French people consider that a woman, regardless of her age, should start her morning with a question: “What will I do today for my beauty?”

French people consider that a woman, regardless of her age, should start her morning with a question: “What will I do today for my beauty?”. And Spanish people say: “It’s a sin, if a woman looks less beautiful, than she could be”. Moreover now, in August, when nature presents us various vegetables and fruits generously, which will not only vary our menu, but also can replace expensive cosmetic procedures.
While taking care of your facial skin and neck, every woman should know which face packs suit her skin type more, and observe technique of application. Remember this rules:
Use only fresh fruits - their pulp or juice.
Don’t use berries or fruits, which cause allergic reactions in you, when you eat them, as face packs.
As a rule, packs are applied for no longer than 15-20 minutes, remember, you shouldn’t wear them for too long, especially ones that turn into a hard film while thickening. This stretches skin, tires facial muscles and causes feeling of tiredness.
You behavior during procedure is also important: don’t talk, turn your head, it’s better to put it on a low pillow and relax.
So, August presents us…
Water-melon
Freeze water-melon pulp and juice. Wipe your face with these ice-cubes along massage lines and neck. Wiping with frozen water-melon juice with addition of Eleuterococus or Ginseng extract gives good effect. Leave juice on skin after wiping for 15-20 minutes, then rinse with cold water, and apply a nourishing cream on your face. Wiping with frozen juice tones up and refreshes skin of any type.
Cut water-melon pulp, squeeze juice through gauze, moisten a gauze tissue, folded up in several layers, in it and apply on face for 15-20 minutes. Then rinse it with a boiled water of room temperature, dry, without wiping, and apply a nourishing cream on your face. Such face pack - is a wonderful toning lotion to prevent flabbiness of facial and neck skin.
“Beauty salad”
Cut water-melon pulp (150 g) in cubicles, peeled off pears (150 g) - in lobules. Put lettuce leaves in the middle of a salad-dish, then put pieces of boiled cauliflower (100 g) on them, around - in bunches - cut fruits, tomatoes. Pour with sour cream sauce (200 g).
Marrows
Marrows juice and pulp are used as a wholesome remedy for owners of dry and coarse skin, and also to prevent wrinkles, soften and smooth faded or wrinkled skin. Here are several face packs prepared of a marrow.
Add a tea spoon of juice, squeezed from grated pulp of marrows, in a pounded egg yolk, apply on face, in 15-20 minutes remove with a cotton tampon, moistened firstly in warm, then cold water.
Mix a grated marrow (2 table spoons) with pounded or steamed porridge (1 table spoon) and apply on face and neck. In 20 minutes remove gruel with a tampon, moistened in boiled milk.
Cut thin long lags of raw marrows and cover your face with them. In 20 minutes remove and wash face with boiled milk or softened water.
“Beauty salad”
Salad of young marrows will be of use for facial skin. Cut 200 g of marrows in small bars, add 50 g of grated carrot and 50 g of apples, green, garlic clove cut small. Season salad with sour cream or vegetable oil, whipped with any sour juice - orange, lemon, cranberry.
Onion
Onion juice can be used to fade freckless and pigmentation on face with fat and normal skin. For this you need to wipe your face with a cotton tampon, moistened in onion juice, in the morning and evening. Them cover face with sour cream and rinse with warm water after 10 minutes.
Mix equal parts of onion and honey with fresh milk, apply gruel on skin. Rinse with camomile flowers extract in 30 minutes. This face pack is recommended for senescent facial skin.
To strenghten your hair, mix 4 parts of grated onion with 1 part of honey, rub mixture in hair-roots and leave for 40 minutes. Rinse with warm water without soap, after this procedure dry hair won’t have a strong onion smell.
“Beaty salad”
There’re lots of wholsecome salads, where onion is a general component. Cut tomatoes in circles (300 g), shred onion (50 g), salt, pour salad with lemon juice and sour cream, mix and decorate with green.
Pumpkin
Grate a piece of pumpkin, pour off juice, and mix gruel with flour till thick consistence. Apply received paste on skin, cover face with gauze with eye-cuts, and live calmly for 20 minutes. Besides nutritious and softening action, pumpkin face pack lightens skin slightly.
If you have pigmentation, you can prepare a face pack of pumpkin seeds: peel off raw seeds, grind carefully with equal quantity of water and mix received pumpkin milk with honey 2:1. Apply daily for 30 minutes till you see necessary effect.
If you suffer from acne, it’s recommended to wipe face with pieces of pumpkin. Gruel of grated pumpkin and its squeezed juice are used as a toning lotion for any skin type. Moisten a thin layer of cotton with juice, apply gruel on a gauze tissue or on face, neck.
Duration of a face pack - 15-20 minutes, frequency of procedures - 2-3 times per week, and course is counted for 15-20 packs. They nourish, enrich, moisten and clean skin.
“Beauty salad”
Pumpkin salad: grate 300 g of pumpkin and one beet, add 50 g of dried prunes without pits, cinnamon and vegetable oil.
Raspberry
Grind berries, squeeze juice through a double gauze. Juice is used for wiping and face packs. Wiping affects fat porous skin with acne positively, and also whitens freckles. Wipe your face with raspberry juice with light motions along massage lines, in the morning, before washing, daily or every other day.
For sensitive skin: grind one tea-spoon of cotton cheese with same quantity of liquid honey, add 2 tea spoons of raspberry juice, smear face thickly and in 10-15 minutes rinse with cold water.
