Herbs for the face: folk recipes

For many centuries women want to be younger and more beautiful, using the recipes of traditional medicine. And even now young girls use medicinal herbs instead of expensive hygienic cosmetics. To explain this fact is quite easy and simple. After all, folk recipes for skin care contain many herbs that have useful properties.


Nature treats everyone well, depriving nobody of anything. It gives us herbs with which you can take care of different types of skin: for oily, dry, combination or normal, there are herbs that have a soothing, nourishing, antiseptic, smoothing stimulating effect. Healing herbs help us cope with aging dry skin, with problems of oily skin, prolong youth and beauty. Extracts and extracts of herbs are actively used in cosmetology. Of nihizevodyutsya means for facial and body care, and in stores we canmind their wide selection from simple creams to newfangled whey.

Where to get herbs for the face?

Of course, you can go to the flowering flowering meadows or rush to find useful medicinal herbs in impassable woodlands. You can ask the right grasses in the villages of grandmothers who understand this, but before that it is worth making sure that she collects them in clean places, and not along roads. There is an option that is a lot easier than the previous ones: just buy the necessary herbal preparations or already prepared natural cosmetics.

The fact that the popularity of natural cosmetics and medicinal herbs is growing can be explained not only by their useful properties. To date, such magical means can be purchased simply in the pharmacy and in the special shops.

Do not need to rush to look for something that will save your youth and beauty. Maybe there is a chance and do not spend a lot of money, after all, natural cosmetics is very expensive. Our grandmothers completely sacrificed their money, and did not use industrial cosmetics at all. Before buying natural cosmetics or herbal preparations, you need to know what type of skin your skin is (fat, normal, dry or combined). And if you already know, then you need to know what herbs are suitable for your skin type.

The most useful herbs for dry skin:

These herbs can smooth, nourish and moisten the dry skin, for which it is very important.

The most useful herbs for oily skin:

These herbs inhibit the work of the sebaceous glands, relieve inflammation and narrow the pores.

For combination skin, you need to mix different herbal preparations. But the normal skin is, unfortunately, a rare phenomenon in adults. This is more inherent in children's skin.

How to prepare face masks?

Probably, every woman adheres to some favorite national recipes, according to which she can quickly prepare an effective tool herself and put herself in order. Below you will see some folk recipes for the person with which you can prepare magnificent masks for any skin and for any occasion.

Mask against sunburn of the face

In a blender, chop the chamomile and mix it with the egg yolk and egg yolk. For twenty minutes, put a mask on your face and then rinse with water.

Mask that cleans and narrows the pores

It is necessary to crush the yarrow and then mix the herbs with oat flakes. Apply the mixture on a predetermined cleansed face for fifteen minutes, then wash with water.

Anti-Aging Mask

Take 5 grams of blackcurrant leaves, ordinary mountain ash, aloe tree juice, nettle leaves, and St. John's wort perfumed. Pound the collection, you will need only one spoon, add a little steep boiling water, aloe, one chicken egg and 5 grams of liquid honey. For twenty minutes, apply a mask, and then rinse with cool water.

Degreasing mask

You will need a spoon of chopped fresh chamomile flowers and two spoons of oatmeal. Stir and add a little water to make a gruel. Apply it to your face and wash it off after twenty minutes. This mask will remove the inflammation of the oily skin.

Anti-inflammatory mask

In a blender, whip fresh camomile flowers, St. John's wort, calendula and aloe in equal parts. For twenty minutes, send the masked face, and then rinse with water.

The Golden Mask

You will need a field horsetail. In order to make a mask, take a cream, which is prepared on the basis of cow oil. 30 grams of this cream and two spoons of herb horsetail (crushed), mix everything and drown in the oven for twenty. This cream is applied to the face, and you can store it in the fridge for only five days, no more.

Mother Nature has given us such an abundance of useful and medicinal herbs for oily and dry skin. Herbs in any case are able to do a lot for the skin, do not neglect the roots, bark, fruits orties, use everything. For example, the field horsetail, which was mentioned in the last mask, accumulates from the soil the gold, its ash contains more of this precious metal than in the same volume of gold ore. Do you think that these are not miracles? Why do we need gold threads that are implanted in the skin, if nature has given us a field horsetail? Just know how to take and use what nature has to offer. In addition, pay attention, almost free!