A light blush, a fresh look, a tightened face contour and elastic skin in a minute – it’s real! And all this thanks not to a magic injection of beauty, but to a simple and affordable means of maintaining youthful skin – cosmetic ice.
Here are just some of the benefits of this morning procedure:
- A light ice massage improves blood flow, quickly tones the skin, evens out color, and gives radiance.
- After sleep, many may experience “creases” on their face. It is especially difficult to deal with them after 25 years, when the elasticity of the skin begins to decrease. Ice perfectly helps to cope with this problem, restores elasticity, removes “bruises”.
- After regular procedures, the thickness of the epidermis increases, the oval of the face becomes clearer, and puffiness disappears.
- Short-term cold and herbal ingredients reduce the oiliness of the skin, narrow the enlarged pores. Thanks to this, small rashes associated with the high activity of the sebaceous glands disappear.
- After rubbing the skin with ice, the effectiveness of moisturizing creams increases: applied to damp skin after massage, it is more easily absorbed, the skin remains elastic longer.
Due to its therapeutic and prophylactic properties, wiping the face with ice is effective at any age. An obvious plus of this cosmetic miracle is the ease of preparation and the ability to stock up for a whole week. You can freeze cosmetic ice from plain filtered or mineral water with the addition of various ingredients that are beneficial for your skin type. You can prepare frozen juice of cucumber, berries, fruits, or use a decoction of herbs or tea – the active substances will increase the healing effect. You can also wipe other areas of the body, such as the chin, neck and décolleté. True, you need to adhere to certain rules in order to avoid possible health problems.
- The skin cools quickly, the vessels close to the surface narrow, so contact with the cubes should be minimal, so as not to chill the facial nerves and blood vessels.
- Rubbing should last no more than one minute, with light and quick movements, lingering no more than 3 seconds in one place. Remember, the direction should be from the central part of the face to the periphery, strictly along the massage lines.
- Allergies to cold or ice products, such as honey, fever and colds, open wounds on the face, inflammation in the paranasal sinuses, nearby vessels and rosacea are contraindications for the use of cosmetic ice.
Cubes recipes
Herbal. Pour 1 tsp of a mixture of herbs with 0,5 liters of boiling water. Wait until it cools completely, strain and pour into molds.
Juice. Dense fruit juices are diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Watermelon, berry or cucumber juice does not need to be diluted. Half an hour after wiping your face with fruit cubes, you need to wash to wash off the remaining juice, and only then apply the cream.
Ingredients for ice according to skin type
Dry skin: milk, cream, honey, sea buckthorn, rosehip, hawthorn, oatmeal, melon.
Normal skin: sage, mint, strawberry, rice water, watermelon juice.
Oily skin: calendula, chamomile, oak bark, St. John’s wort, apple juice, lemon, aloe.