Anti-wrinkle herbs

The benefits of herbs in the fight against wrinkles

Nature is rich in herbs that can restore the elasticity of the skin and make the face more youthful. The following herbal remedies have pronounced anti-aging properties:

1. aloe – moisturizes, promotes cell regeneration;
2. calendula (marigold) – has an antibacterial effect, soothes, smoothes wrinkles, provides hydration;
3. lavender – relieves irritation, restores a healthy complexion;
4. coltsfoot – evens out wrinkles and gives the skin a velvety feel;
5. nettle – restores elasticity, accelerates metabolism in the layers of the skin;
6. parsley – nourishes, moisturizes, fights wrinkles and brightens the skin;
7. peppermint – has a tonic and refreshing effect;
8. dandelion – lightens pigmented areas;
9. chamomile – promotes cell regeneration, inhibits the aging process, prevents the appearance of age-related and facial wrinkles;
10. rosemary – tightens and smoothes the skin;
11. horsetail – prevents sagging, helps cope with oily skin problems;
12. thyme (thyme) – moisturizes skin prone to dryness, acts against the formation of wrinkles;
13. Salvia officinalis – has a pronounced lifting effect;
14. Rowan berries – have weak antioxidant properties, cleanse pores and smooth the skin.

Depending on the composition, qualities and characteristics of the medicinal plant, it can be used in the form of an infusion, a solution for a compress, or a component of cosmetic masks. Cosmetic ice made from a herbal decoction effectively fights wrinkles.

For cosmetic procedures, herbal raw materials are selected taking into account the skin type and its needs:

1. For those with oily skin, experts recommend using wormwood, St. John's wort, burdock, nettle, sage, coltsfoot, butterbur and string.
2. Dry skin will benefit from the use of dill (plants and seeds), parsley, dandelion, yarrow, thyme, rowan berries, rosemary, lemon balm or mint, lavender, calendula (marigold), chamomile, rose petals and hop cones.
3. Problem skin requires special care. You can provide it with the help of celandine, aloe, verbena (pigeon grass), calendula, immortelle, peppermint and horsetail.

These plants are used both singly and as part of multicomponent products. They go well with other ingredients, but require compliance with the proportions and rules of use.

There are different ways to use plant materials in home cosmetology. It can be used both fresh and dried.

1. Rejuvenation of problem skin

A mask is prepared based on pharmaceutical chamomile. Chamomile color is one of the most popular drugs in herbal medicine. It gently cares for the skin of the face, smoothes out wrinkles, and provides necessary nutrition and hydration. The anti-inflammatory properties of chamomile will be useful for caring for problem skin.
To prepare the mask you will need: a dessert spoon of kefir or sour milk, the same amount of chamomile, one chicken egg.

Whisk all ingredients together in a blender. Apply the finished mask to the skin for twenty minutes.

This product is recommended for use not only on the face, but also on the neck.

1. Smoothing wrinkles under the eyes and crow's feet

A mask made from a mixture of dry, crushed herbs: mint, plantain, chamomile will help smooth out wrinkles in the corners of the eyes and on the lower eyelid.

A dessert spoon of each ingredient is combined in one container and poured with a glass (200 ml) of boiling water. After this, the product is boiled for 10-15 minutes over low heat. The liquid is drained and set aside, and a teaspoon of starch is added to the herbs and stirred well.

The mask exposure time is 20 minutes. After this time, wash the face with broth or water.

1. Restoration of aging and aging skin

It is possible to restore the elasticity of mature skin and smooth out fine wrinkles by systematically using a product made from sage leaves, chamomile flowers, St. John's wort and linden blossom. The raw materials are taken dry in equal parts, for example, a teaspoon or a dessert spoon.

Using a coffee grinder or blender, grind the herbs to flour, add boiling water and stir. After this, add a tablespoon of sour cream or heavy homemade cream, a teaspoon of any vegetable oil.

Apply the product to the face for 20 minutes.

1. Lightening mature skin

As they age, many women suffer from the appearance of age spots. A mask made from nettle works well for this cosmetic defect.
It is prepared from a tablespoon of chopped dry nettle, half a tablespoon of lemon juice, and a tablespoon of cream.

Nettles are mixed with juice, then the juice is added. The ingredients must be mixed well and allowed to brew for 15 minutes. After this, the product is applied to the face in several layers with a cosmetic brush. The exposure time of the mask is no longer than 15 minutes.

Such procedures can be performed on irritated skin that is prone to frequent drying.

1. Herbal caring mask

A mask made from dried mint, chamomile and plantain takes good care of the skin. The raw materials are mixed in equal parts, crushed, poured with water and boiled for 10 minutes over low heat. The broth is filtered and the tea leaves are thrown away. Add a little potato starch to the broth. Keep the product for 20 minutes.

