The succulent lettuce leaves soothe and nourish the skin. They have found application in cosmetology for the preparation of masks. Who would have thought that green salad is the most valuable in cosmetology! Leave yourself a couple of leaves when preparing your meal - it could be lettuce, oaklif or curly frieze.
We have selected for you the best recipes that are perfect in the summer. Masks will help soothe inflamed skin, prevent sunburn and reduce UV exposure.
Instead of sunscreen, it is helpful to keep slightly crumpled lettuce leaves on your face. They contain carotene, ascorbic acid and other useful substances that are quickly destroyed in the light during long storage. Prepare all masks just before use, do not leave next time!
If, after sunburn, redness and burns have formed on the skin, then use a salad broth. Use the strained liquid to moisten cotton pads and apply them to the affected area. Put the boiled leaves on a gauze napkin, apply to the face - this will soothe irritated skin and "remove" peeling.
The greens contain vitamins, trace elements and antioxidants that prevent premature aging of the body. "Green masks" are indicated for the restoration of mature skin, smoothing of wrinkles, nutrition of the dermis cells.
Folk recipes for masks from lettuce leaves:
1. Refreshing mask
Chop the lettuce leaves and remove 2 tbsp. spoons. Stir the gruel with sour cream (1: 1). If you replace sour cream with yogurt, kefir or fermented baked milk, then add another half teaspoon of olive oil. The holding time of the mask is 15 minutes.
2. Recipe for a universal mask
This method is worth remembering for all women, regardless of skin type. It softens rough skin, smoothes wrinkled skin and gives elasticity to flabby skin.
Mix finely chopped fresh lettuce with olive oil and lemon juice. Finish by adding 2 drops of Aevit vitamin mixture to the resulting gruel.
3. Lettuce leaves against dry skin
Dry skin is most prone to the appearance of expression lines. Unpleasant feelings of tightness and burning after washing your face are sure signs of a dry face. Set aside moisturizers. Summer is the time to feel the full effect of green salad! Chop fresh leaves as small as possible, stir with fat sour cream. For the best effect, enrich the mixture with a few drops of vegetable oil. Apply the mask and hold for a quarter of an hour. For best results, repeat the procedure every other day.
4. Hot milk and salad
Cover crushed lettuce, frieze or oaklif leaves with hot milk to moisturize dry skin. Take the ingredients in such a proportion so that a gruel of a uniform consistency is formed, which would be convenient to apply as a mask.
5. Lettuce for oily skin
The following mask will help to eliminate the characteristic shine on the chin, forehead and near the wings of the nose. To get two tablespoons of gruel, a couple of fresh salad leaves are enough. Add 7-8 drops of lemon juice and egg white. The mixture acts for a quarter of an hour, then you should wash with a cooled decoction of chamomile flowers.
6. Care for sun-sensitive skin
With this type of skin, the sun's rays affect its structure more intensely. As a rule, the face takes on a darker complexion more quickly and the skin becomes more tanned than desired. In this case, the simplest recipe for making a mask from lettuce leaves will come in handy. Boil finely chopped leaves in boiling water (1/4 cup) for 3 minutes. Do not wash off the mask! It needs to be removed with a cotton swab soaked in the liquid that we received after filtering.
7. How to prepare the lotion?
There is one great lotion recipe for normal to combination skin. Action - refreshes and tones. Squeeze the juice from fresh leaves to make 2 tbsp. spoons. Add some olive oil and lemon juice. The resulting mixture is the lotion that needs to be wiped off the skin of the face, and after 20 minutes, rinse off.
8. How to restore aging skin
Fading skin is not as elastic and firm as we would like it to be. To tone it up, use a folk remedy with lettuce, burdock and radish leaves. Rinse them in cool water, then chop and juice (3 tablespoons). Add almond oil and lemon juice to fortify the mixture. After a quarter of an hour, rinse off the composition and dry your face with light patting movements of your fingers.
9. How to remove oily shine on the face?
Chop finely and stir in 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lettuce and parsley. Pour the green mixture with three tablespoons of fermented baked milk or kefir. Whisk until smooth and apply as a mask. The mixture has a nourishing, whitening effect and helps to eliminate skin oiliness.
Let green salad always be present on your table - it is healthy and nutritious for the body. In addition, fresh leaves are a great way to give your face beauty and youth in the great summer season!
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