An Ancient Way of Skin Care

In the whole of humanity, everyone is engaged in impressing others with one's features through psychological attraction. For attraction, face of a person is the first representation of him to the outside world and the next representation is his/her skin which is a part of face also. Face can not be changed but of course, it could be made a smiling and welcoming face to attract others.

Skin gets unattractive with advancement of age affecting overall health and well-being of the person. Its maintenance at optimum level had been felt desirable since ancient times. An ancient Indian sage Patanjali began his famous 'Yog Sutra' with a prescription for skincare. Its first sutra is

योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोध: तदादृष्टू स्वरूपे अवस्थानम

which means - 'To resist aging effect on skin, apply a coat of moisted Sorghum flour on the skin, let it dry there for about half an hour and then wash'..  

In India, such a practice is called 'ubatan' and is done by applying gram flour mixed with oil on the skin because the Sorghum's use as a skin rejuvenator was not known so far. This is the first time that this new knowledge has been discovered by the author of this blog and published.

But there is a rider to be taken care of. Sorghum was used in ancient times as a human food but that practice is now very rare. It is now grown as a green cattle-feed only.  For this application, new varieties have been developed which are different from the ancient ones in many characteristics. The new varieties have not yet been tested for skincare purposes. So, it is advised that only original variety be used for the application on skin.

Sorghum grain is used for producing saccharine, an intense and concentrated sweetner for foods which it has naturally. Sugar is well known as an instant nutrition for human body. Moreover, Sorghum is very rich in Magnesium apart from vitamins and other minerals Magnesium is known to provides shine to fruits whose plants are fed with it. Thus, the magnesium of Sorghum shall surely provide lustre to the user's skin as advised above. .