The advantage of fermented milk products is indisputable. Dairies produce the mass of various cottage cheeses, yogurts, kefirs, curdled milks which are in great demand. But many people don't even guess that simple whey which turns out in the course of their preparation is much more useful and surpasses some of these products in vitamin structure.
Useful properties of serum
Serum contains a lot of milk protein and lecithin. About 200 names of vitamins of group C, A, E, B, PP, nutrient elements, biologically active agents necessary for the person are its part. And, of course, necessary minerals, among them calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, phosphorus.
Useful properties of serum don't depend on where it is prepared – on dairy plant or in house conditions. The most useful product is a serum from a fresh milk, at once from a goat or a cow, but when it is absent, usual pasteurized perfectly will approach.
How to make house whey
Take a fresh milk, pour out in a pan or a big bowl, put to the warm place for day that it turned sour and became curdled milk. Then put a saucepan with liquid on slow fire and bring to the boil.
Don't allow the turned sour milk to begin to boil, otherwise cottage cheese won't turn out.
Remove a pan from fire at once as on a surface cottage cheese flakes will appear. Carefully cool liquid. Take the gauze put in four layers and filter the cooled-down weight. In a gauze there will be a cottage cheese, and whey will be filtered in the prepared capacity. There is one more instant way of whey. Take one lemon, wring out from it juice. Put to boil one liter of milk. As soon as begins to begin to boil, pour in it in lemon juice, very quickly mix everything and at once remove from a plate. The same as in the first way, separate cottage cheese from liquid.
The serum prepared in such a way has an additional reserve of vitamin C.
Cosmetic properties of whey
Beauticians use serum for preparation of various creams, shampoos, balms, masks for hair for a long time. In national cosmetology the recipes with serum are used very actively too, and the result doesn't keep itself waiting. For a skin nourishment of the face and a neck daily wipe it with the cotton pad moistened with warm serum. For clarification of freckled skin mix fat cottage cheese (10-15%) and serum in a proportion 1 to 1. It is necessary to do such compress every other day 10 times. Regular application of such bleaching allows to achieve good result. Application of whey for hair is useful – they become silky, their volume increases. At such diseases of head skin as seborrhea, weakening of a root system, treatment of whey brings good results. Make a mask: take fresh serum, add to it broth of a root of a burdock and the grated onions. This structure wash out hair, put on a warm cap the head and leave for 30 minutes for a warming up.