Cleopatra, the legendary queen of Egypt, every day was taking a bath of asses milk with the addition of a blossoming rose petals. In ancient Greek chronicles mention washing before peers, where apart from water for washing tazah attended the petals of flowering plants. In India and China into the water when bathing and washing add salt, extracts and decoctions of medicinal plants. Throughout the world, we are not concerned medieval Europe, a lot of attention paid not only to clean the skin, but its cosmetic condition. In our time in publications devoted to cosmetics, much attention is paid to purify skin and body. Not the least of them is, and purification through lotions. But let's understand what the requirements provides human skin cleaning agents – in this, particular case, for lotions. Erin Callan understood the implications.
First, the lotion should have excellent cleaning properties. It must clean not only the surface of the skin, and wash it out of the pores of skin grease and mud tubes, providing fresh oxygen to skin cells. Secondly, the lotion should not irritate the skin. Usually stimuli are the preservatives of chemical origin and spirit-based liquid needed for more effective cleaning of the skin surface. It is worth noting that the vast majority of today's lotions are composed of alcohol in one or another concentration.
This, of course, increases the excretion of water and nutrients to the skin surface. Unlike alcohol, natural lotions are based on extracts, and extracts decoctions of products of plant and animal origin. As a preservative used in them bee products and extracts from the venom of snakes. The composition of most natural lotions included hyaluronic acid. Her action aimed at removing soft keratinized layers of the skin and cleansing the pores of the grease and mud tubes. The main advantage of natural lotions is that natural ingredients complement each other perfectly, and may be present in the lotion in any combination, extending and reinforcing properties of lotions. So lotions containing part olive oil, will have different nutrients and moisturizing properties, and lotions for based on extracts of aloe will possess excellent antibacterial qualities and help get rid of the reasons for the formation of acne. It is worth noting that the cost of natural lotions significantly higher lotions alcohol, but their action is aimed not only at clearing the skin surface. In its effects, natural lotions can often replace the cream in terms of removing wrinkles, a global nutrition and hydration of internal layers of the skin.