Carrot oil? awesome for skin and hair
Turnip, root, carrot or carrot? No matter ? The main thing is that she is beautiful!
The good old carrot we know as Sehschärfer, but that she does skin and hair just as well, is largely unknown. Carrot oil is used in cosmetics as an ingredient for body and facial skin, its carotenes appreciated for their repairing effect. It is in Skin masks, creams, facial oil and hair products, As skin care against pimples it finds the most common use. For cosmetics, the oil is extracted from the seeds of wild carrot. Only the root of the carrot is used to extract the oil.
Carrot oil for the skin: cell protection in orange
- The ones stuck in the carrot carotenes have a cytoprotective effect, they are antioxidants, Your provitamin A is important for the cell renewal of the skin. Note: Definitely integrate into our anti-aging care.
- In a plant carotenes have the task of contributing to the photosynthesis and the growth of the consequences to protect harmful UV rays, To use carrot oil as a pure UV protection, would be grossly negligent, but the carrot is considered a great helper in natural sun care.
- Oily and impure skin appreciates the ingredients of the turnip! Because it has a regulating effect, supports the decay of inflammation and can clarify so impure skin. In addition, it has a slightly dehydrating effect, which is why oily skin can benefit from it.
- The light coloring effect the oil has on the skin can be a natural self-tanner. Whether the coloring of the skin works naturally, depends on the skin type. Who wants to experiment with it, should start outside of the face. After all, we do not want to become the Donald Trump look alike, just give our complexion a summer blaze.
Carrot oil for the hair
Carrot oil is great for caring for broken hair tips. Besides, should it have a positive effect on hair loss? However studies do not exist.
A DIY recipe against split ends:
Lightly warm the carrot oil, massage into the hair tips, leave for 10 to 15 minutes and rinse thoroughly with warm water. Important: Do not apply the carrot oil on the scalpbecause the carotenes discolour them? which irritates especially with fair hair.
Make carrot oil yourself? that's how it's done
Pure carrot oil you even get in the drugstore (for example from Diaderma). But it is not that complicated to make carrot oil yourself. You need:
- 20 ml cold-pressed sesame oil (jojoba oil or almond oil)
- a grated carrot (best from organic farming)
- a large lockable glass
- a sterile glass bottle (boil before)
- a pot
- a kitchen towel or a clean tea towel
And so it goes: Sesame oil and a grated carrot in the lockable glass and give off into the hot water. Heat until the rasps are soft and the oil is orange. Strain the mixture through a clean dishcloth and pour into the storage bottles.
