All these pollute the organism from inside causing skin problems. On the other hand, the cold stimulates and rejuvenates the cells. That’s why the winter coming affects our skin in a good way. But there should be taken some preventive measures to avoid the baneful influence of other factors.

SPA at home

Find a couple of hours a week to do with your beauty in real earnest. Let’s start with the easiest procedure.

Winter face clearness. Take the cosmetic clay and knead it till you get a sour cream consistency. Then apply the clay on to the face and leave it there for 30-40 minutes. Rinse it off with warm water and then immediately with cold one. The deepest cleaning provides the black clay, that is wholesome for the body care and fights with cellulite.

Winter face peeling. Mix up 1 tbsp oat meal with 1 tea spoon brown rice meal and 2-3 drops of lavender oil. Add a bit of warm water and 1 tea spoon honey. Massage delicately the face and neck skin using this mixture. Then rinse it off with warm water.

Face bath. This is a wonderful procedure for the normalization of the acid-base balance and skin detoxification. However, you’d better omit it, if you have a very sensitive skin or acne rosacea. Put the herbs and oils that fit exactly your skin type into the boiling water (in the pot or anything).

For example, chamomile goes well for the sensitive and dry skin types; peppermint and rosemary – for normal and combination ones as well as acne-affected skin. Lavender is the perfect herbal measure for all skin types.

Bend your head above the pot about 3-4 inches high and cover your head with the towel letting the towel hang over the pot sides either. Stay that way for 5 minutes and then put a moisturizer onto the face.

Winter face massage. Practice it with the help of a moisturizer or special therapeutic oil. Choose the moistening product that doesn’t contain petroleum, mineral oils and propylene glycol. Do the slight massaging moves over the face and neck bottom-up (from neck to forehead and temples).

If you care about the face this way every day, it will never make you feel uncomfortable and put off the aging.

Ice cubes are also one of the great anti aging measures. Don’t forget about the whole body that needs additional care in winter time.

Dry skin – that’s no great tragedy.

Prepare the following face lotion: blend 10 oz warm water and 3 oz cream and boil it. Cool it, pour it into a glass jar. Pour out the sediment. Rub the skin with this lotion mornings and evenings.

Nourishing mask with egg yellow. Beat up the half of 1 yolk (or 3 quail yolks) with 1 tea spoon olive oil and 15 drops of lemon juice. Apply the mixture onto the face. Rinse it off in 15 min with warm water.

Linseed nourishing mask. Mix 1 tbsp flax seed with 5 oz boiling water. Boil it for 5-10 minutes. Cool it and put onto the face skin for 20 min, then rinse off with warm water.

Honey mask. Grind 1 tbsp oatmeal, 1 tea spoon honey and 1 beaten up egg yellow. Apply the gruel onto the face for 20 minutes and then rinse off with warm water.

Sour-cream mask. Mix up the equal parts of honey and sour cream. Put it onto the skin. Rinse it off in 20 min.

Oily skin – easy to dry a bit.

Grate orange and grapefruit peel. Squash fruit juice and add it into the peel gruel. Add 3 oz brandy, put in to a warm place and let it draw for 7 days. Filter it. Don’t drink it though it’s tasty. Rub the face with the lotion 2 times a day.

Honey mask. Mix 3 oz honey with 1 oz vodka and 1 oz water. Stir it well and apply onto the face for 25 minutes and then rinse off with warm water.

Yolk mask. Beat up 1 yolk and 20 drops of lemon juice. Rub the face with olive oil and then apply the mask. Rinse off in 20 minutes.

None of these masks will require more than 20-25 min of your precious time. But if you practice them regularly, you’ll spend about 140 minutes (2.5 hours) per week on the face care. That’ll be 10 hours per month! And 120 hours – a year! Can you imagine how your skin condition will change having this care.

And one more thing, drink more water to prevent the skin from the hydrating!

Let yourself enjoy the winter season playing snowballs and skiing. Christmas and the New Year are coming. You see, there are lots of reasons to take care of your skin.

To protect your skin, you’d better have fall creams that are noted “regenerative” or “protective”. Such creams will help you to build up the protective barrier for the skin against the weather changes.

It’s also worth mentioning that the fall cosmetics should have more fatty components in its composition than the summer one.

