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Face Value - Traditional Honey-Cucumber Facial

The principal ingredients of this facial - honey, lime and cucumber - enjoy an age-old reputation as skin healers, softeners and moisturizers. Use in conjunction with each other, these three natural ingredients reduce the discomforts of skin irritations and stem infection while promoting new cell growth.

This simple and sensual facial, leaves your skin feeling soft and plump and your mind questioning the need for progress in the beauty industry. Who needs electric steamers, electro-magnetic currents, alpha-hydroxy creams for wrinkle reduction and ultimately cosmetic surgery, when nature can be so gentle on the skin and so much kinder on the complexion? Scientific intervention is part of the skincare regimen of the past.

For Scrub:

8 oz (1 cup) clear honey

10 drops fresh lime juice

1 medium cucumber, thinly sliced

Steps:

1. Cleanse your face with warm water and a natural cloth
2. Mix the honey and lime juice together and massage into your face for 15 minutes. The sticky-turned-slippery sensation is sublime. The lime peels away surface cells and the honey softens the skin
3. Wipe away the residue of honey with a wet, warm cloth. Pat dry.
4. Neatly place the cucumber patches over your face and neck (covering eyes and mouth is optional). They feel cool while they tighten the skin and replenish moisture.
5. Finishing with a delicate moisturizer is optional, but not necessary

Jayn : Cooling sensation.

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Face Value

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More than any other part of our body, our face reflects most accurately what is going on beneath our skin's facade. It's the clearest indication of the popular maxim : "beauty from the inside out". While we know that we cannot halt our natural ageing process, we can help our skins age with grace by taking a few simple steps. Fresh air, adequate sleep, a higher water intake, relaxation and a diet high in fruit and vegetables and low in processed foods, all help our facial skin stay plump and relatively free from blemishes.

Tropical Asian women have a head start on those in the west. These basic steps have been an integral part of their traditional life-styles for centuries. And many of their facial preparations are mixed directly from the vast botanical heritahe that this region lays claim to. For example, many natural beauty preparations stem from the palaces in Central Java where princesses spent youth learning and preparing them for their own use. In the absent of night creams, neck creams, and a new oxygen creams, Asian women have used raw plant extracts to slough off dead skin cells, fight acne, replenish moisture or achieve an SPF.

Now that "natural" is de riguer once more, women are flocking to Asian spas where traditional treatments, free from clinical input, are giving them soft skin and a relaxed state of of mind. "Bacik to basics" is the new concept for modern beauty, and ironically, they may now find themselves having their faces 'cleaned' with the very food that, at home, they have hastily wiped from their chins.

In my next entry, i will share some of my home made, back to basics face treatments. Until then, for a start ; sleep tight baby....

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Balinese Boreh

If you reach for the Vicks pot at a hint of chesty cough, this body scrub is for you. Out of all the oriental treatments the Balinese Boreh offers the most potent sensation : -an all-over deep heat experiance. The scrub is purely and simply a herb and spice mix. It is a centeruies - old village recipe using spices we more readily associate with curry, and is prepared to warm the body at first sign of windy weather.

As a tropical people, the Balinese live in fear of the cold and the health problems it can bring, so the whole family has a boreh both as a curative and preventative treatment. It feels really hot; it's good for fever, headches, muscle aches, arthritis and chills. It increases the blood circulation and it's exfoliating ingredients - cloves and rice - soften the skin.

The boreh is not recommended for pregnant women as penetrative ingredients direct the heat away from the womb area to the body's extremities.

Enjoy DIY - Jayn's Boreh Recipe comes from the Nusa Dua Spa.

Ingredients:

20gms (4 tsp) sandalwood

10gms (2 tsp) whole cloves

10gms (2 tsp) ginger

05gms (1 tsp) cinamon

10gms (2 tsp) coriander seeds

10gms (2 tsp) rice powder (finely ground rice)

05gms (1 tsp) tumeric

10gms (2 tsp) nutmeg

10gms (2 tsp) lesser galangal water or spice-blended oil

3 large carrots, grated.

The first eight ingredients are ground together in a pestle and mortar or bought prepared in powder form or dried in balls.

Steps:

1. Add a little water or a spice-blended oil to the herb and spice mix to mak a thick paste. for those who cannot tolerate a strong heat sensation, mix a greater proportion of ground rice powder to reduce intensity
2. Cover your body; leave for 5 to 10 minutes; feel the heat!
3. Rub the skin vigorously so that mixture flakes away
4. Gently rub the grated carrot into the skin. This replenishes moisture after exfoliating
5. Shower and moisturize

Ladies and gentleman(also) - Enjoy your bathing ritual at home and minimize your spending during this horrible recession...(but we must still maintain our grace and body consciousness).

