Herbal Skin Care for Healthy Skin

Herbal Skin Care for Healthy Skin - Fall, Winter 2010 Tips

The whole idea behind herbal skin care is to keep damaging substances away from the skin and using products that can potentially save the skin; adding moisture when it is needed, preventing premature aging and generally pampering it every once in a while. For a lot of people, the whole herbal skin care idea is just a lot of “mumbo jumbo” but the cold reality is that you could be incorporating herbal skin care into your daily skin regime without even knowing it.

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How many times have you used a product that contains aloe vera? This is a herbal remedy for many things and can be used to soothe burns, grazes and sun burn and also is a product contained within many of the commercial skin care products. There have even been reports that it can turn back time so to speak and is used in many anti-aging products.
As well as aloe vera, lavender is often used in many beauty products and this is good for calming the body and mind. The soothing properties can be used on sun burn but is also a really good thing to use to calm down inflamed or sore skin and also to tone the skin, bringing about reports of anti-aging properties.
One of the last things within herbal skin care that must be talked about is green tea. This has been studied over many years for the weight loss properties that it apparently has but has also been used in skin care studies for various reasons. One of the benefits that green tea has been showed to have on the skin is to offer protection from skin cancer by reducing the amount of damage that the sun has on the skin. There have also been studies to see the anti-aging properties of green tea and although this has not yet been scientifically proven, it would appear that it does have some effects on the signs of aging.