Remember, in the stagnant Soviet years, the lower shelves of grocery stores decorated three-liter banks with transparent birch juice? And how in the spring, barely started to melt the snow, we, being children, did a hole in the trunk, inserted a straw and caught the mouth of a little sweet drops? Wood juice is on sale and today, but why does not leave the feeling that his taste has changed. Whether preservatives and sugar began to add more, whether we simply matured and everything related to childhood, idealizing ... And yet the birch juice is better to drink natural, and not from the bank.
Ten liters of healing fluid in its influence on our body are comparable to a detox course in some expensive Swiss clinic. Still, because the juice is a real breeding of vitamins! Especially a lot of vitamin C, although in the sweet taste of this and you will not say. And all because of glucose, fructose and sucrose, and also in excess. Add organic acids, tannins and minerals to this list. Collect the juice from the end of March and about mid-April until the leaves begin to bloom. By the way, in the trees standing on the sun, the sweetest juice.
If you disassemble the birch on the "spare parts", it turns out that everything is useful in it: both juice, and kidneys, and leaves, and the bark, and even parasitizing mushroom under the title of chaga. All these components have long been used for medical purposes, including recycled wood, from which well-known activated carbon is obtained. Well, about birch brooms for the bath even there is nothing to say. At high temperature and humidity, substances are beginning to be released, which are beneficially affecting the skin, the swelling and cellulite are reduced as a result.
In the perfumery-cosmetics industry, birch, perhaps, not such a "promoted" ingredient, as, say, jasmine, rose, almond or aloe vera. However, specialists will appreciate it no less. After all, precisely from this tree perfumers get the so-called leather notes, which give spirits sensuality and sexuality. One of the first "adapted" birch in this purpose is a brilliant Coco Chanel. In 1924, she suggested a perfumer Ernest Bo (with him Coco presented the world Chanel number 5) to move to Paris and work with a very complex smell of the skin. So appeared perfume Cuir de russie, the name of which translated from French sounds like "Russian leather". It feels the aromas of birch smoke, hay, tobacco, wood, a fasterful human body ... The fragrance became popular not only in women, but also in men. In 1983, he was "reissued" and is now included in the collection of exclusive perfumes Les Exclusifs de Chanel, which are sold in the brand boutiques.
If, tasting the next fragrance, you "hear" characteristic leather notes, know: it's all of us, our Russian birch.