The most useful beauty treatments

In order to be always in good shape, look great with a fresh and pleasant complexion, you need to take care of the health of the skin, especially in winter. For you the most useful treatments.

1. Packs

The most common cosmetic practice apply hot and cold compresses. A cold compress - a great tonic, improves the complexion. It is used also as the final procedure after facial cleansing, masks, massage.

Cold compresses great increase in the tone of a person lethargic, sagging skin of the face and neck. How correctly to make a cold compress? It is necessary to take a towel, the best terry cloth or folded in two or three layers in the form of long strips and moisten in very cold water (good idea to add to the water ice).

Then wrap lightly squeeze and quickly put on your face so that he fell to the middle of the face, one half covered one cheek, the other - the other. Holding the hands of a cold compress can not be - it will happen warming. The residence time of a cold compress on the face - a few seconds.

A hot compress causes vasodilation and then, increases blood flow to the skin, muscle relaxant, removes dust from the surface of the skin and scales. Therefore, hot packs recommended before applying the mask, massage. Hot compresses are widely used in dry, limp, flabby skin.

But they are contraindicated in pustules, blackheads, redness and inflammation of the skin. Before applying, hot compress should be thoroughly cleaned skin. Then take a towel, fold it in two or three layers and apply on face for 15-20 minutes, in the same way as a cold compress.

During these 15-20 minutes as cooling, compresses again dipped in hot water. Very useful hot herbal compresses. For example, a decoction of chamomile, lime blossom, sage, succession. Perfectly tones skin combination of hot and cold compresses.

2. Steam Bath

Effect of steam on the skin is very large. First, it affects numerous nerve endings located in the skin. Under the action of a pair of sharply expanding blood vessels and skin pores, soften and rejected skin flakes. The skin is cleansed also from the sebaceous and sweat secretions soften cork plugging the ducts of the sebaceous glands.

How to prevent acne?

In addition, steam bath promotes the resorption of inflammatory cells and seals. Steam bath is recommended for oily, porous skin, as well as acne and "black spots". If you have dry skin of the face with a steam bath should not be. After the steam bath the skin is clean, smooth, elastic. But this procedure is not only cleanses the skin, it prepares it for other treatments: cleaning, massage. Prepare a steam bath at home is not difficult.

To do this, fill a small saucepan with boiling water (better to use a decoction of herbs) and put on the table. Head tilted over a saucepan and cover with a large towel. Duration baths - 10-15 minutes. Then wash the face with cold water or wipe with astringent lotion. Go out after a steam bath can only after 15-20 minutes

3. Face Cleansing

If you spot acne and "black spots" after the steam bath is necessary to clean the face. It must be remembered that this in no case can not be done if the face has inflamed or festering pimples. After the steam bath the skin should be wiped with a damp and then a dry swab.

Then thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water, wipe them with cologne and the ends of the fingers, wrap with sterile gauze, squeeze acne. To loosen the cork, the skin should be several times during cleaning wipe the 3-percent hydrogen peroxide solution.

Use during cleaning alcoholic solutions should not be - it leads to pore contraction, thereby making it difficult cleaning. After the procedure oily skin rubbed with a 2-percent solution of salicylic acid, normal skin - 3 percent solution of alum.

To clean the face, you can apply a special procedure of salt. With it are usually removed the "black spots". In continuation of this theme, we will tell you what are masks that should be applied after the first of these procedures. But more about that next time.

Give your hair healthy

To understand what this shampoo does not suit you, only one or two times of application, but in order to come to the conclusion that this shampoo is just for you - you need to use it regularly for at least several weeks. In addition, a good shampoo should remove the static electricity from the hair, and most importantly - to compensate for protein, moisture and nutrients.

The claim that from time to time need to change shampoo - Myth: If you picked yourself a shampoo that you are completely satisfied, change it to another is only in the event of changes in the state of your hair.

After using the shampoo is recommended to apply on the hair rinse.

It performs several functions: drying and facilitates combing, gives the hair elasticity. It is best to use a shampoo and conditioner one brand - they correspond to each other in composition and action of the rinse aid most effectively complements the shampoo.

The combination of shampoo and a conditioner of different lines does not bring benefits to hair and in some cases may even lead to allergic reactions. Often found in the shampoo conditioner 2 in 1, but this "march" option: use a separate rinse is much more effective.

To repair damaged hair are special tools for rapid treatment - they are "smooth" the hair, providing restorative and nourishing effect on the hair follicle and are designed for quick and easy restoration action. For a long, full and deep therapeutic effect, there are masks - they are applied to the hair for 15-20 minutes 1-2 times a week.

For hair care foregoing would be sufficient. But when we talk about leaving, we mean healthy hair with certain characteristics, but when these features pass reasonable limits and become a problem - it's time to start talking about a remedy.

Of all the problems with the hair dandruff - a problem that occurs most frequently

To date, the basic version of dandruff is infectious, and the pathogen is known - pathogenic fungus. He is always there on the scalp in the form of spores, but as soon as the appropriate conditions for its rapid reproduction, and it can be stressful, immune system disorders, poor nutrition, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, hormonal shift.

The fungus enters the active state. Changing cycle of skin cells: Instead of the month the entire cycle is reduced to one week. The result is a mass of sticky, often fatty whitish-yellowish scales, the amount of which far exceeds the norm, why, and becomes visible to the naked eye. But if, in addition, there is the itching of the scalp, pockets of redness on the scalp - it is the symptoms of seborrhea.

It is important to distinguish between these two skin problems: If dandruff can be controlled cosmetics, seborrhea is treated. Seborrhea called a skin disease that is characterized by excessive saloobrazovaniya and caused various disorders in the body, hormonal changes, hereditary predisposition, intoxication and others.

Determine which of the problems occurred you can own: dandruff usually appears as small whitish scales, scales with seborrhea is hard, yellow, and so large that through one flake can germinate 2-3 hair. Do not try to treat seborrhea camostoyatelno - treatment should appoint an expert!

Dandruff is rarely the sole problem of hair: dry hair is usually accompanied by dry dandruff, but fat - fat. Therefore, you need to deal with several problems at the same time, t. E. Integrated tools are needed.

It is important to understand that hair care, as well as care for any other part of the body - is a lifelong activity. You can not look after hair month or two, and then forget about it, hoping that they are now until the end of life will be healthy. Be consistent and do not leave your hair without a care.

The company Beiersdorf, producing a series of NIVEA Hair Care, carefully studying the problems of the hair and is constantly developing new tools for optimal efficiency and user-friendly hair care. In October 2002, it is launching a series of anti-dandruff for dry or damaged hair NIVEA Hair Care, which includes Shampoo, Conditioner and Treatment mask.