15 Day Ayurvedic Beauty Care and Yoga Retreat in Kathmandu, Nepal to Invoke Natural Beauty

The doshas

• Vata: A vata person has dry and rough skin that tends to wrinkle if not moisturized regularly. Their skin has fewer fat deposits and needs more moisturizing, both externally and internally.
• Pitta: People with high pitta tend to have oily skin that’s prone to acne and rosacea. The cooling elements are needed to treat with such types as aloe vera, turmeric (which is anti-inflammatory), and sandalwood (which reduces pimples and redness).
• Kapha: Kapha skin tends to be cold and oily, and it may be prone to pimples, whiteheads, and water retention.

Nepal Ayurveda Home will first check the skin type on which you belong and then they give the treatment accordingly.

The program includes the Ayurveda beauty care package includes face care treatments by:

• Cleansing
• Scrubbing
• Ayurvedic face massage with oil
• Herbal steam with neem leaves, oil (avoid for dry skin) or hot towel
• Herbal face pack

Vata skin types: Dry, thin, finely pored

• Facial massage: Sesame oil, olive oil, almond oil, lavender oil
• Facial cleansing: 1 tsp almond powder, 1 tsp milk or coconut oil mix together and gently massage(10 minutes). Wash off with warm water.

Pitta skin types: Fair, warm, medium thickness

• Facial massage: coconut oil, Jojoba oil, Geranium oil
• Facial cleansing: 1 tsp lentil flour, 1tsp neem powder or triphala powder, 1tsp water. Wash off with cold water.

Kapha skin types: Thick, oily, soft, and cool

• Facial massage: Sesame oil, lemongrass oil
• Facial cleansing: 2 tsp of honey and 1 tsp of lemon juice, tomatoes juice, almond paste, cucumber mix together and gently massage. Wash off with normal water.

Herbal scrub

By mixture of chickpea powder, rice flour, Cucumber, tomato juice, aloe vera, lemon juice, almond oil, olive oil mix together and gently massage. Wash off with lukewarm water.

Also, to remove the sun tan mixture of rice flour with tomato juice and use as face scrub. It helps to repair the sun damage and reduce the visible of aging and make your skin healthy and glowing.

Herbal face pack

For the oily skin with multani mitti (Fuller's earth) with orange peel powder and add rose water to make a paste. Then apply on face and neck with cold water. Another mixture of herbs will be implemented by the therapist. Summer face pack also provided during the retreat.

The next important part of the Ayurvedic beauty care retreat program is wrinkle pack. This retreat gives such a treatment that your wrinkle will be removed permanently with the herbal treatment.

There will be an Aloe vera face pack for skin tightening and nourishing. Mix aloe vera, organic green tea, and fuller's earth, and then apply.

A dry skin face pack is provided. Pimple face pack to remove the pimple of face, treatment for the dark spot and pigmentation, hair packs for the dry hair, dandruff, to stop hair fall and to make the hair strong are also available.

Facial for oily and glowing skin: The team will apply the cleansing, scrubbing, massage and face pack for this treatment.

Multani mitti face pack is applied according to your soft skin, spot-free skin, tanned skin, dark patches, for fairness, for tired and dull skin etc. The therapist will know what type of treatment you need after seeing your skin and its type.

Gomaj treatment

It is a mixture of 15 sundried ingredients for deep cleansing pack. It helps to remove dead cells, blackheads, remove dirt and make your skin soft, glowing and gives younger looks. It can be used for all aged group of people.

Ingredients:

• Rice flour
• Chickpea flour
• Barley flour
• Beaten or flatten rice flour
• Fenugreek powder
• Red lentil flour
• Orange peel powder
• Lemon peel powder
• Green chick pea flour
• Soya bean flour
• Turmeric
• Almond
• Tulsi powder
• Mint powder
• Wheat flour

Typical daily schedule

• 07:30 - 08:30 Morning yoga class
• 08:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
• 10:30 - 11:30 Free time, walking, reading, etc.
• 11:30 - 13:00 Ayurveda beauty care therapy
• 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 16:00 Free time
• 16:00 - 17:30 Self-practice
• 17:30 - 18:30 Yoga and breathing
• 18:30 - 19:30 Dinner

Please note that this is sample schedule could be changed according to the doctor, teacher, topic, therapies, problem, the interest of guest, climate or each retreat, etc.