1. Anti-wrinkle remedies from calendula

Calendula flowers are often used in alternative medicine and cosmetology recipes. Pour a tablespoon of calendula flowers into a glass (200 ml) of boiling water and leave for at least half an hour.

A multi-layer gauze napkin is moistened in the broth, lightly wrung out and applied to the face. Keep the compress until the napkin is almost dry. After removing the mask, your face should be rinsed with warm water.

1. Needles, birch leaves and chamomile

Grind a teaspoon of chamomile flowers, a teaspoon of pine needles, a tablespoon of fresh birch leaves in a blender, add a small amount of boiled water and mix to make a paste. Grind chicken yolk with a tablespoon of homemade cottage cheese and combine with herbal porridge.

Stir the mixture thoroughly and distribute on the face. Leave for 25 minutes, then rinse with water.

1. Herbs for dry skin

Pour a teaspoon of fresh rose petals, the same amount of fresh mint leaves, chamomile flowers and fresh nettle into half a glass (100 ml) of boiling water. Boil for five minutes. When the broth has cooled a little, strain. Grind the grounds, combine with a teaspoon of homemade cottage cheese and a small amount of milk (for consistency). The result should be a creamy mass. It is applied to the face and washed off with warm water after 20 minutes.

1. Plantain-based rejuvenator

It is better to make this mask after a bath or sauna, when the face is well steamed and the pores are open. The mask contains oatmeal, which has a positive effect on mature and tired skin.

Two tablespoons of flour, ground from oatmeal, two tablespoons of olive oil, a tablespoon of crushed plantain leaves are mixed and ground to a mushy state. Keep the mask on the skin for up to half an hour. It is used not only on the face, but also in the neck and décolleté area.

1. Chamomile lotion

A phyto-lotion is prepared from chamomile flowers. A tablespoon of raw material is poured into a glass of good dry white wine. Infuse for two weeks in a place protected from sunlight.

Wipe the skin twice a day with a self-prepared lotion, after which you must apply a nourishing cream.

1. Linden lotion

The infusion prepared according to this recipe does not contain alcohol. It is used when the first age-related changes appear.

Prepare the product from two tablespoons of linden blossom and 250 ml of boiling water. The linden is filled with water and left for half an hour. After this, filter. Use lotion twice a day.

Cosmetic ice is prepared by freezing a cooled herbal infusion. It serves as an excellent means of preventing the appearance of early signs of aging. When used regularly, ice helps keep your skin fresh for a long time.

1. Steam baths

This procedure helps cleanse the face, so it is carried out before applying the mask.

The steam that rises above the herbal decoction opens and cleanses the pores, and the essential oils extracted from medicinal herbs nourish the skin and provide its protection.
In addition, steam baths serve as aromatherapy, helping to overcome stress and relieve fatigue.

Medicinal herbs are a popular folk remedy that helps cope with many problems, including cosmetic ones. With the help of herbal raw materials, you can significantly rejuvenate the skin and improve its appearance. In addition, all herbal cosmetics are affordable and easy to use.

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Wrinkles and other skin disorders occur as a result of the influence of many factors, including psychological ones - stress, anxiety, depression.

The environmental problem is also important - the dirty atmosphere of megacities, climate change, sudden changes in air humidity and temperature.

Often the skin ages prematurely due to incorrectly selected or low-quality decorative cosmetics or too active facial expressions.

In general, there are many reasons, but the result is obvious, and such shortcomings can and should be dealt with at home.

Herbal extracts are very widely used in cosmetics. And they are even more useful in their pure form.

Herbs provide the best care for the beauty, youth and health of the skin, and we will be happy to use them.

Herbs for the face against wrinkles - benefits

There are a large number of herbs that help restore skin turgor and make them younger. But to get the desired rejuvenating effect, we recommend using the following medicinal plants:

1. Aloe - moisturizes and rejuvenates the skin
2. Calendula - moisturizes, disinfects, soothes and smoothes wrinkles
3. Nettle - helps speed up metabolic processes in tissues and restores the elasticity of the skin
4. Lavender - refreshes, soothes and restores skin color
5. Coltsfoot - smoothes, moisturizes and makes the skin velvety to the touch
6. Parsley - smoothes wrinkles, moisturizes, nourishes and whitens the skin, making them young and fit
7. Mint - refreshes and tones aging skin
8. Dandelion - helps get rid of pigmentation
9. Rosemary - has smoothing properties, tightens and rejuvenates skin well
10. Chamomile - restores skin, stops its withering, prevents the formation of wrinkles
11. Rowan - cleanses the skin, smoothes wrinkles and acts as a light antioxidant
12. Thyme - effectively moisturizes dry skin, thereby preventing the formation of wrinkles
13. Sage - used as a natural lifting remedy
14. Horsetail - removes sagging skin, helps with oily and problematic facial skin

Above we described a small number of herbs that can be used in home cosmetology to combat aging skin. Depending on the properties of the herb, it can be used in the form of a mask, infusion or compresses. Rubbing your face with cosmetic ice based on a herbal decoction helps to remove wrinkles perfectly.

