Masks for eyebrows

To prevent shedding of the eyebrows’ hairs I advise masks from fig or lotion from calendula. It’s very useful and easy-made means. They strengthen the hair roots but it can be used only for one month. If there isn’t desired effect, you should stop the procedures.

Boil soft dried fruits of fig in the milk and put on the linen. Cover the area of eyebrows without hair with this linen. Put compress paper above and leave mask for 1 hour. You should make this mask every day during a month.

Also you can rub the healing oil mixture into eyebrows. Mix in 1 tea-spoon of vegetable oil and castor oil and add 2-3 drops of camphor oil.

And here is the recipe of calendula lotion. You should extract calendula infusion on vodka (proportion 1:10). Then dilute lotion with water and wet gauze bandages (4 layers). Put wetted gauze on the eyebrow skin and leave for 1-1,5 hours. Repeat the procedure every day during a month.

Help your chapped lips

Dry air and wind can chap your lips in summer. When the lips do become chapped it is very common for people to lick their lips in an attempt to moisten them. But this way isn’t good as you guess. Only serious therapy will help you to make your lips beautiful as before.

The special easy-made cream can help you. Prepare such cream from honey and lard in proportions 2:1. Grease lips with cream after every meal.

Apple-milk mask have the fine healed effect. Boil one apple in the milk and grind it. Put the mask on the area of chaps and cover with napkin. Leave mask for 30 minutes. Make this procedure every day.

Put the napkin wetted in the decoction of wheat bran on the chapped lips. Change the napkin every 5 minutes. The procedure should last for 25-30 minutes. The wheat bran decoction is made on the “water bath” (1 table-spoon of bran to 1 glass of water).

Fortuitous acne before party

Of course if you see acne on the face you won’t be glad to any party or holiday. But you have an opportunity to fight with it effectively. There is a recipe of the mixture, which I want to offer today. This mixture can help if you use it for some times during at least two days.

You should pound to powder 1 pill of Streptocid and add some borated petrolatum and 1 drop of brilliant green. Mix all ingredients and it must be evenly colored pasty mixture. Clean the face before the procedure. Put some mixture on the acne. In 15-20 minutes take away the mixture with cotton wad and rub this place with lotion.

SPA-salon in your own bathroom. Part III.

Today I offer some tips about aromatic baths. You can take such baths not oftener 2-3 times a week. And of course you should take a bath only if you are in good health and mood. Those who suffer from any chronic diseases, have to be circumspect with aromatic baths. You shouldn’t take a bath at once after meal, it’s better to wait for one-two hours. It’s better to take bath in the evening, because you shouldn’t go to the street at least 2 hours after bath.

Remember that bath with cool water relaxes and with hot water braces. But the main rule is water must be pleasant for you. You should add hot water during a procedure in order that water to stay in stable temperature.

Of course the use of bath depends on infusion but the view of flower petals improves your mood surely. If you like the pleasant smells, add in the water some drops of aromatic oil.

Baths for 10-15 minutes have restorative effect. Baths for more than 20 minutes have sedative effect. If you are on any diet, you shouldn’t take hot baths.

Before bath don’t forget to take a shower. Soap or gel for shower removes the protective acid-fat layer from skin and makes absorption of healing matters easier. And after aromatic bath you’d better to put cream on the body or t least any bath oil to keep useful matters in the hypodermic layer.

You shouldn’t stay motionlessly even in the relaxed bath. Change position; massage your body beginning from legs in direction to the heart. Especially energetically work up thighs, buttocks and back.

Peach masks for your hair

Peaches are used in cosmetic for hair with use. They make hair silky, healthy and soft. It is easy to make coiffure after peach mask. So it’s time to make one of two masks by my recipe.

If you have dry hair, make useful peach mask. Take two ripe peaches and knead in the ceramic dish carefully. Add 2 table-spoons of curd and 1 table-spoon of honey and mix all ingredients. Then add 1 table-spoon of vegetable oil in the mixture and mix again. Before washing head put mask on the head skin and cover head with any kerchief and bath towel above. In 30-40 minutes wash head with your shampoo and then rinse hair with camomile infusion. To make camomile infusion you should cut 1-2 camomile and pour it with 2 glasses of boiling water in the enamel ware. Boil 5 minutes. Then filter and cool.

