My grandmother's secrets

Compresses — the most ancient cosmetic procedure. It approaches any type of a skin. It is especially good to do compresses for eyes and a century. The skin round a century has no fatty basis and very much requires an additional moisture.
Compresses in this case will help.
The grandmother knew about it and did to itself compresses , and various.
As it to do. As much as possible to relax, it is recommended to do compresses lying. Occupy convenient position, under a head put the small flat platen.
If you have decided to impose a compress not only on area of eyes, you should use a fabric большего the size to close all person.
Thus do not forget to make a cut for nostrils and for a mouth. Wet a fabric in warm infusion of a camomile. The compress is held usually by 2—3 minutes.
The skin in this time will feel heat. Now put to a skin a fabric moistened in cold infusion. After a cold compress again make warm and so some times.
Besides, that such compress will humidify a skin, it still will give it sensation of freshness and ease.

The beauty of our hands in our hands. Nobody can argue with it. My grandmother always care for own hands and I follow her advices and habits in it. She work hard but she always had the hands in the good condition.
I want to share with you the recipe of hand cream that she use. You can easy do it yourself by own hands.

You need: 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of vodka, about 20 gram dry camomile's inflorescences, about 50 gram of butter, and 250 ml of water. Before all you have to make camomile tincture. For it fill in the camomile flowers with boiled water (water have to be over flowers a bit) and rest it about 8—9 hours insist under cover. After filters resulted tincture.
For a cream you need only one tablespoon of the tincture. Your bitter to pound with honey, add one tablespoon of camomile tincture, add vodka and carefully mix all it.
Grease hands few times in day, just as you need. This cream well make your hands soften, tender and gentle, and will really care about your hands.

My grandma all the creams she use made by own hands. She always experimented, putting components together. So there are many variants. Here is one, healing and tone up at once.

Take 50 gram butter and 2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil, melt down it use bain-marie. Add 2 egg's yellow and 2 tablespoons of honey, carefully mix, add half tablespoon of glycerine, 30 ml of camphor tincture and about 50 ml of chamomile flowers potion.

Mix carefully until it become soft viscous mass, store in glass jar with good lid.

This cream is good for face and hand skin.

This simple recipe tell you great curative used in many recipes.

Just tale about 3 tablespoons of chamomile flowers and fill it out with 200 ml of hot boiled water. Rest it in some glass for 10-12 hours.

The easist way to use this curative is take pre-heated gauze, put the chamomile flowers from your brew to gauze between two layers and place to face for 10-15 minutes. Wrap your face in small bath towel. After you remove the mask grease your skin with cream.

That easy mask make your skin young and fresh :)

Next one recipe from my grandma, and againg with chamomile flowers. This is truly wonderful herbs!

The chamomile flowers you can see as part of many health and cosmetic masks that make face skin soft, tender, reduce wrinkles and tone up.

Here is how my grandma do it. Concentrate brew from chamomile flowers mix with honey, fresh egg white and almond oil up to cream consistence. Put this to 2-3 gauze layers and place to face. Wait about 1--15 minutes, that's enough. Clean the face with clean heat water. After need to dry out the face and use your favorite day cream.

Such masks effectives against "old skin" as well as tone up face muscles, and skin look fresh and young.

I want to share with you cool (yes, really cool!) recipe for skin care based on freezed potion from chamomile flowers. It's easy to prepare and effectively improve skin tone and reduce pore size. My grandma began every day with face cleanig by ice cube of that potion. As I remember it was really every day morning just after she wake up.

My grandma has wonderfil clean, soft and tender face skin. The stuff is she make the stream bath with chamomile flowers.

I know another way to do this is to boil chamomile flowers in a pan and keep the face over it with head covered with a towel for a few minutes. Just be careful not to burn yourself.

My friend also do such way for cold cure.

Chamomile essential oil you may find in stores, drugstores and oriental shops.

Essential oils have own strong power and able to affect our mood. For example, chamomile may take down anger and help to calm anxiety mood.
In case your baby is teething, chamomile oil helps to calm and soothe inflamed gums. Just dilute two drops in a little warm water and rub over the affected area three times a day.
Another very popular way is adding soothing aromatherapy oils to your baby baths to create a lovely smell and soothe his sensitive skins.
A gentle massage with chamomile oil can often provide relief from problems such as backache, sleeplessness, edema, headaches and tension.

Soothe and smooth your skin with this gentle cream.

I found this recipe not easy due its components, but maybe it will be useful for you.

4 ounces butter
2 tablespoons dried (or fresh) calendula flowers
800 IU vitamin E oil
3 drops rose otto essential oil
30 drops lavender essential oil
10 drops tincture of benzoin, optional (as a natural preservative)

Melt butter in the top of a double boiler; add calendula flowers and heat on medium setting for 30 to 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour mixture through a strainer to remove calendula flowers. Add essential oils and vitamin E oil. Pour into jar (best if the cream fills the jar); once mixture is cool, close with lid.