Ann The core of natural beauty techniques that are truly reliable and rarely used are not the bizarre folk remedies such as washing your face with rice water and applying lemon on your face that are spread online. Instead, they follow the body's own metabolic laws and use low-irritation natural ingredients or physical methods to slowly cultivate a good state.
When I first went to college two years ago, I followed Xiaohongshu on a blind trial. I put mashed strawberries and yogurt on my face in an attempt to whiten my face. As a result, I became red and allergic on the spot. I went to the hospital to see a dermatologist and spent a small amount of 2,000 yuan. After that, I realized that there are many impurities and irritating ingredients in unpurified natural ingredients. If you have sensitive skin, you are just asking for trouble. Of course, this does not mean that all natural beauty methods are IQ tax. I followed my cousin who is a nurse in the outpatient clinic and insisted on several methods for almost three years. Many friends around me have tried them and found them useful.
The most basic thing is actually to drink enough water. I used to feel that I had to apply facial masks frequently when my skin was dry. I used it up to seven times a week. As a result, I developed hydration dermatitis and my face was swollen like a steamed bun. My cousin said that most people's daily skin dehydration is not a lack of cuticles at all, but a lack of water in the body cells. Later, I stopped wearing facial masks. I drank a cup of warm acacia honey water every morning when I got up, brewed some roses or Ophiopogon japonicus during the day, and avoided ice milk tea and fruit tea with a lot of sugar. I persisted for less than three months. I turned on the heating all night in winter, and my face didn’t get stuck when I woke up the next day. Of course, some people say that if they drink too much, they will only get edema. In fact, if you drink a few times less, take two sips at a time instead of drinking a large glass in one go, the edema problem can be alleviated a lot.
Physical sunscreen is actually the most natural way to whiten your skin. When I learned to drive last summer, I covered my whole body with only my eyes exposed. I wore a wide-brimmed hat, ice sleeves, and a mask. After two months, I didn’t get any tan at all. The little girl who was riding with me applied high-power sunscreen every day and still got two degrees of tan. Of course, some friends with oily and acne-prone skin complain that physical sunscreen is too stuffy. Wearing a mask in the summer makes your face suffocate and your mouth shuts up. In fact, you can change to a silk sunscreen mask, which is much more breathable. My colleague with oily-acne skin has worn it all summer without getting any new acne.
Another thing that is most easily overlooked is sugar control. I used to be a typical milk tea addict. If I don't drink a cup of full-sugar milk tea a day, I will feel uncomfortable all over the body. The clumping on my chin will disappear and never stop. Later, I decided to drink one cup of fruit tea with 30% sugar at most every week. I also try to choose a clear bottom of the pot when eating hot pot. I drink a cup of warm barley tea to scrape the oil after eating. In less than two months, the clumping on my chin has basically disappeared, and even the pores have become much smaller. By the way, there is also the Collagen supplement, which has been a hot topic recently. I insist on drinking a small bowl of sugar-free Tremella soup every day. After drinking it for half a year, I do feel that my skin is a little poppy and not as dry as before. However, my best friend has been drinking it for three months and there has been no change. The doctor said that this has something to do with the individual's absorption capacity. There is no need to deify it, and there is no need to force myself to eat it every day.
Speaking of this, someone must ask, are those fruits and vegetables spread on the Internet really useless at all? No, for example, after a day of shopping outside in the summer, and your face is as red as a cooked shrimp, cut a refrigerated, washed cucumber into thin slices and apply it for three to five minutes. The soothing effect is faster than many expensive moisturizing masks, but the premise is that you do not have sensitive skin, and you must wash it off and apply moisturizer immediately after application, otherwise the tannic acid in the cucumber will remain on the face, which will cause it to dry out and become red. If you want to rely on this to whiten and lighten spots, it is better to give up the idea as soon as possible, it is useless.
Another universal beauty method is to sleep well. Last month, I stayed up all night for a week to catch up on a project. My face turned as yellow as a three-day-old orange, and the black and blue under my eyes almost drooped to my chin. I used two bottles of brightening essence to no avail. After the project ended, I went to bed at 10:30 every day for a week. In less than half a month, most of the yellowishness was gone. It used more than the three thousand tubes of anti-aging essence I bought before. Of course, there are also friends who are naturally night owls, and their skin is still smooth and delicate even after staying up until two or three o'clock every day. For this kind of people, there is no need to forcefully adjust their work and rest schedule. The most important thing is to be comfortable.
In fact, to put it bluntly, natural beauty is never about applying some unpopular folk remedies to your face. It’s just sticking to these most basic things, which is more effective than paying any amount of IQ tax. If you really have any skin problems, don’t hold on to them. The more serious thing is to see a dermatologist first.~
