How Cleopatra Used Natural Ingredients in Ancient Times to Enhance Her Beauty
Cleopatra, the Queen of thee Nile was known for her stunning beauty. She devised many recipes for enhancing her loveliness and though much is lost, sill some of them have managed to come down to us over the years. Surprisingly, these recipes are not some ancient concoctions, but actually simple mixes which can be easily made using a few, but effective natural ingredients. The ingredients, of course, never showed side effects and made skin or hair healthier and well-nourished.
So, what were Cleopatra’s prized recipes? Let’s take a look at one such recipe – The Honey and Milk Bath.
This recipe for soft skin is very refreshing and it makes your skin nourished and supple. In order to have this bath, you need to mix half cup of thick, rick milk with half cup of honey. Add to this mix, two tablespoons of Jojoba Oil and then mix again. Pour this mixture out into a tub filled with lukewarm water. Soak in the tub for 15 minutes. Milk contains lactic acid which exfoliates dead skin cells, while honey is full of vitamins that nourish your skin texture. Honey also has anti-bacterial properties. When you use this recipe on your skin, you gain the benefits of these ingredients on your skin texture.
Face cleansing is very important because when dirt gets clogged into your skins pores, your skin becomes unhealthy and you can get black heads. Often the reason for this is oily skin, Cleansing your skin, will ensure that the skin texture is always refreshed and healthy. One of Cleopatra’s interesting beauty recipes is about just using plain buttermilk for skin cleaning. You have to wash your face with buttermilk, and then rinse it with warm water. The alpha-hydroxy acids in butter milk will cleanse as well as soften your skin.
As we age, all of us tend to get wrinkles. Though today, you can find some very effective anti-aging creams in the market, you might want to try out something devised by Cleopatra in those days. Once again this recipe also requires the use of Milk and Honey. Just mix one ounce of Honey and one cup Skimmed Milk. Add Aloe Vera gel to this mix and keep in fridge. Apply every morning and evening on your face using a cotton ball. After half an hour, wash off. Nothing will rejuvenate your skin cells more and give you that fresh and young-looking skin than this combination of natural ingredients.
Another interesting aspect about Cleopatra’s beauty regime is Mud Baths. She took mud Baths from mud taken from the Dead Sea. Dead Sea water contains an abundance of minerals, which nourish and revitalize skin texture, making it smooth, refreshed and young-looking. There are also certain medicinal properties in this sea water and as a result, it can be used for treating health problems such as arthritis and even respiratory problems. It’s no wonder that Cleopatra considered it to be the best of beauty treatment and even traveled all the way to the Dead Sea for gaining its many benefits.
