Bruises under the eyes are not only the result of an unfortunate collision between an object and a certain eye. Most often, blue circles under the eyes have a completely different nature - they appear from chronic lack of sleep or lack of vitamins.
However, both of them are extremely “popular” in the winter, when at work the strict deadline before the New Year holidays begins on the first of December, and you have to look for vitamins in the “glossy” fruits of supermarkets.
You can, of course, use foundation, concealer or corrector as a remedy for dark circles under the eyes, but WomanJournal.ru decided to go further and destroy the problem in the bud.
So what did we find out? In addition to the banal “sleep more,” which will cause a nervous smile for many and add a slight tic to the bruises under the eyes, you can follow the old beaten paths of our grandmothers.
WomanJournal.ru has compiled the TOP 10 folk express remedies that will help you remove dark circles under your eyes.
Perhaps tea is the most common means of combating bruises under the eyes.
Making a tea compress couldn't be easier. Just brew some strong tea, dip it in some cotton swabs and place it on your eyes for 10-15 minutes. Some cosmetologists advise changing tampons every 2-3 minutes during this time.
Recently, many people have been using tea bags, which we strongly advise against doing. “Fast tea,” of course, is an ideal solution for those who are too lazy to pour boiling water over a normal brew, but spare your eyes—only good tea can help them.
A small note: to prevent the blue around the eyes from turning red (from a burn), wait until the tea leaves cool.
Which tea to choose is up to you. In principle, doctors and cosmetologists recommend herbal teas, but if you only have green or black tea on hand, it’s not a big deal. All teas, in principle, have strong antioxidants, which not only relieve swelling, but also restore blood circulation in the skin. In addition, tea contains beneficial vitamin A2, which penetrates into the deeper layers of the skin and helps relieve inflammatory processes and swelling.
Removing dark circles under the eyes with fresh cucumber
Of course, this is not a product that is easy to get in winter. But, at worst, these are not Soviet times - there are no queues for sausage, and there are, as a rule, fresh cucumbers in supermarkets.
The method of using cucumbers as a remedy for eliminating bruises around the eyes is indecently simple: cut the cucumber into wheels, put the “wheels” on the eyes, cover the “composition” with a napkin (this is for aesthetes). Keep the cucumbers on the face for about 15 minutes.
Alternatively, you can grate the cucumbers – you’ll get more healthy juice, but the porridge will spread all over your face. In general, choose for yourself.
A large amount of so-called “living” water contained in cucumbers helps to immediately restore the balance of the skin around the eyes, significantly moisturize it and thereby tone it. Among other things, this vegetable has a whitening effect, so you can safely say “goodbye” to bruises under the eyes.
Removing dark circles under the eyes using potatoes
Based on potatoes, raw and boiled, there are an endless number of masks that help remove dark circles under the eyes. In folk medicine, this product is known as an ideal remedy for combating skin fatigue.
You can boil potatoes in their jackets, wait until they cool down, cut one potato in half and apply it to your eyes for half an hour.
Or grate raw potatoes, mix with a small amount of olive or vegetable oil and put the mask on your eyes for the same half an hour.
You can mix grated potatoes with milk in an amount of 2 to 1 and apply the paste to your eyes for 20 minutes.
Finally, you can grate raw potatoes, squeeze the juices out of them, apply them to your eyes, or even just put circles of raw root vegetables on your eyes.
Potatoes help tone the skin due to the large amount of potassium, which helps remove excess water from the body.
Home Remedies
Now let's take a look at our kitchen. Here we will find many products that will help fight dark circles under the eyes with home remedies.
- Starch. A simple but effective remedy, especially in the event of an impact. Starch is mixed with water to the consistency of thick sour cream and applied to the skin. You need to do the procedure 2-3 times a day, but the effect is noticeable almost immediately.
- Milk. A cotton swab or disk is soaked in milk and applied to the eyes for 10-15 minutes. Compresses made from white bread soaked in cold milk are also useful.
