Masks made from natural ingredients are no less effective than cosmetics, and they cause allergic reactions much less often. The most commonly used ingredients are dairy products. Kefir and fermented baked milk are most often used for the face. The compositions in which they are included soften, whiten and moisturize the surface epithelium. In addition, they can be applied at any age, regardless of oily skin.
Composition and beneficial properties of fermented baked milk
The properties of fermented milk product are explained by the rich composition of nutrients. Among the vitamins, group B predominates - choline, riboflavin, niacin and ascorbic acid, and among minerals - calcium, potassium, sodium, chlorine, phosphorus, iron and fluorine, copper and tin.
The most beneficial for facial skin are saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. These substances:
- participate in the formation of cell membranes;
- normalize metabolic processes;
- stimulate the construction of epithelial tissue cell membranes;
- increase the production of collagen and elastin, hyaluronic acid and glycosaminoglycans;
- prevent the narrowing of small peripheral capillary blood vessels, increasing the supply of oxygen to the tissues;
- stop inflammatory processes.
Thanks to this effect, masks with fermented baked milk tighten the oval of the face and increase tone, help get rid of freckles and make acne marks less noticeable, soften the skin and restore color. The most important actions are anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial.
Regular application prevents the development of acne and prevents the formation of pustules after cuts or microtraumas.
The best masks based on fermented baked milk
Hair mask made from fermented baked milk and specially selected oils
To prepare such a healthy hair mask, you need half a glass of fermented baked milk, a few drops of olive, burdock and castor oils. Mix everything and apply it to your hair for half an hour. For the best effect, you need to cover your hair first with a special cap and then with a towel so that the mask does not leak. You can additionally direct a stream of warm air onto the mask to enhance the effect. Once the time is up, the mask can be washed off with warm water using shampoo or any other product (“Hops for hair growth - method of application and effectiveness”).
Mask of fermented baked milk and oatmeal
Oatmeal in combination with fermented baked milk works real miracles with damaged and weakened hair, and also additionally strengthens split ends and dry hair (“Care for split ends and brittle hair”). In order to prepare such a mask, you need to grind oatmeal into flour and mix with fermented baked milk to form a viscous mass. After this mixture can be applied to the hair, paying special attention to the roots. After about 15 minutes, you can wash off the mask and rinse your hair in any usual way.
Hair mask made from fermented baked milk and honey
To restore hair after dyeing or perming (“Care for thin and thin hair”), you can make such a useful hair mask. It is based on fermented baked milk, a few spoons of honey and two eggs. All components of the mask are mixed well and applied to the hair for a quarter of an hour. After using this mask, your hair looks good, has a healthy shine and strength, and holds any style perfectly.
You can also add hair vitamins in capsules to the mask, which you can buy at the pharmacy. This will give an additional moisturizing effect, which is necessary for each hair type to one degree or another.
When creating a hair mask from fermented baked milk, you need to remember that the composition must be used immediately, since during storage the mask loses most of its beneficial properties. Also, when cleansing your hair, sometimes you may need to wash off the mask several times, since fermented baked milk penetrates deeply into the hair and can give a greasy effect. Have you already tried making a mask of fermented baked milk for your hair?
How to cook fermented baked milk at home?
Recipes for making fermented milk products yourself:
- With sour cream sourdough. Place a clay pot without a lid with 1.5 liters of milk in a cold oven, set the temperature regulator to +180°C, and when the foam rises and a brown crust forms, pour it in with a wooden spoon. After such a crust has already formed 4-5 times, remove the dishes from the oven, cool so that the palm feels warm, remove the hard foam with a slotted spoon and stir in 3 tbsp. l. sour cream. Place in the oven for another 7 hours, setting the regulator to +170°C.
- With sour cream and yolk. Place 1.3 liters of milk in the oven at +200°C and leave until the amount of liquid has reduced by 1/3, dropping the brown foam. Then they are laid out on a saucer. Using a mixer, beat the yolk and a pinch of sugar into half a glass of sour cream. Pour the starter into the baked milk, stir, pour into separate jars, carefully placing a piece of foam on the surface. Cool the oven to +40°C and leave for 3.5-4 hours.
