Summer recipes for hair care

In summer our hair suffer from hot sun most of all. In this season we need to take care of our hair from drying, and harmful sunrays. I am sure you wear nice hats in summer, especially being at the beach. But if your hair were damaged from sunrays, you can use these recipes to help your hair fast.

Restorative mask for damaged hair. Take 4 teaspoons of colorless henna, 5 tablespoons of fresh nettle and pour them with boiling water. Add 1 yolk and mix everything carefully. Put on the hair and keep under polyethylene little cap for 1,5 hours. Then wash with warm water.

One more mask for damaged hair. Mash a ripe banana with a few drops of almond oil and massage into hair. Leave it for about 15 minutes. Rinse with soda water and then shampoo and condition.

If your hair is damaged, you can also try this pack. Mix juice of two freshly squeezed lemons, two egg yolks, one egg white and a tbsp of honey. Apply onto the hair and let it rest for some time. Shampoo and rinse off with cold water

Rinse for greased hair. Pour 6 twigs of rosemary with 1 liter of boiling water (or mineral water) and boil for 30 minutes. Then cool and filter the decoction. Wash the head with rosemary decoction.

Summer mask for hair. Mix 2 tablespoons of honey with 2 teaspoons of aloe juice and castor oil. Rub the mixture into head skin and hair. Keep for 30 minutes and then wash head with camomile or nettle decoction. This mask is very effective for overdried hair. You can make this mask twice a week.

Protective masks for hair

In summer you should always think about sun safety. And not only skin protection but hair protection also. The combination of sun, salt water and chlorine will suck moisture out of the healthiest head of hair - coloured hair is especially susceptible. A hat is still your best option for protecting your locks (and face) from the drying effects of summer.
When swimming in salt or chlorinated water, wet your hair with tap water before you swim. Hair is like a sponge, there is only so much water it can absorb. The wetter your hair before you swim, the less salt water and chlorine it will absorb.
Use a clarifying shampoo at least once a week. This will detox the hair of chlorine, salt, minerals and styling product build up. Clarifying shampoos also help prevent blonde hair turning green.

To protect your hair or treat hair suffered from sun, you should make a special mask every week. Here you’ll find such masks for any type of hairs.
For normal hair. Mix 1 yolk with 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon honey and 1 teaspoon cheery juice. Put the mixture on the hair and keep for 20 minutes. Then wash head with warm water.
For dry hair. Mix 1 tablespoon cucumber juice, 1 tablespoon onion juice and ½ tablespoon almond oil. Rub into head skin and hair. In 5 minutes wash head with soft shampoo.
For greasy hair. Put 2 tablespoons bran, 2 tablespoons grinded leaves of mint and ½ tablespoons grinded leaves of lemon-balm into 1 liter of boiling water, close and boil on the light fire for 10 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon salt and boil 5 minutes more. Then filter the decoction and use it for head washing instead of shampoo. Rub decoction into head skin and keep for 2-3 minutes. Then wash with warm water and rinse cool water.

Five recipes from reddening of hands

Everyone knows that in autumn and winter our hands need in the special care. Frost, wind, dry air indoors, lack of vitamins have action upon the condition of the hands. Also one of unpleasant “winter” problems is reddening of hands. The tried way, which helps to avoid this problem, is hands-bathes with various “additions” – decoction from oak bark, milk, sea or table salt, decoction from bark of bird cherry tree. Here you’ll find some original recipes, which will help you to make your hands smooth and white. Generally in the cold seasons wear gloves or mittens. It protects hand skin from drying and reddening.

When your hands become red, you can make cycle of bathes from cold and hot water, alternating them (so-called contrasting hands-bathes). Repeat the procedure 10-15 times finishing with cold bath. Before sleep massage with nourishing enriched cream is recommended.

Every day wash hands with warm water adding some drops of milk or cream. Redness of hands will disappear little by little.

Bathes with sea salt have great effect in this case. Take 200 g. of sea salt and add 1 liter of water and boil for some time. Then cool a little and you’ll get hot “sea” water. Put hands into it for 15 minutes and then put hands into cold water for 5 minutes. Repeat some times. After procedure put any cream on the hands.

Prepare the decoction from oak bark with proportion 50-100 g. of bark for 3-5 liters of water. Put hands in the warm bath for 15 minutes.

For skin, which is too sensitive to supercooling, inclined to appearance of cyanotic spots, edemas and even erosions, you’d better to make hands-bathes from bark of bird cherry tree. To make such decoction, take 2 table-spoons of bark and add 1 liter of water.

Do you want to dance tirelessly?

How often did you refuse from dance at the party? Though you adore dancing, your legs are so tired and you have to avoid so pleasant enjoyment like a dance with loved man. Remember, you don’t have to deprive yourself the main part of the holiday – dancing. That’s why care about your legs in advance. Make the bath for them. Let your feet to enjoy warm herbal infusion.

Take 1 table-spoon of every herb: lemon-balm, sage, nettle and origanum. Pour out 2 glasses of boiling water and stay before being warm. Keep feet in the warm herbal infusion for 20 minutes and you’ll feel pleasant lightness. Would you like to dance?

