Oil you will not spoil skin

What only vegetable oils not to find on shelves of modern supermarkets – oil olive, corn, linen, from cedar and walnuts, pumpkin, from grape seeds, rape and the most habitual – sunflower. Eyes run up from all this abundance and a variety. On vegetable oil we prepare different dishes, we add them to salads, we accept as drugs, we use in house cosmetology, we find vegetable oils as a part of cosmetics of the famous producers.

To tell what oil is the best, is impossible. At each of them the niche, the main scope. There are oils very expensive, with labor-intensive process of extraction, and of course, nobody will fry on it some cutlet, and to here drink on an empty stomach a tea spoon as a natural "inoculation of immunity", or to drip in structure of a face pack - most that!

But also oil, habitual for us, from sunflower sunflower seeds - the irreplaceable participant of culinary process, has unique composition of vitamins, minerals, contains phytohormones and some other useful components. And its application is not limited to kitchen.

Slightly chemistry

Vegetable oils are the air of fatty acids relating to group of triglycerides (as well as animal fats). At the heart of each molecule of this substance – a glycerin molecule, and on it as apples on an apple-tree stick to a molecule of fatty acids. Depending on durability of communications between molecules of oil can be saturated or nonsaturated. Vegetable oils contain mainly nonsaturated fatty acids which have free one (monononsaturated) or two (polynonsaturated) carbon communications therefore vegetable oils rather liquid on consistence (unlike dense and viscous animal fats).

The sun in each drop

It is difficult to present that till 1829 nobody knew what miracle is concealed in everyone a sunflower seed of this surprising plant. Grew up a sunflower in Europe on beds only as an ornamental plant, and even on its homeland in North America it was used generally not as food product, and as a symbol of the deity of the Sun. However, there are certificates that Indian seeds of a plemyon frayed some and applied in food, and acted oiled hair. For the first time British thought of production of oil from sunflower in Europe, there is an English patent of 1716 describing this process. But the foundation for broad application of seeds of sunflower was laid by the serf Daniil Bokaryov who by means of a usual press received the Russia's first sunflower oil, and in 1833 earned also the first its production plant.

Seeds of the best grades of sunflower contain about 52% of the semi-drying fat oil, it is a lot of carbohydrates, albumens, phytin, hlorogenovy acid, are a little tannins and organic acids. And oil which of them is received contains olein (up to 40%), linoleic (up to 45%), palmitic, stearin, arakhinovy, lignotserinovy acids and also wax. The composition of oil depends on climatic conditions in which raw materials and technologies of cultivation grow. Apply sunflower oil not only as foodstuff, but also as cosmetic, and even in an aromatherapy. Not refined oil of the premiums does not suit for these purposes. It has color from light yellow to yellow, a slight peculiar smell and pleasant taste.

Natural oil of seeds of sunflower possesses moistening, regenerating, plasticizing properties, calms irritations on skin, is capable to heal wounds. It can tone up and nourish head skin, restore structure of hair, has the conditioning effect therefore producers of cosmetics like to add sunflower oil to shampoos and hair balms.

But uniform we can revitalize, as they say, not with sunflower oil skin, hair and all organism.

One of the most valuable and useful products capable to present us beauty and health is linseed oil. This oil are very often used in cosmetics for care of skin.

Flax, flax, my flax, the flax around blossoming …

The value of linseed oil the first was estimated by residents of ancient India about 9 thousand years ago and began to grow up a flax as an oil-bearing crop. Throughout many centuries a flax dressed and fed people in Syria, Egypt, Palestine and in the X—XIII centuries of the beginnings was cultivated everywhere in Russia - fed, treated, warmed corporally and sincerely.

Olive flax-kudryash was grown up in a steppe zone specially on seeds. Thanks to the unique structure and dietary properties, linseed oil found application not only in the food industry, it is highly appreciated in medicine, dietology and cosmetology.

Today it is already scientifically confirmed that consumption of linseed oil and other products from a linen seed (flour) well influences activity of a brain, improves memory and speed of reaction. These properties by high content in linseed oil of irreplaceable polinenasyshcheny fatty acids are caused: linoleic (omega-6) and alpha and linolenic (omega-3) of acids.

They are called "irreplaceable" because the organism forms all other necessary fats of them. Besides, our organism cannot synthesize independently these fatty acids, and receives them only with food. Besides, valuable (omega-3) in enough are only in northern grades of sea fish and here, in linseed oil. At it even a smell specific – fish. Linseed oil surpasses products of a usual diet in the content of nonsaturated fatty acids, and only 1 tablespoon of linseed oil provides their daily requirement:

- alpha and linolenic acid - 60% (Omega-3),
- linoleic acid - 20% (Omega-6),
- oleic acid - 10% (Omega-9)
- other saturated fatty acids - 10%.

Besides, consumption of linseed oil promotes weight loss and weight reduction since linseed oil normalizes fatty exchange and a metabolism in general. So it is possible to advise to accept linseed oil and as the means helping to get rid of excess weight.

To accept linseed oil one night better, just before a dream, during the day it is possible to add it to salads, it will be pleasant to fill porridges, the truth because of a specific smell and smack, perhaps, not everything. But, eventually, it is possible and to suffer - health, beauty and an excellent figure are worth it.

Linseed oil contains enough the vitamins A, E and other biologically active agents necessary for healthy food and well influences a condition of skin and hair, nervous system, improves sight.

Properties of linseed oil are widely used by the cosmetic industry, it can also be applied successfully in "house" cosmetology, for example, flax oil - fine additive in masks to face skin and a decollete, especially to the dry, withering skin.

The toning and softening mask for dry skin. To prepare camomile infusion: 2 incomplete tablespoons of dried inflorescences of a camomile on 250 ml of boiled water to close ware a cover, to allow to cool down, filter. To pour a full tablespoon of previously istolchenny linen seed into the filtered infusion and it is good to stir. To put gruel on a face. In 15 minutes to unmask a wadded tampon, to wipe a face with lotion, to apply the moisturizing cream.

The withering skin cream mask the Tablespoon of linseed oil, 3 yolks of egg, a glass of cream, 2 lemons, a honey tablespoon, 0.75 glasses of camphoric alcohol and 1.25 glasses of water. To pound egg yolks with oil, to add cream. To squeeze out juice of lemons, to cut and fill in crusts with hot water and to insist 1.5 hours. After that liquid to filter, mix with lemon juice and honey. When stirring to add this infusion to mix of egg yolks, oil and cream and to slowly pour in camphor alcohol. To pour everything in the half liter vessel, to move. To store in the refrigerator, before the use to shake up.

At a double chin in the evening, it is before going to bed good to make a hot poultice of the linen seed welded in milk. To hold about half an hour.

The following mask will be useful to care of skin of hands: to mix one egg yolk with 1 tablespoon of linseed oil, 1 tablespoon of honey and juice of one lemon. To wash up hands water in which potatoes cooked, to wipe, grease with the prepared ointment and to put on gloves for 2-3 hours.

The excellent result is yielded by a "radical" mask for the dry and injured skin of hands: half of a teaspoon of linseed oil, contents of one capsule of vitamin E, egg yolk. To mix everything and to apply on well steamed out hands, to put on cosmetic gloves, to sustain half an hour.

And such plain mix as linseed oil and ground coffee, it is possible to make an excellent protivotsellyulitny peeling for a body.

Care of skin with application of vegetable oils, and about what it is written above and many others (olive, sesame, pumpkin, from grape seeds, apricot, etc.), considerably improves its state, allows to get rid of many cosmetology problems.