Maintaining Skin Health Traditionally Maintaining healthy skin has become a culture for women across the archipelago. But did you know that Indonesia already has various types and ways of skin health care in various regions? Our country, which is rich in spices, is certainly rich in various skin care techniques with traditional spices that have been practiced for generations.
To know more about traditional skin health care, here are some treatment methods that you can do to get optimal skin health.
Herbal Medicine Keeps Skin Healthy From Within
Skin beauty treatments are not only from herbs applied to your skin and face, but also with nutritious herbs that you can drink. Jamu has for generations been a remedy for various diseases and also beauty treatments in the archipelago.
One of these traditional beauty recipes is a drink made from cloves, kunir, turmeric, tamarind and rock sugar. This herb is believed to brighten facial skin, eliminate acne and also slow down aging.
Taking care of your skin with a scrub
Lulur is a common skincare method in Indonesia. This skin treatment is widely applied from home care to high-end beauty houses. Lulur itself is a therapy using spices that are pounded and made into a paste, then spread all over the body.
With turmeric-based ingredients that contain antiseptic and antibacterial to cleanse the skin and shrink pores to brighten the skin.
Oukup. Sauna of the Batak People
This type of sauna, which is commonly practiced by the Karo and Toba Batak communities, still sounds unfamiliar to the public. Oukup is usually done as a detoxification to cleanse the body. In addition to cleansing the body, Oukup is useful for improving blood circulation and eliminating fat and body odor.
Refresh Your Body With Boreh
This Balinese body care therapy has long been known to relieve body aches and heal sore joints. Boreh is made from lemongrass, sandalwood, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, galangal, black rice and coconut oil.
All the ingredients are mashed and applied like a scrub to the entire body until half dry, then wiped with a wet cloth until clean. This natural body mask works to keep the body warm, reducing the risk of catching a cold.
Maintain Skin Health Before Marrying With Batimung
This South Kalimantan spa is often used as an alternative treatment and body care before marriage. Baltimung is also often used for teenage and adult women to maintain body fitness and overcome body odor problems.
The traditional ingredients used for this body treatment come from traditional herbs. Among them are vetiver, temulawak, cloves, cinnamon, comb flower, Javanese cardamom and also pepper. This treatment also commonly utilizes black glutinous rice, orange leaves, and bangkal wood which is only found in Kalimantan.
Hundred. Steam Treatment Method
Ratus is a sauna-like body vaporization method that uses a mixture of herbs such as frankincense, dried corn husks and sandalwood which are dried and then boiled in hot water. With this boiled water that will later be used as a treatment, specifically for the female organs.
Hundreds can also scent the inside of the body and are proven to improve blood flow. Not only the water, ratus steam is commonly used to unclog pores and thus cleanse the face of dirt.
