Roses: The roses & the first ever anti-wrinkle cream!! The best so far!!

The materials and the method of preparing the creamer Galen!!
Rose, the king of flowers and souls. Storied over the centuries its beauty and fragrance…..

THE Hostage Odyssey refers to the "dawn rododaktylo", while he calls the rose "the flower of Venus". OR Sappho defines rosewood "queen of flowers".

Even the historian Herodotus, makes reference to the writings of the beauty of this plant, knitting praised the vast exintafylles roses that adorned the gardens of Midas.

OR Cleopatra required to walk in rose petals and the vast pools – fountains of the palace of, the content was not plain water, but rosewater.

THE Nero was the requirement in the halls of the palace to sprinkle with wheel himself and his guests, during the banquet.

Love roses had reached the point of lust.

Until a doctor of antiquity, The Galen (2th BC) He decided to experiment with fragrant petals and create a gentle, fragrant and super anti-wrinkle cream, the first face cream history, which he dedicated to Asclepius.

Before presenting your material and method of manufacture of the cream of Galen, tell you that you need a little preparation you make the first.

Let's start with the super cream embellish million women over the centuries, including natural and myrrh, which they called «Cold cream».

"Anti-wrinkle cream Galen"

ingredients

• 4 tablespoons triantafyllolado
• 1tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 1/5 tablespoon of beeswax
• 1 cup of Greek coffee, rose water
• 1 sterile jar

Implementation

1. In a double boiler and a low heat, add the wax to melt until it becomes fluid like oil.
2. Then add the olive oil and triantafyllolado and stir until they become a.
3. Once homogenized, add the rose water slowly and continue with gentle stirring.
4. As a result we get an elastic cream.
5. Pour into sterilized jars.

Raw materials

How to prepare the raw materials that I mentioned earlier and which will store it in bottles, ready every time you remake cream.

«Triantafyllelaio»

A way, long maturation

ingredients

• 2 teacups extra virgin olive oil
• 4 cups of tea rose petals (ie around 10 roses, depending on the type, if you're lucky you ekatofylles calculate around 4 wheel)
• 1 sterile bottle or jar
• 1 tulle

Implementation

1. Put rose petals in tulle and close tightly with a ribbon.
2. Place them in the jar and drizzle with olive oil.
3. Seal the jar and let stand 25 days in a bright place.
4. After 25 days we open the jar, Remove the tulle, the press with hands until it stops dripping oil and throw.

Tip

Extra use

After the triantafyllolado prepare and distribute in small bottles, every night we put 4-5 drops on a cotton cleansing and pass the face and neck, gently insisting on wrinkles or even the fine lines.

"Triantafyllelaio»

B Quick Way
ingredients

• 1 cup of extra virgin olive oil
• 2 cups of tea rose petals

Implementation

1. In a saucepan boil slightly and pour oil rose petals.
2. Closed by a lid and leave at an angle without reopened 24 hours.
3. The next day, Drain the oil from the wheel and ready.
4. Optionally, for more intense flavor and pour 5 drops of essential oil of rose.

"Rose water"

ingredients

• Distilled water
• Rose petals
• 1 glass short round (whiskey)
• 1 sterile bottle

Implementation

1. Wash well enough rose petals.
2. Take a nonstick pan or preferably if you're lucky you giagiadistikes copper Things,what should.
3. Put the petals in and add distilled water, so as to cover them at 100%.
4. Place the whiskey glass upright in the center of the pot.
5. Close the pot with its lid turned upside down, i.e. her pin should face the petals and be directly above the glass.
6. Make a light dough with flour and water and seal around the pot, so that it keeps all the fragrance inside and not a single dram is lost.
7. Boil them on low heat for 1 ½ hour.
8. Remove from the heat and let the pot cool.
9. When it cools down, break the dough and carefully open the pot.
10. We have a tray next to us and after cleaning the area around the lid from the dough we carefully place it next to us.
11. We respectfully remove the glass as well, which we carefully place inside the disc.
12. This is because with the help of the lid we have made a kind of distillation inside the glass, managing to collect the so-called "Gul" (Gul) i.e. rose essential oil, which is sold in the market at 20 € the bottle of a few ml.
13. Then we strain the contents and with our hands press the remaining petals to extract all their essence.
14. Store in a jar or bottle.

Beyond the usefulness of rose water in the cream, it is an excellent flavoring material for cakes, macaroons and other sweets.

"Gul" close it in a small bottle, preferably dark, because the essential oil should not be directly exposed to light or high temperature, because it loses all its smell.

Here's a gift for those who will make the above recipes without getting bored because good efforts are earned, but also for those who are bored, because we all deserve it.

A clever recipe for quick hydration that grandma used to call "cooling spray", while I call her…

..."Evian!!»

ingredients

• 1 bottle with vaporizer cap
• Rose water depending on the size of the bottle. Usually 2 cups of tea.
• 2 bags or 3 tablespoons of green tea (Grandma Metaxia used to make Turkish tea, which is red)
• 2 bags or 3 tablespoons of chamomile
• Dried lavender flowers (optionally)
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
• 2 "Gul" drops

Implementation

1. Pour the rose water into a deep bowl and add ice.
2. In the same bowl I put the bags of chamomile, of tea and lavender flowers.
3. After 1 I also add the lemon juice.
4. I leave them for 1 hour even then I decant the mixture into the bottle with the vaporizer. I add 'Gul' and shake quickly for 2 seconds.
5. Ready the "Evian!!» and always faithful!!