Every woman and girl wants to have as much fun as possiblestay young and attractive longer. One of the most important components of a beautiful appearance is excellent skin condition. It is by this that a lady's age is assessed, and whether she takes good care of herself is noted. Flabby, sallow, inflamed and flaky skin indicates that a woman does not pay due attention to it. But fresh, clean, elastic and velvety skin is the result obtained through constant care and maintenance of it. What kind of products that improve the condition of the skin do not exist at the present time. These are various creams with collagen, serums, masks, anti-cellulite compounds, beauty injections, etc. Quite recently, hydrophilic tiles have burst into cosmetology and are gaining popularity. What are they, what are their benefits and is it possible to make such tiles with your own hands?

A few words about unusual cosmetics

A popular solid hydrophilic material these daysAt the initial stage of its production, the tile is a mixture of different types of natural oils: liquid, hard and soft, bound together with an emulsifier. Thanks to the latter component, all the components of the mixture do not separate, but are tightly connected to each other. Depending on the recipe, various dry additives are mixed with the oils. The most common among them are coffee or dry milk, fruit powder and cosmetic clay. All the components that make up the mixture are heated in a water bath, and then stirred continuously until it cools. Then the cooled mixture is poured into molds and placed in the refrigerator until it hardens even more. After a few hours, the molds are taken out and freed from the mixture, which has turned into small hard pieces - a tile. These pieces can be stored at room temperature, and their shape will not change in any way.

How to use hydrophilic tiles?

Such cosmetics should be applied to damp skin.skin of the face and body. When the bar comes into contact with water, it begins to melt and becomes similar to a liquid cream or cleansing cream. The mixture is perfectly absorbed into the skin, leaving no greasy marks. Due to the large number of useful ingredients, the bar wonderfully moisturizes and nourishes the skin, and also cleanses it of dead cells and impurities.Most often, hydrophilic tiles are used aftertaking a shower, spreading the melting composition all over the wet body. It is very common to use such cosmetics after washing your hands with regular or liquid soap: it softens their action and saturates the skin cells with moisture. Many girls prefer to use not simple cosmetic milk, but a more gentle and useful hydrophilic bar to remove their makeup. If oil pieces are used as a cream after a shower, they are applied to the surface of damp skin, and then washed a little with warm water. Then, only lightly touch the body with a terry towel or put on a bathrobe, allowing the skin to dry gradually and more naturally. Before using hydrophilic bars as a makeup remover, rinse your face with cool water first, then spread a piece of the bar all over your face and massage it lightly. Remove makeup from the skin with a cotton pad, then rinse your face again with water and blot it a little with a paper napkin. Use this oil remedy after visiting the pool or after taking a shower at sea. It is also useful in the autumn-winter period, since at this time strong cold winds blow, which have an adverse effect on the skin. In apartment buildings and private houses and offices with central heating, the air becomes drier, and the skin becomes the same, especially if you are constantly indoors. Therefore, it needs to be moisturized, and this can be easily done with a hydrophilic product. Girls and women should know that hydrophilic tiles do not contain water, so they need to be alternated with other cosmetic moisturizers. Owners of oily skin are recommended to use tiles 2-3 times a week, and ladies with normal and dry skin from 1 to 4 times every 7 days.

The main components of oil tiles

Residents of megacities can find hydrophilictiles in cosmetic stores or in the pharmacy departments of natural cosmetics. But residents of small towns are less fortunate in this regard. What to do, because all women have the same desire: to become more beautiful with the help of oil tiles. This product can be made at home. The most difficult stage for ladies will be the search and purchase of components for the tile, and its preparation will not be difficult. What should you definitely buy for the production of hydrophilic cosmetics?

Emulsion wax. Without it, those who want to make a plate with their own hands will not succeed. The main function of this component is the ability to combine the oils with water, otherwise they would have stratified in the composition and could never mix, and when applied to the skin, fatty traces would be left on it. Thus, the emulsion wax must be purchased in the first place, since it will be needed for every recipe for hydrophilic tiles.

Butter (oil). So-called solid oils help the unusual soap to harden. The most common are karite, cocoa butter and palm kernel butterfly. Karite is called another shi oil in another way, as it is extracted from the fruit of the tree of the same name, which grows on the territory of Africa. Rich in vitamins F, A, E, karyite easily gives the skin of a person firmness, smoothness and silkiness. It heals burns and wounds, protects the skin from ultraviolet light, frostbite and adverse effects of cold winds. Representatives of African tribes, despite the low consumption of liquid, keep their skin in excellent condition thanks to karite.

