No matter whatsoever we have done in our daily lives, most of it has always been involved in impressing someone or the other. May it be our parents at home to our boss at the office or maybe someone we prefer romantically or anyone we are planning to woo in the forthcoming times.
Given our daily hectic schedule, it becomes very difficult for us to maintain healthy skin and the charming glow that rivets others due to the blazing attraction of someone. With too much stress, the hormones take a heavy toll on one’s skin and leave it chequered with acne, pimples, wrinkles, and more importantly with the claws of age.
However, we now have ever-evolving make-up that helps us to stave away the vice of age to a certain extent. Though it has a massive drawback and that is its glaring incompatibility with one’s skin.
In this story, however, we will look at ancient ways where kings or queens used natural cures to keep themselves swathed in a burning glow of charm and beauty. In fact, they are the very principles on which today’s make-up are being formulated.
Jackass Milk
Now as per the relics and the historical texts, it is said that Jackass milk had anti-aging property and the implication of the same made you look young despite the mounting age. The kings would dip themselves in a perfect blend of nectar and olive oil to make their skin look as dazzling as it can be. However, finding jackass oil is a bit difficult as no one known to crack the exact ingredients of the same.
Nectar and Olive Oil
Nectar and Olive oil can be miraculous for your skin together when they come together and they can have a wondrous impact on your hair and skin. Rulers would apply nectar and olive oil to their hair to make it shine. In fact, it was also a brilliant cure for baldness from which people suffer a lot these days.
Lager (Madeira)
The brew is surmised to have excellent properties for one’s hair and skin. This was one of the favourite beauty packs of men to look charming and beautiful. The mix would comprise eggs, lemon, and milk powder and then would evolve into a perfect recipe for the beauty of the skin. The brew is extremely rich in sugar that helps skin and hair to stay healthy. This also had an anti-aging property to itself which stuck out as the x-factor.
Rose Water Bath
The smell of rose supersedes any other flower in beauty and aroma. The usage of rose petals in bath water used to make the bath a lot more delicate for the sensitive skin back in the days while the aroma used to be wonderful that would make countless heads turn in a span of seconds. Rosewater also had the fascinating property of extracting poison from one’s skin, thereby keeping it unharmed and young.
Rose fragrance (Ittar)
Rose always had a very soothing and yet arousing fragrance to itself. This property of the flower always made rulers adhere to Rose fragrance as the primary source of charm and to smell good. Also, the Rose fragrance had an augmented property of keeping the skin moist even in the worst weather conditions.
Walnuts
Walnuts are an exciting bunch of dry fruits that always helped the Cerebrum and furthermore for ladies helped them to accentuate their curves. Queens back then would gorge upon walnuts on a regular body to maintain a proportionate figure that would attract men. The kings on the contrary would regularly eat walnuts in order to keep themselves strong and solid.
