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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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At once we will make a reservation, removal of hair by a nut means use of cedar nuts. Walnuts are also used in hair removal, but they must be immature, that is, green. Anyone who is familiar with this tree in principle and tried green walnuts in particular is perfectly aware of the poisonous-green, sometimes black color and high degree of "indelibility" of the green nut. This is explained by the composition, which includes a large amount of natural iodine. For the most desperate ladies at our own peril, we offer a recipe, but we hope that it will be used for familiarization rather than for practical use.
Walnuts and hair removal
You need to prepare 200 grams of chopped green nuts, add tar to them - 1 tablespoon. Mix all these ingredients, keep in a closed glass bowl for 3 weeks in a cool, dark place. Ready mixture to rub into the skin, leaving it for 15-20 minutes. Then try to wash away what was done. It is said that after two weeks of "nutty" tests, the hair stops growing for 2-3 months. Practitioners who achieved results and advertised a similar method, the author did not meet these lines, and therefore recommends moving to a more sparing, but obviously expensive, way of removing hair using pine nuts
Hair removal with pine nuts
The first thing that complicates the application of this method is the need to find the pine nut in the right amount. Residents of Siberia, of course, do not have such problems, but everyone else will have to look for them. Nevertheless, pine nuts in themselves are very healing, in addition, the recipe does not provide for tar and other "ancient" components, unusual for our time.
Pine nuts are a unique product in their useful properties. They contain fats, proteins, glucose, lecithin, manganese, copper, iodine and zinc. But in the context of hair removal, we are not interested in kernels, but in shells, which are also very rich in valuable trace elements - lignin, cellulose, fats and resins. Here at the expense of resins and possibly removing hair with pine nuts, or rather their shells. There are many popular recipes from pine nuts, but it is usually recommended for epilation:
- It is necessary to take 600-700 grams of pine nuts and carefully remove the kernels from them so that 300-350 grams of shell are obtained.
- The shell is dried in a dry place for 7-10 days.
- The dried raw material is gently burned and ash is collected.
- Add 0, 5 tablespoons of castor oil to the ashes of cedar shells, and mix.
- The mixture is applied in the form of application to the areas of hair and left for 1-2 hours, then removed with a cotton cloth.
- The procedure is carried out once a day for a week.
- Hair becomes brittle, they are very easy to remove either tweezers or depilatory cream.
There is another recipe, which includes the shell itself and alcohol. You need to take 250 grams of cedar shell, pour 1, 5 glasses of medical alcohol or vodka, leave in a dark place for 14 days. The container should be made of dark glass and well closed. The obtained tincture can lubricate small areas of the skin where unwanted hair grows, the remedy is applied 2-3 times a day until hair is completely weakened. By the way, this tincture can be used as a remedy for a cold, it's enough to add 10-15 drops to the tea. The drug activates the immune system, increases the protective properties of the body.
Another recipe:
- You need to take at least 0, 5 kilograms of mature pine nuts. Peel the nuts from the shell, while the kernels are used for their intended purpose - they are eaten or added to the dishes. The shell is dried.
- Grind the dry shell so that it turned out 250 grams.
- Burn the shredded shell to the ash state.
- Add 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil to the ash.
- Rub the mixture into areas of the skin where unwanted hair grows, leaving the composition for 10-15 minutes.
- Remove with a dry cotton cloth.
Ladies who advertise this method on women's forums, argue that the hair becomes thin, light and stops growing after 3-5 cedar sessions. There is also a recipe for alcohol tincture when a glass of raw nuts is poured with vodka or alcohol (2 cups), aged for 2 weeks and rubbed for 5-7 days into the skin. The effect is achieved due to the resin contained in the nuts. In extreme cases, even if the procedure does not work, a comforting bonus will be the eating of extremely nutritious and useful kernels of pine nuts or the sensible use of medicinal tincture as a restorative.