Every season we write about use of fresh berries and fruit face packs - you know, our skin, like whole organism, should store up vitamins during each season

Every season we write about use of fresh berries and fruit face packs - you know, our skin, like whole organism, should store up vitamins during each season. Now we offer you deriving benefit for skin not from ripe and juicy summer fruits, but from unripe berries. By the way, you can make the most of berry bushes leaves too. 

Let’s start our acquaintance with preparation of different face packs from a real reservoir of vitamins - black currant. It tones up skin wonderfully. We will prepare a black currant cream. So, squeeze unripe black currant. Add 1 table spoon of olive oil for 100 g of juice, whip and freeze received paste.
Now about the way to use this wonder cream. After a hot compress massage facial and neck skin with a piece of black currant ice during 5-7 minutes. Then rinse face with cold water, dry with a soft towel carefully and smear with a nourishing cream.
 
By the way, juice of unripe black currant berries whitens fat facial skin. Mix juice with honey 1:1, whip to receive homogenous paste and wipe wet skin after washing in the morning and evening. You’ll see how white and clean your face will become.
 
Face packs, prepared from black currant leaves extract and juice intensify metabolic processes in normal skin. To prepare one of them pour 10-15 black currant leaves with ?? glass of boiling water, leave for 15-20 minutes, then filter and add 1 table spoon of berry juice. Then moisten gauze in this extract and put on face for 20 minutes. Then remove face pack and rinse face with a room temperature water. Apply such face pack twice a week during 2 months.
 
Besides black currant, red currant and honey face pack gives a good bleaching effect. Knead a handful of unripe berries, mix with 1 tea spoon of honey and apply on face for 30 minutes. Then rinse received paste with lemon juice diluted with water.
 
Of course, you won’t be able to improve your skin condition without strawberry. It is useful not only for eating, but also for preparation of various face packs, which are simple and efficient, and very popular among women. Strawberry face packs tone up and whiten skin well, make it soft and smooth. But if you apply such face pack on wet skin, this will be even better. For example, if you have fatty and porous skin, apply strawberry gruel on face (smearing it with strawberry juice beforehand) for 15-20 minutes. If you have dry and dehydrated skin with pigmentation - wipe your face with vegetable oil and apply strawberry gruel for 10-15 minutes. If you have acne, wipe your skin with strawberry juice, mixed with glycerin. Apply strawberry face packs 2-3 times per week in a course of 10-15 procedures, you can put strawberry gruel either right on skin or on gauze firstly.
 
Following extract will be useful for fatty skin. Put 3 table spoons of wild strawberry leaves in a thermos, pour with 1,5 glass of boiling water, cover with a lid and leave for an hour. Wash face with received extract in the morning and evening.
 
Raspberry leaves will help to make problem skin healthier. Thus, raspberry leaves extract in proportion 1:20 is used as a lotion against acne and spots on face. Apply a tissue moistened in an extract on face for 10 minutes and repeat this procedure 3 times in a row. Course consists of 20-25 procedures (apply 10 face packs daily, and rest 10-15 - every other day).
 
If you suffer from acne, use mixture of juice of fresh raspberry leaves and Vaseline (you can tale butter or nourishing cream for your skin) - 1:4. Leave pack on face for 40-60 minutes, remove rests with a cotton plug or tissue. Course consists of 20 procedures.
 
Fresh pounded raspberry leaves face pack has a good toning effect. Apply gruel on face for 10-15 minutes. This is useful both for fatty and porous skin and dry skin, but if you have dry skin, you should smear it with a fat cream beforehand.
 
To get rid of small wrinkles, it’s useful to wipe face with a frozen lime-blossom extract with raspberry leaves in equal parts. You can also wash face with lime flowers extract and raspberry leaves, diluted with water.
 
What fatty skin misses is gooseberry, which will cleanse, strengthen, tone up and nourish it with vitamins. So, don’t be lazy to prepare such lotion: knead 2 table spoons of unripe gooseberry carefully, pour with 1 glass of cold boiled water and leave for 10-15 minutes. Then filter mixture and add 2 table spoons of vodka.   Fresh gooseberry juice is a wonderful cosmetic for dry skin too. Mix 5 table spoons of gooseberry juice with 1 table spoon of glycerin. Wipe face with this lotion in the morning and evening.
 
In conclusion, we would like to warn highly allergic individuals. If you have certain reactions to mentioned berries or honey, then you should not use cosmetic face packs with them categorically!