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).

Some tips of hair care

Sure you agree that hair is one of the best decorations of human appearance. It’s like a beautiful frame for your face. And to look better we should care about hair with love, because hair has its own likes and dislikes. For example, hair likes to be brushed every day before sleep for 5-10 minutes in different directions. In reply hair will be thick, bright and easy-styled.

Sometimes you need wash head with an egg. You should take 1 egg and add warm water stirring slowly. Wet hair with hot water and rub egg mixture into head skin. Then rinse hair with running water and comb. If you want to strengthen hair’s roots, wash the head as described above and then rub 1 yolk into head skin and cover head with thick towel. Keep for 10 minutes and then rinse hair with warm water.

If you have such possibility, wash the head with rain water. If you wet hair with sea-water, you have to rinse them with fresh water then. To make your hair soft, you should grease them with burdock oil.

And finally I’d like to offer two masks for light and dark hairs. For light hairs you’d better to use the mask from camomile and rosemary. Take 1 table-spoon of camomile and 1 table-spoon of rosemary and pour them with ¾ glass of vodka. Put infusion in to dark place for 2 weeks, shaking it regularly. Filter infusion through gauze into the bottle from dark glass and close hermetically. Twice a week rub infusion into head skin.

Mask for dark hairs is made from hob and thistle. Take some hob and thistle (cupped hand) and pour it with 1 liter of water. Boil mixture for 20 minutes and then filter. After washing head, rinse hair with infusion and enjoy the bright color of your hair.

Pay attention to your teeth

In spring women often have problems with gums. They begin to bleed, to cover with small ulcers. What should we do? Look! Herbs, vegetables and fruits hurry to help you. Most of all various rinsings are popular.

Decoction from oak bark helps to treat gums very well. Pour 1 table-spoon ground oak bark with 1 glass of water and keep in the water bath on the light fire for 15 minutes. Then filter. Rinse mouth with this decoction twice a day, in the morning and evening.
Also rinse mouth with warm extract of Acorus calamus. It is easy to make at home. Pour 1 tea-spoon of cut Acorus calamus rhizome with 1,5 glass of boiling water and infuse it for 2 hours. Then filter.

During spring “rheumatic pain” in teeth you can use lemon juice. Squeeze juice of half a lemon into ½ glass of warm boiling water and rinse mouth with this liquid some times a day.

Calendula is well-known by its fine antiphlogistic and bactericidal qualities. If you suffer from stomatitis and gingivitis you need to rinse mouth in the morning and evening with aqueous extract of calendula. Pour 10 gram of flowers with 1 glass of boiling water and keep for an hour.

Also you can follow my plain advices. In spring and early summer conifers are covered with fresh thorny leaves. You should chew fresh thorns, not swallowing. They have pleasant taste and at the same time they manage many problems with gums. Another way is to eat sauerkraut. It contains a lot of vitamin C, which is very useful for gums. Bon appetit!

Some problems with hair

If your hair too dry, try to nourish them with mask from coltsfoot. Take 4-5 big leaves of coltsfoot, cut them very small and pour with 1 glass of milk in the ceramic dish. Add 1 tea-spoon of drawn honey and mix all ingredients. Put the mixture on the head skin and rub into hair on its length. Cover head with polyethylene and towel above. In 25-30 minutes wash hair with any soft shampoo. Make such procedure 3-4 times a month.

If your hair too greasy, make hair lotion from oak bark. Take 2 table-spoons of ground oak bark and 2 table-spoons of willow bark and pour with 1,5 glass of boiling water in the enamel ware. Keep for 1 hour. Filter decoction through gauze and add 1 table-spoon of vinegar. Before washing the head, put lotion on the head skin and on the hair. Cover head with polyethylene and towel above and keep for 30-45 minutes. Then wash the head with special shampoo for greasy hair.

If you suffer from seborrhea, treat hair with this mask. Take 4-5 fresh leaves of coltsfoot, cut them and pour with 2 glasses of boiling water in the enamel ware. Close with cover and keep on the water bath for 30 minutes. Then filter and pour to ceramic dish. Add 2 table-spoons of olive oil and mix. Put the mask on the hair and head skin, cover head with polyethylene and towel above and keep for 40 minutes. Then rinse hair with warm water with citric acid or vinegar.

If you have dandruff, itch and hair shedding, you should make infusion from coltsfoot leaves. Take 4-5 big leaves of coltsfoot, cut them and pour with ½ liter of boiling water in the enamel ware. Close with cover and keep for 30 minutes. Put it on the hair with wads of cotton wool wetted in the infusion. Cover the head with cotton towel and keep for 30-40 minutes. Then wash hair with soft shampoo and finally rinse with infusion. You should use only makeup infusion.

Herbal masks for skin care

Sure you can find a lot of different articles in net about use of herbs. Really herbs contain vitamins, biogenic stimulators, phytoncids, and natural hormones. All these useful components have salutary effect for skin, improve metabolism, and help to solve many skin problems.

Coltsfoot mask for greasy skin is easy to make. Prepare gruel from clean leaves of coltsfoot and put on the face. For dry skin you should pound clean leaves of coltsfoot, add ground raspberry, blackberry and viburnum. Put the cream on the face and add mask from clean leaves above. Keep for 10-15 minutes and then wash the face with warm water.

