Features of washing with milk

Many women, despite the abundance of cosmetics in stores, prefer to care for their skin using exclusively folk recipes. One of the most common is washing with milk, which has its own characteristics.

Milk washing and baths have been known for their healing and rejuvenating effects since ancient times, when there were no creams or lotions. In today's cosmetic industry, this ingredient is widely used and serves as an additive in various skin and body care products. Therefore, the natural product will be very beneficial for the skin. Some combine folk recipes with modern cosmetics, while others prefer to make all the care on the basis of only natural products. Milk does an excellent job of nourishing the skin, saturating it with fatty acids and healthy proteins.

Washing your face with milk is beneficial for the following reasons:

• vitamin A makes the skin more elastic and elastic;
• vitamin B1 allows you to cope with irritations, especially those that have arisen on a nervous basis;
• vitamin B2 supplies the skin with oxygen, as a result of which all metabolic processes are improved;
• vitamin B12 - a participant in the regeneration processes, and this, in turn, makes the skin smooth and gives it a healthy color;
• vitamin D inhibits the aging process, thereby giving the skin tone;
• vitamin C acts as a healing agent, relieves inflammation, fights acne.

All this helps the skin to remain healthy and beautiful, nourishes, moisturizes, and protects from the harmful effects of the environment. In terms of harm, rather, milk in some cases does not provide any benefit as a food product. In cosmetic terms, it cannot cause obvious harm, the exception is intolerance to this product.

Besides, you should not wash your face with milk if you have some kind of skin disease. In this case, a doctor's consultation is required. One more condition: when using milk for cosmetic purposes, it must be natural, without any additives or preservatives.

Both cow's and goat's milk are beneficial for the skin as well. You can use both options. Ideally, it is good to buy a product from trusted people so that there is no doubt about its quality. If this is not possible, you can buy milk in the store, but the packaging should have the inscription “Milk”, and not some other one, for example, “Milk product”.

The shorter the shelf life of milk, the more likely it is natural. For cosmetic procedures, it is better to take milk with a higher fat content. Sour milk is very suitable for washing, as well as for making various masks. So if the product is sour, do not throw it away, it will still be very useful.

Cosmetologists recommend washing with fresh milk for those whose skin is prone to dryness, flaking.... For those who are worried about oily shine and enlarged pores, sour milk is more suitable. You don't have to wash your face in the full sense of the word. You can take a cotton pad, soak it in a fresh or acidic product (depending on your skin type) and rub your face, changing the pad several times. Before that make-up must be removed.

At the end of the procedure, the face should be rinsed with boiled water and the face should be only slightly dabbed with a towel. You can wipe your face in this way 3 times a week. Sour milk will help get rid of puffiness under the eyes. In this case, you need to moisten the cotton pads in the composition, place in the area under the eyes and lie down for half an hour.

Milk cubes will help to awaken the skin in the morning. To do this, milk in equal proportions is mixed with boiled water and poured into ice molds. Then they take it out and rub it on the face and neck in the morning. You can make a nourishing face mask. To do this, add a teaspoon of honey and whipped yolk to milk (¼ glass). Apply the composition on the face for half an hour, then rinse with warm water and pat dry with a towel.

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