If our body is protected by clothing, then the face always remains open, which is why it is exposed to negative environmental factors. In addition, after a certain age, the skin rapidly loses moisture, subcutaneous fat begins to disappear. This is one of the main reasons for the appearance of the first wrinkles.
How scary one morning to discover that the skin on the face has changed: wrinkles, irregularities appeared, it became lethargic and dull. For any woman, seeing this in the mirror means only one thing - it's time to take care of yourself and regain your former confidence and youth. However, many are frightened by the prospect of depriving themselves and their loved ones of a significant part of the money, because rejuvenating procedures in aesthetic medicine clinics and beauty salons cost a lot. But after all, our grandmothers somehow managed without expensive procedures, and at the same time they managed to preserve the youth of their skin for a long time. It is about how to conduct a course of anti-aging cosmetic procedures at home and what folk remedies can help with this and will be discussed in this article.
Regular washing for skin rejuvenation
One of the simplest facial skin care products is good quality water. Water washes away dead cells of the stratum corneum, cleanses the skin of dust, dirt, sweat and grease.
With the right approach, daily washing can become not only a hygienic procedure, but also a healing one. In order to preserve youthfulness of the skin, train yourself to wash your face by combining water. Rinse your face several times with warm water and then cold water. Warm water expands pores, while cold water narrows them. However, it is not recommended to wash your face with too cold or too hot water. When exposed to low temperatures, the skin becomes dry and begins to flake off. Hot water leads to persistent vasodilation, and the skin becomes too sensitive to cold.
If you have dry skin, wash your face with soft water at room temperature. It is recommended to use a facial cleanser no more than once a week. The exception is special foams and gels with a therapeutic effect, designed specifically for dry skin. For dry skin, washing and compresses from a decoction of chamomile, violets, rose petals, mint, lavender, ginseng root, parsley and dill will be useful. Pour 200 g of boiling water over one tablespoon of any of these ingredients. The resulting broth must be insisted for 20 minutes, strain, cool. For oily skin, a decoction of chamomile, St. John's wort, horsetail, yarrow, plantain, cornflower, nettle, coltsfoot, eucalyptus leaves is suitable.
For oily skin, you can use any cleanser 2 times a week: morning and evening. After washing, apply a nourishing cream to the skin, and after 20-30 minutes, remove the remains with a paper towel.
For normal skin, alternate washings with warm and cool clean water are sufficient. But even normal skin requires some care. Washing with water with decoctions of medicinal herbs is very useful. Once a week, wash your face with a decoction or wipe with a swab dipped in warm water. For normal skin, you can use almost any decoction based on medicinal herbs, becauseeach component perfectly nourishes the skin and makes it look healthy.
Massage is the backbone
Daily facial massage allows you to keep it in good shape, ensures its firmness and elasticity. Due to the constant blood flow during the massage procedure, blood circulation is improved, expression and age wrinkles are smoothed, muscles are stimulated, which over time lose their elasticity.
Rules for conducting "home massage"
Facial massage presupposes perfectly clean skin, therefore, before the procedure, it is imperative to remove makeup and wash thoroughly. In addition, the skin must be moisturized with any moisturizing cream or serum with a regenerating effect. The latter option will be even more preferable, because the skin before the massage will receive an additional "push" to rejuvenate.
True, there are a number of contraindications:
- chronic inflammatory processes on the skin of the face;
- burns;
- increased level of facial hair.
It is most effective to do a facial massage before bedtime, but this does not mean that you cannot resort to its help in the morning or afternoon. For example, morning eyelid massage allows you to remove "night" puffiness, smooth out wrinkles in the corners of the eyes, and get rid of dark circles.
Important:the massage procedure should last no more than 10-15 minutes, and for the first time the session time should be 3-5 minutes at all.
And now in more detail about how to do massage correctly, where to start it and what movements to use for this.
There are many options for self-massage, but the most popular is the classic one. This procedure is based on a physical effect on the skin of the face strictly along the specified lines.
These lines include:
- line from eyebrows to hair roots;
- from the corners of the lips to the middle of the ear;
- from the center of the chin to the earlobes;
- from the wings of the nose to the temples;
- from the middle of the nose to the tips of the eyebrows.
All movements should be performed with relaxed hands, pressure and friction are not allowed. You need to start a classic massage with light stroking with your fingertips. Gradually, the movements should become more active, perhaps even a light pat on the skin of the face, which will allow it to warm up. But when the skin is ready, you can move on to the next stage.
Smoothing facial wrinkles with massage
High-quality facial rejuvenation at home is impossible without massage. How to get rid of wrinkles and double chin if there is no money to visit a beautician? Very simple!
The movements should not be "stroking", as in the version of the classic massage, but tapping and pointlike. Problem areas must first be slightly moistened, and not with your fingers, but with the inner side of your wrist, as if "pressing" the cream into the skin.
To "destroy" the double chin, you need to use a tougher massage technique. This can be both patting with palms and pinching, and even rubbing with a towel soaked in water.
Towel massage technique: soak a towel in water, wring it out and roll it up with a tourniquet. Taking the ends of the towel, stretch it under your chin and pull it up with force, as if wishing to tie the jaw. Hold the towel in this position for a few seconds, then loosen it. Repeat the procedure 7-10 times. A daily towel massage will give tangible results in a few weeks.
The massage allows you to quickly achieve the desired effect. It lifts the skin, makes it firm and elastic, keeping it youthful for a long time.
Homemade beauty products - a fountain of youthful skin
But you won't be full with massage alone. Yes, the skin will constantly receive the necessary support, and the face will have beautiful contours, but it is possible to improve the skin color, smooth it and give it radiance only with the help of creams, lotions and masks. It is not necessary to buy them, because almost any cosmetic product can be made at home, and its properties will be no worse than those on the shelves in the store. How and from what to make high-quality home cosmetics? How to use it correctly, and are there any contraindications to the use of such funds? Let's figure it out right now.
