The Indian cosmetology knows many methods of application of natural means for personal care. East beauties for centuries used all the best that the nature, in various combinations gives to the person to clean, strengthen and revitalize skin, hair and nails. To this day many Hindu and Egyptians do not recognize factory ukhodovy means, giving preference to natural cosmetics. About beauty of their skin and a hair legends go, and the most well-groomed Europeans can envy their long youth and a magnificent maturity. The secret of the Indian cosmetics consists in use of natural ingredients, in particular — essential oils. Let's learn with you more about the legendariest of essential oils today — santalaceous: its useful properties, value and origin.
Essential oils a set, and santalaceous among them consider elite. Santalaceous extract is obliged to such honors by the properties. The main active ingredient of santalaceous oil — santalol.
Santalol is an alcohol which is not dissolved in water, but is dissolved in ethanol and natural oils. Content of this alcohol in a sandal-wood tree — nearly 90%. Santalol has the expressed antibacterial, antiseptic properties, eliminates inflammations.
Santalaceous extract has expectorant effect. To them the SARS, bronchitis, rhinitises, sinusitis, pneumonia, a word — all respiratory system treat.
This valuable air is applied both in cosmetology, and in medicine. Santalaceous air found application in meditations and religious practices as the calming substance. Because of high concentration of a santalol in oil it is used only in the divorced look.
Santalaceous extract is implicated in creams, oils and lotions, it is added to curative drinks and masks.
It has the rejuvenating effect on skin — being the moisturizing cream mixed with, reduces a grid of a small crow's-feet, smoothes and tightens skin, clarifies age pigmentation. Santalaceous oil saves from pimples and teenagers, and adults. It reduces irritation, disinfects and dries the inflamed skin, improves complexion. Acne rash, eczema and even psoriasis — it remedy can cope with many problems.
Important! This extract — fine antiseptics, but is better to use it according to the recommendation of the doctor, but not as self-treatment. Serious viral diseases cannot be cured without complex therapy so do not hope only for a sandal-wood tree.
If you had a fungus of nails, buy a sandal-wood tree and use it, all disputes will not be destroyed yet. Hypostases and bags under eyes leave if to add to a skin bottle for washing several drops of santalaceous oil.
Sandal-wood tree — powerful aphrodisiac. Using it as additive to massage lotions, in aromalamps and inhalers, it is possible to raise a libido and to improve male potency. Problems of gynecologic and urological character treat santalaceous air not one century too.
It has the weakening effect, under its action the person calms down. In stressful situations it is useful to have this means at itself not to use chemical medicines. That hair became strong and brilliant, apply a sandal-wood tree on a crest with rare teeths and brush the hair with it.
Santalaceous oil not only saves from split ends — its advantage consists also in improvement of blood circulation of head skin and strengthening of hair bulbs. Dry dandruff and irritation will leave if to add couple of drops of this oil to shampoo or the conditioner.
It is necessary to use santalaceous air only in mixes as it very concentrated and can burn skin. Add a sandal-wood tree to ready cosmetics and mineral oils. Do of it face packs and a hair and also rub in skin and nails for strengthening and improvement of color.
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The simplest recipe is intended for smoothing of wrinkles around eyes and elimination of bags under eyes.
For preparation of this means take pink air and a sandal-wood tree in proportions 1:1, apply the turned-out mix to skin and mass finger-tips before partial absorption. Surplus of oils can be removed a napkin, and it is possible to leave before full absorption. To narrow pores on a face and to get rid of an acne, use the following compounding with essential oil of a sandal-wood tree. Mix four drops of oil with two tablespoons of green clay and one pounded tablet of activated carbon.
The received mix will be dense, dilute it with strong black tea to consistence of dense sour cream and apply to skin. Sustain a mask twenty minutes and wash away the cool water acidified by lemon juice.
Through four-five procedures the acne rash almost completely vanishes. You carry out such procedures not more often than two times a week.
Whether you know? For the first time in the history of mankind santalaceous oil is mentioned in the Egyptian and ancient Aramaic texts written in Sanskrit. It means that the history of its application contains more than four thousand years.
The raised office of skin fat will stop mix of a sandal-wood tree and yeast. Mix 15 g of pounded beer yeast with ten drops of a sandal-wood tree and the same as in the previous recipe, part with the distilled water to a smetanoobrazny state. The mask can put with fingers, and it is possible to use a rake pallet. A mask sustain half an hour on skin, and then wash away strong camomile broth.
Dry skin will be calmed and will moistened by a creamy and cucumber mask. In this recipe the uniformity is important — ingredients mix not manually, and in the blender. In a bowl put the peeled cucumber and three tablespoons of heavy cream.
After ingredients are shaken up, enter into them ten drops of santalaceous oil. Skin needs previously to be cleaned from decorative cosmetics and to steam out. Put a mask with a continuous layer, sustain forty minutes and remove a cotton pad.
Lifting effect of santalaceous oil in this recipe strengthens starch. The mask will be suitable for the growing old skin with early signs of withering. Mix two tablespoons of starch with five tablespoons of fat sour cream and add ten drops of essential oil.
Leave a mask on skin for forty minutes — perhaps, the feeling of strong tightening will appear. Do not worry, and has to be. Wash away a starched mask weak rice broth.
It will be simplest to add santalaceous extract to shampoo. You for certain wash the head time in two-three days. Such frequency is just acceptable for santalaceous therapy. Four drops of oil on each 100 ml of shampoo — make foam it with water and wash the head as usual.
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It is admissible to add air to balm, the proportion is only less — three drops on 100 ml.
