Cucumber Magic

Beauty Secrets of Korean Women and Kisaeng

The women of Korea have beautiful skin.

The shopping centres are loaded with make-up and Beauty Shops. Beauty is a huge industry here.

Women in every country love make up and beauty preparations, but here in Korea its almost like a religion,

and every women loves the different products of the Beauty shops.

The Beauty Shops here also woo their clients with 'service' which is free gift items. I have a whole box of

small bottles of concoctions which are designed to fix every bit of my face and hair. Interesting, but the

preparations focus on the face, maybe because the rest is hidden, as mostly Koreans dress modestly.

The skin is partly the genes and the diet, but it is also in the cleansing.

Koreans virtually 'scrub' their skins almost daily with an abrasive piece of cloth.

They go to bath houses and have 'massages' and 'scrubs' where the ladies almost skin them with the hard scrubbing.

I had one and it was like scrubbing a mark off linoleum. They literally scrub and scrub.

The scrub is generally followed by a facial or body mask which is simply fresh grated cucumber. This is an astringent

and does clarify the skin. I just did a cucumber face mask, and it certainly makes the skin feel excellent.

Non Gae was a 'kisaeng' from the 16th century, and her beauty secrets, which is what I have revealed above,

is still being practised by Korean Women. The Kisaeng were female Korean entertainers, similar to the Japanese

Geisha and the ancient Greek Hetaerea.

Freah fruit and vegetables, and fresh herbs was the main source of beauty aids ... then along came the big cosmetic

companies, and the world was swamped with chemicals.

Lately, however-as we rediscover organic recipes-herbs, fruits, and vegetables, and

this is what the Koreans are doing...they use their herbs and fruits naturally as part of their treatment and diet,

and for their great skin.

Drinks such as Red Ginseng, and herbal mushroom drinks, as well as Vitamin C enhanced and natural fruits

are all part of the beautiful skin theory.

One does not need to pay Huge designer costs for beauty..

Try some clay or clean Mud, add grated fresh cucumber, and scrub the body with an abrasive cloth, or

brush with a soft brush or loofah.

Ooch!!! That is correct.

By exfoliating the top layer, the skin is constantly being regenerated, and this is what keeps that luminiscent

translucent beauty.

Try it yourself...scrub your skin every second day and see the instant difference.....and the difference in a fortnight...

All you need is Cucumber, fresh fruit, yoghurt and a loofah or soft brush or abrasive cloth.

Have a go....fresh fruit and/or vegetable, grated and added to the face like a mask.

You can see the difference almost instantly... and scrub the body so that the whole outer skin layer is removed.

The new skin is soft and beautiful and glows.....