Skin Care and Vegetables

Beauty saloons may be one of the ways to care for your skin but a more appropriate method is to eat the proper types of vegetables that God has created to take care of our bodies, both from inside and outside. Depending on the environment around where you live, consumption of properly chosen time tested vegetables will certainly enable you to maintain a healthy skin for a longer period of time.

Vegetables contain powerful antioxidants that suppress oxidation and peroxides. They also contain valuable nutrients that give energy and assist in building tissue.

The inherent color of the vegetable helps in deciding what it can offer. Yellow or orange ones like carrots and potatoes are full of Vitamin C – prevents scurvy, promotes collagen and delays the formation of wrinkles.

Red vegetables contain Lycopene which protects the body from the harmful effects of direct sunlight exposure. They also contain Vitamin C.

Green vegetables not only contain a lot of Vitamin C but also folate, A B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction. No wonder everyone talks about eating a lot of green vegetables!

Purple and blue ones, like beet, spinach, contain a lot of antioxidants.

However, such vegetables need to be consumed in a proper way. The juice extracted from raw potatoes prevents blemishes on the face as well as retards the skin from aging. Tomato pulp prevents pimples and helps in the complexion. Cucumber slices placed on the eyes and other parts of the skin has always been a standard practice in caring for the skin. They help in preventing dryness of the skin as well as stop formation of wrinkles, pimples and blackheads.

A mix of all these types taken regularly in proper quantities will certainly keep the skin young, fresh and healthy in a far natural way. Various type of skin creams are made by combining a variety of such vegetables in correct manner and it is always recommended that you opt for such natural remedies to take care of your skin rather than any of those chemically composed mixtures that many beauty saloons offer.