Woman’s Passions

You can see first green leaves and blades growing everywhere under summer sun. Nettle, dandelion, mint, fennel, sorrel, parsley and plantain contain lots of nutritious substances, microelements and beauty vitamins. From time immemorial face packs and creams of medicinal herbs and plants helped have been helping women solving many skin problems. “Green” cosmetics influences skin of different types positively, has rejuvenating and regenerating effect.

In May nature is completely awaken, entered into a period of wild blossoming and provides first spring sprouts with enormous power and energy generously. Use this blessed period and help your skin to wake up completely, become fresh, receive a portion of vitamins and ??¦ look younger with help of May beauty recipes!

Pound overhead part of dandelion (1 table spoon), pour with warm milk (2 table spoons) and leave for 10 minutes, then add one egg yolk. Apply face pack on skin for 20 minutes, it will moisten it wonderfully, give additional nutrition, satiate with vitamins.

Pour 2 table spoons of dandelion leaves with 1,5 glass of boiling water and boil for 15 minutes. Then filter broth and wipe your face with it in several procedures. This cleansing remedy is also good for dry skin.

Fresh nettle extract also has such wonderful cleansing effect. Pour 2 table spoons of ground nettle with a glass of boiling water, leave for a while and use warm for washing.

Wash and pound fresh nettle, dandelion, mint and balm leaves, taken in equal parts. Take 1 table spoon of mixture and pound with 1 table spoon of fresh cotton cheese, add 1 tea spoon of honey. Such face pack has rejuvenating and tonic effect, nourishes skin.

Coltsfoot leaves extract also has such effect. Pour 1 table spoon with a glass of boiling water, leave for 40 minutes and use for washing.

Mix 1 table spoon of cut fennel with 1 tea spoon of vegetable oil, add oatmeal to receive gruel consistence. Apply thick coat of face pack on skin, rinse with warm water in 20 minutes - it will improve look and soften peeling skin.

Plantain juice, diluted with water in proportion 1:3, is used as a cleansing remedy. Add fresh plantain juice to your cream - and you will receive a wonderful fortified remedy, useful for dry skin with first wrinkles. Fresh juice is added to cream and mixed thoroughly.

Pour 2 table spoons of ground dried nettle leaves with warm water, heat carefully, to receive thick gruel. Put a dish with gruel on water bath and heat for 10 minutes, mixing. As soon as paste cools down a little, apply it on cleansed and smeared with fat cream face and neck for 20-25 minutes. Remove face pack with a cotton tampon, and then rinse with warm water. Face pack has a beneficial effect on skin, which lost tone.

Parsley lotion is a good remedy for cleansing and nutrition of dry skin. Pour 2 handfuls of ground fresh parsley green with a glass of boiling water and leave for an hour. Filter and use for wiping face and body.
Take 0,5 tea spoon of ground fresh parsley leaves, sorrel and tarragon, mix and pour with a glass of hot milk. Wrap up mixture and leave for 10 minutes. Filter, add 2 table spoons of bran and mix. Apply on face for 10 minutes, rinse with warm water. Face pack adds elasticity, smoothness and freshness to your skin.
Pound 1 fresh leave of raspberry, guelder-rose and coltsfoot. Smear skin with fat cream, apply face pack on top for 15 minutes - it whitens skin, helps struggling with freckles.

Cut 2 lettuce leaves small, trample and pound, season with 1 table spoon of olive oil and several drops of lemon juice. Apply face pack on face, neck, d?©collet?© area, rinse with warm water in 20 minutes. This face pack nourishes, softens and refreshes dry skin well.

Pour 100 g of lilac flowers with a liter of boiling water in a thermos and leave for ah hour. Filter extract and use for washing. Such remedy narrows skin pores.

Pour 3 table spoons of ground strawberry leaves with 200 ml of boiling water, cover with a lid and leave for 30 minutes. Wipe face with this extract several times per day and allow face dry naturally. This extract tones up, cleanse skin and narrows pores.

Pound 6 sorrel leaves in gruel with petioles, beat up white of egg, mix 1 table spoon of honey and non-fat cotton cheese. Combine all components, mix to receive homogenous paste. Squeeze juice off several sorrel leaves and smear face with it. Then apply face pack and leave for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm boiled water or strong tea extract. This face pack nourishes fatty skin greatly, use it twice a week.

You can cook cosmetic ice of sorrel and coltsfoot leaves extract. Pour 1 table spoon of mixture of these plants and boil for 2 minutes. Filter, cool down, pour in moulds and freeze. Wipe face with cubicles of vitaminic ice regularly.

You can cook a cleansing lotion for very fatty skin of fresh mint and plantain leaves. Take 0,5 glass of ground mint and plantain leaves, pour with 2 glasses of boiling water and put on water bath for 20-30 minutes. Then cool down, filter.

