Cosmetics and medicines from medicinal plants
The most commonly used infusions and broths - water extracts from medicinal plants. For their preparation leaves, grasses, flowers, stems, roots, bark carefully crushed. Preheating the previously enameled pot or bowl for 15 minutes in a boiling water bath, pounded vegetable raw material into this dish, poured with water at room temperature, tightly closed with a lid and, often stirring, heated in a boiling water bath: broths - 30 minutes, infusions - 15min. Broths cool at room temperature for 10 minutes, and infusions - 45-60 minutes. Then filter through gauze. The resulting liquid is added boiled water to the original volume.
Infusion of calendula flowers, rose petals, linden flowers, jasmine, St. John's Wort is a good way to wipe your face instead of washing, when the skin does not tolerate water well, shrinks, peels off.
Rose petals have astringent and tonic properties, they are used as a fixative and hemostatic. To the greatest extent these qualities are endowed with barely opening buds. They should be collected on a cool, dry morning, dried in the shade, stored in a well-sealed container.
Decoction of rose petals - an effective tool for gargling with angina and catarrh of the upper respiratory tract.
Compress helps relieve headache, a migraine attack.2-3 tablespoons of rose petals insist in a glass of boiling water until warm. Such a compress will soften and strengthen wrinkled, flabby skin.
Lotion from pink petals ( 20 g per liter of water, boil, cool, strain) is used to narrow the pores on the face.
Celeben rose vinegar: 100 g petals insist in a liter of vinegar for 8 days, infusion( teaspoon per glass of water) rinse throat with tonsillitis, catarrh, etc.
Want to try honey from roses? Pour 80 g of petals half a glass of boiling water, soak on with weak fire for 15 minutes, let the brewer stand for a day. Then add 100 g of honey, stir well and boil, stirring, over low heat until the mass becomes homogeneous. Pink honey has medicinal qualities, has a pleasant taste and a unique aroma.
Lavender was part of the cosmetics that helped women of ancient Rome to maintain beauty and freshness. It is also used as a sedative. Take a few drops of lavender oil on the fingertips and gently massage the skin in the area of the temples. Stress and unnecessary agitation should disappear.
If you have to work long hours in the air, protect the face from peeling with lotion from dry herbs: 3 pieces of linden color, 2 parts of chamomile, 1 part of rose petals, 1/2 part of mint leaves, mix, take 2 tablespoons of mixture, pour a glassboiling water, insist, cool.
With persistent perspiration of the face it is useful to wipe the skin with infusion of St. John's wort ( 1 tablespoon per cup of boiling water).
A windy, flushed face should not be washed immediately with cold water. It is necessary to allow the skin to cool down, and then wipe off with a spilled tea room temperature.
From tea, you can prepare a lotion for oily skin( it tightens the pores).Brew a small amount of tea with mineral water, cool, add a few drops of lemon juice. Wipe the skin in the mornings and evenings.
Mask from the infusion of fresh berries and leaves of black currant, strawberry, strawberry softens the skin of the face.
Mask of berries and black currant leaves also has some whitening effect with age spots, freckles, and also enhances metabolic processes in the skin, which decrease with age.
For the preparation of the present it takes 5-10 worms per 200 g of water. In the ready infusion add 1 tablespoon of juice of berries.
After moistening the gauze( 2-3 layers), apply it on your face for 20 minutes, leaving holes for the eyes, nose and mouth. After removing the mask, rinse face with warm water. If you have dry skin after washing, be sure to apply some nourishing cream. Course - 15-20 masks twice a week.
For masks, you can use the flesh of a few berries strawberries, strawberries. It is applied to a clean face for 15-20 minutes, then washed off.
Here are a few more recipes.
The root of the marshmallow. The broth is prepared from the calculation of 2 tablespoons of crushed althea root per 0.5 liters of water. This decoction is moistened with gauze napkins and applied to the face for 5-10 minutes, repeated 2-3 times. This procedure is done twice a day - in the morning and in the evening - instead of washing with inflammation of the skin of the face.