But as is generously known, you should know where to stop, because if you overdo it using a too oil rich cream, you simply harm the skim. The thing is that too fatty cream can cork up the pores when heated (at work for instance) leading to the oxygen penetration into the skin cells.

Masks are also of super importance! They should combine both protective and vitamin qualities. The good example is an oat mask.

Prepare this mask at home using the following recipe. Take 3 tbsp warm cream or milk and add them into 1 tbsp rolled oats. Wait until they swell and then apply the mixture onto the face an snack skin. Leave it there for 20 minutes. Then rinse with warm water not soaping after.

You probably think the right way: nourishing is of grand importance. Skin requires vitamin C utterly. See if you can include into your ration this vitamin containing products as much as possible: citrus, apples, bell pepper, kiwi, cabbage, greens.

Fresh barriers, fruits and vegetables are perfect for the homemade-cosmetic masks. But the truth is that sometimes skin can bear them as they are too rich with this vitamin.

That’s why you can feel some burning or tingling on the skin during this procedure. To avoid this effect, use fruit-berry-gruels that will make you less discomfort.

Here also some recipes you are free to use in fall:

1. For oily skin: make a mixture of moistening cream, several drops of mint tincture and grated cucumber that narrows pores (very urgent for oily skin). Put this blend onto the skin for 40 minutes. Then rinse it off with warm water.

2. For combination and normal skin: grate the grapes, cabbage, and apple, pear until you get gruel and then add 1 tbsp nourishing cream. Apply the mix onto the skin of the face and neck for 40 minutes and rinse it off on the expiry of this time.

3. For dry skin: the following nourishing blend is a real godsend for dry skin. Mix up oil rich cream, citrus and sea-buckthorn. Then put it on for 40 min and then rinse either.

Our skin suffers from dust, dirt and strong wind in autumn. Thus you should pay a lot of attention to the cleaning procedures that are better to be combined with its toning. The stated below advices can help you to cope with this problem.

Cleaning lotions for normal and oily skin:

• Squeeze juice of an aloe leaves and mix it with 2-3 tbsp of warm water. Rub the skin mornings and evenings daily with this lotion. Keep it in the fridge.

• Take 2 tea spoons of St. John’s wort flowers and 2 tea spoons dry leaves of red rose. Pour 3.5 oz 3% table vinegar into the herbal blend. Let if drew for 10-12 days in a glass pot hidden from the sun light. Filter the lotion after that period of time.

Now let’s see the toning facial masks.

• Apple mask goes well for the dry skin. Take a half of the apple, peel it off and grate. Then add 1 egg yolk, 1 tbsp honey, 1 tea spoon vegetable oil and 1 tea spoon ascorbic acid into it. Blend the ingredients thoroughly and apply the mask onto the face. Rinse it off with cool water in 15 minutes.

• If you have a sensitive skin, use this mask. Blend 1 vegetable marrow and wait until juice oozes out. Then put 1 egg yolk in to the juiced vegetable marrow and stir it. Apply a thick layer of the mixture onto the clean skin of the face and neck. And leave it for 20 minutes. Then rinse it off with cold water. Complete the procedure rubbing your skin with ice cube.

Choose the type of cleaning that fits your skin type best.

So, here are some recipes you can clean the face, neck and even décolleté area with:

Vegetable oil

There’s no doubt that it’s very wholesome to clean the skin using some vegetable oil: sunflower seed oil, corn oil, olive oil, peach oil, sesame oil or just seed oil.

You need 2 teaspoons of any oil, but warm it up a bit before the procedure. At first, wipe the skin with the cotton wool that is slightly oil-moistened. Then wet it abundantly and rub the skin bottom-up (start from the neck). Rinse it out in 2-3 minutes with cotton wool moistened with some herbal potion, tea, boiled water mixed with fruit juice.

Dairy

The skin can be well cleaned and whitened by sour milk, sour clotted milk and kefir all the year round. The rule is: the fatter and rougher the skin is, the more sour the dairy products should be used. Rub your skin with the sour-milk-wet cotton wool.

If your skin is dry and you feel some burning, rinse you face with water and apply some nourishing cream. If you have oily skin, keep a thin layer of sour milk on the face for the night.