- In a slow cooker. 1 liter of milk is poured into the bowl. Set the “stewing” mode and increase the cooking time to 6 hours. Cool to +40°C and stir in 50 g of sour cream. Leave it on the heat for another 1 hour, and then turn it off and let it rest for 8-9 hours at room temperature without opening the lid. It is more convenient to start cooking in the evening.
The benefits for the skin from fermented baked milk prepared according to the latest recipe are greater. The consistency is homogeneous, there are no foams or foreign inclusions. The most convenient structure for cosmetics.
Recipe 6. Ryazhenka helps the skin to rest.
A face mask made from fermented baked milk will help tidy up oily skin – 1 tbsp. spoon, yeast - 0.5 packs, egg yolk - 1 piece, lemon juice - 2-3 drops. All components are thoroughly mixed and then rubbed over the skin. The procedure lasts 15-20 minutes, after which the mask should be washed off with cool water.
15-20 minutes before bed, apply thick fermented baked milk to the skin, lie down relaxed, without straining your facial muscles. Then simply wash off the mask with warm water. This mask nourishes the skin with vitamins, tones it, and makes it soft and velvety.
Ryazhenka masks
The dairy product can be applied to the face in its pure form or mixed with various ingredients. To increase the effectiveness of the procedure, the skin should be prepared. Wash off makeup, cleanse with tonic or gentle foam. It will be easier for beneficial substances to be absorbed if you steam your face in a water bath before the procedure and use light peeling.
Keep the compositions for 15-20 minutes, rinse off first with warm and then with cold water. If dryness occurs, apply a nourishing cream.
For acne
For inflammatory processes in the acute stage, homemade cosmetics are not used. But if application is started at the first sign - redness or the formation of lumps - the development of ulcers can be prevented.
To cleanse pores on oily skin, mix 3 tbsp. l. ground oatmeal with 1 tbsp. l. fermented baked milk, pour in 1 tsp. lemon juice. In case of increased dryness, citrus juice is replaced with almond oil - 1-2 drops per 1 tbsp. l. composition.
For application to the face and décolleté, the mask is made up of the following products: 100 ml of fermented baked milk, egg yolk, 60 g of low-fat elastic pasty cottage cheese or 1 tsp. live yeast. This face mask with fermented baked milk not only stops the inflammatory process, but restores elasticity and improves color. If yeast was added, after application you should lie on your back for 20 minutes, otherwise the tightening effect will not work. When standing upright, the skin will sag.
Acne mask ingredients
Effective anti-inflammatory effect in a cosmetic composition with the drug Aspirin. The tablets are ground into powder and driven in 4 tbsp. l. Ryazhenka
When millet rashes or rashes characteristic of adulthood appear, use a mask made from the following ingredients: fermented baked milk - 80 ml, honey - 1 tbsp. l. and lifting cream with a nourishing effect. Before application, the composition is heated to body temperature in a water bath.
Whitening
Freckles that appear in early spring can be easily removed with a mixture of fermented baked milk, lemon juice and part of an egg. To treat the face and décolleté, 50-80 ml of fermented milk product and 1-2 tsp are enough. citrus juice. For oily skin, add whipped egg white; for dry skin, add pre-pounded yolk.
Moisturizing
Recipes for masks with fermented baked milk that help restore skin tone after loss of moisture:
- With essential oils. 100-150 ml of the main ingredient, 3-4 drops of juniper ether, 3 of rose and 2 of rosemary. Apply with a cosmetic brush along massage lines.
- With orange for mature skin. Mix 1 tbsp. l. fermented baked milk, olive oil, thick fatty cottage cheese and orange paste. Citrus slices are first cleaned of white fibers and films, and the resulting citrus puree is ground through a sieve.
- With peach. The composition includes 2 tbsp. l. fermented milk drink, 1 yolk and fruit puree without peel. Additional action – whitens.
