Gail The core content of natural beauty is actually to bypass invasive medical beauty and high-concentration chemical functional ingredients, and rely on natural ingredients, daily behavioral adjustments, and traditional health care logic to improve skin condition and complexion. It mainly covers three directions: external care, internal food supplements, and behavioral habits adjustment. However, there are many controversies in almost every direction, and more people are pitted against it than are actually effective.
Take the most common external care as an example. Many people’s first reaction is to apply home ingredients on their face, such as cucumber slices to hydrate the face, or pearl powder and honey to whiten the face. I tried it two years ago when I first entered the industry. When I got tanned in the summer, I cut fresh lemons and applied them directly. As a result, my cheeks became red and stinging for three days, but darkened for half a month. Later I learned that the organic acid concentration of fresh lemons has not been diluted, and the pH value is too low, not to mention sensitive skin, even healthy skin cannot handle it. However, some friends mixed lemon juice with 10 times pure water and added a little basic hyaluronic acid solution, and only applied it once a week for secondary cleansing. After half a year, the oil in the T-zone became much less, and the pores on both sides of the nose looked much finer. The two parties have been arguing for several years. In the final analysis, it is still a matter of skin quality and usage.
Instead of smearing fresh ingredients on their faces, more people who insist on natural beauty all year round focus on eating. A few years ago, when peach gum and snow swallow soup were popular, the whole Internet was touted to be able to replenish collagen. Later, a paper came out and said that the polysaccharides in peach gum belong to plant collagen. The human body cannot directly absorb it and convert it into collagen for the skin. It is a proper IQ tax. I have been drinking it intermittently for almost a year. I cook it twice a week and add a little saponin rice, fresh lily and a few rock sugars each time. It is definitely nonsense to say that it can replenish collagen. But in winter, my face is indeed not as dry as before and my bowel movements are much more regular. My complexion is bright and clear, unlike before, which always had a dull feeling. For example, my mother has been eating steamed red dates for more than ten years, only three a day. Now she is almost 60, and she has fewer age spots on her face than many colleagues who are 40 years old. You are not sure that eating red dates is completely beneficial, but long-term consumption of warm ingredients to nourish qi and blood is definitely beneficial to the skin.
If eating and applying are both auxiliary, what can really maximize the effect are those daily habits that have no sense of existence. I had been working on a project for a week, and my face turned yellow as if it were covered with dust. I applied three boxes of whitening masks but couldn't save it. Later, I went to bed before 10 o'clock for three days in a row. When I woke up in the morning, my face was a degree brighter. I said the effect was exaggerated compared to medical beauty treatments, but it really worked no matter how many functional ingredients I applied. However, there are also many friends who are natural night owls who say that they go to bed at 2 a.m. and wake up at 10 a.m. after eight hours of sleep. Their skin is still smooth and delicate, and their faces are not dull or dull. In the end, there is no conclusion. In fact, the core is the routine of work and rest. As long as the body adapts to the fixed biological clock, there will be no problems. There is also facial pulling which was very popular in the past two years. I bought a horn pulling stick from a blogger and scraped it upward along the jaw line for five minutes every day. After a month, the edema disappeared a lot and my face looked a little tighter. However, my dermatologist friends also warned that if the force is too strong or the frequency is too high, repeated pulling on the skin will easily lead to dry lines and fine lines. A maximum of three times a week is enough.
To put it bluntly, there is nothing mysterious about natural beauty. It all follows the needs of your own body. You don’t have to copy other people’s work. Try it a few times to find a comfortable rhythm. It is much more effective than following some Internet celebrity folk remedies.
