Geisha's Skin Beauty Secrets

What are the secret ingredients of Japanese Geishas that makes their skin so beautiful, ageless and bright? Geishas are drawing interest of women from all over the world in search for answers.
Here are a few of the ageless skin's secret tips which can be incorporated in daily life to get that beautiful skin. 
Sasanqua ,Camellia oils and rice.
To get beautiful Japanese geisha’s skin is to use Sasanqua and camellia oil. Sasanqua oil is a strong antioxidant and antibacterial. This oil is very light and gets absorbed into skin easily. Sasanqua oil is also used by geishas to make beautiful eyelashes. This oil is ideal to provide hours of skin moisture and recommended for dry skin. It has polyunsaturated fatty acids, and some other nutrients which are not produced by our skin but will increase skin's elasticity. Sansanqua oil contains 10 times more of Linoleic acid than any other oils.
Besides those oils Geisha's used rice which is rich in gamma-oryzanol, a powerful antioxidant that contains fats regulating collagen production. Rice masks are used to clean and nourish skin, even out and brighten its color.
Both Sasanqua and Camellia oil applied by geisha's to keep skin well moisturized, soft and wrinkle-free. Oils can be added to these masks recipes.
Rice mask: take 2 tablespoons of rice flour, which you can make by grinding rice in coffee-grinder, then mix it with 1 tablespoon of whipped cream. This mixture applied to face and the neck. Rinse after 20 minutes. If you have a dry skin, you can apply some camellia oil before applying this mask.
Japanese Fruits

Persimmon is one of Japanese fruits, which called in Ancient Greece “fruit if the gods”. By the content of its unique micro elements and vitamins it exceeds many fruits, including apples. It has Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Iron, and Iodine. Japanese Geishas knew about remarkable qualities of this fruit and used it for many different cosmetic purposes.

Mask for any type of skin: Peel 1 ripe persimmon and crush it to make a puree, add 1 teaspoon of soy or rice flour. Put it on your face for 10-15 minutes and rinse.

Mask for fading and aging skin: Puree one persimmon, add 2 teaspoon of whipped cream. Apply to your face for 10 minutes and rinse.

Mask for oily skin with large pores: Puree a permission, add whipped egg yolk, mix together and apply on your face for 15 minutes and rinse. This mask will also whiten, cleanse, tone and refresh your skin.

Skin Tonic. Mix one teaspoon of persimmon juice with one teaspoon of honey.
Mix 1 teaspoon of persimmon with 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 yolk and 1 tablespoon of camellia oil, add 1 teaspoon of soy flour. This mask is to tone, nourish and make skin more supple and soft.

Mushmula is a favorite Japanese fruit; it contains 90% of water. It has from 7 to 14 % of sugar, 10-16 mg of vitamin C, 1% of organic acids, pectin, 1% of organic acids such as apple and lemon, pectin. Mushmula is a great tonic that known to strengthen collagen fibers of skin, making it more firm and naturally healthy.

Mushmula mask:3-4 tablespoons of mushmula juice mix with 1 teaspoon of camellia and 1 tablespoon of whipped cream and 1 tablespoon of soy flour. Apply to face and secure with paper towel, for the mixture will be thick as past. Remove after 15 minutes, rinse.


Japanese plum – is a symbolic fruit in Japan, that represents beginning of spring. Plum has sugar such as glucose, pectin, organic acids, such as apple, lemon, lemon, salicylic, vine. others. It has azotes and vitamins C, P, B, carotenoids, polysaccharides, phosphorus, calcium, iron, copper, zink, chrome.
Oily skin mask: Peel one plum, puree, add 1 egg white, apply to face and rinse in 15 minutes.
Softening mask. Peel 3 plums and puree, add 1 yolk, half of teaspoon and 1 table spoon of soy flour. Apply to your face and rinse in 15 minutes.

Sea salt and seeweed.
Salt is a wonderful natural scrub. Geishas used salt mixed with whipped cream to rub into their skin to achieve their soft and velvet skin.

Modern discoveries prove that salt is a wonderful help for cellulite. Massage with sea salt will break fat and will give skin firmness and smoothness. Geishas add to this mixture sea salt to nourish skin and make it soft and supple.
Those are just a few recipes from Japanese Geishas to make your face skin ageless.