When we talk about anti-aging masks, we most often remember folk recipes and home remedies based on the medicinal properties of plants and natural foods - in general, the forces of nature combined with folk wisdom.
Indeed, it often happens that homemade cosmetics are much more effective than expensive branded creams and pharmaceutical preparations. This is especially true when we live in harmony with nature, trying to take care of the skin from an early age and not waiting until radical means are needed to restore it.
We will talk a little about how to prepare effective masks and creams at home that will rejuvenate the skin, reduce wrinkles and slow down aging. You can choose the products that suit you and are easier to prepare at home. Almost every home has a wonderful medicinal plant - aloe. Masks made from it rejuvenate and nourish aging skin and keep young skin fresh and healthy for longer.
Proven recipes with aloe
Cut off some aloe leaves with a plastic knife and put them in the fridge for 2 weeks. After this time, squeeze the juice by hand and mix it (1 tablespoon) with olive oil - you will need the same amount. Add your nourishing cream (1 tsp), mix and heat gently. Apply the mixture to your face for 10 minutes and then wash off with cold water. Small wrinkles after such masks gradually disappear, and deep wrinkles are reduced.
Another anti-aging mask for aging facial skin with aloe: you need to grind the leaves into a pulp (keep the leaves in the fridge too), mix it (1 tbsp) with egg yolk, dry milk (1 tbsp) and honey (1 tsp). When the mixture is thick, add milk. The mask is applied to the face for 10 minutes and washed off with lukewarm water; suitable for aging skin.
Oil formulations against aging
The following mask nourishes and rejuvenates the skin. Softened butter (1 tbsp) is rubbed with egg yolk, honey (1 tsp) and grated apple pulp (1 tbsp) are added. Everything is mixed, applied to the face and neck for 20 minutes, and then removed with a damp disk or swab. This mask helps revitalize even sagging skin.
Anti-aging mask with egg yolk, butter (0. 5 tbsp), chamomile infusion (1 tbsp), honey and glycerin (1 tsp each). Crush all components into a homogeneous mass and apply to the face and neck for 10-15 minutes. Wash off with cold water.
A rejuvenating plantain leaf face mask also revitalizes aging skin. Rinse fresh plantain leaves, grind into pulp (1 tbsp), add honey (1 tsp) and a little warm boiled water. Rub it in properly and apply to face for 15 minutes. Then soak a tampon in cold water and remove the mask.
How to make anti aging cream
At home, you can prepare not only masks, but also creams for aging skin. If the ingredients are not enough, you can check at the pharmacy. First you need to prepare quite a lot of cream, try if it suits you and if there is irritation, and only then prepare a large portion. Most creams can be left on overnight without rinsing; others must be removed with a damp cloth, especially if not all of the cream has been absorbed.
Rejuvenating face creams with honey
Nourishes and rejuvenates aging skin cream with honey and lanolin. Mix 1 tsp. Melt the honey and lanolin in a water bath. Without removing from the bath and continuing to stir, add 2 tbsp. clean hot water and almond oil. Then take out and beat with a mixer.
A similar recipe: dissolve honey and lanolin in the same way as described above, add soy lecithin solution. The solution is prepared as follows: in a warm herbal decoction (4 tablespoons) dissolve 0. 5 tsp. Soy Lecithin. Then remove the mixture from the bath, place the container in cold water and beat until completely cooled.
Rejuvenating herbal face cream
A rejuvenating cream for aging skin can be prepared from an oil extract of herbs (mint, linden, St. John's wort, chamomile, yarrow, green tea) and pine resin collected in the fall. The hood is prepared at home: 1 tbsp. A mixture of all herbs is poured with warm olive oil (0. 5 cups), closed and left for a week, then filtered. You can buy pine resin or collect it yourself if you have the opportunity to go to a coniferous forest.
