Most people are more familiar with modern cosmetic powder, which is now widely sold on the market, compared to traditional powder which was used by our ancestors to treat their skin health to remain beautiful and attractive.
In the past, royal daughters always used natural ingredients to care for their skin's beauty, one of which was using cold powder.
Cold powder is a traditional powder made from natural ingredients which generally consist of rice, bengkoang, and flowers as fragrances.
Although now cold powder is already in the form of packaging, but you can also make it yourself at home easily, because the ingredients used are not too difficult to find
INGREDIENTS
- Organic rice
- Water
- Bengkoang fruit
MAKE SARI BENGKOANG
Peel the bengkoang fruit and wash thoroughly, then puree it in a parud / in a blender.
Mix the results of the parudan bengkoang with a little water, then stir until blended.
Squeeze the parudan bengkoang that has been given the water mixture to produce water from bengkoang starch juice, use a bowl to hold the juice of the bengkoang juice.
Keep the bengkoang juice in a cool place.
MAKE RICE FLOUR
Prepare two handfuls of organic rice and soak it in a bucket of water for one night, but you can also soak it for more than 3 nights so the rice becomes softer.
After the immersion process is complete, please drain the water until it recedes, then blend the soft rice until smooth.
Dry the dough until it's completely dry, so it can last longer.
HOW TO MAKE BADS
Soften the dried powder with the bengkoang juice you have made.
To use it is very easy. Take one hard powder shaped like a biscuit, then mix with a little water, then stir until dissolved and look like porridge.
Now cold powder is ready to be used on the face, the way is by applying it to the surface of the face, hands, or feet evenly.