The restoring masks with santalaceous oil — ambulance for hair. They become on an oily base. Take three drops of almond, santalaceous oil and jojoba oil.
Important! Santalaceous air is not dissolved in water. If you plan to take an aromatic bath, at first mix it with salt, milk or honey that oil spots did not settle on your skin in primary concentrated look.
Add three tablespoons of not refined olive oil, properly mix everything and apply a mask to head skin and to locks on all length of hair. Roll up hair food wrap or put on a bathing hat. From above wrap up the head with a towel — hair have to be in heat. Wait forty minutes, then wash away oils with shampoo.
The sandal-wood tree perfectly fits into nutritious masks. Such recipe is good for dark hair as light it can give a honey shade. Take cognac and honey — on a tablespoon. Add five drops of santalaceous oil, vent mix.
Just as in the previous recipe, put a mask on all length of hair, whenever possible its vmassiruyta head skin and cover the head with food wrap or a bathing hat.
You carry out such restoring procedures not more often than two times a week. If desired rinse hair after washing with santalaceous water — bring five drops of oil on liter of hardly warm water.
If regularly to rub the sandal-wood tree mixed with olive air in a proportion 1:1 in a nail plate, nails will cease to crumble and exfoliate. Especially positively such therapy influences the nails injured by gel polish and building. Rub in the nails such mask twice a week five minutes — how many the nail plate will absorb. Saves a sandal-wood tree not only from cosmetic problems with nails, but also from fungal defeats.
This air destroys fungus disputes for a month of constant use and the nail affected with a fungus begins to be replaced with a healthy plate.
It is possible to use santalaceous extract for massage only in combination with other oils and lotions bases. If to speak about medical massages, this extract is useful to those who have problems with kidneys, an urinary system and lumbar area of a back.
On thirty drops of base oil eight drops of a sandal-wood tree undertake, and massage is carried out according to the standard scheme. Still this air can be applied to massage of a breast at catarrhal diseases.
Whether you know? On extracting hundred liters of oil, the whole ton of wood leaves. This air extract from wood shaving in the difficult way of a steam otgonka which lasts 72 hours, at the same time age of a tree which goes for processing, there have to be not less than 30 years — such trees are considered as adults and give extract with the richest aroma.
It is impossible to underestimate importance of erotic massage, and the sandal-wood tree in it is used as the warming and exciting aroma. It just as at medical massage, is added to a basis, but the dose is reduced twice and massage is carried out in any order.
Both aromalamps, and enriched with this air of a bathtub affect the person soothingly — it is possible to use santalaceous oil often. It is registered even by psychologists — the warm aroma weakens, defuses tensions and disturbing states.
The most known and recognizable east smell subdues impulsiveness and aggression, fixes problems with a dream.
It hypoallergenic and is recognized long ago the safest and unostentatious among therapeutic aromas therefore with it it is possible to leave an inhaler for the night and to turn on the aromalamp just before a dream (5-7 drops on the room of the average sizes).
Bathtubs influence all organism, but here an important role is played also by water temperature. The cool bathtub tones up and helps to concentrate, warm — removes a muscular tone and tunes into rest.
That air was dissolved in water, it is necessary to mix it with emulsifier — honey, milk. It is possible to impregnate with a sandal-wood tree bath salt.
Santalaceous extract — expensive extract as for its production a lot of wood is used, and sandalwoods are brought in category of disappearing. Therefore the risk is high upon purchase to run into a fake.
There are several right tests which will show how good product you bought. First, the smell of the real air not importunate, not sharp is also not too expressed.
It is not aggressive, you will feel it more, than will apprehend on a smell, and santalaceous oil as herbs, warm wood and sealing wax smells. Secondly, this air very flying.
If to apply couple of drops on a piece of paper, in ten minutes they will evaporate absolutely, or will leave hardly noticeable mark. Thirdly, such extract one-color.
Important! Santalaceous extract improves work of kidneys, but to those who has chronic diseases of nephrological character, it will not suit. Consult with the doctor before beginning medical massages in lumbar area.
Liquid in a bubble should not be different shades and especially not to be stratified on components. Santalaceous extract dense, almost viscous, has saturated-yellow color.
Santalaceous oil resinous therefore loves heat. It can quietly be stored at temperatures from +15 °C to +40 °C. And, if extract was made of quality raw materials, then it can be stored for years and decades, only becoming better, like good wine.
It is necessary to store air in the dark even if it is poured in a dark bottle. The plastic container with plastic lids is not suitable for storage — glass bottles with the real traffic jams are necessary.
The sandal-wood tree is contraindicated only to pregnant women and people who have an individual intolerance. How to check it? To apply an oil droplet in mix with base on a bend of an elbow and to wait half an hour.
If the site of skin did not redden, did not become covered by rash and did not begin to burn down, air can use. That to precautions, the sandal-wood tree is recognized by World Health Organization the safest essential oil, but it is impossible to apply it in the concentrated look inside — it pozhzht mucous. It is also necessary to watch that air did not get into eyes and that to it the small child as it smells pleasantly did not reach and on ignorance it can be drunk.
Sandalwood extract bears not the first millennium to people beauty and health. This oil is unique on the properties as treats, calms and restores.
It is difficult to overestimate its advantage in cosmetology — santalaceous oil successfully replaces medical and ukhodovy cosmetics, and in traditional medicine the anti-inflammatory and antibacterial means is used as antiseptics.
Knowing as it is correct to use santalaceous extract, it is possible to prolong the youth and to keep mature beauty for many years.
Be attentive when choosing this product — trust only large producers and remember those simple signs which will help you to distinguish a clean natural product from a fake.