Use tomatoes as a natural cosmetic to help your skin stay youthful and smooth.
Tomatoes are juicy, low in calories, high in fiber, rich in vitamins… Tomatoes contain a large amount of antioxidants that help prevent skin aging, so use tomatoes as a natural cosmetic to help your skin stay youthful and smooth.
Tomatoes – Pamper your skin…
- Balance oily skin: Oily, shiny skin is a favorable condition for acne to form and develop. A simple way to overcome this condition is to use tomato juice mixed with honey and then use a cotton pad to apply evenly on the face, which will bring good results. Tomatoes can improve and balance the amount of oil secreted on the skin on the face, helping the skin reduce oil and increase skin elasticity.
- Remove the horny layer:The condition of peeling skin due to dry weather can be overcome by regularly eating a tomato every day and taking a few slices of tomato to apply on the face, then using those tomato slices to gently massage the face to remove the horny layer (dead skin layer). Note, don’t forget to drink enough water every day to help increase moisture and water for the skin.
- Treat acne: Use a cotton pad dipped in tomato juice and apply on the face. Oil and dirt in the pores will be removed, leaving no conditions for acne to grow.
- Sunburn: If you are out in the sun too much and your skin gets sunburned, remember to mix 2 tablespoons of tomato juice with 4 tablespoons of non-dairy milk. Apply to your face and rinse after 30 minutes. Method 2 is to mix tomato juice and cucumber and apply to sunburned areas, leave for about 10 minutes and then rinse with water. You will see the difference compared to your skin before using this mixture.
- Skin lightening: Staying up late regularly, unscientific diet along with dust and environmental pollution will make your skin dark, dull, and lose its inherent brightness. However, you should not worry too much, just mash a tomato with a small part of avocado, beat well and apply on the face for about 30 minutes, the essential nutrients and vitamins in this mixture will penetrate deep into the skin, providing the necessary moisture, while pulling out dirt and residue, restoring the smoothness of the skin. Another recipe for bright skin is a mixture of 2 tablespoons of tomato juice and 4 tablespoons of fresh milk. Apply evenly on the face and wash your face after 15 minutes, you will see the softness and brightness of the skin.
Hair friend
If you want shiny hair without spending much time, you just need to mix tomato pulp with a little water and apply evenly on the hair from root to tip and then wash as usual. This method not only helps you have shiny and beautiful hair but also has the ability to limit dandruff.
And the savior of the waist
Losing weight is not difficult, as long as you eat in moderation, especially do not forget to add tomatoes to your diet. The calories in tomatoes are very low, the citric sugar and acid in tomatoes can promote metabolism, burn fat and lycopene can inhibit the growth of fat cells, absorb excess fat.
Eating a lot of tomatoes also helps prevent constipation, so it is a very good fruit for those who want to lose weight. You can eat 2 large tomatoes a day, you should choose red tomatoes because they contain 3 times more lycopene than green tomatoes (equivalent to eating 17 cherry tomatoes, high nutritional content, carotene, vitamin C, fiber). To lose weight effectively, you should eat tomatoes in the evening, you can cut tomatoes into thin slices to eat as salad, drink tomato juice, make sauce (about 60-80g).
You can make tomato sauce to eat gradually by cooking whole tomatoes, putting them in a blender, adding olive oil, minced garlic, onions, pepper, etc. Japanese nutritionists recommend that although you can lose weight with tomatoes (lose 2kg in the first month), you should apply a tomato diet for at least 3-6 months to maintain your figure and eliminate the risk of gaining weight again when you stop eating tomatoes.
Note that along with the tomato eating schedule in the evening, you should combine other measures such as avoiding eating too much at one meal but dividing it into many small meals, getting enough sleep, exercising your whole body for at least 15 minutes every day, etc.