How to wipe your face with ice cubes

Ice is considered to be an effective tonic. It easily removes dark circles and bags under the eyes, fights premature wrinkles, and gives the skin a healthy look. Cosmetic ice can be prepared from seasonal berries and fruits, vegetables, infusions of medicinal plants, green and black tea. However, the procedure includes its own characteristics, which are important to know. Consider the technology of wiping the skin with ice, highlight the popular recipes for its preparation.

Ice action

1. After rubbing the skin with cosmetic ice, the production of elastin and collagen fibers is accelerated, the dermis is saturated with hyaluron, and fine wrinkles are smoothed out.
2. As the ice begins to melt during use, the water penetrates deep into the skin and saturates the cells with moisture. Tissues receive enough oxygen, as a result of which the face looks fresh, rested.
3. The procedure for treating the epidermis with cosmetic ice helps to make the face dull and smooth. Thanks to the effects of cold, the pores are narrowed, the activity of the sebaceous glands is normalized, and blood circulation improves.
4. The ice has whitening properties, as a result of which many girls use it in the fight against freckles and age spots.

Contraindications

1. If during the anti-aging procedures you feel discomfort, immediately stop the procedure. Unpleasant sensations include itching, burning, pain, tingling. A similar feature is observed in people with hypersensitivity, we recommend finding a different way of rejuvenation.
2. You can not rub the skin with ice on those girls whose face skin is covered with a rash. The same applies to the presence of purulent inflammation, deep cuts or scratches, any inflammatory processes.
3. People whose pores are greatly expanded, it is not recommended to carry out the procedure more often than 1 time in 5 days. In this case, it is necessary to constantly monitor the reaction of the skin, deep creases can form on it.
4. You can not wipe the skin with cosmetic ice for those who suffer from rosacea. Also carefully inspect the dermis for the presence of vessels and capillaries located close to the surface, they should not be.
5. Beauticians unanimously say that rubbing with ice cubes is not recommended in the cold season. If you decide to start therapy in the fall and winter, carry out the procedure 2-3 hours before going out.

Face wipe with cosmetic ice

1. To begin with, wipe the skin of the cheeks with light circular movements, then go down to the nasolabial folds, treating them in a straight line. Try not to linger at one point for longer than 3 seconds.
2. Now lower the ice to the middle of the chin, treat it in a circular motion, then rise along the jaw to the earlobes. Perform manipulations 4 times, proceed to the next step.
3. Wipe the area around the lips, again move to the cheeks and the area under the eyes. Grab the bridge of your nose while treating areas alternately.
4. Next, lead the ice cube from the nose to the cheekbones and vice versa, repeat the action 6 times. Once again, touch the eye area, moving from the outer corner to the inner, then in the opposite direction.
5. The forehead is last processed, smooth it from temple to temple for 5 seconds. Then put the ice on one eyebrow, move to the hairline, then down again (zigzag movements).
6. Complete the procedure by wiping the face in a chaotic manner. If there is time, repeat the action 2-3 more times with an interval of a quarter of an hour.

Cosmetic Ice Recipes

All of these formulations are distinguished by the availability of components.Each hostess can easily prepare ice at home.

1. Grapefruit. Cut the peel from a citrus fruit, and chop the fruit into slices and pass through a meat grinder (you can use a blender). Rub the zest on a fine grater, mix with porridge. Add 10 ml. olive oil, pack in bags, freeze.
2. Oak bark. Get oak bark at the pharmacy, take 45 gr. plants and fill it with hot water in a ratio of 1: 4. After 30 minutes, pass the infusion through cheesecloth. Chop the fresh cucumber into thin slices, chop into porridge using a combine / blender. Combine with oak infusion, pour into molds, send to freeze.
3. Knapweed. Pour 220 ml into the pan. melt water, pour 45 g. dried plant, put on the stove. Bring to the appearance of the first bubbles, reduce power, simmer another 15 minutes. Turn off the stove, cool the composition to room temperature, send to molds and freeze.
4. Greens. Wash one bunch of fresh parsley and dill, dry, remove the legs. Chop the lemon into cubes along with the peel, pass through a press (blender, combine, meat grinder). Add 50 ml to lemon porridge. water and place the dill with parsley, chop everything again. Spread the mixture on ice packs or freeze in molds.
5. Drinking soda, salt. Mix 20 gr. drinking soda and 45 gr. fine sea salt (not iodized), fill the bulk composition with hot water (180 ml.), mix. The granules must completely dissolve, otherwise, when processing the face, they will burn the skin. Freeze the solution by first placing it in the cells of the mold or bag.
6. Black or green tea. Cosmetic ice can be prepared only from leaf tea, packaged products are not suitable (it is not strong enough). Brew 3 pinches of green or black tea in 270 ml. hot water, cover and leave for 45 minutes. During this time, the welding will become strong, you need to strain it. Pour in tea 30 ml. lemon juice or add citric acid on the tip of a knife. Dissolve the granules, send them to freeze.
7. Kefir. Sour-milk based ice has clarifying properties, so be careful when using it. To prepare the composition, you need kefir with a fat content of 3%, you can use yogurt. Do not dilute it with water, immediately send it to the freezer by packing in bags / forms.
8. Cucumber and aloe vera. Take a large stem of aloe vera (plant age - 2-3 years), wash and grate on a fine grater. Do the same with two cucumbers, then combine the compounds. Dilute the mixture with drinking water to the consistency of milk, pour into ice cream compartments, place in the freezer.
9. Milk. Grate a large tuber of potatoes with peel on a grater with small holes. Pour milk into the cooked porridge (fat content from 3.2%) so that it is enough to fill all the forms. Send the product to freeze, to enhance the effect, you can pour 3-5 ml. any natural oil (olive, castor, burdock, corn, etc.).
10. Karkade. Red tea has diuretic properties, it also effectively eliminates dark circles under the eyes. To prepare the mixture, brew a pinch of hibiscus in 250 ml. boiling water. Leave to insist for 10 minutes, no longer, strain. Freeze tea, use carefully so as not to stain the skin. After use, it is recommended to wash your face with cold water.
11. Raspberry. Grind two handfuls of fresh raspberries with a blender, add 70 ml. whole milk and 10 gr. honey. Stir the mixture until homogeneous with a mixer or whisk, send to the cells of the form. Freeze cosmetic ice, apply no more than 1 time in 2 days.
12. Lemon juice. It is not recommended to use pure citrus juice for girls with a dry type of epidermis. To prepare a gentle composition, it is necessary to dilute the juice of two lemons with purified water in a ratio of 2: 1.If desired, it is possible to squeeze out not liquid, but use the pulp passed through the blender. The mixture is conveniently frozen in ice molds (not bags).
13. Mint and strawberries. Take half a bunch of fresh mint, wash it and rub it in a mortar. Send a handful of frozen or fresh strawberries to the blender bowl, chop into porridge. Mix mint with berry mixture, add 50 ml. milk and pack in the molds. Freeze the composition in small portions to preserve useful properties.

The technology of wiping the skin with ice cubes resembles massage. During the procedure, it is important to adhere to lines that are worked out in a certain sequence. Thanks to the regular use of cosmetic ice, all metabolic processes in the tissues improve, the elasticity of the dermis and the immune system increase.

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