Camomile. Infusion of chamomile( 2 tablespoons per 0.5 liters of water) can be used as lotions for skin inflammation, exacerbation of rosacea( red face, nose), acne. Rinsing hair with this infusion gives them softness and shine.
The perfume industry produces creams that include chamomile.
The sequence. The sequence has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic action. Her broth( 2 tablespoons per 0.5 liters of water) is added to the water for a common bath, as well as to the hands and feet, used for lotions.
Mixture of chamomile, sage, peanuts. Take 1 tablespoon of each herb for 0.5 liters of water and prepare the infusion. It is useful to rub with increased greasiness of the scalp and hair. It is recommended to wash your head once every 5-7 days. Infusion of a mixture of herbs, also used for lotions or masks with oily skin of the face with acne, skin inflammation.
Oak bark. Decoction from the bark of oak( 2 tablespoons per 0.5 liters of water) reduces sweating of hands and feet. It is added to the baths at the rate of 0.5 liters of broth for 4-5 liters of warm water. Baths for hands and feet should be done 1-2 times a week for 10-15 minutes. After the procedure, you should thoroughly wipe your hands and feet with a soft towel, especially between your fingers.
You noticed that you had dandruff, hair quickly salted, began to fall out. Try to rub in the scalp one of these compounds:
1 tablespoon chopped field horsetail and 1 tablespoon arnica flowers pour two cups of boiling water, boil, allow to cool and then strain. Rub every other day for an hour and a half before bedtime;dig out the bush knuckle together with the root. Grind the root, add the root of the coil. Prepare the broth and rub, as mentioned above;100 g of finely chopped leaves and 100 g of root nettle, pour half a liter of table vinegar and half a liter of vodka in half with water and cook for half an hour. When the broth cools down, strain. Rub each day.
You can also prepare from the herbs for water rinsing after washing. In June - July, when the lime blooms, collect two or three handfuls of inflorescences, pour 2 liters of hot water, let stand forty minutes, then strain. This broth is good for dry and normal hair. If the hair is greasy, you can add a strained infusion of fresh or dry cones of hops, nettle leaves and rowan fruit to the rinse water( 1 tablespoon per 3 cups of boiling water).
If you want your hair to lighten up, become more shiny, mix in equal quantities chamomile flowers with flowers of sunflower and barberry, brew like steep boiling water, insist 30-40 minutes, then strain and add to the rinse water.
In the summer it is very useful to wash with water, in which infusions of lime-colored or raspberry leaves ( 1 teaspoon pour a glass of boiling water) are added. After such washing on a damp skin, apply a cream that matches your skin. First, rub it between the palms, and then apply soft movements from the middle of the forehead to the temples, along the cheeks from the nose, from the inner corner of the eye through the upper eyelid to the outer corner, and then along the lower eyelid to the nose. After 10-15 minutes, remove excess cream with a paper towel.
If the facial skin is very dry, irritated, wipe it with oil infusion of St. John's wort ( 1 part of the flowers infuse 2 parts of vegetable oil for 3 weeks).
You can also make cosmetic face masks from fresh crushed leaves of raspberries, blackberries, guelderies, mother-and-stepmother. Masks are applied to greased skin with oil for 10-15 minutes.
For a greasy, acne prone skin, the mask of finely ground leaves is especially useful( you do not need to lubricate the face afterwards).
If you are bitten by a bee or wasp, grease the bite site with fresh juice of calendula flowers ( marigolds) or attach crushed leaves of plantain.
If the elbows and heels have become coarse, make the baths with the decoction of the melon for half an hour. Then you have to grease your elbows and heels with some fat cream.
With excessive sweating, take water infusion of sage leaves( 1 teaspoon of chopped leaves brewed with 2 glasses of steep boiling water, insist for 30-40 minutes, strain).Drink 1-2 tablespoons 2 times a day for 2-3 weeks.
When sweating feet help baths with decoctions of oak bark, fresh birch leaves or horsetail field.
Water sage infusion will help get rid of painful cracks in the corners of the mouth. Gently lubricate them once or twice a day with a cotton swab.