If you have dry skin, it’s useful to apply face pack of ground raspberry, where you add some flour. Stir mixture carefully and apply on face for 10-15 minutes, wash it and smear with fatty cream previously. Remove pack with a cotton tampon or wash face with cold water and then smear with cream again.
Peach
It’s useful to wipe face with peach juice or pieces of this fruit. Such procedure refreshes normal skin and keeps its elasticity. You can put slices of peach to face for 10-15 minutes, then rinse face with warm water.
If you have dry, fading skin, prepare a face pack of two ground peaches and a tea spoon of lemon juice. If you add a tea spoon of olive oil in this mixture, then such pack will help to refresh flabby and wrinkled skin.
For all skin types: mix gruel of one ripe peach with a table spoon of chamomile decoction, apply on face for 20 minutes, rinse with warm water. To soften skin: dilute half-glass of milk with same quantity of peach juice, put a gauze, moistened in this mixture, to your face for 15-20 minutes, covering it with a wet towel. After you remove face pack, wipe your face with a cotton tampon and smear with cream.
Prepare a juice hair mask, which will strenghten weakened hair. Take 2 table spoons of cabbage and 2 table spoons of peach juice and mix with raw egg yolk, add 20 g of brandy and same quantity of honey. Distribute mixture along all hair length using a comb with obtuse wide teeth, put on a polyethylene cap on your head and cover it with a towel. In 2 hours wash hair with usual shampoo. Apply this mask once a week during 2-3 months, if you suffer from severe hair shedding.
Carrot
Face pack for fat skin: mix 1 table spoon of grated carrot, 1 table spoon of olive oil and 1 table spoon of semolina. Apply on skin, avoiding area around eyes and lips, leave for 5 minutes. Then “rub off” pack from your face with careful circular motions of finger-tips. Then rinse skin with cool water, apply nourishing cream.
Carrot face pack to improve complexion: mix carrot juice with yogurt. Apply on skin with a cotton tampon, moistened in chamomile exctract (mint, majoram, lime). Leave for 10-15 minutes, rinse with cold water.
Nourishing face pack for mature skin: grate a small carrot, add 1 table spoon of milk, whipped yolk and starch. Apply on face and neck for 15 minutes, rinse with cool water.
Smear lips with carrot juice regularly, this will help to keep their natural juicy color and prevent bursting.
Carrot shampoo: mix yolk, 20 g of vegetable oil, 20 g of lemon juice and 4 table spoons of carrot juice. Whip carefully and wash hair with this mixture, instead of shampoo.
“Beauty salad”
Grate 200 g of carrot, grind 50 g of garlic. Grind cotton cheese (200 g) through a small sieve. Combine cotton cheese, garlic and carrot, add sour cream (100 g), salt and stir everything. If you wish, you can strew carrot cotton cheese with green of fennel, parsley and cilantro cut small.
Apple
Apple is used in cosmetics actively - juice, pulp, peel. To refresh tired skin quickly, you should massage face and neck with a slice of fresh apple.
For normal skin: peel off apple, grate, mix with a tea spoon of sour cream or olive (corn, sunflower-seed) oil and a tea spoon of starch, apply on face for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water.
A pack of ground baked or boiled apple with addition of several drops of olive oil and a tea spoon of honey also supplies skin with nutritive materials, makes it elastic and slows down process of ageing.
For skin, inclined to reddening during temperature changes, a pack of grated apple with addition of some whole milk and egg yolk is useful.
Massage coarse skin of hands with a piece of peeled off apple for 2-3 minutes actively, then wash hands and smear with cream.
Apples are used to remove cracks on heels: cut apple in cubicles, boil in some quantity of milk to receive gruel. Apply a thick layer on area of cracks, cover with a tissue and leave for 30 minutes.
Ointment of grated apples with butter - is a good remedy to heal wounds, abrasions, cracks on lips and nipples.
Folk medicine advises wiping warts with a fresh apple cut during several minutes 5-6 times per day during 3-4 weeks.
“Beauty salad”
Apple and tomato salad according to separate nutrition recipe: cut 300 g of tomatoes and 300 g of apples in slices, 100 g of onion and 30 g of sweet pepper - in straws. Mix, salt, add lemon juice, pour salad with sour cream on top.
Grapes
Grapes tone and nourish facial skin wonderfully. In ancient times grape was considered a symbol of eternal youth. Take 2-3 grapes, bite at peel and wipe face and neck with juice. In 15-20 minutes rinse with water, skin will become fresher and more elastic.
If you have fat wrinkled skin, you should firstly wipe your face with grape juice and then do such pack: add 2 tea spoons of grape pulp to a whipped egg white, in 15-20 minutes rinse with cold water.
Mix equal parts of grape juice and honey, moisten a tissue in it and put on face - this is a face pack for dry senescent skin.
Mix ?? glass of grape juice with same quantity of raw milk. Moisten a cotton layer in this liquid and apply on face, covering it with a bath towel. Remove in 15-20 minutes, dry skin a little and smear with cream. This is a face pack for wrinkled skin.
It’s also useful to wipe skin of hands with grape juice, after you finish procedure, smear them with olive oil or fat cream.
As you can see, recipes of healthy beautiful skin are simple and accessible. Don’t be lazy and use this abundant season in care about your look!