• Waxing moon = arrange & care

Everything you now apply to your body is disposed of especially well and has a time-dependent effect. If vitamin-packed food (salads, vegetables, fruit) or reasoned beauty care or – the signs during the waxing moon phase represent receipt, absorption, growth and application. All important nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and trace elements should be given to the body in this phase as they are being completely absorbed and ideally utilised at this point. Masks, packs, ointments and rich oils are absorbed like a sponge.

Luna beauty tip: special care time for dry, sensitive and combination skin

• Full moon = nourish & save
  

During a full moon, water likes to accumulate in tissue and stay there. Many liquids, however, provide a good purging and prevent this from happening. Regenerating activities like stretching, yoga, meditation and others calm and relax providing you with precious energy. This is a time to indulge yourself with calming baths, full body and head massages, hair oil packs and nurturing body masks. Creams, gels and rich packs are now absorbed by the skin one to one. Nervous and sensitive skin recovers quickly and nutrients and moisture are ideally saved.

Luna beauty tip: special care time for ambitious and mature skin

• Waning moon = dehydrate & dissolve

“Drink more, eat less” is the motto during this phase, thus supporting the body‘s natural urge to cleanse itself. Programmes that flush the body such as salt, black mud and algae packs or baths, deep-cleaning of the skin against impurities (blackheads and spots) including peelings for the body and face now have an ‘active, penetrating’ effect, rids the body of waste and toxins from every pore
and successfully boosts the body‘s ability to eliminate water.

Luna beauty tip: special care time for any skin and cellulite and lymph glands

• New moon = detoxify & purify
  

Now, the highest detoxifying willingness of the body starts. The metabolism works at full speeds and it has its active phase. Support this impulse by a “drinking day” and also with a deep-cleansing of the body and face. Collected toxins and scoriae can easily be removed from the skin and body, so all deep cleansing care rituals like peelings, baths and wraps are to be recommended during this phase.

Luna beauty tip: special care time for flawed, fat and large-pored skin