- Tea. Refreshing tea compresses are extremely simple and have been known for a long time, but this makes them no less effective. It contains substances that help relieve inflammation and blood circulation. For a compress, use fresh, strong tea leaves. Procedure time: up to 20 minutes. Periodically, tampons need to be refreshed before your eyes.
- Cottage cheese. Apply compresses from the product wrapped in gauze for 10-15 minutes. It is advisable to do them systematically, at least for 10 days, then the effect will be more noticeable.
- Sour cream. A sour cream mask helps whiten dark circles and has a rejuvenating effect. You need to take 0.5 tbsp. l. sour cream, 5-6 drops of lemon juice, 1 ml of glycerin. Apply several layers under the lower eyelid, leave for half an hour and rinse.
- Gelatin. Strengthens the walls of blood vessels, whitens, reduces wrinkles. To prepare, dilute the crystals in warm tea, add any nourishing oil. You can leave it on for up to 30-40 minutes, then carefully remove it.
- Honey. Perfectly removes traces of lack of sleep, tones and refreshes. You should use liquid honey so that the grains do not damage the delicate skin under the eyes. Keep it on for 10-15 minutes. Then carefully remove with a damp cloth.
Advice
The last folk remedy is worth using if you are not allergic to bee products. It is also not recommended for women with too thin and fragile blood vessels.
Removing dark circles under the eyes with a light massage of the skin around the eyes
Massage is known to tone the body. And the eyes are no exception.
Lightly tap the skin around the eyes with your fingertips - make movements from the outer edge of the eye to the inner one. Do not under any circumstances pull the skin - you will get nothing but wrinkles! Your massage should last 2-3 minutes. Before the procedure, lightly moisturize the skin with cream.
At the end, do a little exercise for your eyes - close your eyes tightly for 6 seconds, then suddenly open them; repeat 10 times.
Massage will normalize blood circulation, which will help restore the correct skin color.
Removing dark circles under the eyes with water
When you have absolutely no time, but you need to look your best, just buy a bottle of water on the way to an important meeting and drink it. Contrary to popular belief, dark circles under the eyes do not appear as a result of drinking too much soap, but as a result of a lack of water in the body.
Just 500 grams of life-giving moisture, drunk within a short time, will help you instantly tone the skin around your eyes.
Removing dark circles under the eyes with ice
Ice tones the skin, thereby helping to eliminate dark circles under the eyes. Ideally, of course, use cosmetic ice rather than ordinary frozen water. If you wish, you can freeze the chamomile infusion - this is an excellent remedy that will help you not only remove bruises, but also relieve inflammation, since chamomile has a calming effect.
Wipe the skin around your eyes with a piece of ice every morning, and you won’t be afraid of any bruises.
Features of herbal treatment of bruises under the eyes and swelling
The thin skin under the eyes on the face is characterized by its ability to quickly absorb liquid. In case of any malfunction of the excretory systems, water retention occurs in these tissues. Often such swelling goes away within a day and does not return for a long time. Doctors consider such manifestations to be safe; they are not classified as pathologies, so you should not try to remove them and use cosmetic or folk remedies for swelling. If the pathology does not go away for a long time and the area of swelling under the eyes on the face becomes larger, they are called chronic.
Diuretic herbs for swelling of the face under the eyes can only be taken on the advice of a doctor. You can take such drugs only if you have the following symptoms:
- the phenomenon does not go away within 24 hours and the size of the edema increases every day;
- it spreads towards the chin and becomes darker over time;
- an increase in edema leads to a significant reduction in the palpebral fissure (in some cases, this threatens displacement of the eyeball).
The main advantage of taking diuretic herbs is that they have a gentle effect on the body when compared with medications. Herbs balance the salt content in the body, distribute fluid evenly, and remove it from places of accumulation.
Removing dark circles under the eyes with parsley
Parsley has been used since ancient times as an excellent cosmetic product, because it relieves puffiness, tones the skin, removes redness, refreshes, prevents aging... In general, it contains the entire strategic set that proudly declares to dark circles under the eyes: “No!”
