How to make patches at home?

Patches are a popular way to keep the skin around the eyes healthy. A variety of options are available that can solve any problems or simply provide complete care. But lovers of natural ingredients can make patches on their own at home, the main thing is to know how to make them and what ingredients can be used for this.

Despite the fact that patches can be purchased at any cosmetic store or ordered on specialized sites, there are situations when there is a need to make them at home, using the materials and components that are at hand. And their purpose will also be different.

To prepare the patches with your own hands, you need to take pieces of cotton wool, a bandage, sterile wipes or just a thin cloth, cut out fragments in the form of a crescent moon, so that it is convenient to place them under the eyes. There is another option for making patches at home. The made compounds can be placed in silicone molds with a very thin layer, put in the freezer and slightly frozen.

To prepare the composition you will need a fresh cucumber. It must be peeled, cut into pieces, chopped in a blender. In the resulting slurry, you need to moisten the pieces of gauze well and place under your eyes for half an hour. Then rinse the residue gently with warm water or wipe with micellar fluid.

You can also make a composition of cucumber and green tea leaves. Cucumber should be chopped, tea leaves brewed and aged for at least half an hour.

Can cook oil-based patches, mixing olive and almond, adding a few drops of squeezed lemon. After soaking cotton pads in the composition, they should be placed under the eyes.

Another mix option - take unsweetened yogurt, add a capsule of vitamin E to it. Gauze napkins well soak with the mixture and use as small masks.

A good nutritional effect will have a composition prepared from honey and olive oil. You can use any kind of honey - linden, chestnut, acacia.

Acne, most likely, occurs not only under the eyes, most often just in other places - in the nose, forehead, cheeks. Therefore, the prepared patches, impregnated with a healing composition, can be placed in all places where it is required. If acne has taken up more space, you can cook a fabric mask, soak with a useful composition and put on the face. The mask will act on the principle of patches.

To prepare an anti-inflammatory mixture, you can use aloe, green tea. First you need to rinse aloe leaves well, dry, turn into pulp using a blender, squeeze the juice. Then beat the egg white protein, combine with aloe juice, add a few teaspoons of green tea. The resulting composition can be cooled, and then make applications for problem areas using home patches. You can soak cotton swabs or gauze wipes.

If the skin is irritated, and this is expressed as redness, soothing applications should be prepared. Suitable for these purposes medicinal herbs, which include chamomile, plantain, horsetail. All herbs can be grinded in a coffee grinder, then brewed, squeeze the resulting gruel well through cheesecloth. Heal a thin tissue with a healing broth and place under the eyes in the form of patches. A few drops of aloe juice can be added to these herbs.

In this case, it should immediately be said that acne is not a purely cosmetic problem, and it will not be possible to solve it with the help of patches at home. Usually in this situation doctor consultation required, who has to figure out why the disease arose. For treatment, drugs are prescribed, physiotherapy, a diet is selected, the patient is examined. This is very important to consider when trying to fight acne at home. Patches can only be an aid, and then it is better to check with your doctor if their use is advisable.

Excellent homemade inventions made of gelatin are quite capable of replacing gel patches, slightly tightening, refreshing the skin and giving the look of radiance.

The composition is prepared as follows:

• first you need to dilute the gelatin according to the instructions on the bag;
• then add one tablespoon of elderberry infusion, a teaspoon of almond oil, a few mint leaves and a couple of parsley stalks, previously well ground, to the resulting mass;
• all this must be thoroughly mixed and poured into molds with a thin layer, then sent to the refrigerator (silicone molds for muffins and cookies are suitable as molds),
• after an hour, the home-made patches are ready, can be removed from the molds, cut into pieces and applied to the area near the eyes.

You can cook another version of the composition of gelatin:

• add a pinch of turmeric to a tablespoon of gelatin;
• then a couple of tablespoons of yogurt (unsweetened, without additives);
• all this is kept in a water bath until the gelatin is completely dissolved;
• the last thing I add is a teaspoon of brown sugar;
• after its dissolution, the mixture is removed from the fire;
• when the mixture has cooled, add a few drops of olive oil to it;
• then the composition is sent in molds to the refrigerator until completely solidified;
• after an hour, the patches are ready to use

Another recipe for anti-aging masks for the skin around the eyes is very simple. In a tablespoon of freshly brewed strong coffee, add a teaspoon of fat cream. In the cooled solution, cotton pads cut in half are moistened and used for their intended purpose.

You can independently prepare the most diverse compositions that will be useful for delicate skin around the eyes. And most importantly, most products for their manufacture are always at home.

Many take Blefarogel, which can be purchased at a pharmacy, adding various components to it as the basis for making wrinkle patches. The basis is added one teaspoon of coffee and argan oil, one ampoule of vitamin E (which is also sold in a pharmacy). Patches made from half of cotton pads are well impregnated in the resulting solution and placed under the eyes.

Best of all with dark circles, blue under the eyes cucumber patches cope. With a complete lack of time, you can use cucumber plates cut thinly in the shape of a semicircle. Quick and easy. You can do the same with a camomile. The pharmacy often sells herbs packaged in bags (the same as for tea). You can brew two bags and attach them to the eyes. This will help relieve fatigue and visually improve the situation.

It is also possible to prepare patches with a more complex composition, but if you have time. The recipe looks like this:

• peeled fresh cucumber is sent to a blender;
• prepared aloe leaves are added there, washed and peeled;
• the resulting mass is cooled in the refrigerator to obtain a greater effect;
• then impregnated with gauze napkins or cotton pads.

A simpler and also effective option can be prepared very quickly.

Most often, fatigue and dark circles under the eyes are two concomitant factors, and therefore it is quite natural that the patches from both problems will be identical. All formulations designed to combat bruises and circles automatically fight fatigue. But if the skin under the eyes looks quite normal, and the feeling of fatigue and a certain discomfort do not rest, you can prepare several compounds.

• Fresh potatoes (1 pc.) Need to be grated, add a spoonful of cream to it. Cotton pads impregnated with the obtained slurry are patches for fatigue.
• Pour a few ice cubes into a container with cream. As soon as the mixture becomes quite cold and invigorating, you need to soak napkins with it and place it under your eyes.

So that the procedures bring the desired effect, they are pleasant and comfortable, You need to follow some simple recommendations:

• patches should be prepared from pure materials just removed from packaging;
• if molds are used, they should be well washed and then processed from the inside with alcohol or lotion;
• all products from which the compounds are made must be necessarily fresh;
• after the preparations are prepared, they must be used immediately, can not be stored (exceptions are those patches that are placed in the freezer, but even in this case the shelf life is no more than 3 days);
• procedures need to be given time, with patches on eyes it is desirable lie down for 30-40 minutes, you can turn on pleasant music and think about something pleasant, only in this way you can get a positive effect;
• preparing any composition it is important to know if there is an allergy to a particular component, and it is better to first check the effect of the composition on a safer part, for example, on the arm;
• you need to apply patches on clean, dry skin, and after the procedure, it is necessary to carefully remove the remaining composition with a moist warm towel or cotton pad soaked in micellar water;
• the finishing touch after the procedure should be applying serum or cream - if the procedure is performed in the evening, then it will be a night cream, if in the morning, then a day cream.

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