Egg yolk

Egg yolks are globally helpful in skin cleaning from time to time. Take 1 yolk, 1-2 teaspoons vegetable oil and the same amount of some fruit juice. Stir the ingredients until you get a uniform mass. Wipe the skin with the mixture thoroughly and leave it for 2-3 min. Then rinse it off with cool water.

Bran

This procedure fits well to oily skin. Take the bran you’ll find: oat bran, rice bran or wheat bran. Grin some oat bran and add 1 tbsp water or boric acid to it. Then mix it carefully and keep in a glass jar. When you want to wash your face, just take 1 tbsp mixture, add some water or sour milk until you get the gruel that’s to be applied onto the skin. Clean the forehead, chin, cheeks, nose and neck with it. Rinse the “gruel” off in 5 min with warm water and then with cool salty/ acidulated water.

Honey

Put a thin layer of honey to the dry skin and massage the place you’ve applied it to with the finger pads until it solidifies. The rests should be taken away by the warm compress. As a result this procedure removes the dead skin cells.

Honey lotion

Take 1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon glycerin, 0.5 tbsp whiskey, 45 gr. borax and 0.3 glass of water. Mix up water with borax. Then blend honey and glycerin and add borax water. Put whiskey the last.

Or you can simply mix 1 tbsp honey with 2 glasses of warm water . This easy lotion is very wholesome. Honey water soothes the skin, cleans it and nourishes it well.

Rose extract

Pour almond/ peach oil into 3 cups of dry red rose leaves. Put it onto the water bath until the leaves discoloration. Keep the extract in the tightly closed jar and wipe the face 2 or 3 times a day. This extract cleans the skin perfectly, tones it up and rejuvenates.

Mint tincture

It goes totally well to dry skin. Grind 1 tbsp mint leaves and then pour 1 glass of boiling water into it. Let it draw for 30 min, then filter. This procedure is perfect as a thorough cleaning for porous or aging skin.

Vapor bath

Vapor is very favorable for a blood-vascular skin system; it intensifies blood circulation and perspiration. Under the vapor effect the skin cleans out of the dust, dead cells and so on. Vapor bath is recommended to the coarsened skin or oily acne skin.

Vapor baths are contra-indicated to women with inclination to blood vessels dilation, skin redness, hard heart diseases, bronchial asthma, and blood circulation disturbances.

Vapor bath procedure time limitation varies depending on the skin type:

• For dry skin – 3 minutes

• For normal skin – 5 minutes

• For combination skin – 7 minutes

• For oily skin – 8-10 minutes

Perform the procedure once a fortnight (oily skin), and once per 2-3 months (dry skin). If you skin is dry, apply a bit of nourishing cream before the vapor bath.

So, you’ll need a terry towel and appropriate pan or any other metal jar with water. Water temperature should be of 140 F. Rinse your face first and tie a headscarf on your head. Cover the head with the towel so that the pan (or whatever you have) will be covered as well. If it’s too hot, make a small air hole in your “house”.

Herbs are preferable for the vapor baths (1 tbsp herbal mixture for 1 procedure):

• Herbal mixture for dry skin – Melissa, dill, lavender, camomile, calendula, coltsfoot.

• Herbal mixture for oily skin – rosemary, sage, chamomile, lime blossom, brandy mint, oak bark, horse chestnut, willow & birch leaves.

Salt cleaning

To make a vapor bath more effective, perform a salt cleaning after it. Take some cream, table salt and soda. Dip the cotton wool in to the cream, then into salt and then into soda. Apply it onto the skin bottom-up. If you have oily skin, keep these components on the skin for some minutes.

I wish it to be tried by you! Share your results.

The main reason of the negative influence upon the face skin is an electrostatic field and free radicals around the computer. The electrostatic field affects the acid-base skin balance causing its xerosis and irritation. As for free radicals, they lead to the premature skin aging. No matter what type of face skin you have, its condition deteriorates significantly.

Normal skin becomes dry.

Dry skin turns into the horribly dry one.

Combination skin suffers from broadening and dirtying of pores. There also can emerge some irritation spots.

Oily skin gets a high secretion of sebum and acne.

Eyelid skin worsens the most. It looses the moisture and elasticity plaiting with small wrinkles.

