Youth is what every woman wants to keep for a long time, using all means and procedures for this, without sparing herself, her strength or her money. But what if there is no way to go to expensive salons, but you really want to look beautiful, young and spectacular? Skin rejuvenation is possible even at home, and cheap pharmacy ointments and "grandma's" recipes will help.
"Grandma's" recipes
Female beauty, which has not faded for many years, has long been talked about because women have always known how to take care of themselves to be beautiful and desirable. Facial rejuvenation can be done at home according to folk recipes and products available to every housewife.
Skin scrub with apricot kernels and buckwheat flour
With age, the skin loses its self-cleansing properties, so you need to help it get rid of dead cells with a scrub.
- To prepare the product, take 3 washed and dried apricot (peach) seeds and pass them through a coffee grinder (it is better to grind them in a mortar beforehand so as not to break the appliance).
- Then mix the stone powder with buckwheat flour in a ratio of 2: 1 tsp.
- Now add 2 drops of tea tree oil, grape seeds, wheat germ and jojoba to the mixture.
- Mix well and then apply on the face, rubbing in a circular motion. Wash off with warm water.
Clay wrinkle mask
Clay contains vitamins and minerals that are lacking in aging skin. There are various folk recipes using miraculous mud, but this is universal, suitable for all skin types.
- Take 1, 5 teaspoons of blue, black, white clay, add 2 tablespoons of warm milk and 1 tablespoon of heavy cream or sour cream.
- Mix the ingredients well until the clay dissolves, then apply the mask on your face.
- You should keep it for an hour and then wash it with boiled water or milk.
After the procedure, apply a nourishing cream with a greasy layer.
Citrus mask
Warning, not suitable for allergy sufferers! Citrus fruits contain a large dose of vitamin C, which is a well-known antioxidant and you can use it not only as a fruit inside, but also as a mask for the skin.
- You need 1 tablespoon for cooking. l. orange juice, lemon, grapefruit.
- The juice should be passed through gauze so that there are no pulp particles in it.
- Add 1 teaspoon of blue clay, buckwheat and soy flour to the freshly prepared mixture.
- Apply the mask on a cleansed face, leave for an hour and then rinse with water and a pinch of baking soda. After the mask, apply a greasy cream.
Honey mask with spices
Far India is famous for folk recipes of honey and spices, where women look very young even at 50. Honey for the mask should be liquid, it is better to choose acacia or buckwheat.
- Heat 1 tbsp. l. honey to 40 degrees and then pour a third of tsp. cinnamon, turmeric, nutmeg.
- Stir the spices so that they hang evenly in the honey, then apply the mixture on your face.
- Hold it for 2-4 hours and then rinse with warm water.
- After the procedure, apply a moisturizer instead of a nourishing one, as the spices can dry out the skin.
If you are allergic to honey, then you can replace it with molasses, but you should choose natural (from starch, for example), not sugar.
Herbal tonic
In addition to scrubs and masks, you should use a daily tonic that will further moisturize and cleanse the skin surface. It is sold in every cosmetic store, but you can prepare a natural tonic at home using folk methods. There are two variants of the tool:
- based on sage, oak bark, chamomile (for oily or combination skin);
- based on chamomile, hawthorn, raspberry leaves (for dry, normal skin).
In both cases you should take these pharmacy herbs in equal amounts (1 tablespoon per 400 ml of water or 1 tablespoon per liter of water) and pour boiling water over them, leave for several hours. The broth can then be poured into a convenient bottle or jar through gauze (it is recommended to sift the liquid from the stalks of grass several times). The tonic is stored in the refrigerator and you can use it 2-3 times a day.
All these folk remedies for rejuvenation at home will work in two months, if you perform them regularly and in combination.
Pharmacy help in the fight for youth
It is not necessary to prepare means to preserve and restore the youth of facial skin, you can buy some pharmacy ointments or creams:
- retinoic ointment;
- solcoseryl ointment;
- anti-aging face cream (various brands).
Retinal ointment is an excellent antibacterial agent for various skin defects: acne, rashes, redness, which appear more strongly on the skin with age and take longer. All remedies against defects must be applied topically on them, this ointment is no exception. Clean and healthy skin looks much younger and more beautiful, so you need to eliminate the unpleasant manifestations.
Solcoseril ointment - a drug to improve the penetration of oxygen into the tissues. With age, the pores of the skin transmit this gas to the epithelium worse, which gradually affects its condition: it becomes dry, flaky, the tissues lose their tone, look sluggish. Solcoseril is applied to the whole face in a thin layer, rubbing gently into the face. Also for people with sensitive skin is allowed to "dilute" the ointment with a nourishing or moisturizing cream.
The anti-aging cream is an equally popular and widely advertised product, which is credited with truly unimaginable effects: smoothing deep wrinkles, tightening the skin, etc. Almost all cosmetic companies produce a series of skin aging creams, promising a rejuvenating effect. . But it must be understood that this is only part of the truth. Age-related facial cosmetics can really smooth out small wrinkles or smooth out unpleasant blemishes, but no product can nourish the skin with collagen and deal with deep skin folds.
Such creams nourish, replenish the reserves of vitamins and minerals, but do not create any "magic". They can be used in combination with other procedures, and when choosing you should focus on the specified age.
General recommendations
It is not enough just to smear something on the skin and hope for a miracle! You need to change your lifestyle:
- review the menu
- make a sleep schedule
- training;
- find optimal cosmetic therapies (massages, masks, peels);
- reduce stress.
The menu of people who want to rejuvenate should contain natural products: vegetables (greens and legumes), fruits (citrus fruits), nuts and dried fruits, dairy products (except butter), oils of vegetable origin. The first and fourth groups contain the necessary proteins and B vitamins for the body, the second - the antioxidant vitamin C, the third and last contain a lot of E, which is called the "vitamin of youth". You can also buy a vitamin-mineral complex for a certain age.
You should sleep at least 8 hours, as all the defects of lack of sleep are visible on tired skin, and bags under the eyes in older women disappear much longer than in young women.
Exercise makes the skin breathe, enriches it with oxygen, which makes the face fresher, smoothes facial wrinkles and removes excess subcutaneous deposits.
It is also necessary to contact a beautician, because it is quite difficult to do a professional massage or therapy for yourself.
Skin rejuvenation at home is possible, but you must make an effort and all procedures must be regular. You can not do without applying the recommendations, only then the skin will breathe youth and beauty again.