Cotton wool compresses soaked in a decoction made of 100 g (3.52 oz) of fresh leaves are equally effective. Boil in 1 l of water for 15 minutes and apply to affected parts at least three times per day.
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Anti-cellulite bath with ivy
Cotton wool compresses soaked in a decoction made of 100 g (3.52 oz) of fresh leaves are equally effective. Boil in 1 l of water for 15 minutes and apply to affected parts at least three times per day.
Oil for dry skin
It can be added also to the scented oil you prefer (rose, vanilla, ecc…).
Beauty care remedies with spices: cellulitis
Therefore it’s an excellent remedy against cellulite: add 2 drops of cinnamon essential oil in a tbsp of sweet almonds oil and massage the affected parts.
A remedy for oily hair
You can warm it a little bit before using.
Coriander skin scrub
Chopped seeds are helpful to remove skin dead cells too (scrub): a tbsp of rice flour, one of sweet almonds oil, one of chopped coriander seeds.
Use this mix to massage your wet skin by circular movements.
How to prepare rose water
It’s helpful to treat pimples and impure skin. It’s helpful also for skin irritated by the sun.
It’s helpful to remove beauty masks. It’s helpful in the preparation of cosmetics.
To prepare homemade rose water, put three handfuls of fresh rose petals in an enamelled kettle filled with distilled water. Boil on a low fire for half an hour. Then switch it off and let it cool before draining. This lotion can be kept for few days in a dark and hermetic glass bottle. After closing it, shake it energetically.
It’s obviously sold also in the perfumery or at the chemist’s, if you are lazy or do not have available ingredients.
foto di Andrzej Pastuszak
Yellow gentian to make your freckles disappear
Toned breast for mothers who are nursing a baby
Getting rid of under eye dark circles
Face lifting with sorrel
As for cooking tips, use it mixed in salads to replace lemon juice.
Or flavour your dish putting a handful of sorrel in rice soup.
As mouth disinfectant: chew some sorrel leaves.
To make your face skin firmer and avoid its wilting: make a decoction boiling 40 g (1.41 oz) of sorrel acetosella root in 1 l of water for 5 minutes and then let it stay for 5 more minutes.
Drink a cup in the morning, 1 during the day and 1 in the night for 20 days.
Check contraindications and do not overdose or use it longer than necessary since sorrel can be toxic.
How to reduce swelling with mountain celery: recipe
Diuretic Infusion: a handful of celery leaves in 1 l of boiling hot water for 20 minutes.
Drink a cup of it before meals and one in the morning on an empty stomach.
Sun-rash healing with cucumber
It’a a great classic of cosmetics: squeeze a cucumber, take the juice, apply it with a gauze to your face in the night. It’s a real beauty mask.
Mallow makes life longer
Ninon de Lenclos (who lived in the XVII century), who was famous for her untouched beauty and for fascinating a lot of suitors even when she was 80 years old, assured that this privilege was due to the fact that she used to drink a mallow tea every night.
Was this an anti-aging elixir?
Anyway mallow action clears the complexion.
Blackheads and excessive transpiration: sage remedies
And it’s also used as cosmetic remedy for your face care (applying an infusion), in case of asphyxial skin and blackheads.
Sage bath is very refreshing, deodorant and calming for excessive transpiration.
By the way, in case of insect stings, rubbing a leave is enough to give relief.
To fight face fluff with celandine
However, here we deal with the cosmetic properties of this herb which can be used against face fluff: rub the fresh juice on the face and let it act for some hours. Then rinse with abundant warm water and rub your skin with some rice starch talc or with hypericum oil and chamomile.
Pot marigold against age skin spots and diseases
Calendula is a big daisy growing in the fields and phytotherapy uses all its parts: flowers, leaves and stems. However, it’s effective only when it’s fresh. It has always been known for its astringent, perspiratory and diuretic properties. It has recently been acknowledged to be effective also for some serious disorders.
Used externally, it often treats skin diseases for which antibiotics and corticosteroids were ineffective.
It can treat skin ulcers and verrucas.
As for cosmetics, the application of fresh pot marigold juice on your hands makes them velvety and helps removing age spots. On the contrary, using the oil every night helps healing chaps.
Pot marigold bath is moisturizing.
Red face because of cold: how to decongest your skin
Prepare a lavender infusion with two pinches of dried flowers in a cup of boiling hot water. Soak two compresses when the infusion is still warm and use to decongest the skin.
Dry your face padding it softly and apply a strong soothing cream with a delicate massage.
Remedy for pimples with sage
Fill half a glass pot with methylated spirit and sage leaves. Let it stand until the liquid does not get a greenish colour. Drain and then use to pad hot spots.
Face cleansing with honeysuckle
Then prepare an infusion putting a handful of flowers and one of leaves in a pot with 1 l of boiling hot water. Let it cool and pour the liquid in a bottle.
Use this liquid after face cleansing as tonic lotion, passing a soaked cotton ball on your skin: it has astringent and antiseptic properties. Make your natural cosmetic, it’s personal and cheap!
Blonde hair with chamomile, to keep your natural colour
It’s the most widely known natural system (be careful about chemical lotions which often contain bleaching substances producing an unnatural colour and often damaging the hair), that is chamomile:
you only have to prepare an infusion of chamomile flowers, let it cool and use regularly on your hair after the shampoo.
If you use it in summer and expose your hair to the sun, you will have beautiful natural gold highlights.
For example you may spray the infusion on your hair while you are tanning on the beach.
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