Butter cacao. This refined product is the savior for tired, withering and dry skin of the face. With regular application, it makes it more fresh, elastic and rosy, removing gray color and peeling, smoothing out fine wrinkles. Do not buy unrefined oil, as it is used only in the confectionery industry for the production of chocolate bars.

Palm oil. This product, unlike the palm butterfly, is extracted from the very nuclei of the palm fruits, and in them the most nutritious and useful substances are hidden. This oil perfectly moisturizes and tones the skin, has anti-inflammatory effect.

Soft oils, like solid ones, have a beneficial effectimpact on the skin of the body and face. Among them, the most famous was the oil, produced from the seeds of plum and apricot. The substances included in its composition not only increase the elasticity and moisturize the skin. They also prevent the appearance of acne eruptions and are great for caring for combination skin and delicate eyelid skin.

Dry additives are needed for more denseconsistency of tiles. One of these additives is ground coffee. This component is worth adding to the hydrophilic "cream", as it nicely narrows the pores and fights against cellulite. It, being a natural scrub, perfectly cleans old cells of the epidermis, tones up the skin and eliminates the puffiness of the eyelids.

Another dry additive is claycosmetic. It is especially suitable for women with oily skin. Clay remarkably tightens the pores, eliminates reddening of the skin and peeling, oily shine, and has bactericidal properties. For the production of hydrophilic tiles, the clay is pink and white in color.

Essential oils of flowers, fruits, herbs. They give the tiles a magical flavor, have a relaxing, soothing effect.

This is not a complete list of products includedin the composition of unusual tiles that melt when in contact with water. But they must necessarily contain both liquid oils and solid butters, as well as dry additives. And, as already mentioned above, an emulsifier will be an essential element of any tile composition. What recipes are best to try to prepare at home with your own hands?

Preparatory stage

Before preparing hydrophilic tiles, you should definitely stock up on the following equipment and utensils:

• electronic scales;
• glass cup or bowl;
• silicone, paper or plastic figurines;
• a wooden stick or a plastic spoon to mix the ingredients;
• pots or deep dishes used as a water bath.

You will also need to put everything on the table in advance.Ingredients required for the bars: oils, additives, emulsifier. When measuring the amount of each ingredient, keep in mind that it is usually calculated as a percentage. There is an approximate percentage ratio of the main components of the mixture. So, the emulsifier is usually 20-25% of the total mass, butters - 40%, liquid oils - 10%, soft oils - 20-25%. You can change these proportions a little, but within 5-10% in one direction or another. You do not need to prepare a large amount of bars at once, so in grams or milliliters it will be a figure from 10 to 50. It is convenient to measure liquid components in tablespoons. For example, 1 large spoon is from 16 to 20 ml. In addition to the above-mentioned ingredients, hydrophilic tiles contain dry additives, which are usually added to the total mass in an amount of 70-100 g.

Several recipes for shower tiles

Although there are many recipes for hydrophilictiles, some of them are more suitable for application to the body, and others for the face or makeup removal. Which tiles are good for softening and moisturizing the skin after a shower? Cream with coconut oil. This composition includes the following ingredients:

• shea butter - 35%;
• liquid coconut oil (unrefined) - 15%;
• soft apricot kernel oil - 25%;
• emulsifier - 25%;
• vitamin E capsules — 1 piece

First, a glass is placed on the electronic scales andemulsifier crystals are poured into it, then coconut and shea butter are added there. Then the glass is placed in a water bath and very slowly over low heat, it is heated until all the components have melted. The mixture also needs to be stirred so that its components are heated equally. The melted composition is immediately removed from the heat and cooled to 30°C. After this, apricot kernel oil is added to it and stirred again with a wooden stick or plastic spoon.The last but not the least important component isis vitamin E squeezed out of the capsule into a glass. This vitamin increases the shelf life of the bars if the girl is going to use them once a week or has made a large amount of the mixture. If the lady uses hydrophilic bars 3 times in 7 days, you can not add vitamin to the mass, since it will not have time to spoil. Next, the mixture should be poured into molds. These can be plastic square ice cubes, candy boxes with recesses or paper cups from candies, silicone cosmetic molds, etc. The molds are placed in the refrigerator for 60-120 minutes, then taken out, and their hardened contents are shaken out onto the table and placed in a beautiful plate or bowl. Hydrophilic cosmetics are ready, you can take a shower, and at the final stage, do a magical wipe of the skin with a wonderful melting cream. Hydrophilic cream with cocoa butter. It contains:

• emulsion wax - 25%;
• cocoa butter (hard butter) - 40%;
• sesame oil — 20%;
• avocado butter — 25%;
• dry milk and coffee - 0.5 tablespoon each;
• essential oils of mandarin and verbena - 10 drops each.

