Each nation has its own beauty secrets. Remember bronzed faces of Indian movie stars, their bright eyes, clean skin and thick hair
Each nation has its own beauty secrets. Remember bronzed faces of Indian movie stars, their bright eyes, clean skin and thick hair.
Any Indian woman attaches great importance to cleansing cosmetics, especially if she has fat porous skin, what is not a rare thing in their hot climate.
Lemon is an ideal cosmetic for fat skin care. Take a table spoon of lemon juice and a spoon of cottage cheese, mix these two ingredients carefully and apply on skin as a face pack. Rinse face pack with warm water.
Egg-white cleans skin and pulls pores together wonderfully. Apply it on face for 15 minutes, rinse with warm water and lemon juice.
Fresh rose petals and marigold - are wonderful cleansers for dry skin. To prepare a mixture take 100 ml of buttermilk, 50 g of fresh rose petals ot marigold. Pour buttermilk in a pan, put petals and boil on small fire for 30 minutes. Remove from fire, cool down and leave for several hours. Apply mixture on skin and rinse with water.
Nourishing face packs of vegetables and fruits are very popular in India. There’re may be lots of them, try some of them. The only condition - all products should be natural, not subjected to chemicals during growth.
- Mix crushed tomatoes, cucumbers and melon, apply on face for several minutes. Then rinse with water.
- Crush plums or apricots carefully, apply on face for 10 minutes, rinse with warm water.
Yolk face pack is also very popular in India (yolk contains protein which is wholesome for skin). Add some honey to it, apply face pack for 20 minutes. Rinse with cool water.
If your eyes are tired and swollen, such cosmetic will help: take two pieces of soft material, wrap an ice-cube and a piece of cucumber in each one. Lie down for a while with such compress on eyelids.
To make skin soft, clean and fresh Indian women add in their bath:
- 2-3 table spoons of starch and a tea spoon of glycerin;
- two cups of household soda and two table spoons of salt plus several drops of essential oil (lavender or pine-tree).
Mix everything, keep in a can, add 1 table spoon per bath;
- any vegetable oil (almond, olive, sunflower-seed);
- a spoon of honey, to make skin smooth and silky;
- a glass of dried milk to soften skin, but you can also use usual milk for these purposes.
Such baths improve your skin structure, have a calming effect, what is just necessary after a stressed day.