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!

Coffee passions

Coffee… It’s a constant companion of the modern persons and our mood becomes better even only at the mention of this drink. If you remember the bewitching aroma of coffee in the morning, charge of vivacity and optimism will be guaranteed for the whole day.

Very often doctors give a notice about harmful influence of over-use coffee on human organism. Coffee dependence develops very quickly and compels a person to take this aromatic drink regularly. So it can raise risk of many violations of organism. Fortunately people, who drink not more one-two cups of coffee a day, feel a beneficial effect on human organism. Coffee has vitamin P and antioxidants, which have anti-ageing effect. Women feel themselves in the tone for the whole day. Also coffee is popular among women thanking its cosmetological effect.

The recipe of home peeling from coffee is known long ago. Before, it could be used only by rich women. But now it is accessible for almost each of us. Mix active coffee or coffee ground with sea salt or ordinary big salt in proportion 50:50. Add some water into mixture and put on the body with the help of hard mitten by massaging actions. If you have dry skin, add sour cream or cosmetic milk in the peeling mixture. Such peeling makes skin smooth, soft and helps to fight against cellulites. For great effect take a bath before the procedure to soften your skin. You should know that you need fine ground of coffee for tender parts of your body like as face or hands; and for more harsh body’s parts: elbows, knees, heels, you need big ground of coffee.

Owners of dark hairs can use coffee for giving them shine, splendour and bulk. You can prepare natural coffee hair rinse. Take 4 tea-spoons of ground coffee and pour them with 3 glasses of boiling water. Boil coffee mixture for 10 minute on the light fire. Then cool and filter coffee-water and use as hair rinse. It will help to refresh dim hair’s color and to lighten their set.

Massage with cream from coffee beans becomes popular last time. Such kind of massage includes the program of weight loss and anti-cellulitis. The great number of caffeine in the special massage cream helps to liven up the mechanism of disintegration and eduction of fats, restores elasticity and resilience of skin and decides the problem of premature ageing. Coffee massage is made as on the whole body, so on its parts, needed in additional correction. During the procedure you intensify the circulation of the blood in the problematic zones and stimulate drainage of lymph. As a result you see the weight loss; condition of the skin becomes better. Massage with coffee cream can be considered as a séance of aromatherapy, because coffee aroma helps to relax and to have a rest.

Summer is the season of décolleté

Sure summer is the best time for vacation. We enjoy sun, sea, warm sand. Women wear open clothes, sabot. And almost every piece of skin is opened rapt looks of men. And of course, one of the most important parts for women in summer is area of décolleté. Today I offer some recipes and tips for skin in the area of décolleté.

If the skin isn’t very clean, with acne, you should rub skin on the shoulders, upper parts of the back and breast with lotion from calendula. To prepare lotion, pour 1 table-spoon of dried flowers of calendula with 2 glasses of boiling water and leave for an hour. Then add 2 table-spoons of vodka or cologne.

To make breast skin healthy and to saturate it with oxygen, prepare rejuvenated lotion. Boil 2 tea-spoons of dried mint in the ½ liter of water for 2 minutes. Then add fruit vinegar and keep to cool. Add 2 table-spoons of rose water and rub upper parts of breast and back regularly. Keep lotion in the bottle from dark glass.

Generally you can make very simple masks for décolleté skin care. Put sour cream, kefir or sour milk on the neck, area of décolleté, shoulders. In 15 minutes wash mask with warm water. Such masks nourish skin very good and renew its elasticity.

And finally here is the special mask for area of décolleté. Mix 1 table-spoon of curd with 1 table-spoon of any cream (I use Nivea in blue tin). Put the mask on the skin for 20 minutes. Then wash the mask with warm water and rinse with cool water.


As summer is the vacation period so it's the ideal time to go for accomplishment of body health. Swimming is the best exercise and it's open in summer. But you can join a gym to tone up your body using elliptical machine and tread mills. However patients suffering from heart disease must not go for heavy exercise in contrast to this they can use diet plans like mayo clinic diet made especially for heart patients to loose weight before surgery of heart. To avoid fatigue one can intake magnesium and cobalt supplements. Skin needs extra care in summer while going out in crowded places you have a constant threat of skin infestation like scabies etc. use sun block to avoid your normal skin from being freckled.

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.

Masks for breast skin

Spoil breast with homemade masks. Remember that you ought not to touch mammilla and area during cosmetic procedures. Though cold is more useful for breast, but offered masks are better to do in the bath or sauna. When skin is steamed, cosmetic ingredients penetrate deeper into inner skin sells.

Make mask from rose-petals, which has fine tonic effect. Grind dry rose-petals in the coffee-grinder till flour state. Take 2 table-spoons of this flour and mix with 1 table-spoon of sour cream. Put on the breast and leave for 15 minutes.

If you see small wrinkles on the breast you should make special potato mask. Knead half of one boiled potato (without salt) by fork. Add 1 tea-spoon of honey, 1 tea-spoon of sour cream and 50 ml. of vegetable oil. Put on the breast skin for 20 minutes. Such mask will smooth wrinkles and make skin soft, if you make it once a week.

One word about beautiful tan

If you haven’t enough time to acquire a tan on the beach, but you like tanned skin, you can use today’s recipe. I offer the easy recipe of tea bath. Pour 5 table-spoons of tea with 1 glass of boiled water and keep for 10 minutes to brew. Then filter through 2 layers of gauze. Add infusion in the bath. The “sun” bath is ready.

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).

Milk wonders

Do you know that many well-known cosmetic companies use milk for making various rejuvenated and regenerating creams? Useful components contained in milk, such as vitamins, proteins, mineral matters, glycoprotein and so on, have the ability to renew skin cells. Milk is used as a basis of different tonics, cleansers, lotions, which moisten, soothe and nourish skin.

In the homemade cosmetology milk is considered like one of the most effective product of face and body care. Curd, kefir, clabber are fine whitened and peeled means. After washing face with milk, face skin looks fresh and shining. In summer with its dry air and sun rays we often suffer from overdried skin. In this case I offer to make milk baths time to time.

To prepare milk bath you should add 2 liters of whole milk in the water or put gauze bag with 2-3 table-spoons of dried milk. Also you can make milk infusion with herbs in advance. Take in 1 table-spoon of camomile, mint, lavender and marjoram and pour it with 2 liters of milk. Keep mixture for 2 hours, then filter and add in the bath.

During milk bath you can make milk mask to moisten and soften face skin. Mix in equal parts curd, milk, olive oil and carrot juice. Put on the face for some minutes.