Bathing Rituals

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MANDI SUSU

The tale of Queen Cleopatra and her milk baths is well known, yet do you know anyone who pours a few pints into the tub before climbing in? Trust the Indonesian people with their deep grasp of the good of the natural, to have their own form of milk bath. Known as Mandi Susu, it has soaked Javanese proncesses for centuries as an elixir of eternal youth. Milk, from a goat, sheep or cow, makes skin radically soft and pure to the touch.

Modern formulations of this popular ritual have eliminated the taste and smell of milk while maintaining its nutrients with softening proteins. The Mandi Susu is sought-after bathing ritual at the St Gregory Javana Spa in Singapore where therapists leave you soaking in cloudy white tub for 20 minutes and advise you not to rinse afterwards. At home, you can pour fresh pr powdered milk in with the bath water. Or for superior baby-soft-skin, try natural yogurt or buttermilk, but be ready to hold your nose (hey, lady..who care!).

OCEAN BATH

This bath focuses on the healing properties of unrefined sea salt harvested on the east coast of Bali. Although not strictly thalassotherapy, this bath relies on the nutrients in the salt to draw out toxins from the body. The benefit of sea salt based on the premise that sea-water has practically the same chemical make-up as human plasma allowing the body to easily absorb its healing properties.

Tips : The Ocean Bath at The Spa at Jimbaran, Four Seasons Resort Bali is altogther a more exotic affair. Not only are the pure sea salts mixed woth Bali Sunset Oil containing coconut, vanilla and citrus blends to uplift the senses, this hour long treatment kicks off with a scalp, neck, shoulder and back massage. As if that were not enough, its take place in the privacy of your own villa, where the bath tubs have earned an international reputation for their depth, size and comfort.

Jayn : Never been to Bali? Need ground handling? we can assist you - with competitive price. Just email me at : jayn_ss@yahoo.com for more details.

FLORAL BATH

For those of you born outside tropical Asia, the floral bath is the nub of the "tropical spa" experiance. You can hardly believe your eyes when the bucket of vivid blooms is tossed into the water purely for your pleasure. It is a sybaritic moment when the velvety petals tickle our bare skin. Flowers - jasmine, gardenia, tropical magnolia, hibiscus, frangfiani, bourgainvilla, poinciana, rose, globe amaranth, alamanda and ylang-ylang - are chosen for both for their fragrance and rich colours.

In line with tropical mores, Asian believe flowers are the tangible link to the forces of the spiritual world, representing a symbolic purge of our earthly impurities. In Asian spas, the Floral Bath is not usually offered as treatment on its own. It is often used as the finale to one of the many tropical body treatments on the menu. It becomes an opportunity to savour the cleansing experiance and relax for a further 20 minutes or so.

AROMATHERAPHY BATH

The bath is the perfect place to enjoy the sensual pleasures of aromatheraphy oils. Simply drop one or a combination of essential oils into warm water and spuddle. Some of the oil's properties are absorbed into the skin while the rest evaporate into the atmosphere for inhaling, simultaneously soothing muscles and mind.

Jayn Tips:

(use up to ten drops of these essential oils either together or separately)

For calming - camomile, lavender, rose

For detoxifying - ginger, sage, rosemary

For passion - ylang-ylang, geranium, sandalwood

For brain boosting - grapefruit, lemon, mandarin, peppermint, pine

Wait for my next posting. More on mandi-mandi.

Are You Body Conscious?

THE ASIANS SECRETS OF HEALTH, BEAUTY AND RELAXATION

- RESEARCHED AND COMPILED BY JAYN SS

Long limbs and vital statistics are minor contributors to the beautiful body. Much more important is the state of mind that sits on top. While there is barely a woman alive who is content with her natural shape, every woman woman can improve her body by upping the respect that she pays to it. This is achieved by taking time for herself - the vital part of of life that most of us (hey, lady) ignore.

The Asian approach to achieving and maintaining a healthy and beautiful body is a sensible one. For a start, it has no time for fad diets and punishing stomach crunches! traditional body treatments from the tropics outstrip those from everywhere else in the world in number and variety and all of them rely on nature's own pharmacopoeia to produce results. Certainly not skin deep, they not only cleanse and soften our skin, but also draw out impurities from within. the ritual of application (especially at the hand of dedicated therapist in a spa context) relaxes us, empties our minds and soothes our souls in an athomoshere of peace.

All this emphasizes the oriental philosphy that regards beauty as a holistic concept embracing both the inner and outer self. For example, there are everday words in the Indonesia language that are part of the more specific lexicon of body care which have no real equivalent in English. Indonesian woman talk about having a lulur or mangir or mandi susu as readily as westerner's talk of taking a shower.

In my next entry, I will reveals some of the more exotic body treatments, be they scrubs, baths, wraps, heat treatment and polishes, for glowing skin and improved self-esteem !!!

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