Time to collect herbs, or a bouquet for appearance!

The summer in the heat, so, all recovered around, meadows, edges of forests became covered by the blossoming and odorous abundance of various herbs, and there came time of their collecting - right now it is necessary to stock up with grass cosmetics for the year ahead. If the cosmetic firms, most known in the world, collect natural raw materials, are proud of it and tell about the used plants in the booklets, then who prevents ourselves to collect and dry the same a camomile, a St. John's wort, mint. And then in long winter months and in the early spring we will use them for preparation of lotions, the masks toning and medical drinks, to inhale their aroma and to remember warm summer days. It is important only that the flowers and herbs collected by us were environmentally friendly. Therefore you should not bring together them within the big industrial city, at highway and the railroads.

There are several simple general rules on collecting and drying of vegetable raw materials:

• Leaves, flowers, herbs collect both in the period of buds, and during blossoming of plants, sometimes in a fruiting stage. Leaves and flowers dry in a shadow under canopies, in the enclosed space, displaying a thin layer. Herbs connect in bunches and suspend on a draft in a shadow on well aired places. It is impossible to wash plants before drying.

• For drying of a plant display a thin layer, mix several times a day (except flowers). Drying is finished when leaves and flowers are easily pounded in powder, stalks break with a characteristic crash, roots break, but do not bend. Raw materials have to keep green color.

You should not forget also to the Moon, and all parts of a plant which are above the ground (flowers, leaves, kidneys, small stalks, branches) should be collected during its growth. It is considered that during this period they contain more than "any poleznost".

And, on the contrary: everything that is underground (roots, tubers), is most loaded by useful substances on the decreasing moon.

The dried-up herbs store in sacks from fabric, paper packages, boxes, banks.

What herbs and flowers will be useful to us for use in the cosmetic purposes? First of all, well familiar officinal camomile, also the nettle, a St. John's wort, mint, a marjoram, a thyme, flowers of a linden, a rose, ekhinatseya will be useful to all.

Cosmetics on the basis of dry herbs and flowers

• The toning any skin lotion. The camomile, a St. John's wort, lime color, mint are taken on one teaspoon. Fill in with two glasses of boiled water. When infusion cools down, to add five tablespoons of vodka. If your skin dry and inclined to withering, the amount of alcohol (vodka) has to be reduced.

• Evening lotion from a St. John's wort and mint. To fill in two teaspoons of a grass of a St. John's wort and one teaspoon of mint with a glass (any) dry white wine. For insisting the vessel is closed and put to the cool place for 10 days. Periodically mix is stirred up. At the end of process liquid is carefully filtered. This cosmetic reduces flabbiness of skin, removes puffiness.

• Compresses on broth of dry herbs. For its preparation to mix lime color 3 parts, flowers of a camomile 2 parts, rose-petals 1 part, part mint 1/2 leaves. To fill in 2 tablespoons of mix with 1 glass of boiled water. To impose the gauze napkins moistened in this broth on the purified skin.

• A mask from mint for dry skin. Take 2 tablespoons of dry leaves of mint, fill in with such amount of water that kashitseobrazny weight turned out, warm up it on fire to 60 degrees. Gruel should be put on a face when it a little cools down and to hold 15-20 minutes.

• Broths from a burdock and a nettle for hair. Use of broths of these plants for rinsings, rubbing in in roots, masks for hair not only strengthens hair, but also does them silky and obedient.

I advise to stock up with hay from raznotravya for preparation of bathtubs, or, as a last resort, at least, micro trays for hands and legs. Such trays recommend to do at arthritises (an acute or chronic inflammation of joints) and just at fatigue. Well they help at such widespread problem as "stones" standing at the thumb basis. Surely it is necessary to include in composition of such hay sporysh (the mountaineer bird's).

Collecting, drying up herbs and anticipating as we will enjoy them in the cold winter, it is worth to remember also about their fresh application.

Wipe with juice of fresh leaves of a calendula skin for removal of freckles and giving of freshness to it. Grease with juice of leaves and flowers of an ekhinatsea for the night a face at pigmentary spots, freckles, for reduction of wrinkles. In the summer you can for bleaching, moistening of skin to apply lotion from parsley, and it is possible to make cream of parsley. For this purpose 10 grams of young leaves of parsley carefully pound with 20 grams of butter or margarine. Cream is applied to skin, moist after washing. Surplus is blotted with a napkin. Cream perfectly removes puffiness, refreshes skin.

• A mask from mint and a thyme. To mix 1 teaspoon of the pounded mint, 1 teaspoon of a thyme, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 100-120 ml of natural yogurt (without additives), a half of a bag of yeast and also 2 tablespoons of starch. To apply mix to face skin for 15 minutes, to wash away warm water. The mask has the knitting, antiseptic, toning effect.

• Mint mask with fennel. Prepare grass mix, having mixed on 1 teaspoon of mint, greens of fennel, rose-petals or a dogrose, a camomile, lime color. To fill in mix with 2 glasses of the boiling water, and when infusion a little cools down, to filter, to impose weight on skin, and to atop put a napkin which needs previously to be moistened in infusion. In 20-30 minutes wash away a mask warm water, and then rinse cold.

• A mask from a plantain. To pound fresh leaves of a plantain to a condition of gruel. The received weight needs to be mixed with 1 teaspoon of boiled water and 1 teaspoon of honey. Apply a ready mask to face skin and leave for 15 – 20 minutes, wash away warm water. This mask well is suitable for the withering skin and possesses the regenerating and toning action.

Do not miss time, collect, apply fresh and dry for the winter useful herbs, flowers, leaves - now for this purpose the best time! Beauty and health to you and your skin!!!