This season, use flowers in your beauty regime in a variety of interesting ways…
While they may look adorable on your office table or beside your boudoir, there are practical and useful benefits to flowers too. While a grandmother’s tale goes that the oil of tulip flower can remove a tan and flowers like jasmine, gardenia and rose are great additions to the bath, modern methods also make way for the benefits of nature’s bounty.
Spa owner Nisha Jhaveri affirms this. “Flowers have been around for centuries and they relate a significant meaning as the flowering plants are very useful in healing our physical, astral and spiritual energy.” She explains the benefits of her favourite flowers:
Rose: This is the flower of beauty and helps facilitate skin
repair, improves tone, regenerate and soften the skin, giving a very pleasant relaxing sensation. You can use it in massage creams or essential oils.
Hibiscus: It’s also called the ‘plant botox’ and is an effective firming agent which instantly diminishes expression lines. In aromatherapy, hibiscus is used on an emotional level, helping to recover emotions. It is anti-depressive, stimulating. It
excites the senses and is also used as an aphrodisiac. On a physical level it improves tone, hydrates the skin, reduces swelling and contributes to a uniform skin colour, relieves tensions and skin burns. It also has great benefits when used in baths in cases of flu, colds etc.
Jasmine: In aromatherapy, jasmine is used in emotional treatments, helping to calm tension and combats depression. It is used to eliminate toxins, improve scars such as stretch marks, is moisturising and gives elasticity to the skin. It is also used as a muscle relaxant and has antiseptic properties. As it is aromatic, jasmine is popularly used in perfumes.
Using it in your regime:
Nisha lists a few ways to use flowers in treatments…
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Bath: Using rose milk powder or rose salts in baths can stimulate collagen, rejuvenate and hydrate the skin. This also promotes relaxation, tackles insomnia and anxiety.
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Massage: A massage oil with rose extract helps to regenerate and soften the skin, giving the sensation of relaxation. Leave it on the skin for the maximum benefits.
Flower-ama: Here’s what the blooms stand for:
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Hibiscus — delicate beauty
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Calendula — joy
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Eucalyptus — protection
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Jasmine — amiability
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Chamomile — patience
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