OLD AND NEW RECIPES
Sounds crazy? But no. An old household remedy uses the cooling power of alcohol in the morning, lemon balm spirit pampers the temples at midday and a modern tonic cools the head in the evening.
The alcohol of the French
In the 17th century, French brandy was the somewhat ungallant term used to describe French brandy. The term was later used to refer to brandies made from wine, such as cognac and Armagnac.
As many of the best spirits came from France even back then, they were referred to as the spirits of the French.
Today, rubbing alcohol is a tincture that contains ethanol alcohol (in a concentration of over 90 percent) and is only used externally. In addition to the high-percentage alcohol, the rubbing alcohol also contains menthol and plant extracts. Depending on the manufacturer, these can be extracts of young spruce shoots, mountain pine, sage, ash or nettle.
In the summer morning
If the weather forecast predicts a hot summer day, it is a good idea to apply rubbing alcohol generously to the legs after showering. You will immediately feel the soothing cooling effect of the menthol. The alcohol also has a disinfectant effect, which is just right for the usual insect bites from the previous summer evening.
The cooling effect lasts for quite a while. Ideal for getting on the train, bus or behind the wheel of the car on hot days. The rubbing alcohol provides a cool start to a long summer’s day.
If the good old rubbing alcohol is too old fashioned for you, we recommend the Lait Jambes Lourdes Energizing Emulsion from Clarins Paris, whose ingredients have the same effect. For sunny vacations in the metropolises of this world, where you spend many hours on foot, it’s worth having the care emulsion with you.
In the early afternoon
Not everyone can or likes to work in air-conditioned rooms. Even if the rubbing alcohol has cooled the morning well, the afternoon is often swelteringly hot and work on the screen or elsewhere still requires concentration.
Here, too, an age-old household remedy with alcohol helps you stay fit: Melissa spirit.
Massaged onto the neck and temples, the alcohol cools and the oils it contains help to keep a cool head. Many people are familiar with Klosterfrau’s famous lemon balm spirit. Few people know that her assistant Peter Gustav Schaebens, who assisted Klosterfrau Maria Clementine Martin, after whom a lemon balm spirit is still named today, from 1829, founded a company himself that produced lemon balm spirit.
The Schabens company still exists today. We like their lemon balm spirit because, in addition to alcohol, it contains the oils of cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, peppermint, ginger, cloves and juniper, among others. Oils that are traditionally used as antispasmodics in the countries of origin, such as India, Sri Lanka or Indonesia.
At sunset
If you want to enjoy the juniper in a gin & tonic rather than rubbing it in, it’s a good idea to wait until sunset on hot summer days. The sundowner tradition, which is often practiced on safaris in Africa, makes good sense if you want to have all your senses together early the next morning.
To the night
Warm, sultry summer nights can be delightful. However, it is often impossible to get to sleep. GloriousMe has a recommendation for this too, which we like to use ourselves: PROTONIC. The tincture contains Japanese peppermint oil. When massaged into the scalp, it has a cooling and calming effect.
This makes it easy to fall asleep and the scalp is happy to receive so much caring attention.
Alcohol from morning till night is the best way to survive the hot summer days. We wish you a wonderful summer.
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