1, a vegetable with whitening effect
(1) peas
Eating more peas can dispel spots and raise beauty. Compendium of Materia Medica claims that peas have the effect of "removing black spots and making the face shiny".
Modern research has found that peas are rich in provitamin A, which can be converted into vitamin A in the body, and vitamin A has the function of moistening the skin, and is taken from general food without toxic side effects. Eating peas can also reduce swelling and stretch the skin, which can tighten the wrinkles around the eyes.
potato
About whitening vegetables, there is also the saying of "double beans", which are potatoes and peas.
Potatoes are rich in B vitamins and a lot of high-quality cellulose, as well as trace elements, protein, fat and high-quality starch.
These ingredients play an important role in the process of anti-aging and disease prevention, and can effectively help women detoxify. Rich in vitamin C, it can restore women's whitening skin. In addition, the crude fiber in potatoes can also play a laxative role.
(3) white radish
Chinese medicine believes that white radish can "benefit the five internal organs, make people white and clean muscles."
White radish is a common vegetable, which can be eaten raw or cooked. It tastes slightly spicy. Has the effects of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. So can white radish turn white? Because white radish is rich in vitamin C, vitamin C is an antioxidant, which can inhibit melanin synthesis, prevent fat oxidation and prevent lipofuscin deposition. Therefore, eating white radish often can make the skin white and delicate.
(4) carrots
Carrots are called "skin food" and can moisturize the skin. It contains beta carotene, which can resist oxidation and whiten skin, remove excess cutin from skin, and also has calming and soothing effects on oily acne skin. Egg yolk and honey have moisturizing effect. In addition, carrots are rich in pectin, which can combine with mercury, thus eliminating harmful components in the human body and making the skin look more delicate and ruddy.
(5) Asparagus
Asparagus is rich in selenium, which can resist aging, prevent and treat various diseases related to excessive oxidation of fat, and make skin white and tender.
(6) wax gourd
Wax gourd is a beauty product, which has a remarkable effect on whitening skin. Wipe your face with wax gourd slices every day or often wash your face with wax gourd pulp, which can make your facial skin delicate and reduce chloasma. This may be related to the contents of histidine, urease, vitamins and trace elements in melon meat.
Wax gourd has always been regarded as the top grade of slimming, and it has the reputation of "slimming melon". Modern medical circles believe that the slimming effect of wax gourd is mainly due to its rich malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, thus preventing the accumulation of fat in the human body from producing slimming effect. In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, it is said that winter melon is "good in color, beneficial to qi, not hungry, and long-term service makes people strong and anti-aging". Wax gourd contains trigonelline and propanol diacid, the former can accelerate the metabolism of the body, and the latter can prevent sugar from transforming into fat, thus playing a role in losing weight.
(7) Mushrooms
What vegetables are the best for women who want to whiten? Mushrooms are nutritious, rich in protein and vitamins, low in fat and free of cholesterol. Eating mushrooms can make women secrete more estrogen, prevent aging and make skin gorgeous. In addition, mushrooms contain crude fiber, semi-crude fiber and lignin, which are difficult for human body to digest. They can keep intestinal water balance, absorb residual cholesterol and sugar, and excrete them, which is very beneficial to prevent constipation, intestinal cancer, arteriosclerosis and diabetes.
(8) Cucumber
What vegetables to eat for whitening is a very important issue for women. Cucumber is rich in protein, sugar, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. At the same time, cucumber also contains malonic acid, cucurbitacin, soft fine fiber and other ingredients, which can clean and whiten skin, eliminate sunburn and freckles, and relieve skin allergies. It is a traditional beauty product.
Cucumber contains cucumber acid, which can promote human metabolism and excrete toxins. The content of vitamin C is five times higher than that of watermelon, which can whiten skin, maintain skin elasticity and inhibit the formation of melanin. Cucumber can also inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, which is very beneficial to lung, stomach, heart, liver and excretory system. Summer is easy to be irritable, thirsty, sore throat or excessive phlegm. Eating cucumber helps to relieve inflammation.
If you eat vegetables regularly, you can make your skin fair and transparent, and the effect is no worse than using high-end cosmetics.
2, skin whitening needs attention
1.DIY fruit acid burns the skin.
Fruit acid can accelerate skin exfoliation and improve skin roughness, but it should be handled properly and controlled accurately. If the concentration is too strong, or applied to allergic and dry skin, it will cause side effects such as burns, skin inflammation and pigmentation; The concentration is too thin to be effective. Therefore, it is not recommended.
2. homemade lemon mask turned into a black-faced god
Although lemon contains a lot of vitamin C, it also contains irritating citric acid, which can easily cause skin sensitivity and even burn the skin, leading to blackening or blistering. In addition, most foods contain D- vitamin C instead of L- vitamin C, and its antioxidant and whitening effects are unstable, so the self-made natural whitening mask has little effect.
3. Self-made whitening essence is easy to contain bacteria
A website teaches people to make their own whitening essence. Materials include: levorotatory C powder-1g, water-soluble vitamin E-0.5ml, and purified water -9.5ml, which can be bought in chemical companies. You can mix them evenly and use them. So shoddy, the efficacy is doubtful, and some ingredients with whitening effect are irritating, and the concentration of effective ingredients in self-made skin care products cannot be determined. It will be dangerous if the concentration is too high. At the same time, containers and materials used in production or process may also be contaminated by bacteria. In addition, it is impossible to know the shelf life without preservatives, so it is not recommended for everyone to use it.
It is futile to take pearl powder.
I have heard since childhood that eating more pearl powder can make your skin fair and smooth. Even the empress dowager cixi believed it. It is even reported that a star has the habit of eating pearl powder since childhood, and keeps eating 65,438+0 teaspoons a week to keep her beauty when she grows up. Is it really feasible? There is no basis for whitening pearl powder nutritionally. It should be noted that pearl powder will become inferior due to seawater pollution and other problems, and minerals are afraid of heavy metal residues, which may cause harm to the body. It is not recommended to take it at will.
Take aloe vera to whiten skin.
Aloe vera can whiten the skin. Although it may not be effective, at least its ingredients are natural and harmless to the body. But there are more than 300 kinds of aloe, both ready-to-eat and natural homemade. How should I choose? At present, FDA and Ministry of Health of China only allow five kinds of aloe to be used in food and medicine, including: Aloe Curacao, Aloe Curacao, Aloe Curacao, Aloe Africa and Aloe Curacao. Aloe vera for external use can eliminate skin redness and swelling, and it can relieve constipation and detoxify for internal use, thus improving skin dullness or pigmentation. For the consumption, it is recommended to eat 3 to 4 tablespoons a day. Because different brands have different concentrations, it is safest to take it according to the label. Because of its laxative effect, pregnant women should not eat it.