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Replace the traditional cosmetics with one made by yourself. It will cost you cheaper than creams, gels and masks in stylish tubes. Besides these creams don’t contain conservative substances and emulgators.

Tomato.
In cosmetology tomatoes can be used as a fine fruit remedy for peeling. Tomato juice contains a great amount of organic acids, which dissolve the outer dead skin layer, thus allowing the new young skin to appear and to breath.

Tomato mask. Put some pieces of tomato or tomato juice on your face for 25-30 minutes. Then wash your face with warm and then with cold water. It is recommended for oily skin with large pores.

Nourishing tomato cream. Dissolve one dessertspoon of lanoline under steam, add a dessertspoon of oatmeal or flakes pounded to powder. Then mix it thoroughly and add one spoon of tomato juice. Shake the cream up to homogeneous mass and keep it in the fridge.

Cucumbers.
Fresh cucumber juice is an ideal remedy for cleansing if your skin is tender. It effectively removes the oils, refreshes your face and narrows the pores.

Cucumber mask. Put slices of cucumber on your face for 20 minutes and cover it with cotton napkin, otherwise the pieces of cucumber will dry too quickly.

One more unusual receipt - cucumber powder for oily skin. It masks unpleasant oily luster and has medicinal effect. Cucumber and rice powder absorbs the excess of oils, doesn’t penetrate into the pores, thus decreasing blackheads and different inflammations.

Cucumber powder. Pound some cucumber seeds and mix it with rice powder. You can store it for a long time.

Grapes.
Grapes juice stimulates metabolism in the skin and contributes to its moistening. If you cleanse the skin of your face, neck and hands with grapes juice it will have a good cosmetic effect. Cleanse your skin with grapes juice and after 10-15 minutes wash the skin with warm water.

Pears.
Pear mask. Pear juice is good for any type of the skin. Pear mask and lotion make the skin smooth, elastic and without pores. Pound a pear and put this mixture on your face for 20 minutes. After that wash your face with warm and then with cold water.

Carrot.
Carrot masks. Nourishing vitamin mask made of carrot juice and oat flour or wheat is good for any type of the skin. The mask is put on the clean skin for 20 minutes. Then wash it with cold water. The oily skin is cleansed of oils and disinfected. The dry skin is nourished with vitamins and minerals. We recommend using the carrot mask only in the evening because the skin may be colored. This pigment is not stable but bright.

Raspberry.
Raspberry juice cleans, moistens, refreshes and nourishes the tired skin.

Raspberry mask. If you have dry skin, mix raspberry juice with a yolk and cream or sour cream. If your skin is oily, mix raspberry with an egg white and some rice powder and then put this mixture on your face for 20 minutes. After that wash it with warm water. For nourishing mask raspberries are mixed with honey in equal proportion. You can also put a warming compress on your mask.

Apples.
You can use the pieces of apple for massaging your skin.

Apple massage. Cleanse your face and neck and then the whole body with the halves of the apple. This massage is very good for those who are more than 30. It is the age when your skin begins to loose its elasticity and smoothness and it needs much vitamin C. Apple juice has as much ascorbic acid as lemons, oranges and tangerines do. Besides due to apple pectines, these procedures cleanse the skin from harmful toxic substances.

Apple mask. Boil an apple with a little amount of milk or bake it. Put warm mixture on your face for 30 minutes and then wash it with cool water.

Strawberry.
Strawberry mask. This mask is good for dry, withering skin. Put the mask on your face for 20 minutes or water the napkins with strawberry juice and put them on the face. You can also add a yolk, honey and cream (if your skin in normal or dry) or an egg white (if your skin is oily)

A remedy for those who are growing bald. Make infusion of strawberry leaves in the proportion 1:10 and take one spoon of it 3 or 4 times a week.

Currants.
Currant mask. Currant juice mixed with water (1:1) is used for cleaning oily skin. If you have fading oily skin, make a mixture of red currant berries and fresh juice and put it on your face for 20 minutes. Before making currant mask dry and normal skin should be oiled with nourished cream. These masks nourish your skin and narrow pores.

Watermelon.
Watermelon juice is used both for dry and oily blackhead skin.

Watermelon mask. The pulp of watermelon or its juice is put on the face for 20 minutes. Then it is washed with warm water. If your skin has turned red or sun burnt watermelon and cucumber masks are very effective. Put them on the skin for 20 minutes.

The nature secrets.

Garlic volatile oils have disinfectant effect and help to get rid of pimples. Put the garlic juice on the pimples. Of course it has unpleasant odor but its effect is so great that it is worth suffering. After this mask pimples dry and disappear. To get garlic juice is quite easy: take a garlic and press the juice.
Those who want to have good complexion should take any fruit, cut it to pieces and put them on the face for 15-20 minutes.

The effect of different fruit on your skin: bananas smooth it out, red bilberry soften and nourish, peaches smooth out and soften, lemon whitens and narrows pores (it’s better to add some other juice into lemon)

It is interesting to know that eating many grapes you can slow down the process of aging because this fruit contains much resveratrol – the substance, which stimulates the producing of collagen. It is collagen that makes out skin stay elastic for a long time and prevents it from appearing wrinkles.

Do you know why Katherine Zeta Johns has a white-snow smile? Because the star knows the family secret: from time to time she cleans her teeth with strawberry. Katherine put a strawberry on her toothbrush instead of toothpaste. Meanwhile, British scientists are maturing the idea of developing genetically modified strawberry, which would prevent caries.