How much time has passed, and the controversy surrounding the beauty of this woman does not subside. Skeptics say that in fact Cleopatra was ugly and stories about her unearthly face are just fictions. It is known only one thing: she was able to take care of her face and body. Especially it concerns a skin of the face. The secret of Cleopatra's youth is the constant and careful care of her body and soul, some of her recipes have come down to our days. Almost every woman at least once in her life drew arrows and brought her eyes. Cleopatra made such an eye makeup not only for beauty. The lead was prepared on the basis of lead, which helped to avoid various eye diseases.
Bath of Cleopatra: recipe
The most famous bath of Cleopatra is milk. You can prepare it at home. The recipe, of course, is adapted to the modern conditions of life, but the result will definitely please you. Recipe Bath Cleopatra is as follows: heat a liter of milk and dissolve in it a cup of honey. This mixture must be poured into the bath, while the temperature of the water should not exceed the body temperature. Take a bath should not be longer than 15 minutes. In today's world, you can take advantage of dry milk. 2 kg of dry milk is enough for one bath.
To this bath you can add olive or almond oil. Let it be a pleasure not from cheap, but to pamper yourself with a bath for hands is quite possible. Dilute a half a liter of milk a few tablespoons of honey. This is an excellent procedure for the hands.
In order for the skin to become not only velvety, but also fresh and smooth, you can prepare a body scrub. For the queen it was prepared from fat cream and sea salt. In front of the bathroom, you can take a shower and rub the body with such a scrub. The skin will be cleansed of dead cells and the effect of the milk bath will be even stronger.
Secret of Cleopatra: sugar paste
Not so long ago, there was an alternative to wax depilation - shugaring, a very popular means today to get rid of unwanted hair on the body. Shugaring is done with sugar paste, which is applied to the hair and then removes them. You can use a liquid paste and remove hair with paper strips, and you can make a thicker consistency and work with your hands. As it turned out, this is a new and very fashionable procedure in fact - a well-forgotten old one. Sugar paste was invented by Cleopatra, this is one of her secrets of beauty. This method is less painful and removes the hairs from the root. The paste is applied to the hair growth, it helps to avoid their ingrowth and painful sensations in the future.
Secrets of Cleopatra Beauty: Face Masks
The scorching sun and dry climate, in which the queen lived, could not help but dry the skin. But thanks to the use of masks, Cleopatra's skin was always perfect and looked well-groomed. Here are a few recipes for Cleopatra's masks, which were the secret of her beauty.
For bleaching and giving freshness to the face, Cleopatra prepared a mask of white clay.
You can make a simpler version. Take equal amounts of milk and honey. Mask to keep on the face for half an hour. Already at that time, Cleopatra knew about the importance of using a face cream. It was prepared on the basis of the pulp of the leaves of aloe. The crushed aloe leaves were mixed with honey and poured on a water bath. In the mixture gradually added melted pork fat. This cream gave the person tenderness, the skin became moistened, and aloe fed the skin cells of the face and made it younger.