What is Rice Water?
Rice water has been used for centuries by women in Asia for beautiful skin and hair. It is an excellent skin toner and hair wash
How to make it?
You need to save the water in which you wash your rice. You can store it in a bottle and refrigerate it for a few days; we recommend not to keep it in there for more than 3-4 days because it may develop a bad odor
There are a number of ways that people use rice water for. It is been used to steam the face, in masks and just splashed on the face in the mornings or night times. You may use it as a toner, plan on using it to steam your face. The rice masks are usually made of rice powder, however combining it with rice water makes a compressed face mask. Drop the compressed mask into the rice water; it soaks up all the goodies and turns into a sheet mask. After which you may leave on your face for 20 – 30 minutes
Benefits of Rice for beautiful skin:
- Rice extract is helpful in increasing the production of collagen maintaining skin elasticity.
- Its Chemical structure helps in regeneration and reduces dead or damaged skin cells . Rice contains oryzanol substances that can help renew the skin pigment and useful to counteract ultraviolet
- Rice that contains Vitamin E nourishes the skin and makes it look younger.
- Ferulic acid in rice is helpful as it acts as an antioxidant to protect skin free from radicals
- Rice contains oryzanol substances that can help renew the skin pigment and useful to counteract ultraviolet
Benefits of Rice for beautiful hair:
Washing hair with rice water is regarded as to be a great conditioner. Immediately after shampooing your hair, rinse hair with rice water for 30 seconds. Wash it off with water once again. As rice water is wealthy in vitamin B, it makes hair soft, silky and shiny.
Another tip:
Place 1 cup of uncooked rice in a bowl and cover with water.
Swirl the rice around until the water becomes cloudy.
Drain the water from the rice through a colander.
Cleanse hair, and then pour the rice water along hair and scalp. Rinse after 2 minutes.
Rice contains large amounts of starch which will lighten the skin over a period of time. In some countries women that worked in the fields covered themselves with rice water on a daily basis to keep their complexion fair. The quickest way to apply rice water to the skin is by boiling grains of white rice in a pot of water.
A warm compress is one of the best to spot treatments for acne, especially the kind of pimples that are big, deep, and painful like cysts. When applied frequently throughout the day, a warm compress can help emulsify the clog in your pore and help your skin clear the pimple out faster. It is not a guaranteed solution to get rid of acne, but it certainly helps with pesky zits and is a low-cost, low-risk spot treatment to try.
Here is where a “rice sock” warm compress saves the day!
A “rice sock” warm compress can be re-used and re-heated frequently. It retains heat for a long time and is not messy to use. Best of all, it is extremely cheap and easy to make.
Here are the 3 simple things you need to make this warm compress:
- 1 clean sock with no holes in it
- 1/3 cup of uncooked rice (or a small handful)
- A microwave
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