Greater celandine extract is a wonderful vitaminic and bactericidal remedy. Pour 2 table spoons of fresh plant with 200 ml of boiling water, leave for 2 hours. Extract is used for washing and compresses.
Ground fresh mint and coltsfoot leaves, add some sour clotted milk in gruel and apply on face for 20-25 minutes. Rinse with warm water. This face pack nourishes skin and satiates with vitamins.

Ground fresh nettle leaves and squeeze juice, moisten a tissue in it and put on skin. Cut lettuce leaves small and mix with sour clotted milk. Such face pack is used twice a week, it tones up well, refreshes and softens skin, makes it velvet. It is used to remove irritation and sunburns.

Toning elder flowers lotion: pour 20 g of flowers with 2 glasses of boiling water and boil on slow fire for 5 minutes. Cool down, filter and add 2 table spoons of vodka or cologne.

Cut a parsley bunch small and boil in small quantity of water for 10 minutes. Cool down and mix green gruel with 1 tea spoon of honey and egg yolk. Apply on face for 20 minutes, rinse with room temperature water. This face pack moistens and refreshes greatly, is very useful for skin with blackheads.

Mince 1 leave of black currant, sorrel and ashberry (you can replace by elder). Add 1 tea spoon of sour cream and mix. Apply face pack on skin for 20 minutes, rinse with warm water. It charges skin with vitamins for the whole week.

Cut a lettuce bunch small, pour with small quantity of water and boil during 5 minutes. Then put leaves on a gauze tissue, cool down and apply warm on skin. This pack satiates it with vitamins and microelements, calms down irritated skin, is recommended for acne and sunburns treatment. You can use liquid, in which lettuce leaves were boiled, as a lotion.

Wash lettuce leaves carefully, pour with 1-1,5 glass of boiling water, put on fire and boil for 3 minutes, filter, cool down. Put cooled down leaves on face for 15-20 minutes, then remove, dry skin and smear with cream. You can use extract like a lotion. This pack cures irritation and reddening. That’s why you need to put lettuce leaves on problem places.

For skin, disposed to irritation, face packs of fresh plantain leaves are recommended. Cook a face pack with starch addition for more delicate and calming effect. Boil jelly on plantain extract, cool down and apply on face for 20-25 minutes, then rinse with warm water.

Pour 4 table spoons of fresh ground primrose with 0,5 l of boiling water. Leave for a while, filter rest of solution and use for morning washing. Primrose extract will make healthier even most sensitive skin, provide full-value nutrition to it.

Wash 10-12 leaves and 5-6 flowers of dandelion, mash them in puree, add equal quantity - 1-2 tea spoons of honey and boiled water. Smear face with vegetable honey, apply fresh face pack on top and rinse with warm water in 15 minutes. Such face pack is applied on skin with teen-age spots after steam bath, it can be used only once a week, if there’s no allergy on honey.

If you suffer from acne, folk medicine recommends such mixture: mix 0,5 tea spoon of nettle, dandelion, burdock, plantain and sorrel. Pour with 2 glasses of boiling water and leave on slow fire for 15 minutes. Cool down extract, filter and drink 100 ml 4 times per day. You can also wipe irritated areas with this extract.

For dry, limp and wrinkled skin face pack of cabbage lettuce is useful. Cut its leaves small and pound with olive oil and a tea spoon of lemon juice. Apply on face for 20 minutes, rinse firstly with warm, then cold water.

Mince fresh parsley stalks and leaves - about 2 table spoons, apply gruel on cleansed face, avoiding lower eyelids area. Rinse with cold water in 20-30 minutes and apply nourishing cream on wet skin.
Soak and pour leaves of nettle, peony, mint and chamomile petals, taken in equal proportions, with hot water, pound to receive gruel. Apply it on a tissue and put on face, cover with other tissue. This face pack is useful for skin with first wrinkles.

Wash and pound leaves of young nettle and dandelion (1:1). Pour with boiling water, water should only cover paste. When it cools down, add 1 table spoon of cotton cheese and 1 table spoon of warmed honey. Pound thoroughly, apply on face, and rinse in 20 minutes - this face pack nourishes skin greatly.

Dandelion flowers extract is used for dealing with freckles: pour 2 table spoons of flowers with 1-1,5 glass of hot water and boil on slow fire for 10-15 minutes, cool down, filter and use for wiping.

You can also cook a lotion for struggle with freckles and spots on face and neck using dandelion flowers. Pour 12 flowers with 1 glass of boiled water (room temperature) and leave for 1-1,5 hour. Filter and wipe skin 3-4 times per day.

Parsley green extract will help you to get rid of freckles and pigmentation. Cut green small, pour with boiling water, leave for a while, cool down, filter and use for cosmetic procedures.

Face pack of herbal mixture with kefir addition has whitening effect. You will need 2 table spoons of parsley leaves cut small, sorrel, spinach, elder fruits and leaves, strawberry. Mix everything with 1 table spoon of kefir or sour clotted milk.

Regular application of May beauty recipes will be of use for your exhausted skin. The first green will present you energy, pleasant appearance and health!