flax seed (sunflower appeared recently).
The oil is used both in pure form and prepared on its basis these creams and lapping, for example, in Greece, olive oil mixed with grape bagasse, left over from the production of wine and while washing rubbed with a mixture of body scrub like. Cocoa butter is considered an ideal wound healing and anti-aging agent. Hemp oil softens the skin, hair, and, by the way, was widely used at traditional healers' pediatric direction "- it was thought that it preserves the health of children's skin.
Vegetable oil, in general, not for a moment leave the cosmetic industry. But today, bio-cosmetics series began to apply the oil does not go through a chemical treatment, and solvents. Especially trying to save the olive and hemp: the first part of the good nourishing creams rich texture, and the second - in lipsticks (hygienic and decorative), protective and nourishing hand cream and body.
In recent decades, there is evidence of the valuable properties of new cosmetic oils - such as macadamia nut, peanut, pumpkin. These oils are part of a series of bio-care products for skin and body hair. Pumpkin seed oil is also found in decorative biocosmetics - For example, in fatty blush, creamy eye shadow.
Grandmother's recipe. Homemade cream for the feet of the three oils: 30 ml olive oil extra virgin, 10 ml sesame oil, 10 ml peanut butter, zest of one lemon how to mix (better merge all into a small jar with a lid and shake for a long time) and put into the freezer. "Cream" is ready as soon as the mixture becomes opaque oil. Keep the cream in the freezer and should be applied at night under the thin cotton socks - it is perfectly softens and nourishes the skin of the feet. If you carry the bad smell of sesame oil, you can replace it with grape seed oil.
Honey is used in the media beauty about 3 thousand years. Its main function - antiseptic. In fact, honey has always played a role of a natural preservative. Of course, pure honey can be used except as an adhesive, so it is mixed with other substances - broths, oils, dairy products. Fever on the lips was treated with a mixture of honey with a very fat cottage cheese. In broth nettle leaves, mixed with honey, steamed legs and hands to make them soft and smooth (this procedure is often staged the bride before the wedding).
Now honey and other bee products (bee pollen, propolis, ambrosia) is used in lines for tired and old skin. It is proved that honey strengthens the processes of regeneration of cells of the epidermis. Especially when combined with lemon juice and sea buckthorn. The most common honey is included in biocream for night use.
In decorative cosmetics can be found in honey lipstick, lip gloss, and propolis - in the foundation.
Grandmother's recipe. Honey-salt body scrub: large sea salt calcined in a dry frying pan and mix with hot water bath honey in equal parts. On adding 200 ml of a juice of one lemon. Stir and leave to cool and the mixture thickens. Use as a normal scrub.
Contraindications - are allergic to honey or lemon, as well as the presence of wounds on the skin.
Seaweed
In the coastal regions of the planet biokosmetologi extensive use of algae. Most often brown - fucus, Cystoseira, kelp. A little less - blue-green spirulina. Algae have a unique set of cosmetic properties - they are not only effectively moisturize the skin and saturate it with valuable trace elements, but also directly affect the synthesis of collagen: this is why algae are often used in the bio-lifting means. It is proved that no natural component does not possess such properties as seaweed.
It is therefore most often include anti-aging Organic face creams and concentrated serum.
Grandmother's recipe. Firming Mask for bust: 50 grams of dried kelp mixed with 250 grams of fat cottage cheese and three tablespoons of heavy cream. Leave on for 5-10 minutes. Then apply a bust for 20 minutes and rinse with cool water.
The only contraindication to this procedure - breast-feeding.
Herbs and berries
Of course, without them we can not do almost no one series biocosmetics . The leaders among the "plant of beauty" - chamomile, aloe vera, oats, nettle, buckthorn, cloudberry, cranberry, lemon, grapefruit, plantain, rosemary, horsetail, hops, wheat ... As they say themselves beauticians, about six thousand plants have pronounced cosmetic properties.
Extracts of herbs and fruit includes absolutely all kinds biocosmetics Including decorative. Most often found on the taste and color of the presence of "grass" in lipstick or cream impossible, but there are exceptions - for example, in ginger lip gloss taste of ginger not recognize the impossible ...
Grandmother's recipe. Nettle hair conditioner: 5 tablespoons of dried nettle leaves pour 500 ml boiling water, put on a very low heat and boil for 10 minutes under the lid. Cool and strain. After washing hair with shampoo rinse their nettle broth cool and dry without a dryer.
Note: this procedure is not necessary to make owners of hair, painted in red tones.
Yulia Polonskaya
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