- With berries. The fruits are rubbed through a sieve to remove the seeds. If the skin is oily, preference should be given to raspberries, strawberries or currants; normal – grapes; dry - gooseberries or persimmons. 2 tbsp. l. the main ingredient is combined with 1 tbsp. l. berry puree, and stir in 1 tsp. potato starch diluted in a small amount of warm water.
- With cucumber. Used for extreme dryness. Fresh vegetables should be prepared in advance: peel, remove large seeds and grate the pulp. Mix vegetable puree with fermented milk drink (50 ml), pour in Aevita capsule or oil vitamins A and E - 5 drops each.
Often, instead of vitamins purchased at the pharmacy, it is advised to add flaxseed oil. But under the influence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical composition of this ingredient begins to change. It produces phenolic compounds that have an aggressive effect on epithelial tissue. Therefore, if you use this recommendation, after applying the mask, it is advisable to be in a dark place.
Ryazhenka in folk medicine
Ryazhenka in medicine is called a natural antibiotic, which is able to extinguish inflammatory processes in tissues and has an analgesic effect. Few products can boast of such an effect on the body. With moderate but regular use of fermented baked milk:
- improves digestion;
- stimulates appetite (therefore it is recommended to give it to children half an hour before the main meal);
- quenches thirst;
- helps the kidneys work;
- useful for disorders of the biliary tract and liver;
- promotes weight loss;
- prevents atherosclerosis;
- relieves headaches;
- strengthens the immune system;
- improves the condition of hypertensive patients.
As a preventative and medicinal product for the prevention and treatment of these diseases, it is recommended to drink 250 ml (1 glass) of fermented baked milk per day for a week. This way you can avoid overuse and addiction. The use of this drink can not be limited to its medicinal properties: many women have already discovered an amazing cosmetic product in it.
Reviews
Marina, 22 years old, Urengoy: “Why spend money on expensive facial products if you have fermented baked milk? Mom told me so many recipes. I especially love it with strawberries and raspberries. I defrost the berries at room temperature, not in water.”
Olga Sergeevna, 58 years old, Kalinovka: “Thanks to ryazhenka I have a young face, a toned neck and soft hands. I mix it with honey or egg whites.”
Inga, 37 years old, Perm: “I tried different recipes for homemade cosmetics and settled on fermented milk products. Can be combined with any products or oils. The skin becomes elastic, inflammations heal faster.”
Chemical composition of fermented baked milk
The product is quite diverse. Thanks to this wealth, fermented baked milk is used in folk medicine and for preparing masks in home cosmetology.
- It contains calcium in large quantities. A glass of the product covers a quarter of the body's daily need for this element.
- There is also a lot of phosphorus in it. 200 ml of the drink contains 20% of the body’s need for it per day.
- Fermented milk product is rich in protein. It is absorbed better than milk casein.
- A large amount of lactic acids will improve appetite.
- It contains many organic acids that are necessary to maintain cell youth.
- The fermented milk product is rich in its vitamin composition. It contains the most riboflavin (vitamin B2), which takes part in regulating the process of hormone synthesis.
- Biological substances in fermented baked milk are represented by enzymes, amino acids and elements with antibiotic effects. With their help, intestinal microflora is normalized.
How to select and store fermented baked milk
In order for a store-bought product to bring benefit rather than harm, you need to look at:
- on the date of manufacture, the fresher the drink, the better;
- for expiration date, the natural product can be stored for no more than 5-7 days.
It is better to purchase the product in glass bottles, as the properties are preserved better in them. In addition, through the walls you can immediately see the consistency and color of fermented baked milk: a high-quality product should be cream-colored, moderately thick and without lumps.
Store the product only in the refrigerator, and no longer than the period indicated on the package. Opened fermented baked milk should be consumed within a maximum of 2 days, after which it will spoil.
Cooking fermented baked milk
All fermented milk products prepared independently contain much more valuable substances than those offered to us in supermarkets. In addition to useful ingredients, store-bought fermented baked milk contains added flavors, sweeteners, thickeners and other chemicals that are not beneficial to hair or health.
