Baths for hands.

Baths for hands.

With plantain.

Pour 1 tablespoon of crushed leaves of plantain 1 liter of water. Keep your hands in the bath for 10-15 minutes, then wipe them dry with a towel and grease with oily hand cream.

With camomile.

Pour 1 tablespoon of chamomile flowers 1 liter of water, put on fire and boil for 5 minutes. Pour a decoction in a bowl (temperature 40–42 ° С), lower your hands there for 15–20 minutes. After the procedure, rub a fat cream into the skin.

Tonic.

Pour 1 tablespoon of nettle leaves into 1 liter of water. Effectively used as a tonic hand bath. Keep your hands in the infusion for 10-15 minutes, then wipe it dry and grease with a nourishing hand cream.

Baths for hands

With sage

Pour 2 tablespoons of finely chopped sage leaves with 2 cups boiling water, leave to cool, then strain. To make baths. The duration of taking the bath is 10-15 minutes.

With celery

Celery root of medium size pour 1 liter of water and boil for 30 minutes. Do baths for hands.

Carrot oil

Pour 2 teaspoons of potato starch with 1 glass of water, stir, add 300 ml of warm water and hold hands in this water until the water cools down. After this procedure, grease your hands with carrot oil, which can be left overnight. Cook carrot oil as follows: grate a small red carrot on a fine grater, put in a cup, pour vegetable oil so that its level is 2 fingers above the carrot.

Hand masks

Thoroughly wash the fresh leaves of the mother and stepmother, chop them and mix 2 tablespoons of the pulp with 1 cup of milk.
It helps with dry and weathered skin.

Boil potatoes, rub through a sieve and mix with milk until gruel. Put slurry on hands for 10-15 minutes. Potato whitens the skin of the hands.

Grind the peeled potatoes with milk to a mushy state and add 8-10 drops of castor oil. Lay out the cooked hot mass on the fabric and wrap it around the hands. Keep the compress until the mass cools completely. Instead of potato mass, you can use ordinary potato paste. To prepare it, dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 0.5 cups of cold water and brew 1 liter of boiling water. Allow the mixture to cool slightly, add 10 drops of castor oil.

Hand creams

Pour 1 tablespoon of the leaves of plantain with 1 cup boiling water, leave for 8-9 hours, cover, then strain. Grind 50 g of butter with 1 teaspoon of honey, add 1 teaspoon of plantain infusion and mix everything thoroughly. Instead of plantain leaves, you can use chamomile flowers, a string of grass, calendula flowers.

Mix and melt the following ingredients in a water bath: 2 tablespoons of lanolin, 1.5 teaspoons of cocoa butter, 1 tablespoon of beeswax, 5 teaspoons of liquid paraffin, 1 teaspoon of almond oil. Slowly add 0.25 teaspoon of borax thoroughly mixed until complete dissolution with 2 tablespoons of water.