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. Here, we introduce some common sense of aloe beauty, which may help you use aloe beauty correctly.
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.
First, the role of beauty
Aloe vera can improve skin texture, nourish skin and keep skin white, tender, elastic and ruddy. Many cosmetics on the market are called aloe vera. In fact, the nutrients in fresh and mature aloe leaves are the most economical and practical, and the use method is simple. For example, the easiest way is to take a fresh aloe leaf, wash and peel it, squeeze out its juice with clean gauze, apply it to the washed face, and gently massage it for about 5 minutes.
Second, medicinal use.
Keeping a pot of aloe at home can play the role of standing medicine. In case of knife wound, burn, scald, sprain or mosquito bite, take a piece of aloe and apply it to the wound, which has therapeutic effect.
Aloe vera has many functions and has therapeutic effects on many diseases. Keeping a pot of aloe at home can kill two birds with one stone, which can beautify the room and cure diseases.
More features:
1996, FAO recommended aloe as "the best healthy food for human beings in 2 1 century".
1. Antibacterial and antifungal effects
The antibacterial effect of aloe stems from the cytokine function of aloin, which has relatively aggressive biochemical characteristics, so that aloe can directly kill bacteria.
2. Antiviral pathogens
Literature reports that aloe vera can promote the recovery of animals and people infected by virus. These documents mentioned feline leukemia virus and AIDS, and aloe vera played an amazing role in the rehabilitation of cats infected with the virus. There are also some papers that report that carbohydrate analogues in aloe can stimulate cells to produce antiviral substances-interferon.
3. The role of immune stimulators
The function of aloe immunostimulant is the basic function of aloe on human body. Aloe vera improves the immunity of the body, which makes aloe vera have remarkable curative effect in treating some diseases caused by decreased immunity.
4. Anti-inflammatory effect
Anti-inflammation is an important function of aloe gel. Whether it is burn, physical injury, corrosive chemical injury or inflammation caused by ultraviolet rays and thermal radiation, aloe gel has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. Experiments show that the efficacy of anti-inflammatory drugs made of aloe vera gel is equivalent to that of anti-inflammatory drugs synthesized by modern chemistry, while aloe vera gel contains no harmful components and has no side effects on human body.
5. Wound healing effect
Another important function of aloe vera gel is to promote wound healing. Aloe vera has a remarkable effect on promoting the healing of wounds and ulcers. When any part or tissue on the body surface is injured, wound healing is the main problem, and aloe vera gel can participate in this healing process.
6. Enhance the functions of phagocytosis, detoxification and cleaning.
Another important function of aloe is its remarkable "swallowing" effect. The body's immune system eliminates bacteria, infections and dead cells in the body through "phagocytosis". On the one hand, immunostimulants have phagocytosis, on the other hand, detoxification and cleaning functions in the body also have phagocytosis. For the body, bacteria and bacterial residues are poisons that must be removed from the body. Cells that are infected by bacteria and die in the body are also harmful to the body. These dead cells and toxins will be eliminated from the body through phagocytosis. Therefore, enhancing phagocytosis is to enhance the detoxification and cleaning function in the body. If a person suffers from chronic diseases due to the accumulation of toxins in cells or tissues in the body, but insists on natural therapy, taking drugs made of aloe can obviously enhance the detoxification and cleaning functions of the body. It is reported that aloe has therapeutic effect on 100 chronic diseases.
7. Immune and anti-tumor effects
Polysaccharides contained in aloe can improve immunity, and have a strong effect of inhibiting or destroying abnormal cell growth, thus playing an anti-tumor role.