Folk beauty recipes are the most popular. After all, to prepare them, you just need to open the refrigerator and get the food you need. But, is everything natural healthy? Woman’s Day found out the pros and cons of home cosmetics.
Homemade cosmetics recipes
Cons
Foods can cause allergies. Lovers of natural cosmetics often become visitors to allergists. The gifts of nature, giving their beneficial substances to the skin, sometimes cause inflammation, redness and even provoke the appearance of acne.
Natural foods are not equally good for everyone. The whipped protein mask is great for tightening and tightening pores. But it is suitable for oily and combination skin, but if you apply protein to dry skin, peeling and redness cannot be avoided. A salt-based scrub can cause inflammation that will take a long time to fight in a beautician’s office. And it is worth slightly overexposing the carrot mask, and the face, instead of moisturizing and the effect of a light tan, will acquire a nasty yellow tint for a long time.
Environment is bad for quality. It was at the time of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers that vegetables were ecologically clean and natural. Not powdered milk, but steamed, not sprinkled apples and straight from the tree in the garden. Can we now reliably find out how natural the apple that we plan to put on the mask is?
Pros
There are no additives in natural cosmetics. For example, preservatives that allow ready-made cosmetics to last for a long time. As well as dyes, fragrances, etc.
The composition is always known. We choose the ingredients ourselves, while some unscrupulous manufacturers can sometimes hide from us some of the information about the true composition of their cosmetics.