How many times have you had to send a slightly withered bouquet of fragrant and lovely roses to the trash can? Remember how you felt when you did this! In fact, these flowers deserve a more respectful attitude: it's all about the amazing properties of their petals, which are used in various ways. Prepare rose petals: find out what you can do with them in the article!
Give the rose a second chance
If you think that the only way to preserve the beauty of a plant is to dry it, leaving it between the pages of one of the volumes of a love story, then we hasten to dedicate you to the art of giving flowers a second life.
Composition
To determine what can be made from dry rose petals, we will be helped by a guide to botany. The beneficial properties of this prickly but beautiful plant were known in ancient Rome. Science explains the medicinal effect of the rose by the active substances that make up the plant.
So, it is rich in sucrose, glucose, fructose (the percentage of these sugars reaches 18 points), pectinsubstances and organic acids (about 4%). A high percentage of the substances that make up the rose are phenolic acids and tannins. The flower is distinguished by a high content of B vitamins, vitamins PP and pantothenic acid.
Useful properties
Rose is that unique flower, the use of which is limited not only to decoration: it is actively used as a medicine, and is also often used in cooking. So, the rose has the following types of beneficial effects on the human body:
- reducing the strength of spasms, pain;
- suspension of the development of inflammatory processes and allergic reactions;
- choleretic and vasodilating actions;
- normalization of the cardiovascular system;
- affects the nervous system, calming it;
- has a disinfecting effect.
Medications based on rose oil are widely used in folk and official medicine. So, for diseases of the oral cavity, diseases of the gums or teeth, rinsing with a tincture of rose petals is recommended. It is worth noting that rose oil is actively used to stop bleeding and even as a laxative.
Based on the healing properties that rose petals have, what can be done with them? To your attention are several ideas for using the plant in cosmeticpurposes!
The use of rose petals in cosmetology
How many centuries mankind has admired the beauty, nobility, fragrance of rosebuds! This flower, when used correctly, is able to maintain human beauty and youth.
Lotions with a touch of nature
What can be done with pink rose petals? Get the tonic ready! So, from ½ cup of crushed petals, filled with boiling water, and one tablespoon of glycerin, an effective washing lotion is obtained. Beauticians recommend wiping the face and décolleté area with the finished mixture.
Classic recipe for cosmetic pink tea: pour a few tablespoons of finely chopped rose petals into 200 ml of boiled water. Insist for 20 minutes. The finished tincture can be placed in a spray bottle and refreshed with some water on the face or frozen in a mold, thereby preparing cosmetic cubes - they will serve as a prevention of wrinkles.
If you pour 1 cup of finely chopped petals into 200 ml of vodka, leaving the mixture to infuse, then after 10 days a lotion will be ready to cleanse the skin. Before use, strain the tincture and dilute with 2 teaspoons of chilled boiled water.
Mask recipes
A jar filled with five large rosebuds, pour boiling water over it. Leave to infuse for 20-30 minutes. Express. Dilute rice flour and oatmeal in the finished tincture - add these ingredients until the solution acquires a mushy consistency. Finished maskApply to the skin of the face, neck, décolleté area, wash off after half an hour with running water. After using the mask, moisturize the skin with cream.
Cosmetologists say that it is rose petals that have a nourishing effect for any skin type. What can be done with them? We offer to prepare a mask of pink flour. To do this, grind the petals in a blender. 1 tablespoon flour diluted with ½ teaspoon low-fat sour cream (you can use cream as an alternative) and stir in 1 teaspoon chicken protein. Thoroughly mix all the ingredients, let it brew. Now it remains to apply the mask on pre-cleansed skin and leave it for half an hour, then rinse it off under a stream of water.
Preparing a mask that helps to narrow the skin pores is as follows: 1 chicken protein is mixed with 1 tablespoon of honey, 2 tablespoons of flour and a few drops of rose oil. Already after the first treatment, which should last 25 minutes, there is significant progress in reducing skin pores.
Skin adapted rose
For owners of dry skin, it is recommended to wipe the face with rose water, prepared according to the classic recipe, but diluted with a little milk.
To normalize the condition of oily skin will help cleansing procedures using the product prepared according to the following recipe: pour 4 cups of petals into ½ liter of vinegar. The duration of the infusion should be3 weeks, after which the mixture must be filtered and diluted with ½ liter of boiled water.
What can be done with dried rose petals: culinary masterpieces
Ah, if only roses were as delicious as they were fragrant! In fact, these are not blind dreams. In fact, this proud flower is the key to many interesting culinary recipes. What can be done with dried rose petals in the kitchen? Here are some options.
Pink Syrup
Prepare 1 kg of fresh rose petals - for this, carefully select fresh and strong specimens, then rinse them with cold water. Send them to an enamel pan and pour 9 liters of hot water. Bring water with petals to a boil, wait until they lose color. Remove from fire. Add 4 kg of sugar to rose water and send the mixture back to the fire: remove 10-15 minutes after it boils. Usually, the film that forms on it signals that it is time to remove the syrup from the stove. Pour the finished syrup into pre-sterilized jars.
Tea
Many are interested in the question: is it possible to make tea from rose petals? It is possible, and what! Take note of the recipe.
The so-called pink Persian tea, which is based on rose petals and black tea leaves, is incredibly easy to prepare. Just pour these two ingredients in a 1:1 ratio with the desired amount of boiling water and let the drink brew. A drink prepared according to this recipe will be the perfect complement.any tea drinking and will satisfy any whims of "tea gourmets".
Flower dessert
Here they are wonderful, rose petals. What can be done with them is a topic that sets no boundaries for human imagination.
So, if prepared, selected and washed rose petals are cut into slices and then placed in a container and ground with sugar until smooth, you can get a delicious candied rose that can sweeten any winter evening!
Rose petals: interior design ideas
What can you do with dried rose petals to decorate your home? If you managed to dry whole buds, then they can be planted on a stick, given an original color and placed in a vase - such a flower arrangement will please the eye with its "longevity".
By the way, interior designers recommend covering dried or fresh rose petals with a layer of wax or varnish: this allows you to use the petals as a romantic element. So, they can strew a bed, a table in the living room or neatly laid out towels in the bathroom.
Dried buds, placed in a transparent bottle of the original form, will become an original addition to the interior.
