|
 Gelatin is familiar in the kitchen, almost everything we use it for desserts, jellies. The food industry uses gelatine for the preparation of sweets and a variety of condensation of liquid additives.
Gelatin is obtained from bones, skin, tendons, ligaments animals often cows from fish and less residues. Bones defatted, crushed, dried, boiled and soaked in a weak solution of hydrochloric acid. Then filtered and concentrated. Obtained after the above steps the product has no smell and taste, is sold in powder form and platelets.
Gelatin contains proteins, fats, carbohydrates, amino acids and some trace minerals.
Gelatin is insoluble in cold water but swells only. For it to be dissolved, the liquid gelatin warmed on a steam bath. But bring to a boil and boil gelatin impossible.
In medicine, gelatin is used to improve the blood, as well as to accelerate the healing bone fractures.
Gelatin is useful for joints, hair and nails.
In cosmetology used
gelatine face masks
. Because essentially gelatin is collagen, it is not just has a beneficial effect on the skin, it slows down aging, keeping for many years its elasticity.
The stores sold a great quantity of products with collagen for a variety of prices, more often than not small. However, the mask can be helpful to prepare yourself at home. Gelatin masks contain collagen molecules that are able to penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin. Especially useful gelatin mask aging skin, wrinkles appeared at first. Such masks eliminate slackness of the skin, making it firm and elastic.
Mask, smoothing wrinkles
20 g gelatin soaked in a glass of water, wait until the swells, add 35 g of glycerin and 1 teaspoon of honey. Put in a water bath in the form of heat put on the face of several layers.
Wash off after 20-25 minutes with warm water, wash with cool.
Nourishing Mask
1 teaspoon gelatin, pour a little water and let swell. Then dissolve in a water bath, add 1 tbsp. Kiwi spoon pulp turned into a puree, stir well, apply on face for 25 minutes. Remove with a cotton swab dipped in warm water. Wash cool.
If the skin is very oily, instead added the kiwi pulp of grapefruit.
Mask for dry skin aging
Soak 1 teaspoon gelatin, melt in a water bath. Add egg yolks, mix well and apply a thick layer on the face. Wash off after 20 minutes with a cotton swab dipped in warm water, wash with cool.
During the face mask should be relaxed, it is better at this time to lie down in a dark room.
After course of such masks skin will soften, become flexible.
The mask moisturizes and softens
1 teaspoon gelatin, pour 1/4 cup of cold milk, wait until the gelatin swell, dissolve in a water bath, add another 1 tbsp. a spoonful of milk, stir, cool, put on your skin for 20 minutes. Remove with a cotton swab dipped in milk. After 5 minutes, wash with cold water.
To strengthen the hair and their growth
1 tbsp. spoon of shampoo mixed with 1 teaspoon gelatin and gelatin to swell.
Hair wash, comb and apply a gelatinous mass on the roots of the hair, rub well and spread over the entire length.
After 20 minutes, wash your hair, wash gelatin shampoo with plenty of water. Hair slightly wring out and allow to dry naturally. They will be obedient and good will shape any hairstyle.
If your hair is long, the portion used shampoo and gelatin must be doubled.
|
|
|
|
|
|
