Face Packs and Body Scrubs - AyurvedaTreatment with Ayurveda medicines
Face Packs and Body Scrubs: The composition of dry ingredients of many
preparations, which can be used as herbal mud pack (mask) is given here.
These can be easily prepared by making a paste of Multani Mitti (clay
dug deep from pollution-free areas of Indian deserts. It contains minerals,
and rare trace elements that are not to be found at other places) and
herbs in 50 per cent glycerin. When homogenous, apply on the face and
the whole body for acne, pimples, freckles, and other dry type skin diseases,
where use of caustic soda containing soap and oily body care products
is contraindicated. These natural scrubs remove dead cells from the body
and make skin silky. These not only clean, they clarify, tone and tighten
the skin. They extract dirt from deep in the skin, provide nutrients,
and prevent or eliminate, black head and acne. These smoothen and moisturize
the skin so that fine lines and wrinkles disappear. They detoxify and
revitalizes skin for renewed firmness and vitality. They stimulate the
deepest layer of skin to make healthy new growth. The various types of
these products with or without clay are:
(i) Pearl facial Mask:
Take 10 gm Mukta Pishti, one piece of silver foil, and macerate them
in 50 per cent glycerine, sufficient enough to form a thick pastes. Add
one drop of Sandal oil. Mix and apply. When dry, clean with tissue paper
or towel.
Note: Both pearl and sandal oil have a cooling effect and should be used
in those cases where skin problems are due to heat in the body.
(ii) Brahmi Chandan Mask
: Mix fine powders of 4 gm Brahmi, 1 gm Vach, 1 gm Kuth, 1 gm Haldi,
1 gm Lal Chandan, 1 gm Chandan and 40 gm Multani mitti.
(iii) Cucmber Mask:
Take 20 ml fresh cucumber juice, 10 ml, carrot juice, 5 gm Sat papita,
one drop sowa oil in sufficient Multani mitti to form a paste.
(iv) Neem-Tulsi,Mask:
Take fine powders of 2 gm Neem bark, 2 gm Neem leaves, 1 ml Neem oil,5
gm Tulsi, 1 gm Tankan Bhasam, 1 gm Muskafoor in 40 gm Multani mitti.
(v) Orange Pack:
Take fine powders of 12.5 gm orange peel, 15 gm chick pea (besan) flour,
2.50 gm turmeric, orange fragrance 1 gm in 70 gm Multani mitti.
(vi) Rose Pack:
Take fine powder of 3 gm rose lpetals, 1 gm Tankan Bhasam, 14 gm starch,
20 gm Multani mitti, pink color and rose fragrance.
(vii) Almond Pack:
Pulverize 10 gm orange peel, 30 gm almond, 20 gm sandal powder, 10 gm
rose petals, 5 ml almond oil, 5 gm each of clove, cinnamon and nutmeg
and 5 drops of sandal oil in a blender. Add enough rose water to form
a thick past, apply on the body. When dry remove the scrubber with a cloth.
(viii) Bleaching Mask:
Multani mitti 30 gm, Dalchini powder a pinch, Meetha soda a pinch, milk
30 ml, rose water 5 ml and honey 5 ml. Make paste of all the ingredients
and apply.
(ix) Gandhak Mask:
A cleansing and tightening mask for cane suffers. Macerate 5 gm Gandhak
powder, 30 gm Multani Mitti, in white from one egg. Mix rose water in
above to form a paste, and apply.
Note: Some people are allergic to Gandhak, while other cannot tolerate
the smell.
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