Masks from medicinal plants
Masks from medicinal plants deserve no less attention.
After all, herbs have many useful properties - they can improve metabolic processes in the skin, relieve inflammation, tone, soften the skin, prevent aging. It is best to buy the necessary herbs in the pharmacy. If you collect grass yourself, then you need to do it in an environmentally clean place, away from the city.
Masks for normal skin
Flax seed mask
Ingredients: 4 tsp.flax seed, 3 tbsp.l.of hot milk.
1. Grind the flax seed in a coffee grinder.
2. Add the hot milk to the resulting powder to make a thick slurry.
3. Apply the mask for 15-20 minutes.
4. Rinse off with warm water.
Mask with chamomile
Ingredients: 1 tsp.chamomile flowers, 1/2 cup boiling water, 1 tsp.cream, 1 egg yolk.
Chamomile flowers pour boiling water, close the lid and boil for 5 minutes. Then drain the broth, cool it. In a warm
broth add cream and egg yolk. In the resulting composition wet the gauze mask, put on the face. Soak 15-20 minutes, then rinse your face with warm water.
In this recipe, chamomile flowers can be replaced with linden flowers.
Mask from the kalinovye leaves
Ingredients: a handful of fresh leaves of the viburnum.
Leaves of viburnum with boiling water. Apply warm leaves to creamy skin. After 10-15 minutes, remove the leaves, rinse your face with warm water.
Masks for oily skin
Mask from the collection of herbs
Ingredients: 1 tsp.herbs and flowers of St. John's wort, 1 tsp.chamomile flowers, 1 tsp.herb wormwood, 1 tsp.calendula flowers, 1 cup boiling water.
Mix the herbs, pour boiling water. Leave to stand for 10 minutes, then strain. The resulting gruel is applied to the face. After 20 minutes, wash off the mask with the remaining infusion of herbs.
Mask made of birch leaves
Ingredients: 4 tbsp.l.dry birch leaves, 1/4 cup of boiling water.
Leaves pour boiling water;when they are slightly cool, apply on face. Remove after 20 minutes, rinse your face with warm water.
Mask from St. John's wort
Ingredients: 4 tbsp.l.dry herb St. John's wort, 1 cup of boiling water.
Grass pour boiling water, let it brew for 10 minutes. Then strain. The resulting gruel should be applied to the skin, soak 15-20 minutes. Rinse face with warm water.
Mask can be done 2-3 times a week. It is recommended to conduct a course of 15-20 masks.
Mask from walnut leaves
Ingredients: 4-5 tbsp.l.crushed walnut leaves, 1/2 liter of boiling water.
Pour the walnut leaves with boiling water, heat on a water bath for 30 minutes, drain. In the broth moisten the gauze napkin, put on the face. After 15-20 minutes, rinse your face with cool water.
Mask from the mother-and-stepmother
Ingredients: 4 tbsp.l.dry leaves of mother-and-stepmother, 1 cup of boiling water.
Leaves pour boiling water, let it brew for 15 minutes, drain. The received warm slurry to put on the face, to sustain 15 minutes. Rinse your face with strained grass infusion.
Dry leaves can be replaced with fresh leaves of mother-and-stepmother, finely chopped and applied to the face.
Mask well soothes the skin, tightens the pores.
Mask from the petals of violet
Ingredients: 3 tsp.crushed petals of tri-color violet, 1 tbsp.l.starch, 1 cup of boiling water.
Petals pour boiling water, cover, let it brew for 20 minutes. After this, strain, add starch to the gruel from the petals, mix well. Apply the mask to the face, soak it for 20 minutes. Wash off the remaining infusion of violets.
Nettle and Dandelion Mask
Ingredients: 1 tsp.crushed fresh nettle leaves, 1 tsp.crushed fresh dandelion leaves, 1/4 cup boiling water, 2 tbsp.l.cottage cheese.
Mix the leaves, pour boiling water, insist 30 minutes. Then add cottage cheese to the mixture and mix it. Apply the mask to face for 30 minutes. Wash off with warm water.
Mask from the leaves of dandelion and cottage cheese
Ingredients: 1 tbsp.l.juice of a dandelion, 1/2 cup of sour milk, 2 tbsp.l.crushed dandelion leaves, 2 tbsp.l.low-fat cottage cheese.
Wipe face with dandelion juice. Dandelion leaves mixed with cottage cheese. Apply the mask to the face. To sustain 20 minutes. Wash off with warm water, rinse your face with sour milk.
The mask softens well, strengthens the skin, has an antibacterial effect.
Mask of yarrow and olive oil
Ingredients: 4 handfuls of flowers and yarrow herbs, 1 cup of boiling water, 1/2 cup of olive oil.
1 tsp.collecting yarrow pour boiling water, insist 1 hour, strain.
While the yarrow is infused, prepare a mixture for the mask. To do this, place the remaining amount of the collection in a small glass jug, fill it with oil. Pitcher put in a pan with cold water, and the pan itself - on the fire. Heat the jug over low heat for 30 minutes. Then strain the oil and cool to a temperature of 36-37 ° C.
Gauze mask blotted in the received oil, wring out, put on face. Remove after 20 minutes, wipe the skin with a cotton pad moistened with yarrow infusion. Finally, wipe the face with an ice cube.
The mask is especially suitable for oily skin with acne.
Masks for dry skin
Mask of fresh leaves
Ingredients: 1 tsp.crushed fresh leaves: raspberries, blackberries, mother-and-stepmother, viburnum.
Face grease with a fat cream and apply a mixture of fresh plant leaves. Cover with a gauze mask moistened with warm boiled water. Wash off after 10-15 minutes with warm water.
Mask made of linden and sage
Ingredients: 2 tsp.linden flowers, 2 tsp.a leaf of a sage, 1 glass of milk.
Grate the grass with milk, cover with lid and put on low heat for 7 minutes. When the milk boils, remove from heat, drain the decoction. Warm the broth moisten the skin, then lubricate with a liquid cream. On top of it apply a warm thicket of herbs, on top put a mask of parchment paper, then a gauze mask. Wait 20 minutes.
Husk of herbs to remove from the skin with a cotton disc moistened in herbal decoction. Apply a cream to the damp skin.
Mask nourishes, softens and soothes the skin.
Mask of sesame seeds
Ingredients: 100 g. Sesame seeds, 1 tsp.green tea or a bag of green tea, 1 glass of water.
Brew a glass of green tea. Seeds of sesame seeds in a coffee grinder to obtain a thick homogeneous mass, apply to the face. After 30 minutes, rinse the mask with filtered green
tea, make a gentle relaxing face massage with your fingertips. After such a procedure, dry skin again becomes smooth and beautiful.