Nourishing Mask: Ingredients

Nutritional facial masks you can buy in stores, do in beauty salons, but you can prepare them at home, in your own kitchen. Some of the best nourishing masks obtained from the foods you regularly eat: the most useful substances can have a beneficial effect both inside and outside.

Ingredients nourishing masks for face

Vegetable oils - the main ingredient of most nourishing masks .  All of them are rich in vitamin E, which helps to maintain skin elasticity and stimulates collagen production, but also has antioxidant properties .  Most often in the nourishing masks include olive oil .  It has been used for skin care for thousands of years, and now it is there in almost every house .  It is best to use oil extra virgin - its flavor does not all have to like it, but it contains the maximum amount of nutrients .  Avocado oil - more expensive component of nourishing masks, but it fully justifies its high cost .  It really appreciate those who do not like the feeling oily film on the skin: its composition avocado oil is very similar to the natural oils that are produced in the skin, so it is rapidly absorbed, and after you wash away the mask, the skin will not appear greasy .  It is also possible to use sweet almond oil, coconut oil, grape seed oil or linseed oil .

Those who have oily skin, do not necessarily refrain from using masks with oils. Just add in the mask a little less oil than specified in the recipe. In most cases, a small amount of oil oily skin does not hurt, but if after the mask skin condition worsened markedly from oil should be abandoned.

Lemon - another popular ingredient nourishing masks. It cleans the pores, allowing the other ingredients masks can deeply nourish the skin. Furthermore, the lemon juice improves skin tone lightens stains remaining after acne and age spots Brown spots: whether they can be removed completely? .

Milk cleanses, nourishes and softens the skin, so it is a component of many nutritious face masks. It can also be used as a cleansing lotion for the skin - of course, does not wash off makeup, but effectively removes excess sebum and does not dry out the skin.

Honey - four of the most popular ingredients of face masks. It contains antioxidants that protect your skin and slow the aging process Internal and external aging: it is necessary to think in advance As well as a lot of useful substances necessary for regeneration and deep hydration of the skin.

Nourishing mask with egg yolk

Mask Ingredients: one egg yolk and a tablespoon of vegetable oil (you can use olive oil, almond oil or avocado oil).

Lightly whisk the yolks with a fork, mix it with butter, and put on clean face. Wait for twenty or thirty minutes (if you have time - can be and more), and rinse with warm water.

You can add each time new oil mask until empirically not find out what kind of oil is best suited to your skin.

Nourishing mask with oatmeal and turmeric

To prepare this mask, you'll need a half cup of cooked oatmeal or oat flour, a quarter cup of lemon juice, a quarter cup of milk and two tablespoons of honey, one tablespoon olivnogo oil and one teaspoon of turmeric.

Pour oatmeal or oat flour with milk and stir until a homogeneous mass. Then add the turmeric, lemon juice, and stir again all. Pour olive oil, honey, and mix the mask again. Apply the mask to clean skin and let it dry - it takes about fifteen minutes. Then rinse with warm water and apply to the skin moisturizer. Because the mask opens the pores, you can use the pre-tonic or water mixed with fresh lemon juice.

The remains of the mask Put in a glass jar with a tight lid and store it in the refrigerator for no longer than one week. Use mask two or three times a week.

Nourishing Mask of fruit and honey

Honey and vegetables - is not only tasty and healthy food, but also beautiful natural cosmetics .  To prepare the masks can be used grapes, papaya or pineapple - these fruits contain a lot of nutrients, as well as alpha-hydroxy acids, which effectively exfoliate the skin .  Mix in a blender ½ cup of fruit pulp with two tablespoons of honey, and apply the resulting mass to the face and neck .  The first time the mask is better to keep no more than ten minutes as fruit acids sometimes cause slight redness and irritation of the skin .  If any undesirable reactions will not, the next time the mask can be left for fifteen to twenty minutes .  This mask is ideal for mature skin, but it can be used for skin care of other types .  People with sensitive skin may initially mask test on a small area of ​​skin on the inner side of the wrist, and only if the test is successful, apply it on the face .

The mask of yogurt and honey

Mix two tablespoons of honey with half a cup of plain yogurt. Apply the mask on the skin massage, leave on for fifteen minutes and rinse with water at room temperature. This mask deeply moisturizes, nourishes and softens the skin. In winter, when the skin often becomes dry due to low outside temperatures and heat your home, you can do three or four times a week.

Mask of clay and honey

Mix one teaspoon of green, white or pink clay with a tablespoon of honey The benefits of honey: tasty recovery . Add a little water to make a smooth paste of medium thickness. Apply the mask on your face and let it dry; then wash it off with cool water.

Maria Bykov

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