Apricot season in Volgograd. Summer residents offer ripe berries in the markets, and on the streets of the city the harvest is lying right under your feet. Why should the good be lost? After all, you can put juicy and crumpled fruits into action. In cosmetology, which many enterprising city dwellers do, preparing useful masks and balms from orange fruit at home. By the way, cheap and effective.
- Apricots are able not only to awaken your creative energy, but also to share their juiciness, transforming you beyond recognition. The thing is that this sunny fruit is a real storehouse of vitamins. It is rich in potassium and carotene, iron and vitamin C, phosphorus and sodium.
- Apricot quickly quenches the feeling of hunger and thirst, it normalizes metabolic processes in the body, is indispensable for low hemoglobin, vitamin deficiency, gastritis, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and cardiovascular system.
- The introduction of apricot into the diet will respond to you with steady attention, excellent memory, good mental performance and strong nerves.
- In cosmetology, apricot is firmly entrenched in the leaders. This miracle remedy accelerates hair growth, prevents hair loss and eliminates dandruff, fights brittle nails, peeling of the skin of the hands, and also accelerates the regeneration of dead layers of the skin of the face and neck and stimulates the production of elastin and collagen.
Cosmetology at home
First of all, we need to freshen up, rid the skin of excessive dryness or, conversely, grease, eliminate unnecessary wrinkles and increase elasticity.
Dry
We crumple the apricot, add the beaten egg white, apply to the face. After 20 minutes, wash off with cool water.
Moisturize
Mash a couple of apricots, add a spoonful of sour cream, whipped yolk and some vegetable oil. Apply to face, neck and décolleté. Rinse off after 20 minutes with room temperature water.
Bringing back youth
Mix a teaspoon of honey with 2 tablespoons of apricot juice. Add egg yolk and a tablespoon of semolina cooked in milk until sour cream is thick. Keep the mask for 15 minutes, then rinse with warm water.
We cleanse
We crush the seeds, form flour, add a couple of mashed fruits, a large spoonful of honey and a pinch of ground coffee to it. This scrub can be used on both body and face. It will leave your skin feeling velvety.
We nourish the hair
Chop 4-5 medium apricots. Mix the resulting gruel with 2 tablespoons of orange juice and add a little honey. Rub into the hair roots, spreading the rest of the product along their entire length. For the best effect, wrap your head in plastic and warm it with a towel. Do not keep the mask for more than 30 minutes!
Whiten hands
Grind 2 ripe apricots in a blender, add 50 g of butter and a teaspoon of lemon juice to them. Beat all ingredients until smooth. The cream can be stored in the refrigerator for a whole week and can be applied every day after you are done with the housework.