Silk for love, health and beauty

In France in the 15th century the bed of love was dimmed only by silk fabrics for enhancement of love forces. The famous mistress of the king sun Louis XIV de Bourbona of the marquis de Pompadour began to wear silk linen of the first.

Weightless, thinnest silk is made of the threads extracted from a cocoon of a silkworm which homeland is China. In one beautiful Chinese legend it is said that we are obliged by silk fabrics to the Chinese empress Hen-Ling-Chi living 2600 to N e.

Once the empress whether thought of something, whether fell into a reverie, and dropped a silk cocoon in hot water. From the softened cocoon silk thread separated. The empress was a clever woman and quickly thought as it is possible to use her unintentional opening. So on the earth there was a silkworm breeding based on activity of the silkworm eating mulberry leaves - a white mulberry.

The woman who is kneeling beside a mulberry and vypletayushchy silk thread was a deity of a silkworm. In Ancient China there were special ceremonies of a sacrifice to this deity, in detail about it is stated in "Records about ceremonies" and "Chzhousky ceremonies".

In Ancient China there was a specific tax on use of products from silk. More than 3000 years Chinese kept a silk production secret, and the attempt to take out silkworm cocoons from China was punished by the death penalty.

But, despite threat to leave life, attempts were accepted one by one. On a legend, in 550 AD two vagrant monks managed to remove silkworm larvae to Byzantium in the hollowed openings of staffs.

The butterfly of a silkworm is small, the scope of her wings is 27-37 mm. A background of front wings light brown with hardly distinguishable drawing from dark lines. Back wings dark brown, with two light lines. The silkworm only lives where there is a mulberry.

Presently caterpillars part specially on the cultivated mulberry bushes in China, Japan, Taiwan, Russia and other countries. Silkworms are very gluttonous – thirty thousand silkworms will cope with one ton of leaves of a mulberry tree to produce only five and a half kilograms of raw silk. It turns out that to receive one kilogram of raw silk, five and a half thousand silkworms need to work.

The silkworm creates around itself a cocoon in three-four days. When unwinding a cocoon silk thread, approximately from six hundred to nine hundred meters in length turns out. Creation of one meter of silk matter requires from 2800 to 3300 cocoons. Therefore natural silk costs expensive. But it long rushes.

Silk, despite the subtlety and ease, very strong material. And one more advantage of silk before other fabrics is that in silk fabric insects are not got. Ladies and gentlemen of the Middle Ages who did not like to wash used it. Underwear from natural silk by order of the tsar was given also to the Russian officers during conducting combat operations.

Besides it is very useful to carry natural silk. It consists for 97% from proteins and for 3% from fats and wax, contains 18 amino acids improving not only appearance of skin, but also blood circulation, and work of a gastrointestinal tract.

Silk linen helps to cope with an allergy, to reduce sugar level in blood, serves as prevention of a hypertension and atherosclerosis.

Silk is a part of the creams much modern moisturizing, feeding and smoothing wrinkles and composition of shampoos and gels. Modern cosmetologists claim that the silk proteins absorbed by skin, moisturize the skin and intensify regeneration of integuments, small grazes and scratches heal, wrinkles are smoothed. Silk proteins easily get also into a hair bulb, humidifying and feeding it from what hair become brilliant, magnificent and elastic.

The Chinese women knew about the curative and rejuvenating properties of silk very long time ago.

- In order that skin became gentle and smooth, they grated it with a silk cloth. What does not prevent to do to us and now. Such procedures promote disappearance of cellulitis. It is recommended to be rubbed with silk of white color.

- Hair for gloss and splendor are also recommended to be rubbed with silk of white color, brunettes can rub them and black silk.

- To rejuvenate skin, it is necessary to pour water in capacity, to freeze it, then to filter through several layers of a gauze, to moisten with this water silk fabric and to make a cool compress on a face, a neck and a decollete. The compress is held by 20-30 minutes, moistening fabric in process of drying. But for achievement of effect silk has to be natural. A course of 20-25 compresses – 2 times a week. After a compress not to wash, and it is the best of all to do it for the night.