Aloe vera is the most suitable fresh aloe leaf for direct beauty, that is, Aloe vera, which has the functions of convergence, softening, moisturizing, anti-inflammatory and bleaching. It also has the functions of relieving sclerosis, keratinization and improving scars. It can not only prevent small wrinkles, bags under the eyes and loose skin, but also keep the skin moist and delicate. At the same time, it can also treat skin inflammation and has a good effect on acne, freckles, acne, burns, knife wounds and insect bites. It is also effective for hair, which can keep hair moist and smooth and prevent hair loss.
How to use aloe to beautify?
First, facial beauty: Apply fresh leaf juice to face 15-20 minutes in the morning and evening, which will make facial skin smooth, tender and soft, and also have the effect of treating butterfly spots, freckles and senile spots.
2. Self-made aloe lotion: take juice, add a little water and apply it to facial beauty. After washing your hair, apply it on your head to relieve itching, prevent white hair loss and keep your hair black and shiny. Bald people can also grow new hair.
3. Self-made aloe moisturizing cream: prepare 250g aloe leaves, 1 cucumber, 1 egg, flour and sugar.
1. Wash aloe leaves and cucumber, break them respectively, and use gauze to get juice;
2. Beat the eggs into a bowl, then add one spoonful of aloe juice and three spoonfuls of cucumber juice; 2 tablespoons sugar, mix well;
3. Add about 5 teaspoons of flour or oat flour and make it into a paste.
4. Beauty method: Apply the moisturizing cream evenly on the whole face, then close your eyes and mouth to keep the facial muscles still. After 40-50 minutes, wash your face with warm water. Adhere to 1-2 times a week.
Where does the beauty function of aloe come from?
Aloe vera is rich in natural vitamins E, C, A and B: mineral elements (such as potassium, zinc and selenium). ); Amino acids, etc. These are the basic nutrients to keep your body young. In addition, aloe polysaccharide and phenolic compounds are unique beauty and skin care components of aloe. Together with the basic beauty nutrients, these special ingredients * * * complete the good beauty and skin care function of aloe.
Aloe polysaccharide: Aloe polysaccharide can regulate the level of cellular immunity and humoral immunity, activate Langerhans cells in the basal layer of skin, enhance their local immune function and repair function, promote their removal of skin pigment, resist oxidative damage (including ultraviolet rays), resist aging and increase skin elasticity.
Aloe-emodin and aloin: These two components can promote the peristalsis and secretion of large intestine fluid, increase the activity of lipoxygenase, and have the effects of stopping diarrhea and stimulating appetite. Aloe promotes the excretion of metabolites in the body, reduces its residence time in the body, improves the internal environment and skin metabolism, and makes the skin young.
Phenolic compounds: Aloe contains many lipoxidases (such as flavonoids) that can inhibit lipid peroxidation in vivo. It can prevent atherosclerosis, improve blood supply and microcirculation of body and skin, provide sufficient nutrition supply for skin, and enhance metabolic activity of skin epithelial cells.
Steroids and hormone compounds: Steroids and hormone compounds are also some very important trace components for people to maintain their youthful vitality. By participating in regulating human endocrine and improving metabolism, they can delay human aging, maintain skin vitality and maintain women's youthful charm.
Aloe hairdressing
The ancients in China called hair "annoying hair" more accurately, because all modern women have racked their brains to deal with this kind of thing that has no practical value on their heads. They permed their hair today, straightened it tomorrow, and dyed it colorful the day after tomorrow, even spending a lot of money. It is these things that have made female artists, and no one has their own aesthetic declaration on their heads.
Even so, burnt hair and dandruff flying around like snowflakes from time to time are inevitable.
Because there are abundant sweat glands and sebaceous glands on human scalp, fungi can easily attach to them and breed, so dandruff flying around is inevitable.
