During these cold days we offer you traveling to a country of wholesome winter fruits. Face packs, lotions and other cosmetics are good for any skin type and will help coping with any problems


During these cold days we offer you traveling to a country of wholesome winter fruits. Face packs, lotions and other cosmetics are good for any skin type and will help coping with any problems: they will clear away greasy luster, refresh and nourish your skin wonderfully.

Let’s start from real New Year’s vitamins - citrus plants. Skin becomes shining and velvety due to orange face packs, they will help put it to rights in the shortest possible time. For this we recommend you preparing a simple scrub, which will suit any type of skin wonderfully: cut orange pulp small (without peel), grind with 1 table-spoon of ground oat or barley flakes and add 1 table-spoon of cream. Apply mixture on face, rub gently, and leave for a while. Then rinse with warm water and apply your cream.

To keep facial skin toned, you need to apply such mandarin peel tonic from time to time (it is especially good for fat skin, as it not only refreshes and rejuvenates it, but also reduces pores): pour fresh mandarin peel with a glass of cold boiled water in china-ware. Cut peel small, leave in water and draw for 24 hours, then filter. Rinse face with this lotion in the morning and evening.

Don’t forget taking care of a region, which shows our age most of all, - your neck. To keep it attractive, you will need to squeeze juice of half-orange, mix it with 2 table-spoons of fat curd and 1 tea-spoon of vegetable oil. Smear mixture on double gauze and put on neck for 15-20 minutes. Then remove pack and wash neck with warm water. Apply such pack twice a week, this way you will hold up skin ageing.

Packs, prepared on other, also very wholesome citrus plant - lemon, refresh, whiten and nourish skin wonderfully. So, it should be given consideration. Prepare mixture of 1 lemon juice, half glass of fresh cream, ¼ glass of vodka and 1 yolk. Cosmeticians recommend this lotion strongly for women, who have to stay in dusty rooms often. Wash and rub your face carefully with a cleanser after work. Keep this lotion in fridge.

We recommend you preparing grapefruit pieces of ice for two weeks in advance, especially for those, who have skin with wide pores. Pour grapefruit juice in ice cans and freeze. Rub skin with an ice cube every morning and rinse with cold water in 10 minutes. Another variant - freeze grapefruit segments (without film) and rub face with them.

Same exotic fruit will also help to make your dim hair healthier - it will add shine and elasticity to them. To prepare grapefruit segments toilet water, you will need peel of 1 fruit, which you will have to pound, put in clay or china ware and pour with 1 glass of cold boiled water and cover with a lid. Filter this extract in 24 hours. Then separate hair into locks and apply it on roots. Comb your hair in 30 minutes. If you fulfill this procedure every day during 10 days, your hair will look healthy and attractive.

And, of course, during this cold season your skin won’t do without the most health-giving fruit - persimmon. It is not only rich in vitamins and microelements, this fruit also contains iodine, which affects body and facial skin beneficially in particular. Usually they use pulp and juice to prepare lotions, packs and even creams.

As for creams. When you prepare such creams, you should remember that they contain no preservatives, and this means, they should be kept in fridge corked. Another nuance: even slight change in a recipe changes cream properties. Now let’s prepare it: grind 1 table-spoon of persimmon gruel with 1 table-spoon of butter, 1 yolk and 1 tea-spoon of honey to receive homogenous paste. Apply cream on face for 20 minutes, remove surplus with a tissue. This cream is really good for dry and normal skin.

This nutritive lotion with persimmon juice will help taking care about fat skin: add 100 g of cologne to 1 egg white, 100 g of camphor spirit and 2-3 table-spoon of persimmon juice. Rub your skin with such lotion in the evening.

Another exotic fruit will help making your skin healthy and attractive - this is banana. Banana face pack moistens, nourishes and tones skin up greatly, protecting it from early ageing. To prepare it, you will need ¼ banana, which you will have to knead carefully, add 1 coffee-spoon of nutritive cream, 1 drop of lemon juice and olive oil. Mix everything carefully, to receive homogenous paste. Apply pack on clean face and neck for 30 minutes, then rinse carefully with warm water.

All mentioned vitaminous recipes are not only easy to prepare, but also health-giving for your skin, especially during winter season, when it experiences various stresses.