If you have greasy hair, make mask from oat flour and peach. Take 2 ripe peaches and knead them in the ceramic dish carefully. Add 2 table-spoons of oat lour and mix. Put the mask on the head skin and hair. Cover head with piece of polyethylene and bath tower above. Leave for 40-50 minutes and then wash the head with your shampoo. Finally rinse hair with mixture of acidulous water (1 tea-spoon of vinegar of lemon acid for basin with water). Such mask takes away greasiness and makes hair soft and elastic.

Melon diet

Sure melon is a favorite fruit of many people and not in vain. Melon has a great number of folic acid and nicotinic acid, vitamin C and PP, pectin, carotene, salts of calcium, magnesium, ferric, phosphorus and sulfur. And the main thing is that melon is rich in rude vegetative cellulose. So melon can sate well, give much energy, split fat, take out cholesterol, slags and salts from organism. As a result your skin becomes beautiful and healthy. I offer the recipe of melon diet for one week with the same day menu.

Breakfast: 1 glass of boiled rice without salt, servicing with 1 tea-spoon of soybean sauce. And green or herbal tea without sugar.

Dinner: 200g of vegetable salad. Variants of salad – a) cucumbers, tomatoes, onion, 1 table-spoon of olive oil; b) cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, onion, greens, lemon juice for servicing; c) cucumbers, boiled beet and carrot, garlic, greens, lemon juice, 1 table-spoon of sour cream. Then the main dish for your choice – a) boiled fish, b) white meat of chicken, c) curds, d) lightly-boiled egg. And berry or fruit infusion (pour 2 table-spoons of berries with 1½ glass of boiling water and leave for 10 minutes and then filter; or replace berries by half an apple or pear).

Supper (since 4 p.m. till 9 p.m.): Pieces of melon little by little on the basis of 1 kg of melon to 30 kg of your weight. Calorie content of this diet is more than 1200 kilocalories, but you will lose weight. It’s the paradox of the melon diet. To my mind such diet is better for people, who suffer from lack of calories, or who is very active.

There are some rules of melon diet. Don’t eat sugar, potato, farinaceous foods, and confectionery in this week. Don’t eat any other food with melon. It doesn’t go with other products. Don’t drink after melon, except white wine. Don’t add melon in the fruit salad. Please, keep these rules. Melon is very capricious fruit.

Cod-liver oil and castor oil for your hair

Sure you don’t like these ingredients, but they can be very useful if your hair needs additional nutrition. If you want to return vital energy to your hair, make the special mask from castor oil and cod-liver oil.

Mix 1 tea-spoon of cod-liver oil with 1 table-spoon of castor oil and warm on the water bath. Rub oil-mixture into head skin by finger-tips. Leave mask on the skin for 10 minutes. In this time beat yolk with 1 table-spoon of your shampoo till foam. Put the mixture on the head skin and hair above mask. Wait for 5 minutes and wash the head.

SPA-salon in your own bathroom. Part II.

Royal bath (with rose). The first variant is - boil 3 handfuls of rose-petals with 2 glasses of boiling water and in 5 minutes pour into bath with warm water together with petals. The second variant – knead 250g of rose-petals with the same amount of baking powder. And add to the bath. Take such bath for 20-25 minutes. It relaxes calms and makes skin soft and silky.

Color bath (with basil). Basil gives the beautiful color for the bath water. Pour 150 gram of purple basil with 1 liter of boiling water and leave for 2-3 hours in the warm place. Then filter and add to bath with warm water. Take a bath for 20-25 minutes, adding hot water before comfort temperature. Use basil for aromatic baths if you can’t fall asleep.

Country bath (with tansy). You can use flowers of tansy or take flower baskets. Pour 3 bunches of tansy with 2 liters of boiling water and leave for 2-3 hours to infuse. Then filter and add to bath with warm water. Take a bath for 10-12 minutes. Such bath has disinfectant and anesthetic effects. Such bath will help the skin with small boils or acne. It takes away pain and tiredness from overworked legs.

Flower mixture (with jasmine, lily, lavender and dogrose). Mix in 1 handful of jasmine, lily, dogrose petals and lavender flowers and pour them with 3 liters of boiling water. Leave for 2 hours and then add to bath (don’t filter). Make the comfort temperature of water and take bath for 20 minutes. The effect from such bath I could call as the second birth.

Curative bath (with calendula and origanum). Mix 3 table-spoons of calendula petals and 2 table-spoons of origanum flowers. Pour mixture with 5 liters of boiling water and leave for 4 hours. Then filter and add to bath with warm water. Take such bath for 15-20 minutes. It helps to get rid of pustular eruptions on skin.

