Natural Tips To Reduce Dark Circles and Keep Healthy Skin Around Eyes!

Natural Tips To Reduce Dark Circles and Keep Healthy Skin Around Eyes!

So there you are, sitting right in front of the mirror and gazing at your beautiful face and limpid eyes surrounded by horrifying dark circles! Certainly not the best of sights for your motivation level and self confidence. Skin under the eye is extremely delicate and quite vulnerable for the same reason. Dark circles and puffiness under the eyes is quite a common issue among us today, which usually results due to negligence towards our diet, sleeping habits and increasing stress levels. Here are some natural tips to reduce them and regain healthy skin around eyes.

Cool As Cucumber

Cucumber is a natural coolant that eases off stress from your eyes. It is considered to be a natural astringent that helps in toning your skin and enhancing complexion. You are just back from work at night and are feeling dog tired after exposing your eyes rigorously in front of computer. Well, try this – Take two slices of cucumber while preparing the salad and refrigerate it. After dinner, put those slices on closed eyes and let it stay there for 15 minutes. Rinse off with fresh water and pat dry your skin.

Tea Bags

Tea bags are a practical yet effective home remedy that could be used to cure dark circles and puffy eyes. Key to use them is to store them in a cool clean place, ideally in the refrigerator. Then put them on your eyes for 15 minutes and rinse off. Tea bags especially green tea bags are rich in anti oxidants which are effective in brighten skin area.

Tomato Juice

Tomatoes are abundant in Vitamin C which all citrus fruits are. Citrus fruits and vegetables contain acid that are useful in enhancing any dark area complexion. You can use it to cure the dark skin under your eyes. However be careful during its usage as tomato juice comes with a risk of leaking into your eyes, which could cause irritation and redness. Hence squeeze a tomato and dip thin cotton pads into it and then put those under your eyes for better results.

Try A Potato

Potato juice, though not very common and popular among us for curing darkness under the eyes, actually causes a magical effect in healing dark circles. Place cotton balls dipped in potato juice on your eyes, before going to bed. If you are consistent with the practice, you would find a fair, tight and flawless skin within 15 days of usage.

Moisturization is the key

Using a good face cream may be ideal for your face skin, however for skin under and around eyes, it may be not be sufficient. Invest in a good under eye care cream, that helps in the reduction of dark circles and keeps that area moisturized. Excessive and constant dryness can also lead to occurrence of wrinkles. If you do not rely on market beauty products, try massaging the area under your eyes with almond oil before going to bed. You will be happily amazed at the results!

What’s On Your Plate?

The fact that we are a reflection of what we feed our body with is absolutely correct. Dark circles can be caused due to deficiency of various nutrients like iron, vitamin A and vitamin E. Pay heed to what foods you are reaching out for. Fill your plate with enough greens like spinach, broccoli, capsicum and fruits like apples, oranges, strawberries, pomegranates etc.  We all know that eating a brownie or ice cream when we are stressed seems to be an urgency. However such foods raise your sugar levels instantly and increase stress after being digested. All this can lead to formation of dark circles.

Get Enough Sleep!

Sleeping 7 hours everyday is a boon for your health. Most of us are extremely busy in work schedules and are trying to race against time, thanks to our high demanding careers and lifestyle and these days. Naturally all this affects our sleep routines adversely, making us miss on essential hours of sleeping. Manage your time and regularize your daily routine so that you catch up on your sleep for atleast 6 hours. Not sleeping enough is a most common reason for dark circles.

Get Moving!

You might feel like bashing the person who has mentioned exercise as a cure for dark circles after reading this! But the fact is that skin darkening in specific areas is a result of slowing down of blood circulation and supply there. And nothing surpasses exercise when it comes to blood circulation. Exercising daily also helps in maintaining natural oils of skin through perspiration. Plus release of endorphins leaves you on an emotional high, you feel perky and on top of the world. At the end, this is all what matters!

Author Bio:

Joecy Parker is an online consultant for Grow longer EyeLashes - grow your eyelashes longer and thicker . Joecy likes to Blog about Health, Beauty and Skin care.