It is well known that women have always had a strong desire to be beautiful. In ancient times, women invented many beauty secrets to maintain their youthful appearance. Let's take a look at some of the ancient beauty regimens and see how ancient beauties maintained their beauty.
Yimucao-ze Face Mask
Ingredients: Yimucao (Motherwort).
Instructions: Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Yimucao is harvested, dried, and ground into powder. The powder is then mixed with an appropriate amount of flour and water to form small dough balls the size of eggs. The dough balls are dried and then placed in a yellow clay stove to be fired for about 24 hours without interruption. After being well-fired, the balls are taken out to cool and then ground into powder in a porcelain bowl. When needed, the powder is taken out and used to wash the face.
Effects: Make the skin smooth, white, and rosy.
Mianzhi Face Mask
Ingredients: Xixin, Weirui, Huangqi, Baifuzi, Shan Yao, Xinyi, Chuanxiong, Baizhi, Gualoupi, Mulanpi, lard.
Instructions: Chop all the herbs into small pieces and soak them in alcohol overnight. Then, cook them with lard until it solidifies to become a face mask.
Effects: Smooth and moisturize the skin, reduce wrinkles.
Taohua Hong Fu Gao
Ingredients: Peach blossom petals (ground into powder), black-bone chicken blood.
Instructions: Grind the peach blossom petals into fine powder, then mix it with black-bone chicken blood to form a paste. Apply the paste on the face and skin, and wash it off after three days.
Effects: Reduce blemishes on the skin, make the complexion bright and shiny.
Hongyu Gao
Ingredients: De-skinned light powder, almonds, talcum powder, borneol, egg white, musk.
Instructions: Grind almonds and talcum powder into fine powder, then add borneol, musk, and egg white. After washing the face in the morning, apply the mixture on the face.
Effects: Whitens the skin, makes the pores clear, and significantly moisturizes the skin, giving it a rosy glow.
Ajiao Jidan Tang
Ingredients: Ajiao (donkey-hide gelatin) 10g, 1 chicken egg.
Instructions: Boil Ajiao in 300ml of water until it dissolves, then pour the beaten egg into the Ajiao mixture and cook it into an egg drop soup. Add salt to taste before consumption.
Effects: Nourishes blood and qi, gives a rosy complexion.
Rose Nitrate
Ingredients: Rose flowers, spices, silver nitrate, orange blossom essential oil.
Instructions: Soak the whole rose flowers in water, grind them in a stone bowl to extract clear flower juice, mix it with spices, silver nitrate, and orange blossom essential oil, and then steam and dry the mixture. After drying, grind it into powder for use as cosmetic. It can be stored in a powder box for daily use or carried in a purse as a fragrance.
Effects: Treats cheek allergies, clears heat, moistens the skin.