It is useful to wash your eyes with parsley decoction every day. But if you urgently need to get rid of dark circles under your eyes, then simply add a small amount (literally half a glass) of boiling water to a tablespoon of chopped parsley petals. Let it brew for 15–20 minutes, then soak two cotton swabs in the infusion and place them on your eyes for 20 minutes.
Useful tips: how to quickly get rid of bruises
How to quickly get rid of bruises and get your appearance in order? This question is of particular interest to women who have one or more small hematomas formed in a visible place. It is worth noting that it is recommended to solve this problem immediately after a blow or fall that causes a bruise.
Getting rid of bruises at home is quite easy. However, the speed of elimination of a hematoma depends not only on what folk or pharmaceutical remedies you use, but also on where exactly the bruise is located. After all, bruises disappear most quickly from the face and neck, but on the arms and legs they last quite a long time. It all depends on blood circulation, and therefore even a minor blow to the lower or upper limbs can leave a very noticeable mark.
In order to quickly remove a black eye or another part of the body, you may need the following products:
- ice cubes;
- any clay;
- pharmaceutical ointment called “Rescuer”;
- gel "Troxevasin";
- warmer;
- pepper patch;
- decoctions of medicinal herbs.
How to quickly get rid of bruises at home
1. The best option to prevent the appearance of a large and noticeable hematoma is regular cold. You can use any cold object as it, or better yet, ice cubes wrapped in thick cotton cloth. It is recommended to cool the bruised area for no longer than 5 minutes.
2. Ordinary clay applied to it has a positive effect on the bruise. To do this, you need to make a compress three times a day, which should be kept for about two hours.
3. The answer to the question of how to quickly get rid of bruises may well be the use of all kinds of specialized ointments that are freely sold in pharmacy chains. Particularly popular among such drugs are the drugs called “Troxevasin” and “Rescuer”. To avoid allergic reactions and other side effects, it is recommended to carefully study the instructions before use, and also pay special attention to existing contraindications.
4. Thermal procedures will significantly speed up the process of resorption of bruises. They will increase blood circulation at the site of the bruise, which will help quickly eliminate the bruise. But you can use a heating pad for such events only on the second day after the injury. By the way, you can also apply a pepper patch instead. However, this product requires careful handling, as it can easily cause painful burns or skin irritation.
5. Before quickly getting rid of bruises using pharmaceutical ointments, it is recommended to try using homemade lotions from brewed herbs. St. John's wort and calendula, as well as coltsfoot, are ideal for such purposes. It is worth especially noting that regular use of compresses made from bodyaga powder gives a fairly good effect in eliminating bruises.
Removing dark circles under the eyes with sage
Another indispensable ally of yours in the fight against dark circles under the eyes is sage. It moisturizes and tones the skin, removes dark circles under the eyes.
It is very simple to prepare an infusion of sage - you need to pour 100 grams of boiling water over a tablespoon of chopped herb, then let it brew for 40 minutes. After dividing the infusion in half - put part in the freezer (in ice trays), and reheat part again.
Soak a cotton swab in the warm infusion and apply it to your eyes, then immediately wipe your eyes with ice. And so on five times.
How to choose and use masks for bruises near the eyes?
Recipes for masks against bruises around the eyes are very diverse, so it’s easy to get confused about them. It is important to learn how to prepare and use them correctly, otherwise you will not achieve positive results.
If you decide to buy ready-made cosmetics, make sure that the instructions or packaging say that the mask is suitable for delicate skin near the eyes. It should also be said here that the product helps get rid of a specific problem, that is, it removes dark circles and bruises from the eyelids and eye area.
Do not try to use regular whitening masks intended for the face. They will probably injure the delicate skin in the area around the eyes, as it is the most sensitive. Use them as intended.
Some ingredients, especially in the case of homemade masks, can cause allergic reactions. For example, if you use the wrong mask before bed, you may wake up with puffy, irritated or red eyes. To avoid such troubles, when preparing any eye mask for bruises, you need to test it on a separate area of the skin. You need to apply the product to your wrist and wait 2-3 hours. If you do not feel itching or irritation, feel free to apply the composition to the skin around the eyes.