Next, to prepare the cream, you need to take beeswax (1 tsp), melt it in a water bath and add 1 tsp, without removing it. Pine resin, melted separately over low heat, then an oil extract (2 tablespoons), the same amount of rose water and 2 drops of an oil solution of vitamins A, D and E. Mix everything, remove from the bath and beat with a mixer until the mixture is homogeneousbecomes. Such a cream not only rejuvenates the skin, but also takes care of it very well.
Rejuvenating face creams with lemon
Homemade anti-aging cream with lemon is suitable for aging skin that tends to be oily. Take 3 lemons, peel, chop the zest and pour a glass of boiling water. Leave on for 8 hours. Strain the infusion and mix half a glass of liquid honey (1 tsp), unrefined vegetable oil (1 tbsp) and the same amount of lemon juice. Add cream (2 tbsp), stir, then add cologne (1 tsp) and 1 tbsp. Alcohol infusion of rose petals (rose hips). Beat the mixture with a mixer and pour into a glass.
The following lemon cream is suitable for rather oily skin. Mix 2 tbsp. lemon juice with 1 tsp. glycerin. Separately, mix the raw yolk with 1 tbsp. unrefined oil and 1 tsp. Honey. Then mix everything and gradually beat drop by drop with a mixer, add camphor alcohol - 6-7 drops.
Homemade folk recipe for dry skin
Pepper cream is suitable for dry aged skin. Red pepper is used: it is hot and you need to take very little of it - a piece the size of a little fingernail. Finely chop the peppers and rub with olive oil (2 tbsp). Melt beeswax (1 tsp) and lanolin (0. 5 tsp) in a water bath, add infusion of rose petals (2 tbsp), pepper oil, remove from the water bath, beat with a mixer .
All anti aging creams should be stored in the refrigerator; Some of them can be stored for up to several months.
Effective folk recipes
A separate topic are anti-aging masks with linseed oil. You can simply apply the oil on your face for 20 minutes and then wash it off with warm water. Flaxseed oil is high in polyunsaturated fatty acids, therefore it rejuvenates dry, scaly, sensitive, lethargic and aging, wrinkled and sagging skin.
A very nourishing mask for aging skin is obtained from linseed oil (1 teaspoon), egg yolk and honey (1 teaspoon). Mix the ingredients, pour the mixture into a container of hot water; When warm, apply to face and neck for 15 minutes, then wash off with lukewarm water.
The next anti-aging mask nourishes, tones, refreshes and moisturizes the sallow facial skin. Mix yolks with sour cream (1 tbsp), add dry floured lemon zest (1 tsp), mix thoroughly. After 15 minutes add flaxseed oil (1 tsp), mix again and apply on face and after 20 minutes wash off mask with cold water.
Homemade mask for dry and aging combination skin. Mix baker's yeast (1 tbsp) with warm milk to a paste, add linseed oil (1 tsp), honey (1 tsp), sour cream (0. 5 tbsp) and lemon juice (1 tsp), rub everything and apply to the face in a thick layerShift for 15 minutes. Wash off with cold water.
Grate fresh cucumber. To 1 tbsp. Mash, add mashed black currants - the same amount and sour cream (1 tbsp). Mix everything thoroughly, apply to the face and neck, after 20 minutes remove with a swab dipped in warm water and wash off with cold water.
There are many recipes for homemade anti-aging masks for aging skin: it is impossible to describe them in one article, and that's great - because in this abundance every woman can find something for herself that will help her restore beautytheir skin and preserve their youth for a long time.
In conclusion, I would like to recall the benefits of fruits and vegetables. German experts conducted a study in which it turned out that people who constantly eat fresh fruit and vegetables develop wrinkles the least. On the other hand, those who eat vegetables and fruit rarely have the most wrinkles.
It is best to eat bright fruits and vegetables - yellow, green and red: all citrus, tomatoes, carrots, peppers and others. These fruits stop oxidative reactions and significantly slow down aging.
The information in this article is for informational purposes only and is not a recommendation. Please do not self-medicate, be sure to consult a specialist.