Carrot recipes

Carrots have powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties therefore it very actively, now, began to be used as natural raw materials by production of cosmetic products. However carrots old guest of "home" beauty shops. Already ancient Greeks knew about the unique rejuvenating properties of carrots and with might and main used it for care of skin and hair. Slavic nationalities knew about this wonderful vegetable too, and "carrot" recipes of beauty passed from father to son.

Chemical composition

Root crops of carrots contain 79.2 — 91.8% of water, 3.4 — 12.0% of sugars (mainly sucrose, glucose and fructose), 0.05 — 0.25% of organic acids (generally apple), 0.3 — 0.8% of pectinaceous and 0.5 — 2.2% of nitrogen-containing substances, 0.7 — 2.0% of cellulose, 0.54 — 1.7% of ashes, radio and fat oils, flavonoids, mineral salts (potassium, calcium, phosphorus and iron), vitamins C (up to 14 mg), carotene (up to 24 mg prevail), E, RR, N, B1 and B2, pantothenic and folic acids.

Interestingly! Carrots intensify intracellular oxidation-reduction processes. Its consumption increases the content of the main antioxidants in blood that allows to strengthen the immune system of an organism.

Recipes from carrots

We nourish skin!

• To take 1 tablespoon of fat cottage cheese, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, to add a little milk and carrot juice, to mix and put on a face. In 15-20 minutes to wash away cool water.

• To mix 1 teaspoon of carrot juice with 1 teaspoon of sour cream and 1 yolk of egg. To put a mask on a face for 15 — 20 minutes. To wash away at first warm, and then cold water.

• To grate 1 carrots on a small grater and to mix with 1 teaspoon of liquid honey. To put gruel on a face and a neck, and in 20 minutes to wash away warm water. Then to wipe a face with the wadded tampon moistened with cold water.

We look after oily skin!

• To grate 1 carrots on a small grater, to mix with egg white, to add 1 teaspoon of peach oil, as much starch and to put on a face and a neck. To wash away in 20 minutes cool water.

• Grate 1 carrots on a small grater. Mix with 1 teaspoon of starch and 1 egg yolk. Add several drops of lemon or cranberry juice. Put on a face. You hold 15-20 minutes. Wash away warm water.

We return healthy complexion!

• For pale, gray skin color of the person 2-3 times a week within a month then skin gains pleasant swarthiness of easy suntan are useful to do carrot compresses. For this purpose grate 1 carrots and put gruel on a gauze on the person for 15-20 minutes then rinse a face cool water.

• To pound 1 tablespoon of cream with 1 yolk, to add 1 teaspoon of carrot juice. To impose mix on the cleaned face skin and necks for 20 minutes, then remove any warm vegetable oil and rinse with cold water.

We do a head of hear magnificent!

• To get rid of dandruff it is possible to use the next "carrot" recipe. Take 1 average carrots, 1 lemon, 1 tablespoon of oil of grape seeds. Scroll the peeled carrots and a lemon together with a peel via the meat grinder or crush in the food processor, add oil, mix everything. Apply on hair for 20 minutes, having wrapped up at the same time them a polyethylene film. After time wash hair with water and wash up them shampoo.

• For strengthening of hair and giving of gloss to them rub in head skin of 1-2 tablespoons of carrot juice with addition of 10 drops of lemon juice. Later in 2-3 hours wash up hair.

Procedure Anti-age

• Mix 1 grated carrots with 1 tablespoon of milk. Apply smetanoobrazny mix to face skin and leave for 15-20 minutes. Wash away cool water.

Vs carrots of freckles!

If on a face there are a lot of freckles and it is difficult to remove them, skin is wiped with carrots juice. For this purpose peel 2 — 3 carrots, crush on a small grater and wring out juice. The person at the same time gets a yellowish shade, and freckles become less noticeable. If to add several drops of lemon juice to carrot juice, fine means for wiping of freckles turns out.