It’s time to relax

Time to time we feel ourselves very tired, irritable, drained and even aggressive. In this time some people want any splash of emotions or changes. Another people want something calm, soft and cozy. How can we get over the time, when vital energy comes to end? In this situation you should master some techniques, which help you to recreate yourself.

Draw attention to massage. There are many types of massage therapy, like as Swedish, shiatsu, deep tissue, but all of them have one of the main health benefits - reduction of stress, anxiety, depression and improvement of sleep. Visit the special salon and ask the procedure with oil of tree Shi. You’ll feel yourself born again then.

Care about your hair and make them shining. To do it, choose new shampoo and conditioner right. Pay attention to production with tasty aromas. It will give energy back to your hair and help you to relax at the most.

Keep the cleansing diet for 3 days a week. Let your organism to rest from meat, sugar and coffee. Eat only fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains. Your organism will repay you with excellent work. You will get high vitality and fine mood.

Look at your feet and try salon pedicure based on mineral springs. Some cosmetic centers offer massage of the feet with brown sugar and other regenerative means. You need only ask. Also you can make some procedures at home. For example, cosmetic envelopment with bee royal jelly or any other products with honey and its components. Fruit acids moisten and cleanse the feet skin very well. Sure you’ll be able to fly after such procedures.

Breathe in the aromatic smells. Place aromatized candles everywhere at home. In the evening, put out the candles and stay in the twilight for some time for relaxation. It recreates forces and cheers up very well. You can try different citrus and fruit smells. Liven up not only a room but also your body with aromas, using cosmetic with smells of flowers and grass.

Nourish the dry skin. During stress the skin usually becomes dry. So you should watch over the condition of the face and body. Use soft scrubs and nourishing lotions and creams.

And finally take a relaxing bath. It is the best way to finish your day and to get forces for the next one!

SPA-salon in your own bathroom. Part III.

Today I offer some tips about aromatic baths. You can take such baths not oftener 2-3 times a week. And of course you should take a bath only if you are in good health and mood. Those who suffer from any chronic diseases, have to be circumspect with aromatic baths. You shouldn’t take a bath at once after meal, it’s better to wait for one-two hours. It’s better to take bath in the evening, because you shouldn’t go to the street at least 2 hours after bath.

Remember that bath with cool water relaxes and with hot water braces. But the main rule is water must be pleasant for you. You should add hot water during a procedure in order that water to stay in stable temperature.

Of course the use of bath depends on infusion but the view of flower petals improves your mood surely. If you like the pleasant smells, add in the water some drops of aromatic oil.

Baths for 10-15 minutes have restorative effect. Baths for more than 20 minutes have sedative effect. If you are on any diet, you shouldn’t take hot baths.

Before bath don’t forget to take a shower. Soap or gel for shower removes the protective acid-fat layer from skin and makes absorption of healing matters easier. And after aromatic bath you’d better to put cream on the body or t least any bath oil to keep useful matters in the hypodermic layer.

You shouldn’t stay motionlessly even in the relaxed bath. Change position; massage your body beginning from legs in direction to the heart. Especially energetically work up thighs, buttocks and back.

SPA-salon in your own bathroom. Part II.

Royal bath (with rose). The first variant is - boil 3 handfuls of rose-petals with 2 glasses of boiling water and in 5 minutes pour into bath with warm water together with petals. The second variant – knead 250g of rose-petals with the same amount of baking powder. And add to the bath. Take such bath for 20-25 minutes. It relaxes calms and makes skin soft and silky.

Color bath (with basil). Basil gives the beautiful color for the bath water. Pour 150 gram of purple basil with 1 liter of boiling water and leave for 2-3 hours in the warm place. Then filter and add to bath with warm water. Take a bath for 20-25 minutes, adding hot water before comfort temperature. Use basil for aromatic baths if you can’t fall asleep.

Country bath (with tansy). You can use flowers of tansy or take flower baskets. Pour 3 bunches of tansy with 2 liters of boiling water and leave for 2-3 hours to infuse. Then filter and add to bath with warm water. Take a bath for 10-12 minutes. Such bath has disinfectant and anesthetic effects. Such bath will help the skin with small boils or acne. It takes away pain and tiredness from overworked legs.

Flower mixture (with jasmine, lily, lavender and dogrose). Mix in 1 handful of jasmine, lily, dogrose petals and lavender flowers and pour them with 3 liters of boiling water. Leave for 2 hours and then add to bath (don’t filter). Make the comfort temperature of water and take bath for 20 minutes. The effect from such bath I could call as the second birth.

Curative bath (with calendula and origanum). Mix 3 table-spoons of calendula petals and 2 table-spoons of origanum flowers. Pour mixture with 5 liters of boiling water and leave for 4 hours. Then filter and add to bath with warm water. Take such bath for 15-20 minutes. It helps to get rid of pustular eruptions on skin.

