Garden Plants for Skin Beauty and Health

For centuries, the beauty and the girl are inseparable. Someone it is granted by nature, and it just needs to be protected, supported, and someone makes herself beautiful thanks to a number of modern and ancient means. In the Arsenal of every lady today creams, lotions, masks, tonics for skin care and their secrets, and almost every summer resident — and even plants. Many of them are familiar to you.

But today you will discover them in a new way: learn not only about the use of home cosmetics, but also consider the successful composition of their placement on the site.

Lavandula angustifolia

The leaves, flowers and seeds of lavender exude a sweet aroma with a touch of wood; it is so peculiar that it can be recognized from thousands of smells.

Raw materials for home cosmetology
Overhead weight, but especially of the inflorescence.

A decoction of the flowers

1. A handful of dry lavender flowers pour 1 liter of water, boil in a water bath for 10 minutes.
2. Cooled, poured into molds for ice.
3. In the morning, wipe your face with lavender ice.

Lavender oil

1. A handful of lavender flowers pour 0.5 liters of olive oil, put on a water bath for 2 hours.
2. Leave overnight to infuse.
3. Used for eczema, wounds of all kinds.

Purchased lavender oil is used for:

• aroma lamp – up to 7 drops;
• inhalation-1-3 drops;
• bath – up to 7 drops;
• massage – 5 drops per 10 ml of vegetable oil.

Before using, make sure you are not allergic to it: apply 1-2 drops on your wrist — if there is no redness, lavender oil can be used.

Tincture of lavender flowers used as a lotion to wipe oily skin.

Placement of lavender in the country
It is good in all its manifestations: in mixborders, curbs, rockeries.

Estee Lauder

Her white flowers are a symbol of chastity. But decorate the house with bouquets of these flowers with caution: a very strong sweet aroma with vanilla chords can cause a headache.

Raw materials for home cosmetology
Flower petal.

Miraculous face tincture

1. A bottle of dark glass is filled with petals of fully blossomed flowers, pour 70% alcohol so that it covers the petals on 2 fingers.
2. Tightly close the neck of the tube, put in a dark cool place.
3. Periodic shake the bottle.
4. After 6 weeks, the tincture is ready.
5. Cast part in a separate bottle of dark glass, diluted with 2/3 cold boiled water. For oily skin tincture diluted with water in half.
6. Wipe your face in the morning.
7. Before each use it is necessary to shake.

The placement of the lilies of the whitest in the country
It is luxurious in flower beds of any style, but on heavy soils, waterlogged in winter, will be short-lived. Undoubtedly, during the flowering period it is a spectacular dominant.

Common mallow

Luxurious slender village beauty today has become a city fashionista.

Raw materials for home cosmetology
Flowers.

Infusion for washing

1. 1 tablespoon of raw materials (flowers) pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist 1 hour.
2. Filtered through 2 layers of gauze, allow to cool.
3. Use for washing (face, neck, décolleté).

Mask

1. Fresh petals pour milk, insist.
2. Put them on the face, cover with a napkin, leave for 20-30 minutes.
3. The petals are removed, wash my face, apply the cream.

Tincture for wiping

1. In one container put: 1 tablespoon of mallow root, 1 tablespoon of lime color, 1 tablespoon of honey.
2. Pour the ingredients with a glass of cold water and boil under the lid for 10 minutes (from the moment of boiling).
3. Insist 10 minutes, filter, pour into a bottle of dark glass.
4. Wipe the skin of the face and neck at night.

Placement of common mallow in the country
Previously adorned the flower beds in the villages, today it is, thanks to the wealth of varieties, moved to the city and suburban villas. On light fertile soils from it create beautiful scenes, especially decorative during the long summer flowering. As a high-rise dominant it is good in groups on a background of trees, at home, in a mixborder.

Macleay

Unusually interesting in flowering. Can claim the role of seasonal summer dominant in flower beds of any style.

Raw materials for home cosmetology
The aboveground part of the grass harvested in the period of budding.

Application
Due to the antimicrobial action, Macleay is used for skin problems (dermatoses), treat long-term non-healing wounds.

Placing Macleay in the country
She is good in the wings, ordinary landings at fences. To light and soils undemanding: grows not only in the sun, but also in partial shade, on any soil except very dry.

Caution! All parts of Macleay are poisonous, so it is necessary to work with gloves.

Mints

Peppermint, spikelet, long-leaf-as without them? And in the suburban area, and in home cosmetology they are always in demand and loved.

Raw materials for home cosmetology
Leaves harvested in the transition phase of budding-the beginning of flowering, as it is during this period they contain the largest amount of essential oil.

The inflorescences contain a lot of oil, but its quality is worse. For me, the real discovery of this season was mint with nutmeg flavor!

Peppermint foot bath for tired feet

1. Raw materials (10 g fresh leaves or 5 g dry) pour 200 ml of boiling water.
2. Insist 30 minutes, filter, add the infusion into a basin of water.
3. Take a foot bath.

After a busy day, you can take with such a decoction and a bath, only then take 100 g of fresh or 50 g of dry leaves on 2 liters of boiling water.

The location of the mint in the country
These fragrant beauties prefer damp places therefore it is better to plant them at a reservoir or at a summer column, a well. As accompanying or filling grasses, they will find their place in the mixborder not only in the open Sunny place, but also in partial shade.

Rosmarinus officinalis

My favorite Mediterranean plant. Along with lavender, it is always in my Arsenal of cosmetic anti-aging products.

Raw materials for home cosmetology
The aerial part at the flowering stage.

Rosemary tincture for dry and normal skin

1. In a bottle of dark glass pour a spoon of crushed dry raw materials, pour 200 ml of dry red wine (for dry and normal skin) or vodka (for oily).
2. A bottle every 2 days a good shake.
3. After 6 weeks, filtered through gauze, and tincture is ready.
4. Store it in a cool dry place.
5. Wipe the skin of the face and neck in the morning and evening.

Tincture of rosemary gives the skin elasticity and smoothes wrinkles.

Placement of rosemary in the country
Its borders are good on the southern sites (from time to time it is necessary to trim them sides). Rosemary can be introduced into flower beds as a background plant. The form ‘Prostratus’ is good to use as a basket shrub for the decoration of terraces, low stone walls.

Salvia officinalis

Excellent “natural beautician” to help with various skin problems.

Raw materials for home cosmetology
The aerial part during flowering

Steam bath for face

1. Dry raw sage (1 tablespoon) pour 1 liter of boiling water in a deep bowl.
2. Covered with a lid, insist 2-3 minutes.
3. Remove the lid, lean over the bowl, cover the head with a towel.
4. Take a steam bath for 10-15 minutes.

To sage, you can add a whisper of lime color, chamomile flowers.

The location of sage cottage
A wonderful plant for any flower beds: the presence of variegated varieties makes it possible to create a variety of combinations in rockeries and colorful borders.

And what “cosmetic” plants do you grow at your dacha? How to use?