From ancient times, women take care about their beauty and good looking. These days the market offered thousands of different products for beautify and the main aim is again to look younger, fresher and better. The problem is that most of these products contain a lot of chemicals and even health harmful components. Therefore more and more women are turning to the old techniques for beautify and skin care. Here are some practices from Pakistan and Japanese.
Pakistan
The women in Pakistan have been using from centuries almond flour for taking care of their skin. The beauty specialists also confirm the excellent cleaning and rejuvenating properties of almonds. If you want to prepare almond scrub at home you have to grind the almond to a fine powder and after that to mix it with coconut oil if your skin is oily or with olive oil if your skin is dry.
If you have a problem with itching and dandruff you can easily rid of them rubbing in your scalp a little warm olive oil. For even better effect you can add to the olive oil and 2-3 drops from your favorite essential oil. Then you have to wrap your hair with hot towel and stay an hour or two with the mask, after that wash your hair with shampoo with natural ingredients. This mask not only improves the condition of the scalp, but also makes your hair soft and shiny.
Japanese
Japanese women are familiar with the healing properties of seaweed from thousand of years. Therefore the seaweeds take part in many cosmetic products and beautify procedure. You can also prepare seaweed mask at home. Take about 200g fresh or dried seaweeds. If you use fresh one, you have to soak them in water for several minutes to remove the salt from them. If you use dried seaweeds you have to put them in a glass of warm water. You have to boil them for about 10 minutes, to blend them and once cool, add 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice, apply the mask on your face and neck and wait about 20 minutes, after that wash your face with warm water.
If you want to prepare homemade face rice scrub, you need to make a powder from a handful of rice. When the rice powder is ready, apply it to wet face, better after taking shower. Rice scrub effectively perfectly removes the dead cells from the skin and enriches it with vitamin E.
Another homemade mask which you can prepare is a mask from oranges and watermelon. The orange peels is dried and ground on powder, added a little watermelon or little water with few drops of fresh lemon juice. Apply the mask on your face and after 20 minutes clean the face with warm water. This mask has a very refreshing effect on the skin.