A better option is to make the base for the masks yourself. To do this, we use simple instructions:
- Pour a liter of milk, preferably homemade, into an enamel, ceramic or stainless steel pan. Place on medium heat and bring to a boil.
- We reduce the flame to minimum, cover the dish with a lid and leave the liquid to simmer for an hour.
- Move the pan to the oven and keep it at low temperature for another half hour.
- Take out the mixture, let it cool to a temperature of 30-37°C, add two tablespoons of rich sour cream, stir.
- We leave the composition in a warm place for 6-8 hours, it should turn sour. You can use a regular thermos for this.
The finished product can be eaten or used to make cosmetics. It will contain the maximum amount of nutrients and restorative substances.
The fresher the fermented baked milk, the more benefits it will have. If the whey begins to flake off too much, it is better to prepare a new portion.
Is fermented baked milk good for weight loss?
The benefit of fermented baked milk for weight loss is that the properties of the fermented milk drink gently cleanse the body of waste and toxins. The product satisfies hunger and regulates the functioning of the stomach and intestines.
There is a special diet based on fermented baked milk. For several days, you need to take a glass of the drink 5 times a day along with other food, while food portions should be reduced. By reducing the number of calories, weight will begin to rapidly decrease, and fermented baked milk will protect the stomach from irritation and help remove toxins.
Important! Only a low-fat product is suitable for use on a diet, preferably no more than 2.5% fat content.
What benefits does fermented baked milk bring to hair?
Ryazhenka is a nutritious product obtained by fermentation. The diet drink is often used for cosmetic purposes, as it is an environmentally friendly product for improving the health of skin and hair. Natural fermented baked milk has a rich composition and pleasant taste, thick consistency. Therefore, it is easy to apply it to curls in its pure form and use it to prepare homemade masks.
Ryazhenka contains healing substances that have a beneficial effect on hair condition:
- Lactic acid - strengthens hair follicles, makes curls vibrant, strong, restores damage, and prevents split ends.
- Protein – gives volume, shine, and elasticity to hair.
- Vitamins C, PP, A, B1, B2 and others - tone, stop hair loss, and generally have a positive effect on the condition of the hair.
- Organic acids maintain cell youth and protect hair from negative external factors.
For cosmetic purposes, it is necessary to choose a high-quality fermented milk product. You should not buy fermented baked milk standing on the shelf in the supermarket. The drink must be stored in the refrigerator. When choosing, you need to pay attention to the production date - fresh fermented baked milk retains more beneficial bacteria. It is also worth checking the composition of the product. For masks, it is advisable to use a natural diet drink that does not contain flavors, dyes, or other additives.
It’s easy to check the freshness of fermented baked milk yourself. A high-quality drink should not separate - only a small separation of whey is allowed. Also, the dairy product should not have a strong aroma or too pronounced sour taste.
To make preventive and therapeutic hair masks, you can prepare fermented baked milk at home. To get a healing drink, three basic ingredients are enough. This is milk, sour cream and sugar. The cooking process includes several stages:
- Pour 1 liter of milk into an enamel pan and place the container on the fire.
- After boiling, reduce the flame and leave the product to simmer for about an hour.
- When the color of the milk becomes light beige, you can turn off the gas and cool the liquid to a temperature of 37-40 degrees.
- Add 2 tablespoons of sour cream and a little sugar to taste to the raw material, mix the ingredients thoroughly.
- Cover the pan with a lid, put it in a warm place for about 10 hours, after stirring the product can be consumed.
What is healthier: fermented baked milk or kefir
In terms of their composition and beneficial properties, fermented milk drinks are very similar; they contain the same vitamins, minerals and lactic acid bacteria. But there are also differences.
- Kefir is more acidic than fermented baked milk.
- Ryazhenka is absorbed a little faster than kefir.
- Ryazhenka, on average, is higher in calories: most often you can find a product with 2.5% fat content or higher, while kefir is completely fat-free.
It is worth giving preference to fermented baked milk if the acidity of the stomach is slightly increased. But kefir is better for weight loss.