Anti-wrinkle mask recipes

You can remove wrinkles using face masks made from medicinal herbs. Use herbs both fresh and dried.

A herbal mask made from dried plantain, mint and chamomile flowers will help remove wrinkles under the eyes. Chop and mix the herbs, taken 1 tablespoon at a time, pour a glass of boiling water over them and cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes. Then strain the water, add 1 teaspoon of potato starch to the herbal pulp and mix well. Before applying the mask to your face, first lubricate it with a nourishing cream. Leave on for 20 minutes, then rinse with room temperature water.

A mask made from sage leaves, St. John's wort, chamomile and linden helps to remove wrinkles from fading and aging skin. Measure dry ingredients in equal proportions - one teaspoon at a time. Grind them thoroughly into flour using a coffee grinder. Pour boiling water over it. Then add a tablespoon of sour cream and a teaspoon of vegetable oil. Apply the mask and rinse off with water at room temperature after 20 minutes.

A mask made from dried herbs of mint, plantain, and chamomile flowers helps perfectly. They must be mixed in equal parts, crushed, and boiled for ten minutes over low heat. Then strain it all and add potato starch to the water. Before applying this mask to your face, you need to lubricate it with a nourishing cream. Leave the mask on for twenty minutes.

You can remove wrinkles on your face using calendula officinalis: pour 1 tablespoon of this herb into 1 glass of boiling water and let it brew for 30 minutes. Soak a gauze pad in the resulting infusion and apply to your face. When the napkin begins to dry, remove it and wash with warm water.

Finely chop and mix a teaspoon of medicinal chamomile flowers, a tablespoon of fresh birch leaves, a teaspoon of pine needles. Pour boiled water over the crushed mass to form a paste. Add one yolk and a tablespoon of cottage cheese. Mash all ingredients and apply to facial skin for 25 minutes. Rinse off with warm water.

Take 1 teaspoon each of fresh rose petals, fresh mint leaves, dried chamomile flowers, and fresh nettle leaves. Pour half a glass of boiling water over everything, boil for 5 minutes and strain.

Mix the herbal gruel with 1 teaspoon of cottage cheese, and add a little warm milk to get a mass similar in thickness to sour cream.

Apply to facial skin and after 20 minutes, rinse with warm water.

Pour 1 tablespoon of dried chamomile flowers into 1 glass of dry white wine and let it brew for 2 weeks. Wipe aging skin with this lotion in the morning and evening, after wiping, apply nourishing cream to your face.

Herbs have long been considered an effective folk remedy against wrinkles. It is only important to use these recipes not occasionally, but constantly or in repeated courses, and then simple but very effective recipes will help you smooth out age-related changes and deep wrinkles will not appear for a very long time.

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My wonderful readers, have a new day!

I continue to enjoy your comments that you leave under the articles and, in continuation of the conversation about preserving beauty and youth, I want to share a couple more secrets. It turns out that under our feet – literally – there are herbs for facial wrinkles!

Unfortunately, plantain does not help with everything. Although we have known about the healing properties of this plant since childhood. Read below for simple recipes that even a time-poor businesswoman can master. In the meantime, we’ll figure out with you which herbs are effective and in what form.

Basic rules (moments)

Advice: In order for your skin to say “thank you” to you, still ask it about to what type It's better to take her. When choosing facial care procedures, an important factor will be the presence of age spots, the appearance of sagging effect, the degree of tanning and the size of skin pores.

At the very beginning, you need to decide what effect you want to achieve from the treatment: do you need treatment, rejuvenation or increased skin elasticity? All this requires different approaches.

1. Type 1. If you have oily skin, then your friends will be wormwood, sage, string, St. John's wort, coltsfoot, butterbur, nettle, burdock.
2. Type 2. For dry skin, dill, yarrow, lemon balm, chamomile, parsley, hops, dandelion, calendula, lavender, rosemary, thyme and rose flowers are suitable.
3. Type 3. Problem skin requires celandine, aloe, calendula, horsetail, mint, and immortelle in your home.

When women start dyeing their hair, they, of course, first read the instructions: the product may cause irritation, do a test on the skin of your wrist

The same applies to any other cosmetic products that are created quickly at home. Sometimes incorrect concentration (do you like to do it “by eye”?) can result in a serious skin disease. But what to choose for yourself, your beloved? Decoctions, masks, ice toning?