Meadow bath (with clover). Cut flowers of clover and pour 6 table-spoons of them with 2 liters of boiling water. Leave for an hour and then filter. Add infusion to bath with warm water. Take this bath for 10 minutes before night. Your skin will become soft, silky and well-nourished.

SPA-salon in your own bathroom. Part I.

The main feature of every SPA-salon is marvellous aroma baths with flowers petals. But why we can’t luxuriate in the own bath with petals and aromatic flowers at home? It will be both pleasant and useful. Today I offer some recipes of various baths. They are very easy to make, but effect will be like in the best spa-salons. You are welcome to choose your favorite one.

Blue bath (with cornflower). Pour 50g of cornflower’s petals with 2 liters of cold water and boil for 2-3 minutes. Then leave to infuse for 1,5-2 hours. Filter infusion and add to bath with warm water. Take bath for 15-17 minutes. This bath will help you to solve problems with skin. It’s better to make such bath every day for a week.

Pharmaceutical bath (with camomile). Cut 1 kg of fresh camomile and pour with 4 liters of cold water. Leave for 10 minutes and then boil for 5 minutes. Then leave for 10 minutes again and filter. Add to the bath with warm water. Duration of such bath is 20 minutes. Bath has disinfectant and antiphlogistic effect, gives skin flexibility, softness and heals small abrasions.

Fragrant bath (with lavender). Pour 1 kg of lavender flowers with 9 liters of boiling water and leave for 2 hours. Then filter and add to bath. Take this bath for 15-20 minutes. Such bath is very useful teenagers. It helps to neutralize various consequence age-related changes and to stimulate circulation of the blood.

Karma bath (with white carnation). Put flowers of 7 white carnations in the bath. Being in the bath you should rub yourself with flowers. Stay in the bath for 10 minutes and then take a shower. Gather all petals and throw away. Such bath cleans your aura and takes negative influence of habitat, accumulating in your organism for the whole day.

Sleeping bath (with violet). Pour 1 glass of violet flowers with 5 liters of hot water and heat on the water bath for 20 minutes. Filter infusion and add to bath with warm water. Also throw fresh violet petals in the water. Take this bath for 25 minutes. Such bath will help you to fall asleep and to see flower dreams.

Camomile compress before mask

Those, who like to make various masks for face skin, know that face should be carefully cleaned before procedure. But it would be better to make special preparatory compress to get the best effect from any facial mask. Such compress makes skin soft, opens pores. If there is any acne or dermatitis on the skin camomile disinfects them.

Well, you should boil 2 table-spoons of camomile flowers with 1 glass of boiling water and leave to infuse for half an hour. Then filter infusion, add some boiling water to wet a towel. Put towel on the face for 5 minutes and only then put the mask on the moist, steamed face. You’ll see the result will be excellent.

How to whiten nails

Remove old nail polish and wash hands. Then take small brush and clean all surface of nails by circular motions. Dry nails with the napkin touching easily.

Then you should mix 1 table-spoon of lemon juice (for nails whitening) and 1 table-spoon of dry quick-dissolving yeast (for nails polishing). Put the mixture on the every nail.

Polish nails’ surface with non-metal nail-file carefully in the direction from one side of nail to another side. It’s better to do about 20 times for every nail. When you feel that nail becomes hot, stop the procedure.

Wash hands again and dry with napkin. Put any oily cream for hands.

Don’t show your age

Usually they say that hands and neck are able to show real age most of all. If your hands and neck are well-groomed, nobody knows your real age and you’ll look younger. Generally we often forget to care about neck skin, though almost all means for face skin care are right for neck too. They are moistening, nourishing, sun creams, and special anti-aging masks.

Mix yolk with 100 gram of sour cream, add 1 table-spoon of vodka, juice of half a lemon or orange. Put the mixture on the neck skin and leave for 15-20 minutes. Then remove the mask with warm water and rinse neck with cold water.

Mask from green lettuce and clabber has rejuvenated effect. Chopped leaves of lettuce mix with clabber and put on the neck.

It’s very useful to rinse the neck with herbal infusions. You can use lime-blossom, camomile, sage, birch buds.

Mask from herbal mixture helps to smooth wrinkles. Take in equal parts camomile, mint, birch leaves, dandelion, flowers of rose and white lily and boil them. Mix 1 table-spoon of gruel with 1 table-spoon of curd and also add 1 tea-spoon of honey.

Those, who suffer from thyroid gland sickness, can use only olive oil for neck skin care. It’s better to make compresses from olive oil.