What is it worth to buy at the pharmacy, even if healthy

tar soap

This soap, 10% consisting of birch tar. Birch tar has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, and also improves blood flow and promotes the regeneration of skin.

Tar soap used to fight acne. When washing your face, it may be too aggressive (dry skin), the acne on your back and shoulders to cope admirably. Also, tar soap wash the head. It helps get rid of dandruff and hair loss and reduces the secretion of the sebaceous glands of the head - hair longer stay fresh.

Lack, which can be critical - a sharp and rather caustic odor.

Hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂Peroxide) - is a colorless liquid with a metallic taste. In most cases, the peroxide solution having an antiseptic effect is used for disinfecting wounds. But thanks to the strong oxidizing properties, it copes well with everyday problems, such as purification and bleaching surfaces.

Thus, in trohprotsentnom peroxide solution can disinfect a toothbrush, a sponge for washing dishes or cutting board. If peroxide is mixed with water in a ratio of one to one and fill the spray bottle, it is possible to clean the toilet, killing all bacteria. Peroxide also copes well with mold and mildew on the walls. Mix it with water at a ratio of two to one and spray the problematic surface.

using H₂O₂ and as a deodorant. If you sweat a lot feet, wipe them with a peroxide. Sweating is not gone, but the odor you permanently get rid of.

Essential oils

Essential oil - a volatile fragrant substance extracted from flowers, seeds, roots, leaves, fruits, plants or wood resin. Each of them has unique pharmacological properties: sage helps fight colds, Melissa wins insomnia and depression, marjoram clears the skin, grapefruit and strengthens the immune system.

How to use essential oils, we have been told: bath, massage, inhalation, compresses and so on. Read the article "7 ways to use essential oils».

Burr oil

If burdock root insist on vegetable oil, then we obtain a very useful product, rich in vitamins A, B, C and E. Also burdock comprises inulin, micro- and macrocells, stearic and palmitic fatty acids, flavonoids and tannins.

Most often, burdock oil is used in hair care. It improves their growth, strengthens hair follicles, moisturizing and nourishing the scalp, prevent dandruff and hair loss. In addition, it is used for the care of eyelashes and eyebrows: burdock stimulates their renewal.

In the web you will find many recipes for hair masks based on burdock oil. For example, to combat dry seborrhea can mix three tablespoons of honey, half a cup of burdock oil and two egg yolks. Apply the mixture, put on plastic cap and wrap head with a towel, and two hours later, wash your hair.

Before using burdock oil, as well as any other natural product, check whether you have an allergy to it. To do this, apply a drop of oil in the crook of the elbow. If there was an itch or skin blushed means can not be used.

Badyaga

Badyaga - powder greenish or greyish-green color, which is produced from dried freshwater algae spongy form of the family spongillidae. This old drug which is used in medicine and cosmetology.

Badyaga has local irritating action - increases blood flow, promotes regeneration. Due to this the bruises and contusions heal just a matter of days. Assign badyagu and myelitis, rheumatic and neuralgic pains. But more often it is used as a cosmetic in the fight against acne, black dots and pigment spots.

The easiest and most common prescription masks badyagoy - it badyaga plus hydrogen peroxide. You can also make a mask with white clay. As - is told in this video.

Contraindication to the use of fresh-water sponge is skin hypersensitivity, as well as violation of the integrity of the skin in those places where the mask is applied. It is not recommended to use fresh-water sponge frequently.

Cosmetic clay

that healthier skinNot necessarily to visit SPA-center. Sometimes it is better to make a homemade mask of cosmetic clay. In pharmacies, a large assortment of products, clay differ in color, composition and properties.

White enhances the elasticity of the skin, cleans the face. Blue clay is enriched with silver ions have a strong antiseptic effect, it helps fight acne and other troubles dermatic. Red has beneficial effects on blood circulation, improves skin tone and elasticity, gray - well moisturizes, is recommended for women aged.

Also, when choosing a particular clay should take into account the skin type. It depends on it and the recommended frequency of use of face masks out of clay. Owners of dry skin, such procedures should be performed no more than once a week.

herbs

Oregano, St. John's wort, lemon balm, yarrow, violet - these and other plants in the dried form can be purchased in almost any drugstore. The main thing - to know their pharmacological properties, and applications in many herbal - by brewing tea to compress.

Here are a number of popular medical destination plants.

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chlorhexidine

Many purse is a skin antiseptic. We hold on to the handrails in public transport, we count the money in the store, greet people, and wash your hands often no opportunity. And then it comes to the aid of a handheld cleaner in a spray or gel. The bad news is that a truly effective means are quite expensive. The good news - there are a cheap alternative. Her name chlorhexidine.

Chlorhexidine digluconate is available in several forms: solutions, gels, suppositories, tablets, aerosols. The cheapest, safest, and most convenient is an aqueous solution of chlorhexidine at a concentration of 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 or 1%. Such solutions are harmless to humans, has no odor and a pronounced taste, and most importantly, very rarely cause allergies.

This drug is not only successfully used as a skin antiseptic and disinfectant, but also has other functions. For example, an aqueous solution of chlorhexidine can be replaced by thermal water or skin lotion. Also it is used for wet cleaning in the apartment, especially in the season of colds, when you need to fight the bacteria.

mummy

This organo-mineral product that is widely used in official and folk medicine. The process of formation of this substance are still not exactly understood, in contrast to the chemical composition. Mummies contains calcium, phosphorus, essential oils, amino acids, vitamin E and B vitamins - all more than 50 useful components.

Learn more about the benefits of shilajit discussed in the next video.

In pharmacies mumiyo sold in the form of tablets, tinctures, creams.

Dry shampoo

This powder, with which you can quickly bring the dirty head in order to wash when there is no time or opportunity. But dry shampoo there are other useful properties.

With it, you can give your hair volume, make a fleece, lock pins or mask regrown roots (if you are blonde). Also clean dry shampoo wigs.

The advantage of dry shampoo is that it is suitable for women and men to any type of hair. Recipes home dry shampoo, as well as recommendations on how to wash your hair less often, you'll find here.

And what you buy at the pharmacy of the means for self-care and household tools? Write your life hacking into the comments.