Jam from roses
To prepare jam from roses you need:
1 kilogram of sugar
400 grams of rose petals
2 cups of water
1 teaspoon citric acid
We cut the lower white part of the rose petals, wash it in a colander and drain it. Put the petals in a glass container, sprinkle them with a small amount of sugar, add citric acid and leave for 1 hour. From the remaining sugar and 2 glasses of water, we cook the syrup. When the syrup is ready, add the petals and cook them to the required density. Then we'll let them quit the roses from the roses and pour them into jars.
Roses and wine
take a bottle of rose wine
a handful of fragrant pink and white rose petals (grown without pesticides)
1.2 liters of sparkling mineral water ("Sprite", "7 Up")
a few ice cubes
half a glass of raspberries
¼ cup vodka
In a large container we mix rose petals and wine, we cool for 1 hour. Add raspberries, vodka and ice cubes. Cool. Mineral water is added to the drink before serving.
Pink water
200 grams of sugar
50 grams petals of essential oil
1 liter of boiled cold water
We put the rose petals in glassware, fill it with water and add sugar. After 2 hours, shake and strain through a strainer. We store in the refrigerator. This water is used for rubbing the skin. It is a part of lotions and pink cream.
Lotion of roses for dry skin
3 tablespoons of rose water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon of glycerin
Mix the ingredients and the resulting lotion wipe the skin after the bath.
Massage cream from roses
To prepare a cream at home you will need:
2 tablespoons of Vaseline
2 or 3 drops of rose essential oil
3 liters of warm rose water
4 tablespoons of sunflower oil
4 tablespoons lanolin
In a glass bowl we mix sunflower oil and lanolin. Slowly pour pink water and add other ingredients. The resulting cream is used for massage, it heats the muscles, tones up the skin.
Sauce from roses
Seasoning of roses in the form of sauce, this is an excellent addition to game, we cook from large fruits of roses, it is better than a dogrose.
3 tablespoons black currant juice
250 grams of dried fruit
5 tablespoons of lemon juice
125 grams of sugar
a little dry mustard on the tip of the knife
half a liter of water
Prepare the fruit: cut the "tail", and the tip of the stem, gently pull out the prickly bones. We will rinse well with cold water. Fill ½ liter of water with the peeled fruits and leave for the night. In the morning we will put it in the same water until it boils to the end and 2 tablespoons of liquid remain. Fruits must be whole. In the resulting broth we add lemon juice, currants, sugar. We mix and transfer to a glass jar. Top with mustard. The sauce is stored in the refrigerator.
We make a soothing tonic from roses
In a small glass vase we put the rose petals, they will soothe the irritated skin and lavender, to narrow the pores of the skin, pour vodka to the top and shake it daily for 7 or 10 days. Then carefully remove the petals, drain the water and add the new ingredients in the same proportion. Repeat the process many times until we get the flavor of the right concentration. The resulting mixture is filtered through a filter. This tonic disinfects the skin and perfectly refreshes the face. To make toilet water from the tonic, use a large number of rose petals, add a few drops of aromatic oil. A few drops of apple cider vinegar will turn the tonic into a face lotion.
Rose oil for massage
100 grams of pink petals
2 or 3 drops of rose oil
1 tablespoon of vinegar
1 or 2 tablespoons of crushed sunflower seeds
Grind in the stupa pink petals. In a bottle with a capacity of 250 ml, we put sunflower seeds, crushed petals of roses, we pour them with vinegar. We close the bottle with a stopper and leave it to insist in the lighted place. After 2 weeks, strain and add 2 or 3 drops of rose oil. The resulting composition will make the cream an excellent massage tool.
Now we know how you can use rose petals. These simple recipes will provide an excellent facial care product.