I trade in both worlds

Xu Ziqing pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "I figured it out."

"What, what, what did you think of?" Xu Xu looked at her anxiously.

"Mung beans." Xu Ziqing said excitedly, "We can make mung bean facial masks. I think we don't have this in Dayun Dynasty."

"Mung bean facial mask?" Xu Xu thought about it carefully and said uncertainly: "I haven't heard of it. Mung beans are food. No one would use them to make facial masks."

"Then let's make a mung bean mask." Xu Ziqing made the decision right away.

"Will I get beaten if I use grain to make a facial mask?" Xu Xu asked uncertainly.

Xu Ziqing didn't know either, but rich people didn't care about these mung beans. If the demand for mung beans could be increased, he wondered if it would help generate income for the farmers in Dayun Dynasty.

"I don't know. Let's do it first and then ask Sister Feng if it works." Xu Ziqing decided to ignore other external factors and just do it first.

Xu Xu felt that what she said made sense, so she nodded and continued to ask curiously, "How do you make a mung bean mask?"

Xu Ziqing nodded: "Mung beans have good effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, nourishing blood and moisturizing dryness, and they also have a good effect on skin care. We can grind the mung beans into powder, then add some water and herbs, mix well and apply it on the face, it should have a good effect."

“What herbs do you want to add?”

Xu Ziqing thought for a moment and said, "We can add some herbs that have whitening and wrinkle-removing effects. I'll check if there is any recipe online."

There are a variety of recipes online, including mung bean masks specifically for removing acne, milk mung bean masks, angelica and pearl powder mung bean masks, mung bean and egg white detoxifying masks, and garlic mung bean masks.

After some selection, Xu Ziqing decided to make two types of masks: the mung bean mask for acne removal and the mung bean mask with angelica and pearl powder.

She first copied down the recipe, and then went to Dongdong to buy all the necessary ingredients.

The next day, after receiving the materials, Xu Ziqing and Xu Xu began to experiment with the acne-removing mung bean mask.

Xu Ziqing mixed the mung beans, angelica dahurica, white poria, white peony root and other herbs according to the proportions and began to grind them.

Xu Xu helped add water and stir it. The two chatted while they were busy.

"Sister Qing, does this mung bean mask really have the effects that are said on the Internet?" Xu Xu asked with some doubt.

Xu Ziqing nodded and said seriously, "There should be. The heat-clearing and detoxifying effect of mung beans can relieve skin inflammation very well, while herbs such as Angelica dahurica, Poria cocos, and Bletilla striata have whitening and wrinkle-removing effects. These herbs combined will definitely have a certain effect."

As she spoke, she had already mixed mung bean powder and various herbal powders together, added an appropriate amount of water, and stirred evenly to form a green facial mask paste.

"Okay, let's try it and see how it works." Xu Ziqing said, and applied the mask paste on his face.

Xu Xu also put a facial mask on her face.

The two of them waited quietly for the mask to be absorbed and take effect.

After a while, Xu Ziqing suddenly said, "Hey, I feel cool on my face, very comfortable."

Xu Xu also nodded and said, "Yes, I also feel my face is much fresher. This mung bean mask may really have those effects."

After a while, they took off the mask and washed their faces with clean water.

When I touched my face with my hands, I felt that it became more refreshed and smoother.

Xu Ziqing nodded with satisfaction: "The mask is done. I'll go back and find Sister Feng to try it out."

"Why don't you try another one?" Xu Xu asked curiously.

"No, we won't make that one. I feel this one has the same effect, so there's no need to try it again." Xu Ziqing shook his head.

The next day, after sending the child to school, Xu Xu began to grind mung beans and various herbs.

At around ten o'clock, Xu Ziqing walked in yawning. Seeing Xu Xu grinding mung beans, he was stunned for a moment, then said, "Xu Xu, I thought about it all night last night, and I think we should make facial soap first."

Xu Xu blinked and asked curiously, "Why did you think of making facial soap?"

"Tell me later, I'm hungry." Xu Ziqing went to the kitchen to bring out breakfast.

She sat down at the table and said while eating, "You have to wash your face before applying a facial mask. If your face is not cleaned properly, no matter how good the skin care products are, they will not work. In ancient times, the strength of cleansing products was not as good as it is today. Only after you clean your face properly, and then use our mung bean paste mask, the effect will definitely be doubled."

The cleaning products in ancient times were nothing more than soapberry, soap, bath beans, etc. Their cleaning power was definitely not as good as modern cleaning products.

Although the effect of the mask seems to be very powerful, if it is not cleaned properly and the pores are clogged, no skin care products will be effective, and the effectiveness of the mask will be greatly reduced.

It is not good for their recipe business. Besides, if the facial soap is made, it can also be sold as a recipe.

Xu Xu thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but Dayunchao has soap for washing face and bathing. Do you want to try it first?"

Before coming to modern times, Xu Xu also used soap to wash her face, hair and bathe. After coming to modern times and coming into contact with facial cleansers, shampoos and shower gels, she really looked down on the soap from Dayun Dynasty.

"I know." Xu Ziqing shook his head. "Although soap has a certain cleansing effect, its ingredients and production process are relatively simple and cannot be compared with modern cleansing products. I want to make a pure natural facial soap that is gentle and effective, and suitable for all skin types."

Xu Xu smiled and asked, "What kind of facial soap are you going to make? What materials do you need?"

Xu Ziqing smiled slightly, and had already made up his mind: "I have already checked, use vegetable oil, wood ash, flower petals, etc. to make facial soap. The facial soap made in this way not only has a good cleaning effect, but also has a natural fragrance and is very nourishing to the skin."

After hearing this, Xu Xu asked, "Do we need to buy some materials and try it out?"

Xu Ziqing nodded: "Yes, I will buy it online later, and I'll trouble you for the wood ash."

Xu Xu smiled and said, "Wood ash is nothing. I have plenty of it at home. But should I continue to sell the house to Chief Steward Liu? Do you think he will buy it?"

Xu Ziqing took a big bite of the dumpling in his hand and said confidently: "As long as our handmade soap is better than soap, he will definitely buy it. If we can't sell it, we will give it to him as a gift for the facial mask."

Xu Xu looked at Xu Ziqing's confident expression and said with a smile: "Okay, let's do it."

So the two of them started to get busy again.

Xu Ziqing ordered camellia oil, camellia petals and camellia molds online, while Xu Xu was responsible for collecting wood ash.