When the cold comes, the skin of most people becomes prone to irritation, stitched and dry. And in order to improve the skin condition in this period, you need to use such cosmetic products that intensively nourish and moisturize the skin. For this purpose, a pumpkin is great. It is rich in antioxidants, such as vitamin A, natural sunscreens, amino acids. More and more different cosmetic companies are creating on the basis of pumpkin new
means of skin care. In the pumpkin of vitamin A (carotene) is contained 5 times more than in carrots.
Pumpkin seed oil is also useful, as is the pumpkin flesh. During the Middle Ages, a small bottle cost as much as a gold ring cost. This oil perfectly moisturizes the skin of all types, eliminates excessive dryness and has excellent nutritional properties. Due to the high content of natural vitamins E and A in it, it struggles with fine wrinkles and aging of the skin. These vitamins are part of most night creams and anti-aging products.
In addition to fatty acids, such as: palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and stearic acid, pumpkin seed oil is rich in polyunsaturated fats, zinc, proteins, antioxidants. Since pumpkin seed oil contains a high content of zinc, it can be used for problems that are associated with its deficiency, namely: with seborrhea, oily dandruff, with acne. To do this, just add a few drops of pumpkin oil in your favorite cosmetics - shampoo, lotion, tonic or mask for home cooking.
To get at your disposal all the pumpkin riches, it is not necessary to purchase cosmetics of expensive firms. There are many simple recipes for masks that you can use at home. With the help of pumpkin, you can make skin care products for the body and face: soften and rejuvenate the irritated and inflamed skin, improve the regenerative processes in the skin, gently exfoliate the dead cells. When you clean the pumpkin, then the remains of the pulp wipe your face, pumpkin juice will rid the skin of small rashes, moisturizes and vitaminizes it well. You can use the recipes of beauty:
Masks for face
Mask for sensitive and dry skin
Take 100 grams of pumpkin pulp and grate on a grater, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of milk, cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, cool to room temperature and add one raw egg yolk. We will put this mixture on the cleansed skin of the neck and face, except the area under the eyes. Leave for 10 or 15 minutes, then wash off with warm water.
Mask for combination and oily skin
Natram on a small grater 100 grams of pumpkin, add 1 teaspoon of honey and well razetrem. To thicken excess liquid, add 1 teaspoon of milk powder, starch or flour. We will put this mixture on the cleansed skin with massaging light movements, except for the area under the eyes. Leave it for 10 or 15 minutes, and then wash it off with warm water.
Anti-Aging Mask
Grate 100 grams of pumpkin pulp, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of milk and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, cool to a warm state, add 1 teaspoon of dry yeast, a few drops of oil from pumpkin seeds, 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Let's stir the mixture for 5 or 10 minutes, then apply to the cleansed skin of the neck and face, except the area under the eyes. Leave it for 15 or 20 minutes, and then wash it off with warm water.
Body Scrub
Take 100 grams of baked or boiled pumpkin, add 2 teaspoons of brown sugar, 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. With a moistened mitten for washing, we put the resulting mixture on the body, in circular massaging movements, moving upwards. Then wash with warm water, dry it dry and apply a nourishing or moisturizing body lotion.
Mask
1 teaspoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of milk, 2 teaspoons puree from a raw pumpkin.
If your skin is dry, then add a little almond or olive oil to the mask. When oily skin does not interfere with 2 or 3 drops of fresh lemon juice.
To the result was no worse than the salon result, we will thoroughly clean the skin and use peeling.
For example, we mix oats ground flakes with brown sugar, dilute the resulting mixture with milk and gently massage our face, moving along massage lines. Then carefully wash all.
We will put on a little damp skin of the neck, face and décolletage, we will hold the mask for 10 or 15 minutes. Wash off with cool water, and if necessary, apply a cream.
Course of masks. Make a mask 1 or 2 times a week, with a preliminary peel. When you need to "look" apply one mask.
Masks for the face of a pumpkin
For elastic skin - pumpkin juice and gruel well tone the skin, make it supple. We squeeze the juice, moisten the gauze and apply for 15 or 20 minutes. Kashitsu, too, we will impose on 15 or 20 minutes. Wash off with cool water. These procedures are done 2 or 3 times a week. We alternate one day with juice, another day with gruel. If desired, add gruel and juice to 2 or 3 drops of vitamin A.
- If the skin is oily, then add whipped protein.
- From acne erase the face with a piece of pumpkin.
- Take 3 tablespoons of pumpkin puree, add 1 teaspoon of honey and apply a warm gruel on your face for 15 or 20 minutes. Wash off with cold water. If the skin is dry, then add olive or vegetable oil.
Folk remedies for skin care
Care for dry skin
Take a few cleaned slices of pumpkin cooked in milk for 15 minutes. If the skin is peeling and dry, then we use cream instead of milk. Then we break the mass and the resulting gruel will be applied to the face with an abundant layer. Hold for 15 or 20 minutes, then wash off with warm water.
Recipe for a mask from a pumpkin for oily skin : Natram on a fine grater, a raw pumpkin, a tablespoon of grated mass stir with 1 egg whites. All we'll take in the mixer. The resulting mixture is put on your face and after 15 minutes we will wash it off with cool water. To clean the fatty skin, instead of tonic we use pumpkin juice, or we will apply grated pulp of raw pumpkin to the face for 15 or 20 minutes, it helps to cleanse the skin.