First wax with soft and hard buttersmelts in a water bath, after removing from the heat, liquid oils are added. When the mixture cools down a little, essential oils, coffee powder and milk are added to it with continuous stirring. Only after the mass becomes viscous, it is stopped stirring and laid out in molds. The mass cooled in the refrigerator is ready for use. All that remains is to take 1 cube out of the mold and go with it to the bathroom.

How to cook slabs with clay?

Compositions with added clay are good for the face. Recipe for hydrophilic tiles for oily skin. For preparation you will need the following components:

• cocoa butter — 45%;
• coconut oil — 10%;
• grape seed oil - 10%;
• laurel oil - 15%;
• wax emulsifier - 20%;
• orange essential oil - 2-3 drops;
• kaolin (white clay) - 80 g.

All components of the future tile, except 2the last ingredients, combine and melt as described above. Add essential oil and clay to the mixture cooled to 35°C. Kaolin should not be combined with a high-temperature composition and should not be added more than the norm, since this may cause the mixture to harden poorly. After mixing and cooling the future tile in the refrigerator, it must be removed from the mold. And you can apply it to damp skin. Hydrophilic tiles for dry skin are prepared in the same way, only for it you need to replace some components with others. These will be:

• palm kernel butter - 40%;
• Shea butter - 20%;
• olive oil - 10%;
• mango butter — 10%;
• wax emulsifier - 20%;
• lavender essential oil - 5 drops;
• pink clay - 70-80 g.

Owners of dry skin can use these tiles every 2 days.

Make-up Remover Tile

To prepare this aromatic product you will need the following ingredients:

• emulsion wax - 24%;
• rose wax - 1%;
• cocoa butter — 25%;
• sweet almond oil - 15%;
• tea tree oil - 15%;
• shea butter - 20%.

The melting makeup remover is prepared like everything else.other tiles. Almond and tea tree oils are added to the mass after it has cooled slightly. The finished product can be used more often by ladies with dry skin, less often by those with oily skin, since the oils included in its composition are quite nutritious.

Tips for the quality production of tiles

Sometimes, having thrown away the finished tiles from the figuredmolds on the table, girls and women notice that it turned out with defects. For example, it began to melt too quickly at room temperature, or its components did not mix properly, but disintegrated into 2 layers: solidified oils and a mushy mass of dry additives. It is impossible to eliminate these problems, but next time they can be prevented. Knowing why these problems arise, you can avoid them in the future. Most often, melting of bars without water is due to the fact that they contain cocoa butter. It is this component that causes the most problems in the production of bars. The whole point is that cocoa butter, overheating more than 40-45 ° C, begins to melt at lower temperatures. To prevent this from happening, when producing a hydrophilic bar, not all the cocoa butter is added to the mass at once, but only 2 parts. They are heated until all the components and the emulsifier are dissolved, then removed from the water bath and cooled to 27-30°C, stirring constantly, then cold or slightly warmed remaining oil is added to the mixture, stirred again and only then poured into molds. In order for the oils to mix well with dry additives, not to go in grains and not to melt immediately after they are taken out of the refrigerator, you can do the following. After dissolving the components in a water bath, they must be poured into a mixing glass and placed in the refrigerator for 4-6 minutes, then taken out and whipped for 1 minute. After this, the mass should be cooled again in the refrigerator and after 5 minutes, repeat the whipping process. Each time the mass will seem more homogeneous and thick. The cooling and whipping procedures are repeated 2-3 times, then essential oils are added to the mass according to the recipe and poured into molds. After the mixture hardens, it will have a solid, uniform structure and will not melt at room temperature. Hydrophilic tiles are cosmetics of the new era. Thanks to their delicate melting structure, pleasant aroma and abundance of useful substances, many girls and women have come to love them. And the amazing effect of their use leads to the fact that more and more representatives of the fair half of humanity dream of buying such a product or making it with their own hands, especially since making tiles is both easy and pleasant.

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