Meadow bath (with clover). Cut flowers of clover and pour 6 table-spoons of them with 2 liters of boiling water. Leave for an hour and then filter. Add infusion to bath with warm water. Take this bath for 10 minutes before night. Your skin will become soft, silky and well-nourished.

SPA-salon in your own bathroom. Part I.

The main feature of every SPA-salon is marvellous aroma baths with flowers petals. But why we can’t luxuriate in the own bath with petals and aromatic flowers at home? It will be both pleasant and useful. Today I offer some recipes of various baths. They are very easy to make, but effect will be like in the best spa-salons. You are welcome to choose your favorite one.

Blue bath (with cornflower). Pour 50g of cornflower’s petals with 2 liters of cold water and boil for 2-3 minutes. Then leave to infuse for 1,5-2 hours. Filter infusion and add to bath with warm water. Take bath for 15-17 minutes. This bath will help you to solve problems with skin. It’s better to make such bath every day for a week.

Pharmaceutical bath (with camomile). Cut 1 kg of fresh camomile and pour with 4 liters of cold water. Leave for 10 minutes and then boil for 5 minutes. Then leave for 10 minutes again and filter. Add to the bath with warm water. Duration of such bath is 20 minutes. Bath has disinfectant and antiphlogistic effect, gives skin flexibility, softness and heals small abrasions.

Fragrant bath (with lavender). Pour 1 kg of lavender flowers with 9 liters of boiling water and leave for 2 hours. Then filter and add to bath. Take this bath for 15-20 minutes. Such bath is very useful teenagers. It helps to neutralize various consequence age-related changes and to stimulate circulation of the blood.

Karma bath (with white carnation). Put flowers of 7 white carnations in the bath. Being in the bath you should rub yourself with flowers. Stay in the bath for 10 minutes and then take a shower. Gather all petals and throw away. Such bath cleans your aura and takes negative influence of habitat, accumulating in your organism for the whole day.

Sleeping bath (with violet). Pour 1 glass of violet flowers with 5 liters of hot water and heat on the water bath for 20 minutes. Filter infusion and add to bath with warm water. Also throw fresh violet petals in the water. Take this bath for 25 minutes. Such bath will help you to fall asleep and to see flower dreams.

Vitamins for body skin

Don’t forget about your body skin. It needs in vitamins like a face skin. The best way of body skin care is various baths. It can be herbal baths, vitamin baths, salt baths and so on. Prepare the bath to your taste and enjoy it!

To make vitamin bath you need to mix in 1 part of raspberry and cowberry leaves, in 2 parts of sea-buckthorn and currant leaves, and in 3 parts of ashberry and dogrose leaves. Prepare infusion from them in proportion 100 gram of dry mixture for 2-3 liters of hot water. Boil the mixture on the fire for 15 minutes and then keep brewing for 45 minutes. Filter ad pour into the bath. Procedure should take since 5 till 20 minutes.

To make herbal bath you need to take in 3 parts of camomile and origanum, 4 parts of hop cones and 5 parts of motherwort and knotweed. Proportion the same - 100 gram of dry mixture for 2-3 liters of hot water. Use another recipe of herbal bath. Mix 4 parts of camomile, 5 parts of sea-buckthorn leaves, 3 parts of knotweed, 3 parts of viburnum branches, 3 parts of horse-tail and 2 parts of needles (branches of cedar, fir and pine-tree).

Care about your hands after gardening

Do you like gardening? To care about your hands is very important especially if you like to work in the garden. Your hands work hard caring about vegetables and fruits in the garden and now it’s time for plants to care about overworked hands. You’d better to make the whole course of bathes for your hands.

For one bath you need 3 table-spoons of hips and 1 table-spoon of grinded black-currant leaves (better fresh, than dried). Pour 1 glass of boiling water into enamel saucepan with ready mixture. Boil decoction on the light fire until boiling and then filter. Add 1 table-spoon of honey and keep to brew for 1 hour.

Mix decoction with hot water half-and-half and keep the hands into it for 15-20 minutes. Then wipe hands and put any cream for hands. You’d better to prepare the decoction for some bathes at once and keep it in the fridge. The course from 5-7 bathes helps to recover hands skin after gardening.

Spa-salon at home

You can make spa-salon at home easily. For example, let’s make relaxing bath. Mix 4 table-spoons of dry lavender’s flowers, 1 table-spoon of cut fresh sage’s leaves and 1 table-spoon of piny-needles. Spill 1/2 liter of water in the mixture and boil on the weak fire for 10 minutes.

Filter aromatic decoction and dissolve 2 table-spoons of honey there. Add this composition in the warm water. Well, the bath is ready. Enjoy it! After the bath you’ll feel that you were born anew and obtain tender and smooth skin.

Don’t remember about allergic effect of honey. The women, who have allergy from honey, prefer to add in the aromatic decoction 2 table-spoons of parsley juice.