Steaming is very beneficial for the face and organic skin care especially to widen up the clogged pores and to soften the skin. Steaming helps you to get rid of the facial fat, excess fluids, and the harmful impurities also there is body lotions made from cocoa and honey for your skin.
Steaming also helps in removing the blackheads which accumulate in great deal near the area of the nose and the chin. Steaming is the best way to get rid of them and have a clean skin in a perfect way.
Some notice for steaming your face
(1) Before steaming your face you should wash your face well and remove all the makeup stuff…then cover your hair with a towel or a scarf to avoid the steam from getting into your hair and to concentrate the steam over the skin of your face.
(2) After finishing the steam bath – which should last for 10 to 11 minutes – dry your face well then apply the creams and the therapeutic stuff which are prepared for making facial masks if needed … if you did not make the beauty masks… you should wash your face with cold water.
(3) If your skin type is dry it’s better to use the cold cream as for the fatty skin will provide the finishing effect to the skin while for the normal skin it should be rubbed with the rosewater only, and in the first two cases be careful to apply the creams for 10 minutes so that it immerse in the skin and the skin to become saturated with it.
(4) In case, the skin was infected with any inflammations, acnes or dark spots you should use the medicine or the special ointment for such cases after finishing the steam bath in which all the clogged pores becomes wide and apt for applying these medical stuff.
(5) After removing the therapeutic stuff, the creams, or the masks beauty masks, it’s better to use pores astringent lotion in order to close the pores of the skin, as it used to be before having the steam bath, you may also use the beautification milk in order to get a softer skin, you may as well use cold water or ice.
After finishing the previous steps avoid putting any makeup stuff and leave it and give it enough time to help the skin to rest and then you can use the makeup slightly.
The directions of steaming your face
• Put an appropriate quantity of water in a wide vessel and it should not be very deep then cover the vessel and put it on the stove and bring it to boil.
• Then drop some herbs that suit the type of your skin (for the normal and the fatty skin put the herbs of the rose leaves and the chamomile as for the dry skin the lemon flower or the linden).
• Low down the stove and leave it to boil in low temperature for 10 minutes in order to let the herbs to extract the effective stuff as much as possible.
• Take the vessel from the stove then expose your face to the steam carefully(for 5 to 10 minutes and that is in case the type of your skin is normal or fatty, but if the type of your skin is dry expose your face only for 3 to 5 minutes) .
It would be better to rub the face with the apple cider vinegar then rinse it with perfumed warm water with rosewater so the skin get utilized greatly.
The most preferable prescribed mask for the princesses and the beautiful ladies in the past.
Ingredient:
1- 4 tablespoons white flour
2- 2 tablespoons honey
3- 2 to 3 tablespoon milk
The directions and the way of using
Add the honey and the flour to appropriate quantity of milk in order to make dough. Then apply that dough over your face for 30 minutes then rinse your face with water.
That was one of the old prescriptions for skin care which was well known to be used among the princesses and the beautiful ladies in the past, as It benefits the skin in different ways, it soothes the skin, and resists skin dryness, and protects from the appearance of the wrinkles also its useful for the women who are forced to be exposed to the harmful sun rays for long time.
Ingredient:
1- 2 tablespoon honey
2- 1 tablespoon almond oil
The directions and the way of using
Mix the Ingredients with your fingertips in a vessel then rubdown through the skin of the face and the neck in circular movement. Rub the skin for 3 minutes. After that leave the mixture over the skin for 25 minutes then rinse the face with cold water.
This mask works on getting rid of the dead cells and putridity that lays in the skin layers …and it’s useful especially for the women who suffer from acnes and wide pores, and for those who have thick rough skin.