Here is recipe of infusion from sage for dry and sensitive skin. Take 2 table-spoons cut sage and pour it with 2 glasses of boiling water, keep before cooling and then filter. Infusion from sage is used for cleaning face and neck. Also from sage infusion you can make warm and cold compresses against eyes’ bags. Pour 1 tea-spoon of sage with ½ glass of boiling water. Keep for 10-15 minutes, filter and divide in half. Then cool one half of infusion and warm another half. Put cotton tampons wetted in hot and cold infusions on the eyelids in turn for 10 minutes. It’s better to make this procedure before sleep in a day.

For greasy skin I offer the cleanser from horse-tail infusion. Pour 1 table-spoon of horse-tail with 1 glass of cold water. Boil for 20 minutes and then filter decoction. Before sleep clean the face with infusion and horse-tail will dry the skin a little. Don’t forget if your skin has any allergic reactions; consult with a doctor before using herbal masks.

Do you like cognac? Use it for hair care

There is an interesting recipe for hair care and I want to offer it for you. The thing is that you can make remedy for reinforcement of your hair based on cognac. You can take any kind of cognac.

At first, make decoction from burdock’s root. Pour 2 table-spoons of ground burdock’s roots with 1 glass of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes on the light fire. Filter and cool it. Then take 1 table-spoon of your favorite cognac and mix with 4 table-spoons of onion juice and 6 table-spoons of decoction from burdock’s roots.

Rub mixture into hair’s roots and put the piece of polyethylene on the head and also Turkish towel above. Keep for 30 minutes and then shampoo your head. Repeat this procedure twice a week and you’ll see the perfect result.

Choose the mask for your own hair’s color

It’s very important to pay attention to your hair’s color. If your care about hair is wrong, the color of your hair can impair. Remember that the choice of means depends on the hair’s color.
The first mask I offer is for fair hair, and the second one is for dark hair.

It’s an herbal infusion from camomile and rosemary for fair hair. Take 1 table-spoon of camomile and 1 table-spoon of rosemary and pour it with ¾ glass of vodka. Put infusion in the dark bottle into dark warm place. Every day shake the bottle up. In 2 weeks the infusion will be ready. Filter infusion through gauze, pour into clean bottle and close up. Twice a week in the evening rub the head skin with soft tooth-brush, wetting it in the herbal tincture.

It’s a decoction from hop for dark hair. Take handful of hop and handful of a kind of thistle, add 1 liter of water and boil for 20 minutes. Then filter decoction and it’s ready. After washing dark hair are rinsed by hop decoction.

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.

Easy recipes to care about dry skin

Pound 1 tea-spoon of clean and dry seed of dog-rose in the coffee-grinder, add 2 table-spoons of sour cream, 1 tea-spoon of lemon juice and mix. Put the mask on the face and tap in the skin by finger-tips slightly for 2 minutes. Then wash the face by warm water and put any nutritious cream. This cleansing mask also has effect of peeling.

Pound 1 ripe apricot by wooden spoon in the enamel ware, add 1 table-spoon decoction of hips and 1 table-spoon of sour cream. Mix and put on the face. In 10 minutes wash the face. This easy mask has emollient effect.

Pour 100 ml. of boiling water over 1 table-spoon of cut dog-rose’s sprouts and keep on the light fire for 5 minutes. Then take 3-5 grapes (without pits), knead them into a mush and mix with 1 tea-spoon of decoction. Put mask on the face, keep for 10 minutes and take away with a wad of cotton wool wetted in the warm water. This effective mask enriches dry skin very well.

Pay attention to your eyes

All we know that eyes and skin about them need more close care, because there are not hypodermic fatty tissue, elastin and not collagen around eyes. Most of all eyes like combined care: herbal washes, irrigation of skin, eyewash and special exercises.

What infusions can we use for eyes? During the day you’d better to use infusions from different herbs:
- equal parts of hop cones and leaves of sage;
- equal parts of milfoil, buckthorn bark and leaves of plantain;
- equal parts of lime-blossom, camomile, sage and horse-tail.

Pour 1 glass of boiling water over 2 table-spoons of any herbal mixture above. Keep for 30 minutes and then filter. In the morning and evening wash the face with herbal infusion and sprinkle skin around eyes from sprayer regularly during a day, especially in dry weather.

Make your nails hard

Sometimes fragile nails need more drastic treatment than saline baths. In this case you should use the salutary qualities of herbs. Let’s make vitamin addition for your nails.

Mix the equal amount of grinded herb: Hypericum perforatum L., thyme, camomile and burdock-root. Spill 1 glass of boiling water 2 table-spoons of herbal mixture and stay closed. Put your fingers into warm infusion for some minutes.

After herbal bath rub the mixture of vitamins A and E into nails. To make this mixture you should crush some capsules of these vitamins in the small bowl and mix. Try to rub the vitamins in every nail at least for 30 seconds.

Don’t remember to take calcium every morning and in combination with vitamin procedure, described above, your nails will become hard and beautiful.