Pumpkin mask for oily skin
1 tablespoon of grated pumpkin stirring with the same amount of oatmeal, starch or wheat flour. Add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of juice squeezed from a tomato. We will put a mask on 10 or 15 minutes, then we will wash off with cool water.
Two tablespoons of seeds will be peeled off, well rastolchem, we lower in a small amount of boiling water. Boil until a thick mass is formed. Mass cool a little, then put on your face for 15 or 20 minutes, remove the cotton swab dipped in warm water. This mask is well refreshed and cleanses the skin.
Mask from pumpkin seeds, will make not so noticeable pigment spots and other freckles
Take 1 tablespoon of peeled seeds, rastolchhem along with 1 tablespoon of sour milk. Add a teaspoon of lemon juice (or a tablespoon of parsley juice) and 1 teaspoon of honey. Stir and apply on the skin, where there are freckles, and leave for 15 minutes. Then we will wash ourselves with cool water. For bleaching face use boiled pumpkin pulp, apply a copious layer for 20 minutes.
Care for dry, fading skin
Let's boil a few pieces of purified pumpkin in milk until we get a thick slurry. We mix one tablespoon of this gruel with egg yolk, add 1 teaspoon of honey and add a little milk. Lubricate the resulting mixture, leave for 15 minutes, then wash your face with warm boiled water.
Vitaminized and cleansing mask for all skin types
Purified pumpkin boil and mash. A tablespoon of the resulting mass is mixed in the same proportions with normal skin. If the skin is dry, then mix it with sour cream or cream, if fatty, then mix with kefir. We will put mass on the face for 15 minutes, then remove it with a wet swab of cotton wool, and rinse the face with water.
Care for dry skin
A tablespoon of pumpkin flesh, welded in milk, mixed with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil or sour cream. Put the mixture on your face and after 15 minutes, wash it off with warm water. In this recipe, pumpkin is used and boiled or raw, raw pumpkin is rubbed on a small grater.
A tablespoon of cottage cheese is tossed with 2 tablespoons of fresh pumpkin juice. This mask moisturizes dry skin.
Recipe for a mask for sensitive skin
2 tablespoons of pumpkin juice mixed with 1 teaspoon of honey, with 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of olive oil and add oatmeal to form a thick mass. We will put on 15 minutes on the face, then we will wash off with warm water.
Pumpkin is used in cosmetology
Pumpkin fruits are rich in vitamins, carbohydrates, they contain a large number of mineral salts, starch, sugar, dry substances. Seeds contain 36 or 52% fatty oil.
For all skin types, an excellent toning agent is a gruel made of grated pumpkin and squeezed juice. Juice we impregnate a thin layer of cotton wool, we spread it on the face or on a gauze napkin. The cream will be applied to the face, for 15 or 20 minutes, then we will take off and wash ourselves with cool water. We do this procedure 2-3 times a week, the duration of the course is 15-20 compresses. It is necessary to alternate compresses from gruel and juice.
To give the face freshness, we prepare emulsion from raw pumpkin seeds. We will clean the seeds from the peel, crush it in a mortar and put into boiling water, according to 1:10 minutes, boil to a homogeneous mass. Emulsify the face and after 15 or 20 minutes, wash it off with warm water.
To narrow the pores and quickly get rid of acne, the face will rub the pieces of pumpkin.
Good face masks
Suitable for all skin types
We will weld several pieces of pumpkin, and rastolchhem them, then take 3 tablespoons of pumpkin gruel, add egg yolk and one teaspoon of honey. We will put a mask on the person still warm, for 15 or 20 minutes, then we will wash off with cold water. After this mask, the skin becomes refreshed.
For dry skin
Two tablespoons of boiled pumpkin vzobem and mix with one tablespoon of vegetable or olive oil. We will put a mask for 20 minutes on the face, then we will wash off with cool water.
Mask for swelling
Take 2 tablespoons melenko chopped pumpkin, pour a small amount of water and cook on low heat for 10 minutes. Add ½ teaspoon of honey and mix well. The resulting warm mixture will be applied to cheesecloth, and put gauze on his face, and on top we cover with a towel. So let's sit for 20 or 30 minutes, then let's wash ourselves with warm water. Apply the mask every other day, a course of treatment of 3 or 4 masks.
Mask for the removal of age spots and freckles
Raw seeds of a pumpkin we shall clear from a peel, it is well razotrem in a mortar with identical quantity of water. The resulting liquid is mixed in a ratio of 2: 1. Every day, put a mask on your face for 30 minutes, until you get the desired result.
Nourishing mask for all skin types
Boiled pumpkin vzobem with yoghurt (for normal skin), with cream (for dry skin), with sour cream (for oily skin). Let's add 2 or 3 drops of vitamin A to the mask. Apply to the face, hold for 20 minutes, then wash it off with warm water, apply a cream that fits your skin type.
Cleansing mask for oily skin
We'll take the protein with the raw pumpkin and apply it for 10 minutes on the face. Wash off with cool water.
Home hand cream
Taste the pumpkin and mix it with peach butter. For example, for 1 teaspoon of raw grated pumpkin and add 1 teaspoon of peach oil. We'll smear our hands and put rubber gloves on for one hour. After such a mask, the skin will become amazing and tender.
Now we know about the cosmetic product for daily care. We make these simple mask for a pumpkin face, and we take care of the face every day, with the help of such an amazing and affordable product as a pumpkin.