DO YOU KNOW?

Nearly 1700 years ago Greek physician Galen invented the cold cream. Galen mixed the oil of rose petals with white wax to make the cream.Galen’s cold cream was based on beeswax and water, also containing olive oil and rose petals for softness and scent.

Today, instead of the above almond oil, sunflower oil and liquid paraffin have replaced them and synthetic chemicals and preservatives have been used now instead of alcohol.

NATURE IS THE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY

Just like the older times, even today one finds beauty in the extracts of fruits, flowers and vegetables. These easily available things are the best possible way to improve on once beauty.

BEAUTY TIPS:-

• Round slices of potatoes can be of great help to the swollen eyes if kept on them.


• Roughly grounded pieces of melon if covered over the face will provide a cooling effect to the skin.


• Even the pieces of melon, if mashed on face and neck provide fairness, when cleansed with water. It also gives glow to the skin.


• If given attention to the teeth like the face the beauty will be impactful to great extent. Burn the wood of blackberry (Jamun) and powder it and mix it with black pepper and sea salt (saindha namak) and use it to brush the teeth. It lowers the tooth ache and also makes the gums healthy.


• Eyes are the best as well as the most attractive part of our body. To make them always look beautiful it is necessary to care for them regularly. Take 5 grams fennel (saunf) and 7 almonds. First of all mix saunf and mishri and powder them. Now peel almonds and ground them, mix it into the mixture. Take this mixture with 250ml of hot milk every night every night (without drinking water after it) and go to sleep. A regular course of 40 days will prove to be of great help.


• To make hairs stronger and beautiful take til and siras’s bark in equal quantity and grind it with vinegar. Apply this mixture in the roots of hair and also rinse the hair with this mixture. This makes the hairs stronger, darker, bulky and shiny.

DEFINATION OF BEAUTY IN ANCIENT BHARAT (INDIA)

It is a fact that from the ancient period of Kalidas’s Shakuntalam, Rome queen Cleopatra till date, women have all along been utilising the natural resources to beautify themselves. For fragrance and essence they have been using the oils of roses, jasmine, Eucalyptus, etc throughout from the ancient periods, even at that time, the queens had been taking baths with shikakai and kasturi for the beauty of their hairs. In ancient Bharat the juices of flowers, leaves, herbs, etc were commonly used by the women to enhance their beauties. The Indian women particularly the queens were using the sandal and coconut milk for adding beauty to their hairs. For beautifying their eyes, the kajal was being prepared by burning the Trifila, almonds, camphor, herbs etc in the rose oil. It was got prepared specially by the Mughal queen Noorjahan for use by herself. Not only this, the Mughal queens were using the trees bark and the powder of panna, lal and firoza for colouring their lips and for shading of their eyes respectively. The use of sandal’s powder after mixing in the rose oil is to give reddish shade to the cheeks.
Not only this but the use of combs of ivory and wood for combing the hairs and use of gold and silver lining for hair dressing were the clear examples that natural resources had always been playing a greater part for the enhancement of beauty by the women from the time immemorial.

DO YOU KNOW?

Do you know that from the time of beauty queen Cleopatra or later from the time of the great Mughal empress Nurjahan, there had remained the close coordination between beauty and nature?

ENHANCE BEAUTY BY NATURAL WAY

The poets have defined beauty in their own way but its definition remained the same, in spite of the passage of time. However day by day it improved a lot. Later further improvement was also noticed when the nature played its part. Fruits, vegetables, herbs, etc not only gave the beauty a new shape but also saved the body skin from the harmful reactions of the chemicals.