What are the natural beauty techniques?

I have been practicing natural skin care for almost 8 years, and I have gone through so many pitfalls that I can fill a makeup box. Natural beauty techniques that can really stand the test of time cannot be circumvented from the three core directions of internal care, external skin care, and daily habit calibration. It is not like the random cucumber slices and application on the face or white vinegar washing the face that are spread on the Internet.

My best friend who I rented with believed the blogger's advice about applying fresh lemon slices to the face to whiten her face. After applying it three times, her face immediately turned red and the skin broke out. She went to the hospital and prescribed ointment for half a month before it disappeared. Now she is scared to mention lemons. Nowadays, two groups of people on the Internet are quarreling over the use of food ingredients on the face. One group thinks that applying fresh ingredients directly to the face is the purest and natural way, while the other group thinks that it is all an IQ tax and hurts the face. In fact, both sides are right. The concentration of fruit acids in unpurified fresh ingredients is uncontrollable, and there may be pesticides and bacteria attached to them. It may be okay to try it once in a while for healthy skin. However, the probability of being pitted by sensitive skin is more than 60%. You really have to try it. When trying natural techniques for external application, it is best to choose safe raw materials that have been simply pre-processed. My face tends to get dry and itchy when exposed to cold wind in winter, so I used low-temperature baked pure oat flour without additives, mixed with 1 and a half spoonfuls of mature honey with a Baume degree of 42 degrees or above, and applied it for 10 minutes. After applying, my face was soft and the redness was gone. It took me more than a dozen times to settle on this ratio, and it has never hurt my face.

Many people think that natural beauty is just about messing with the face. In fact, after years of experience, I discovered that external application can only solve superficial dryness, itchiness and dullness. If you really want your face to glow from within and slow down, internal treatment is the most cost-effective way. Last year, I stayed up for two months working on a project, and my face turned as yellow as a wrinkled orange that had been stored for three days. I applied more than 20 big-name whitening masks but couldn't save it. Later, I followed my cousin who is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and used 10 wolfberry berries, 3 pitted red dates and 1 ml of red dates every morning. Soak a handful of dried roses in warm water at 40 degrees and drink it instead of boiling it. After boiling for a long time, the volatile essential oils in the roses will disappear, and the effect will be much worse. After drinking it for less than a month, my face is not very gray when I wake up in the morning, and even the breast swelling during the aunt period has been relieved a lot. There are also many people who say that internal adjustment is all about IQ. I have a friend with a damp-heat constitution. After drinking red date and wolfberry water for three days, my face suddenly burst into acne. In fact, it is not that the prescription is useless, but it does not match my body constitution. If people have yang deficiency and are afraid of the cold, drinking it is tonic. If you are already hot and still drink it, wouldn’t that just add fuel to the fire?

There are also the most ignored daily habits, which are the foundation of natural beauty. You may not believe it when I tell you. My mother has a friend who is 53 this year and has only a few obvious dry lines on her face. She never uses anti-aging skin care products worth thousands of dollars, which has been unshakable for decades. Many young people think that hard sunscreen is too troublesome, so it is better to apply sunscreen to save trouble. In fact, for people with sensitive skin, physical protection such as umbrellas, hats, and masks are the anti-aging methods with zero burden on the skin. Of course, if you go to the beach or are exposed to the sun outdoors for a long time, it is no problem to use sunscreen. There is no need to go to extremes and choose which one.

In fact, to put it bluntly, natural beauty is not about following the gimmick of "zero additives" or "all-natural". It is about following the rhythm of your own skin and body. You don't have to follow the trend of fancy folk remedies. Trying the right ones that suit you is more effective than spending tens of thousands of dollars on beauty projects.