Modern plastic surgery clinics actively promote Botox injections to fight wrinkles. It is no secret that these procedures are really effective. But at what cost do women regain their youth?
Possible complications after traditional injection
Do not forget about the very nature of Botox. After all, it is a derivative of bacteria that cause botulism and can lead to food poisoning. After the injection is introduced, the facial muscles partially lose their mobility, due to which the skin visually looks more elastic and smooth.
But even if you omit the high cost of such procedures, an attempt to regain freshness and beauty can have many unpleasant consequences. Among the main side effects of Botox injections, it should be highlighted separately:
- swelling around the eyes (due to the fact that muscles are contracting less and less, fluid stagnation occurs);
- drooping of the eyelid (occurs if the patient, in the first hours after the procedure, has taken a horizontal position, and the drug has penetrated into the neighboring muscle responsible for raising the eyelids);
- asymmetry of the face.
It is believed that such consequences of “beauty injections” are temporary and pass in 1-2 months. But there is another, no less weighty argument in favor of Botox opponents - as a result of frequent use of the drug, the face loses most of its facial features, becomes “inanimate” and looks more like a wax mask.
How to maintain youth without harming your health?
But not everything is lost! If you want to keep your skin fresh, healthy and beautiful, you can do this by imitating Botox at home. Moreover, instead of a chemical toxin, in essence - a poison, in this case only those ingredients are used that are given to us by mother nature, which are 100% safe for humans.
The amazing properties of a starch mask
First, let's talk about masks. The most popular alternative to Botox at home is the starch mask.
To cook it, you will need:
- starch (1 tbsp.spoon);
- freshly squeezed carrot juice (5 tbsp. tablespoons);
- bitter liquid sour cream (1 tbsp.spoon);
- starch solution (5 tablespoons);
- warm boiled water (1 cup).
Preparing this wonderful tool is also very simple. Starch is dissolved in half a glass of heated water and put on a steam or water bath. It is advisable to use glassware. After some time, you need to pour the remaining water into the solution and, stirring constantly, keep the mixture on fire for 10-15 minutes. By this time you should get some kind of jelly. Now it remains to wait until it cools down, and then mix 5 tablespoons of the solution with the same amount of carrot juice and a spoonful of sour cream.
Do not forget to mix the ingredients until smooth!
The finished Botox mask at home is applied to the face in several layers. It is most convenient to do this with a brush. Layers are applied alternately as the previous one dries. Keep the mask on your face for 15-20 minutes. After this, you need to wash yourself with plenty of warm water and apply a nourishing cream or almond oil to the skin. If you have chosen oil, then after about 20 minutes you will need to remove its excess with a napkin.
Depending on how expressed facial wrinkles are, it is necessary to use such “Botox” at home 5 to 10 times a day every other day. The finished mask can be stored for 3 days.
Did you know about the anti-aging properties of ... tea?
This is another good alternative to Botox at home. This time we need green tea. You can grind dry castings in a coffee grinder or immediately buy a product ground to a powder state.
Getting to the preparation of the mask. A tablespoon of green tea must be mixed with a teaspoon of cocoa powder, and pour a little boiling water into the resulting mass. There is no indication of the exact amount of water, but in the end you should get a fairly thick slurry (but not too cool!).
When the mass cools a little, a small amount of natural liquid honey should be added to it and mix thoroughly. To enhance the effect of Botox at home, an oil solution of vitamin E or lemon juice will help (a few drops are enough).
A homogeneous mass is applied to the skin of the face, after which it is left for 20 minutes. At the end of the procedure you need to wash with cool water and apply a moisturizer.
This procedure is recommended 2-3 times a week for 2 months.
Remember the miraculous power of aloe!
In many apartments, aloe is present as a houseplant. Do you also have this prickly “healer”? Excellent! After all, it is aloe vera that will help you make Botox face at home, spending a minimum of money and without harming your body.
To get started, cut a few leaves from the plant, rinse them with water, chop and squeeze the juice. Count so that in the end you get 2 tablespoons of juice. To it you need to add warm (40 ° C) liquid honey. By the way, it is impossible to overheat honey - because of this, it loses all its useful qualities.
The resulting mass must be applied to the face and neck, and left for 15 minutes. After that, you need to wash yourself with water at room temperature.
In principle, you don’t have to bother with making a mask - simple wiping of the skin with cotton wool moistened with aloe juice will also be an excellent preventive measure against wrinkles.
Want a really powerful effect?
Of course, replacing Botox at home is not always easy. And the result will make itself felt not as fast as we would like. There is another recipe for this case - not quite natural, but still safer than the notorious “beauty injections”. And the cost of such a procedure will be much lower.
So, first of all, you need to buy two drugs at the pharmacy - Dimexidum and Solcoseryl gel. They can be found almost everywhere. And both of them are very
inexpensively - within 150 rubles. Their main purpose is the restoration of the skin and the treatment of burns, but the "craftsmen" have adapted to use them as Botox at home.
It is best to carry out the procedure immediately after the bath or sauna, when the pores are well open. If this is not possible, it is important to thoroughly cleanse the face and rinse it with water before starting the session.
We dilute Dimexide with boiled water in a proportion of 1:10 and, having dipped a cotton swab in the solution, wipe it with face and neck. Top with a thick layer we apply “Solcoseryl” and leave for 1 hour.
From time to time, so that the gel does not dry out, you need to wet your face with a cotton swab dipped in boiled water.
At the end of the procedure, the gel is removed from the skin using the same swab, and the face is rinsed abundantly with warm water.
On dry skin, you need to apply a light non-greasy hypoallergenic cream. It is best to carry out the procedure in the evening, before going to bed - then the very next morning you will literally wake up as a “different person”!