TRADITIOMEDIC: The Secret of Beautiful Skin using Rice Scrub

Rice is a common food often used by Asian people to fulfill their need of carbohydrate and release the hunger. To be served, rice often accompanied by another kind of food such as meat, vegetables, and fruits.

Beside its function as staple food, rice also useful for beauty treatment. One of the secret recipes of beauty treatment used by Javanese princess in the old time is using rice flour. Rice is also used by Japanese women who known to have smooth and soft skin.

Rice contains squalane oil which is very good to moisturize the skin. Rice extract can also help to produce extra collagen which helps increase the elasticity of the skin. The other essential ingredient is vitamin E, which can nourish the skin so it looks younger.

Below this we have to recipe of rice:

First Recipe

Ingredients:

2 ½ spoon of rice flour
3 inches of turmeric (curcuma longa)
1 inches of temugiring or Curcuma heyneana
¼ sheet of pandanus leaves
Water

How to make:

Blend all the ingredient as one
When all the ingredients already mixed, pour some water until become thick paste, and ready became rice scrub

How to use:

After bath and drying the body, rub the rice scrub all over the body, and let it dry.
Rub the skin gently so the dry scrub will falls with the entire dead skin cell.
Wash the rest of the scrub with warm water

Second Recipe

Ingredients:

2 spoon of rice flour
3 inches of turmeric (curcuma longa)
2 inches of aromatic ginger (kaemferia galanga)

How to make:

Blend and mixed all the ingredients
If the dough is too thick, you can add
a little warm water until it resembles pasta, and ready to used as rice scrub

How to use:

Before the rice scrub is used, smear olive oil to the entire body.
Leave it in a moment so the olive oil can seep into the skin
Rub the rice scrub in all over the body and let it dry
Rub gently with rotating move, and the rice scrub will fall and bring all the dirt and dead skin cells from the body.
Wash the body using warm water