Because aloe has obvious effects of regulating sebum secretion, sterilization and anti-inflammation, especially killing fungi in the scalp, it is necessary to thoroughly wet the scalp with aloe gel when washing your hair, and then wash it for 5- 10 minutes after careful combing, which can obviously remove dandruff for about two or three times. After repeated verification, this method is very effective; According to the above method, aloe also provides a variety of vitamins and amino acids that the human body can't synthesize, which can make the hair bright and elastic, and is more effective for people who often perm their hair and dye it to make their hair brown; Aloe contains anthraquinones, which can block the ultraviolet radiation in the sun and increase the moisturizing effect of hair. In addition, aloe can promote the blood circulation of the scalp, make the hair more nutritious, and make the hair thicker and more shiny.
As long as you can keep using it, you don't have to worry about "snow" in your hair anymore.
Treating rough skin with aloe vera
Rough skin is not necessarily related to actual age. Some people are old before they are old, while others are getting younger and younger. This is not only related to maintaining a good attitude, but also the necessary skin care will play a very important role.
Rough skin is mainly due to the rapid growth of cortical cellulose and slow cell metabolism, which leads to surface keratinization and insufficient water supply to cortex. Because the polysaccharide collagen in aloe can organize the growth of cortical fibronectin, it can restore the delicate, moist, whitening and smooth skin as soon as possible through the cell activation, metabolism and moisturizing effects of aloe. However, don't be too impatient, after all, it will take some time, because the whole body care of skin is a lifelong event for women, so it is not fast to develop a good habit and make nursing a pleasure in life!
It is very important to care for your face and hands with aloe lotion every day. You can take an aloe bath once or twice a week if you can. Chop the remaining gel skin and unused tip of aloe lotion, wrap it in gauze and put it in a bathtub filled with hot water, because hot water can speed up skin blood flow, expand pores and facilitate the absorption of aloe nutrients. Just after taking a shower, you can feel the skin become delicate, smooth and elastic, and feel very comfortable. Therefore, insist on taking an aloe bath once or twice a week, and you will feel that this is a great pleasure in life; If you don't have the above conditions, you can also massage your whole body with gauze wrapped in aloe in the shower, which will also receive good results.
Primitive beauty method
Aloe vera is not uncommon. Many beauty products contain aloe vera. Surprisingly, the practice of applying fresh aloe leaves directly to the face. This so-called primitive beauty method became popular for a time, and buying aloe leaves in shopping malls became a new popular behavior.
Aloe vera means bitter taste in English. It is a succulent plant of Liliaceae. There are many kinds of aloe, and the morphological types of different kinds of stems and leaves are also different. The big one is more than 20 meters high like a coconut tree, and the small one is only about 3 centimeters. Open the thick leaves of aloe, and you can see the thick and transparent pulp, which feels sticky and slippery, and smells faint and slightly bitter.
The fresh leaves of aloe vera are most suitable for direct beauty, that is, aloe vera, which has the characteristics of astringent skin, softening skin, moisturizing, anti-inflammatory and bleaching. It also has the functions of relieving sclerosis, keratinization and improving scars. It can not only prevent small wrinkles, bags under the eyes and loose skin, but also keep the skin moist and delicate. At the same time, it can also treat skin inflammation and has a good effect on acne, freckles, acne, burns, knife wounds and insect bites. It is also effective for hair, which can keep hair moist and smooth and prevent hair loss.
The use of aloe vera is as follows:
Facial beauty: Apply fresh leaf juice to face 15-20 minutes in the morning and evening, which will make facial skin smooth, tender and soft, and also have the effect of treating butterfly spots, freckles and senile spots.
Self-made aloe lotion: take juice, add a little water and apply it to facial beauty. After washing your hair, apply it on your head to relieve itching, prevent white hair loss and keep your hair black and shiny. Bald people can also grow new hair.
Self-made aloe moisturizing cream: prepare 250g aloe leaves, 1 cucumber, 1 egg, flour and sugar.
1. Wash aloe leaves and cucumber, break them respectively, and use gauze to get juice;
2. Beat the eggs into a bowl, then add one spoonful of aloe juice and three spoonfuls of cucumber juice; 2 tablespoons sugar, mix well;
3. Add about 5 teaspoons of flour or oat flour and make it into a paste.
4. Beauty method: Apply the moisturizing cream evenly on the whole face, then close your eyes and mouth to keep the facial muscles still. After 40-50 minutes, wash your face with warm water. Adhere to 1-2 times a week.
