HOW TO GAIN YOUTHFUL LOOKS
From time immemorial, women loved to possess a smooth and luminous complexion. Preserving a youthful complexion eternally has been the secret desire of every woman. The ageing process is inevitable. With the proper care, you can retain your skin’s youthful elasticity and firmness and postpone the advent of lines and wrinkles.
Wrinkles and the loss of natural elasticity result from a damaged mechanism called cross-linking. The proteins are bonded together, preventing the proper functioning of the cellular network. The epidermal cells slowly lose their capacity for renewal, and the dermal cells that produce collagen and elastin slow their synthesis. The result is dryness, lines and wrinkles on the surface of your skin, especially under the eyes, on the forehead and upper lips.
Adverse environmental conditions like overexposure to susceptible to damage while massaging, consumption of alcohol and excessive tobacco smoking.
Anti-ageing powers are now within the grasp of everyone. Cosmetologists have found cut effective ways to work against the ageing process. They come in the form of biologically active creams and liposomes. The liposomes bring forth a marked improvement in resilience and tone of the skin.
SKIN REJUVENATING
Home-made anti-wrinkle creams are safe and effective in producing visible benefits. Actively combats wrinkles, lines and bags caused by fatigue and ageing.
Maintain that youthful look by splashing your face with cold water into which powdered nutmeg has been added.
HONEY-CARROT ANTI-WRINKLE MASK
Ingredients: 1½ tbsp. of honey,
½ tsp. of carrot juice, a pinch of soda bicarb
Method: Combine the honey and juice of carrots.
Application: Apply on the face. Leave it on for 20 minutes. Remove using cotton wool dipped into warm water to which a pinch of bicarb of soda has been added.
CREAM MASK
Ingredients: 1 white an egg
1 tbsp. of cream
Method: Combine to make a paste
Application: Apply on the face and neck for 20 minutes. Rinse off with tepid water. This mask is said to erase facial lines.
CORNFLOUR MASK
Ingredients: 1 tbsp. corn flour
1 tbsp. of honey
Method: Make a paste with the above ingredients without any lumps.
Application: Apply on the face and allow it to dry before rinsing off.
APPLE FACIAL MASK
Mash apples and use them as a facial mask to postpone wrinkles.
Application: Use on the face for 10 minutes and wash thoroughly with cold water. Use on the front for 10 minutes and rinse thoroughly with cold water.
BANANA MASK
Ingredients: 1 ripe banana
1 tbsp. rose water
Method: Mash banana and mix in rose water.
Application: Apply as often as you can. Wash with lukewarm water after 30 minutes. If used regularly, it helps to postpone wrinkles.
MINT-KAOLIN MASK
Ingredients: 1 egg white
2 tbsp. kaolin
2 tbsp. mint juice
Method: Cush a handful of mint leaves and let it steep in water for half an hour. Strain the liquid. Alternatively, you may extract the juice of the mint. Beat the egg white until stiff. Add to the mint extract. Stir in kaolin to make a paste.
Application: Apply this mask to the face and wash it off after 15 minutes.
ANTI-WRINKLE FACE PACK
Ingredients: 1 tsp. cucumber juice
1 tbsp. mint juice
One egg white
½ tsp. honey
1 tsp. curd
Method: Beat egg white until stiff. Blend ingredients thoroughly.
Application: Apply thickly on the face. Leave on for 15 minutes and rinse.
LANOLIN ANTI-WRINKLE CREAM
Ingredients: 2 tbsp. Lanolin
½ tbsp. honey
2 tbsp. almond oil
Method: Melt lanolin and petroleum by the double boiling method. Mix in honey.
Application: Apply on the face and wash off after 15 minutes.
ANTI-WRINKLE CREAM
Ingredients: 1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. soda bicarb
One egg
Method: Mix egg and oil briskly.
Application: Apply evenly on the face and neck. Allow it to dry. Saturate cotton wool dipped in hot water to which the soda bicarb has been added. Gently clean skin surface.
EGG WHITE FACIAL
Whisk egg white and spread over the face to tighten and iron out wrinkles. Rinse off after 20 minutes. You can also use the unbeaten white of an egg. Apply on the neck and near the eyes.
ANTI-WRINKLE LOTION
Ingredients : 3 tbsp. witch hazel
1 tbsp. glycerine
1 tbsp. rose water
Method: Combine all the ingredients and blend in a liquidizer for half a minute. Store in a glass jar.
COUNTERACTING EARLY WRINKLES
• Mashed papaya and a bit of cream may be applied regularly.
• Combine one tbsp. Of green gram flour, a quarter tsp. of coconut oil and a generous pinch of turmeric powder. Apply evenly and wash off with cold water after 20 minutes.
• Equal parts of the unbeaten white of an egg and glycerine. Mix in a quarter tsp. of rosewater. Stir well and spread on wrinkles. Leave on for 20 minutes and wash with lukewarm water.