How to Use Carrots in Homemade Beauty Treatments
Consuming carrots provides beauty benefits such as glowing skin from within, but carrots can also be used topically in homemade beauty treatments. Carrots act as a natural acne treatment, provide moisture to dry skin in a homemade moisturizer and add naturally add softness and shine to hair.
Things You Will Need
- Carrots
- Honey
- Bowl
- Teaspoon measure
- Water
- Saucepan
- Carrot peeler
- Glass jar with lid
- Coconut oil
- Blender
- Egg
- Plain yogurt
- ¼ cut measure
- Boil a carrot in a saucepan with some water until soft. Mash the carrot up and mix in a teaspoon of honey.
- Spread the mashed carrot and honey mixture over your face and leave it on for 15 minutes.
- Rinse the carrot mixture from your face with warm water. This facial treatment is great if you have oily skin and will leave your face soft and smooth.
- Make a nightly moisturizer for dry skin. Peel a carrot, cut it up and put it in a glass jar.
- Pour coconut oil over the carrots.
- Put the lid on the jar and place it on a sunny window ledge.
- Allow the carrot and coconut oil mixture to sit on the window ledge for a month then strain the carrots out, reserving the oil.
- Spread the carrot-coconut oil over your skin nightly after cleansing your face. This moisturizer is excellent for those with dry skin.
- Boil a carrot until soft and blend them until smooth.
- Combine the blended carrot, a raw egg and ¼ cup plain yogurt.
- Apply the carrot, egg and yogurt to your dry hair and leave it on for an hour.
- Rinse the mixture from your hair with warm water. This mixture will make your hair soft and shiny.