Homemade Facial Lotions There are many recipes for making homemade facial lotions. Here are just a few of them.
Parsley Lotion
To prepare such a lotion, you will need one tablespoon of fresh or dried parsley (preferably with roots), 50 ml of white table wine and 1 glass of boiling water. Pour boiling water over the parsley and let it brew for half an hour. Then warm up the infusion in a water bath for 7-10 minutes. Then let the solution cool down. When the water becomes warm, strain it and pour wine into the infusion. The lotion is ready. It helps to restore radiance and healthy complexion to the skin. It removes makeup perfectly and can easily replace expensive face care products.
Mint lotion
To prepare mint lotion, you need to take 2 tablespoons of dry mint (or 5 tablespoons fresh), half a liter of boiling water, 4 tablespoons of boric alcohol, 1 teaspoon of table vinegar, 2 tablespoons of calendula tincture and a teaspoon of lemon juice.
Pour boiling water over the mint and keep on fire for 10 minutes. After cooling, strain the infusion and pour the remaining ingredients into it. Such a lotion is very good in summer, because in addition to its main function - cleansing the skin - it also performs one more - refreshment.
Homemade face creams - the most effective recipes
An effective cream for rejuvenating the skin of the face should not contain artificial preservatives and other chemicals. Here are some recipes for effective anti-wrinkle creams.
Creamy face cream
To create your own "live" cream you will need: 100 grams of cream, one egg yolk, half a teaspoon of fresh lemon juice, one teaspoon of honey and two teaspoons of any cognac. Mix all ingredients in a bowl until smooth. You can use the cream immediately after its preparation, and in addition, it can be stored. After transferring the mass to a glass container and closing it with a lid (but not metal), remove it in a cool, dark place.
Such a cream is applied in a thick layer, almost like a mask. The exposure time is at least 20 minutes. After the procedure, the cream must be washed off with warm water.
The effect is amazing! The skin is smooth, even, elastic, and this result is achieved after the first application.
Oatmeal anti-expression wrinkle cream
An arbitrary amount of oatmeal is mixed with one teaspoon of glycerin, one teaspoon of camphor and one yolk. It is necessary to apply such a cream only on the area of mimic wrinkles, since it has a high penetrating power. When applied to other areas of the face, it may disrupt the natural production of collagen. The exposure time of the "oatmeal" cream is 1 hour. After the procedure, the mixture must be washed off with warm water. You cannot store the cream!
Homemade natural anti-wrinkle masks
The mask is an excellent tool for completing the facial skin care procedure. There are natural masks in stores, but you can buy them only by spending a fortune. Or you can save money by preparing your own mask at home.
So, here are a few recipes for good anti-wrinkle masks.
Oil mask
Mix a tablespoon of soft butter with the yolk of one egg, a tablespoon of an apple grated on the finest grater and one teaspoon of honey. Apply the product to cleansed face skin, hold for 20 minutes and remove its remnants with a cotton swab dipped in water. The mask perfectly moisturizes and nourishes the skin, has a tightening effect, and fights fine age-related wrinkles.
Vitamin mask from berries and vegetables
The skin also needs vitamins, which are found in huge quantities in the most common "garden dwellers": cucumbers and black currants.
The cucumber must be peeled and grated on a fine grater. Take a tablespoon of the resulting cucumber gruel and mix with a tablespoon of blackcurrant gruel. Add a tablespoon of fat sour cream to the mixture and mix everything. The mask is applied to the face for 20 minutes, after which it is washed off with warm water.
Its effect is to instantly give the skin radiance and freshness. The complexion improves, and with it the mood improves.
Rejuvenating face masks
Face masks show excellent rejuvenation results. To make a homemade mask, you will need white clay and serum. Dissolve the components to the consistency of thick sour cream, apply on the skin for 15 minutes, then rinse with water. If you have dry skin - after this procedure, wet your face with a moisturizing lotion.
For oily skin, you can prepare a cucumber, lemon and oatmeal mask. Grind 1 cucumber, add 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 100 grams of oatmeal. Dilute the mixture with chamomile broth, whey or boiled water. Apply to previously cleansed skin for 20 minutes, rinse with warm water.
Peeling for effective cleansing
Facial exfoliation can be performed once a week. To do this, you do not need to visit salons, because you can carry out this procedure at home. Facial cleansing is carried out with a scrub. You can cook it yourself. The most popular cleansing ingredients are coffee and sea salt.
Add a pinch of salt, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, a teaspoon of sugar, 2-3 drops of lavender oil to the coffee grounds. Stir the mixture well, apply to the face, rinse off after 10 minutes with warm water. For normal to dry skin, mix 1 tablespoon of sea salt with egg yolk and sour cream. Massage onto face, rinse off after 10-15 minutes. For oily skin, replace sour cream with any other fermented milk product - serum, kefir, low-fat sour cream.
Do not forget that facial rejuvenation is impossible without changes in nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. For the skin to be young and well-groomed, it is necessary to give up bad habits, as well as diversify the diet with vitamins and minerals. The diet must include foods containing carotene, vitamin A and fiber (pumpkin, carrots, oranges, bananas and juices from them, all types of cabbage, fish, nuts).
Using simple massage techniques and homemade cosmetics, you will return your skin to its former attractiveness, and for this you will not need either expensive procedures in beauty salons or imported creams and masks that promise stunning results from the very first day of use. As the saying goes: "Houses and walls help". And in combination with a great desire to change yourself for the better, you can achieve much more.