To protect your skin and keep up with your computer job you should use the special creams, make up containing natural antioxidants and vitamins that neutralize negative free radicals.

• Apply some moistening and tonic cream every morning. It’ll set up the sort of protective barrier.

• Put a moistening gel or cream at the under-eyes-and-eyelid area. That will prevent the skin from water loss, under eyes “bruises” and swollen eyelids.

• Keep a thermal water vial (or just carbonated water) in your bag and regularly moisten the skin during the day. You can also use facial tissues.

• Make a freak for several minutes and turn away from the monitor to breathe some fresh air.

• Green tea is a rich source of antioxidants. 2-3 tea cups a day are enough to annihilate a harmful radiation impact.

• Citrus juices are possessed of antioxidants thanks to the high C-vitamin concentration.

• Protect yourself from inside: include into to your meals bilberries, garlic and spinach – they are record breakers at antioxidants content. Also: grapes, raspberries, strawberries, tomato, carrot, celery, cabbage, greens, soya.

• Vegetables and fruit are helpful as well as face masks. Tomato, strawberries and grapes magically restore the skin and saturate it with vitamins.

• Clean your skin thoroughly in evening and apply moistening and nutritious creams to restore the skin balance. Use carbonated water instead of ordinary water for washing. Also: tincture of sage, chamomile, mint or simply boiled water with a couple of lemon drops. If your skin is dry, apply moistening measures quite often. If its oily, opt for nutritious ones.

• Apply facial masks and compresses regularly.

• The following herbal extracts have a strong antioxidant effect: red grapes, winterbloom, sea-buckthorn, green tea, rosemary and pine bark. Try to choose make up products with these extract components. Add the oils of these herbs into your creams, masks, baths, etc.

Taking into consideration this advice, you can work with computer staying undamaged.

Your clever solutions should include the following face masks for combination skins.

Sandalwood and Milk mask:

Take 1 tbsp sandalwood powder and enough milk to make a fine paste. This mask cools off and tones the skin. The Sandalwood and Milk mask is perfect for Summer season.

Parsley and Honey mask:

Take a medium handful of fresh parsley and chop it finely. Cut the parsley until juice runs and then mix the parsley juice with 1 tbsp of clear honey. Apply the mixture to skin and leave on for 15-20 minutes. Then wash it off with cool water and pat face dry with a clean towel.

Honey and Oatmeal Mask:

Take 2 tbsp honey and 2 tsp oatmeal. Mix and apply. Leave it for 15-20 minutes and rinse it with cold water. This face mask can be used as a scrubbing measure.

Yogurt and Mint mask:

Take 1 tbsp yogurt and 2 tsp mint juice. Mix them together and put on the face skin. Yogurt is a great moisturizer, the result is soft and supple skin.

Fruits mask:

Fruit like watermelon, grapes, and bananas are great for combination skin as they have enough moisturizer to nourish your skin without making it oily. Fruit mask has great number of antioxidants and vitamins that help to repair and rejuvenate skin.

Rose mask:

Take 6 fresh rose petals, 2 tbsps rosewater, 1 tbsp natural yogurt, room temperature (not lowfat or non-fat), and 1 tbsp runny honey (to get honey runny, you can warm it in a microwave for a few seconds). Soak rose petals and then crush them in a bowl. Add the rosewater, yogurt and honey. Mix well and apply to the skin. Leave it on for 10 minutes. Rinse out.

Be bright! Be beautiful!

You can determine your skin types at home.

1. Clean your face with a skin liquid cleanser, then wash and clap dry.  Wait for one hour.

2. Make note where your skin senses “tight.”

3. Pressure a separate piece of facial tissue onto each area of your face: nose, chin, center of cheeks, outer cheeks, center of forehead and outer forehead.

4. Inspect each tissue and look for oily mark or flaky skin residue.

5. See results:

• If the whole tissue was oily that indicates an oily skin type.
• If there is oil on only some tissues ( T-zone, which is the center of forehead, nose, chin and center of cheeks)it means you have a combination skin type.
• Flaky residue on all papers,  without oily marks – or a tight feeling in the skin shows a dry skin type.
• No oil and no flaky on any parts of the cosmetic tissue indicates a normal skin type.