As skin is the largest part of the human body, it is only natural to know how to take care of it properly; moreover, it is of extreme importance to be able to use botanically based ingredients offered by nature. Contemporary companies spend large sums to manufacture their products so that natural ingredients could retain their integrity, while the presence of chemicals is negligible and harmless. It is interesting that the majority of traditional ancestral recipes of natural products (made from such traditional ingredients as flowers, oils, herbs, roots, etc) were proved beneficial by various scientific studies and tests; their obvious healing quality and characteristics pushed manufacturers toward launching their wide-scale production. More and more companies perfect their methodology in order to offer the consumer 100% pure natural skin care products and remedies.

The history of home-made products of natural skin care remedies goes back to the oldest civilizations on our planet. It is a proven fact that the ancient Chinese and Egyptians invented a number of skin care products; the most common ingredients were whipped eggs, bile, milk, oil, beeswax, aloe, chamomile, etc. We know that honey has been used by various cultures of different geographic areas as one of the most important and popular natural ingredients of treatment, while shea butter has been known as the trademark of African pharmacology since ancient times. It was already known in ancient times that particular ingredients and their proper combinations corresponded to particular types of skin, their conditions and needs. Modern skin care product providers intensively research this information handed down by the ancestors and successfully implement it in their work. It is widely believed, especially among the most ardent followers of ancient recipes, that skin care is not merely the process of applying treatment on the skin; natural products create a special aura around the people who use them, make them less interested in artificially created beauty surrogates.

Among many the types of skin care, spread in ancient times, the Indian teaching of Avurveda holds a special place. Ayurveda originated in about

3 000 BC and combines old Indian psychological, philosophical and medicinal teachings. As it considers the human being a creature consisting of mind, spirit and body, skin care plays a special holistic role in its practice. According to this system, types of skin and hair are determined by seven types of constitution, which, on their part, are governed by three basic principles; it is common for people to possess the characteristics of two of these three types of principles. Teachers of Ayurvedic methodology knew how deeply and seriously our diet, nutrition and lifestyle in general can influence our skin. They developed an elaborate system that includes treatment of skin with products made from a huge number of natural products, such as honey, cocoa, oil, cucumber, almond, avocado, hazelnut, aloe, ginseng, etc.

Thus, a combination of centuries-old recipes for natural treatment and modern technology gives us a unique opportunity to use and benefit from products made with naturally based ingredients.