Milk (dudh)

Milk is useful as a cosmetic and as a beauty aid. A fresh lime should be squeezed in a glass of boiled milk and set for 10 minutes. It should then be applied over hands, arms, face, neck and soles at night and allowed to dry. It should be washed off with warm water in the morning. Its regular use will writen the complexion and make the skin skin soft. Washing the hair with milk and egg yolk every day will promote hair growth and protect the scalp from all diseases.

Other Foods

Honey (shahad)

A mixture of honey and alcohol is believed to promote the growth of hair. It is said that Japanese geisha girls, who have luxuriant hair, mix several tablespoon of honey with alcohol, and stir them together. They massage this mixture into the scalp. allow it to remain there for two hours and then shampoo it out thoroughly. It is said that regular use of this honey-alcohol mixture stimulates the hair follicles to grow into luxuriant tresses.

Ground nut (momphali)

The oil from the ground nut can serve as a beauty aid. A teaspoon of refined groundnut oil, mixed with an equel quantity of lime juice, may be applied daily on the face before going to bed. It keeps the face fresh. Its regular use nourishes the skin and prevents acne.

Almond (badam)

The paste of almonds with milk cream and fresh rose buds paste applied daily over the face is a very effective beauty aid. It softens and bleaches the skin and nourishes it with the choicest skin food. Its regular application prevents early appearance of wrinkles, blackheads, dryness of the skin, pimples and keeps the face fresh.

Lentil (masur)

The flour of lentil mixed with milk cream can be applied with beneficial results as a bleaching cosmetic. It whitens the complexion and prevents wrinkles on the face.

Black Gram (urad dal)

Washing the hair with a paste of cooked black gram and fenugreek leaves lengthens the hair, keeps it black and cures dandruff.










Green Gram (mung)

The flour of the green gram is an execellent detergent and can be used as a substitute for soap. It removes the dirt and does not cause any skin irritation.Its application over the face bleaches the skin and gives one a good complexion. Black gram flour, mixed with green gram paste, when used for washing the hair, lengthens it and prevents dandruff.

PULSES

Bengal Gram (channa)

The flour of the unroasted Bengal bram (besan) is a very effective cleansing agent and its regular use, as a cosmetic, bleaches the skin. In allergic skin diseases like eczema, contact dermatitis and scabies. Washing with this flour will bring about good results. This is a also useful where pimples are concerned. The flour should be mixed with curd to make a paste. This paste should be applied to the face and washed off after sometime. Washing the hair with Bengal gram flour keeps it clean, soft and free from hair diseases.

Potato (alu)

The juice of raw potatoes has also proved very valuable in cleaning skin blemishes. This cleansing results from the high content of potassium, sulphur. phosphorus and chlorine in the potato. These elements are, however, of value only when the potato is raw as in this state they are composed of live organic atoms. In the cooked state, they are converted into inorganic atoms and are of little value cosmetically.

The juicy pulp of the shredded raw potatoes can also be applied as a poultice in clearing the ageing appearance of the skin. Before going to bed, it may be rubbed on the face and other portions on the body, that have wrinkles. It will help 'melt' the wrinkles, banish age spots and clear the skin. The enzymes in raw potato pulp, combined with the vitamin C and the natural starch, help create a skin food that nourishes the starved cellular tissues of the skin. Furthermore, the alkaline juices of the potato promotes an antiseptic action that gives a glowing look of youth. Much of the decaying skin is sloughed off by the acidec portion of the pulp.