8 Ancient Beauty Remedies You Probably Didn’t Know

Since ancient times, women have searched for beauty remedies, hoping to get beautiful skin and hair naturally. Moreover, women around the world are still using some of these remedies, while others are so strange that I doubt any would consider applying it to her skin.

Who would think that moisturizing your skin had been a challenge 2000 years ago!

Here are the 8 Ancient Beauty Tips You Probably Didn’t Know

 

#1 Emu Oil

If you suffer from dry skin, using an oil will be great to lock in moisture into your skin, and help your skin stay moisturized and supple. Australian Aborigines have used emu oil for moisturizing their skin. They made it from a pad of fat taken from the emu’s back.

 

#2 Your Breakfast on Your face!

Romans had a weird habit of applying their breakfast on their faces! They used this ancient beauty remedy for ages by applying a mashed mixture of bread and milk (sometimes honey, too) onto their faces before going to bed. Well, milk is great for achieving a silky skin, but bread and milk, hmm…

 

#3 Ancient Whitening Recipes

Fair skin used to be considered a beauty sign. But since native Roman women were not naturally fair-skinned, they spent their time trying to achieve their goal by using ingredients like honey, plants, placenta, marrow, vinegar, bile, animal urine, sulfur, vinegar, and eggs. Roman women would then use chalk powder or white marl to whiten their faces. They also used beeswax, olive oil, rosewater, saffron, animal fat, tin oxide, starch, rocket (arugula), cucumber, anise, mushrooms, rose leaves, poppies, myrrh, frankincense, almond oil, rosewater, lily root, water parsnip and eggs.[Source]

 

#4 Bathing in Milk

Bathing in milk was an expensive treatment that only rich Roman women and the well-known Cleopatra were to enjoy. We now know that milk contains lactic acid, a natural chemical peel that helps gently exfoliate the skin, and many now use this ancient beauty remedy for naturally beautiful skin.

#5 Cold Cream

Thanks to Galen, the Greek physician, who made the first cold cream (named for how it made your skin feel). People around the world are still making his recipe. The first recipe consisted of water, olive oil, and honey. Now, people add rose and floral oils.

#6 Olive Oil

People in the Middle East have always considered olive trees as a treasure. Even the Greek epic poet, Homer, called it “liquid gold”. Greek women used olive oil as a moisturizer and especially an after bath treatment for dry skin. And until the present time, olive oil is still being used as a moisturizing oil for dry skin, and for fighting the signs of aging, thanks to being loaded with antioxidants.

 

#7 Turmeric

Turmeric has anti-inflammatory properties that make it a great treatment for acne, acne scars, and age spots. Indians and Chinese have been using it for medication, and beauty purposes. Read more about turmeric and turmeric remedies here.

 

#8 Rose Water

Persian has used rose water for fighting wrinkles and shrinking pores. By adding it to your skincare regimen, you will notice that your skin is tighter, pores are smaller, and your skin will smell pretty, too.

In our effort to get healthier, younger skin, we could try nearly anything, some even may go too far and try weird things, but could you do that?

My son asked me once “how does it look like if we were born old, and get younger as time passes?”, something that Mark Twain noted once when he said, “life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.”

What do you think? How would it look like then?

Have you ever used any of these remedies? Tell us in the comments.