The Beauty Tips from "Aver Cura di Sé"

Here in this blog, I have a really major ambition to give you all the natural tips on beauty. After having done major research on Italian, Turkish and English resources, I have come up with some detailed answers, and I will be giving links and references to the resources. This will be a long but sustainable blog, so bear with me! So let us start with Diego Dalla Palma: since this blog focusses on the dry skinners, first of all, I will write his suggestions for who has dry skin (the pages that I have translated from his book are 37, 38 and 39):

1. Clean your skin once or twice a day with a very oily soap; the ones that contain glycerin and that are transparent for instance. It is always preferable to have a soap that is not soap or creamy cleanser...

2. Coconut oil or almond oil is one of the best cleansers for the dry skin.

3. The tonic that is most adapted to the dry skin is the one that is non-alcoholic one. As an alternative, you can prepare camomile tea and use the camomile water in room temperature as a tonic.

4. A good hydrating product should last for three to four hours. If not so, change your cream or reapply it every four hours.

5. Twenty minutes before you go to bed, apply a night cream rich with active principles and remove the excess of product with a piece of soft cotton.

6. Avoid too much contact with water especially if the water is rich in calcium carbonate; it can dehydrate and damage the skin.

7. Amongst all the products choose the ones with "water in oil": it penetrates the skin easily and the application to the face is easier.

8. Apply the centrifuged spinach to your skin with the help of a piece of cotton or with a brush. Leave it for 15 to 20 minutes and clean your face with warm water.

9. Take a cube of melon and pass it onto your face and your neck: it is very ideal to illuminate the dry skin. If you like the smell you can leave it on your skin as well. Alternatively, utilise the water of the melon on your clean skin, using an atomiser you can evaporate or you can also use the spray that you use for the flowers. If possible, leave it for a while and then you can apply other products without cleaning the melon water.

10. (There is one here that is for irritable skin but I did not translate it, it was too complicated)

11. Would you desire your face to be more elastic? Every fifteen days prepare a mask based on honey and a couple of drops of lemon and sunflower oil: It should be all warm (that is the secret). Leave it on your face for 30 minutes and then wash your face with warm water.

12. The whole milk is a perfect skin cleanser. Massage it on your face for a couple of minutes and then wash your face with water.

13. Mix milk with powder of the cream or a few drops of olive oil, there you have a wonderful mask for the nutrition of the dry skin. You can apply it whenever you desire to do so, especially when the epidermis dehydrated and dry. Then wash your face with water.

14. Hazel or boric water would be perfect tonics to reconstruct the balance of the skin pH.

15. If you have delicate skin with freckles that you do not like, try to use this product: boil a bit of dandelion and a bit of parsley as if you are preparing tea. Filter and use your lotion in the evening and the morning, after you have cleaned your skin. The ephelis will gradually be of a lighter colour.

16. Poppy tea, prepared like normal tea, is an extremely calming and soothing lotion for sensitive, dry and irritable skin. If you live the infusion for thirty minutes with a handful of fresh poppy flowers including the stems and the petals (if you cannot find the fresh ones you can use the ones in the herbalist's shop). It is good to leave the lotion in the refrigerator in an atomizer so that you can spray it on your skin whenever you want.

So far I have done the translation of the pages indicated above, the advice continues on page 40... I can do it another time if wished. I think that some of these suggestions are easily doable and they are also including all-natural ingredients. The thing is: how do we reach nature after we have separated ourselves from nature for hundreds of years?

Diego Dalla Palma also suggests lavender water as a soothing remedy for dry skin, some people use rice water as a tonic, boiling the rice or just living the rice in the water. There are many many suggestions. One common thing I see between them is that they are all focusing on flowers, fruits, olive oil, honey, lemon drops etc. Hence, it calms me to know that there are alternatives to what we use from cosmetics companies without using too much plastic. So I think that these suggestions are of the value of gold... Unfortunately, it is hard to console ourselves that all the plastic we have at home is recycled. It is almost impossible to have nature in our hands and to recycle it all. But maybe we can give it a try!

Another beauty tip would be from my aunt, I saw her squeezing the apricot and putting the water of apricot to her face. As everyone knows, apricot is a wonderful skin beauty creator. In fact, if you just eat apricots fresh from the trees, I guarantee your skin will be much younger for years and years. Not scientific but I think it is closer to scientific truth. The news says that apricots are good against sunburn and wrinkles as they are very high in anti-oxidants.

I will continue with some more beauty tips from blogs, bloggers, YouTubers and so on...

If you want to read about what the oily or mixed skin types shall do the book of Diego Dalla Palma can also be of help... It has also interesting suggestions regarding music, lifestyle, plants... it is a book on well-being as well as beauty...

Have a nice week!