Decoctions or infusions?

Many people do not understand the meaning of decoctions and infusions in a woman’s life, and they confuse the definitions themselves. Decoctions have a lower concentration of substances. If you first boil the herbs and then leave them for several hours (or days), then the remedy will become an infusion. Both are best used on the day of preparation.

The effect of moisturizing the skin is given by a recipe for a decoction of lemon balm, hops and yarrow. Take everything in equal proportions - one tablespoon at a time, pour in half a liter of boiling water and cook for 2-3 minutes. Leave for 2 hours.

Decoctions of bitter wormwood, which narrow pores, get rid of oily shine, as they contain tannins, glycosides and resins: 2 tablespoons of the herb per cup of boiling water, cook for 5-6 minutes, leave for 3 hours.

Lotions and tonics

Another mistake is to say that decoctions are the same as lotions. Any beauty specialist will tell you that this is the same as comparing lotions and tonics. Lotions help cleanse the skin, but do not tighten wrinkles or combat dryness. You don't always have to associate them with rose water, milk, chamomile or green tea.

Sometimes their composition is amazing, for example, to prepare lotion for type No. 1 you need dill, parsley and linden flowers. All of the above is taken one tablespoon at a time and poured with two glasses of boiling water, then infused for two hours.

Some may be surprised, but very often vodka is found in homemade lotions. If you don’t want to injure your skin, then you can replace it with salicylic acid. But tonics do not need alcohol; it is better to use distilled water, herbal extracts or decoctions, which we talked about earlier.

Steam baths: benefit or harm for dry skin?

A steam bath is a great intermediate step between lotion and mask application. It’s better to pamper yourself with them in the spring and summer.

There is a myth that it is only required for oily skin, but it is not true. Warm (not hot!) steam helps to open pores more strongly, improve blood circulation in the upper layer of skin and prepare it for more efficient consumption of beneficial microelements. In addition to herbs, the baths usually contain a few drops of essential oils (10 per liter of water).

Oily skin needs 20-30 minutes to get the effect, normal skin needs 10-15, and dry skin only 3-5 minutes, although the latter type will tolerate the compress more easily.

Masks

Masks not only give your female image “mystery” (see green skin color and round cucumbers instead of eyes in movies!), but also a chic composition of vitamins and minerals. If you are a person who is not greedy for self-praise, then it is better to use them once every three to four days in a course of 10-15 procedures. After you have rested, a new course should be started with other herbs.

Advice: any mask applied to the face lasts for half an hour. This time is enough for biologically active microelements to move smoothly into all the layers of skin you need.

As soon as you prepare the product, use it immediately. If you make everything in reserve, then you can store it for no more than three days, then it loses all its beneficial properties. And don’t forget – it’s better not to use the product around the eyes!

Recipe No. 1: Take two tablespoons of fresh kefir, add the same number of chamomile flowers and one egg. Use the blender. Suitable for skin types 2 and 3.

Recipe No. 2: You will need nettle or sorrel in equal quantities; they are filled with cream and lemon juice (one spoon). For types 1 and 3, it has a whitening effect.

Recipe No. 3: For rejuvenation and type 1. Flour, plantain - all in equal quantities - mixed until porridge.

Rubbing your face with ice

Ice cubes that you roll over your face for 10 minutes will not only solve issues of elasticity, but also aging of the skin. The basis of any remedy is a decoction, from which it all depends on your personal goals and wishes

And finally - powder!

Believe it or not, powders also help eliminate wrinkles and improve skin tone! Use thistle herb or Indian Ayurveda ubtan recipe.

Ubtan is a powder that can be used all over the body. Can replace scrub, soap, mask, help eliminate problems associated with sagging skin, enlarged pores and peeling.

It is prepared from rice, oatmeal or chickpea flour - the grains are ground and mixed with (optional) flax seeds, parsley, calendula, St. John's wort, mint or thyme. Plus ginger, turmeric and nutmeg, blue clay and oil (olive or sesame). Mix two parts of a mixture of herbs and flour base with one part of oil.

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Interesting recipe, right? I can’t vouch for it, but I think it’s possible to master it, especially since the New Year holidays are coming soon - you’ll have to do something, right? By the way, what are you planning for the holidays? It seems like 10 days, but they fly by in an instant.

What not to do and why

But every action has a reaction! If you have recently developed scars on your face, it is better not to use any herbal remedies. I will give you the same advice if I find out that you recently had plastic surgery.

You will also need to consult a doctor if you discover diseases of the circulatory system. If your nerves are not all right, then also find out if you can use everything.

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I look forward to your questions and advice, until new meetings and conversations!

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