Beautiful Skin Tea

Tea plant especially green tea gives so many benefits for your skin and your body. Green tea contains vitamins, antioxidant, anti-bacterial and minerals. In cosmetic industry , green tea is mixed with vitamin E and C , they can help slow aging process. That’s why, many product uses green tea as one of the ingredient for making good cream, soap amd shampoo.

In Japan green tea used for prevent cancer. Japan has death rate lower than other country because people in japan have habit to drink tea about 5 to 6 cups a day.

For your information, recent studies discover that green tea extract is rich of antioxidants that can help us to protect from free radicals , free radicals is one of the things that make aging faster, with consume green tea, we can against the free radicals, then the benefit, we can look younger and do you know green tea also can prevent skin cancer?

Not only make us  look younger, the green tea also can make lower high blood pressure and lower blood sugar levels for people who have diabetes problem.The green tea also can make lower cholesterol by restricting the excessive buildup ( LDL) cholesterol.

As summary, green tea offers so many benefits for our health and beauty, for internal and external part of our body because green tea contains Catechin which is 100 times potent than vitamin C and 25 times more potent than vitamin E. Catechin explaination : Antioxidant activity in green tea about 25-100 times more potent than vitamins C and E.  One cup of green tea may provides  10 - 40 mg of polyphenols and can have an antioxidant activity greater than fruit or vegetables such as  broccoli, spinach, carrots, or strawberries.  A catechin is also effective because it sticks to proteins easily and blocks bacteria from adhering to cell walls.  This disrupts their ability to destroy them.  The catechin in green tea also prevents viruses from adhering to cell walls and causing harm.

Green Tea for Beauty

We can make green tea for face toner, there they are what you need.

5 green tea bags or several heaping teaspoons of green tea leaves
1/3 to ½ cup fresh herb, chopped (see list below for your specific skin type)
2 cups mineral water or vitamin water]

How to make it ?

Combine all ingredients in a small pot.  Bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes.  Remove from heat and cool.  Strain if necessary.  Apply with cotton ball.  The toner will keep for at least one week in the refrigerator.

Dry skin: Elderflower, linden flowers, and marigold.
Normal skin: chamomile - especially good for antiseptic values, fennel, lemon balm, parsley, and rosemary.
Oily Skin: Chamomile-especially good for antiseptic values, fennel, lemon balm, parsley, rosemary, and peppermint and sage-especially good for antiseptic values.

Green  Tea for face mask
face mask can  remove toxins from your skin and make it smooth and silky. Mix three tablespoons of mayonnaise and one teaspoon of natural green tea brewing. Apply the mixture evenly on your face, avoiding eye area and leave it for 20 minutes. Then wash it away, dry and moisten your face.

Green Tea Fresh breath
The Green tea is also used for eliminating  bad breath. Make your own toothpaste like this . Fill 3.5 oz of green tea with a cup of boiling water and leave it for at least a half an hour. Make a paste, mixing the resulting tea with one teaspoon of soda for baking. Use the mixture as a normal toothpaste. The natural properties of tea check the smell of your breath and help to prevent generating layer of microbes in the oral cavity.