In addition, the dressing can nourish the skin and has astringent effect. When the dressing is applied to the face, it will tighten the skin. Generally, it should be kept for 10-20 minutes (the mask with strong convergence should not be kept for more than minutes), and it should not be stuck around the eyes. After wiping, it is usually washed alternately with hot water and cold water to promote circulation. Adding appropriate ingredients to the dressing will have the effect of beauty treatment and beauty rest.
The following are several excellent dressing agents:
Tomato dressing agent applies tomato slices to the skin, and its acidity can remove dead cells, shrink pores and make the skin soft and shiny.
Lemon liniment is used for oily skin. Squeeze the juice from the fresh lemon and leave it overnight. The next morning, gently smear it on your face, gently rub it, wipe it off with a cloth, and then rinse it with cold water.
Potato dressing can treat skin acne. Putting potatoes directly on the defective skin can remove dead cells and heal the skin injury.
Matters needing attention in aloe health care and beauty
Precautions for oral administration of fresh aloe leaves;
① Pay attention to the difference between fresh aloe leaves, dried aloe leaves and dried aloe pieces.
Fresh aloe leaves not only have various functions of dried aloe, but also have milder medicinal properties than dried aloe. Especially, the superoxide dismutase (SOD) and polysaccharide contained in fresh aloe can improve human physiological function, promote human health and enhance immunity, which is beyond the reach of dried aloe. Aloe leaves will lose and destroy some effective components during processing, so their functions are not as comprehensive as those of fresh aloe leaves.
② Pay attention to the object suitability when eating fresh aloe leaves.
Use with caution for people with weak constitution or spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. People who vomit after eating fresh aloe leaves, or cause severe abdominal pain and diarrhea should also be prohibited from eating. Aloe vera is a powerful medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials, which is suitable for strong physique (i.e. positive type), but its effect on weak physique (i.e. debilitating type) may not be ideal. Only by understanding its adaptability can it play a better role.
③ Take a proper amount of fresh aloe leaves.
Adult women can take 1 piece of aloe mesophyll with a length of 3 cm and a width of 4 cm every day. For strong men, it can be increased appropriately (generally 10% ~ 20%). Children and the elderly should be reduced as appropriate. Women during pregnancy and menstruation should avoid taking aloe vera.
Never mistake agave for aloe.
Agave and aloe plants are similar in morphology. Agave is poisonous. Don't eat it by mistake. Except for a few kinds of aloe, such as arborvitae aloe and Shangnong aloe, which can eat fresh leaves, most kinds of aloe are just ornamental plants, and some kinds of aloe are still toxic, which may cause poisoning or even endanger life after eating by mistake.
⑤ Don't treat aloe as a panacea.
Although the therapeutic effect of aloe on many diseases has been confirmed by modern medicine, it cannot be regarded as a panacea. All diseases are treated with aloe vera, especially acute diseases and some serious diseases. Be sure to send them to the hospital in time to avoid wasting time.
Precautions for external use of fresh aloe leaves:
Generally, fresh aloe leaves are safe for external use, and the method is simple and easy.
There are many kinds of aloe suitable for external use. Shangnong Aloe, Chinese Aloe, Arboretum Aloe and Soap Aloe can all be used to extract leaves, among which Shangnong Aloe is the most suitable.
But it is worth noting that fresh aloe juice contains a certain amount of calcium oxalate and a variety of plant proteins. Some patients have particularly sensitive skin. After rubbing fresh aloe leaves for external use, the skin feels itchy or has a small red rash, which is generally not too serious and will subside in half a day. In case of skin allergy, fresh aloe leaf juice can be diluted with cold boiled water before use, and those with severe allergies should stop using it immediately. If you find a small rash or itching, you can wash it with warm water, and never scratch it with your fingers, so as not to scratch your skin and cause new infections.