Sometimes, looking in the mirror, many mature and even young women are upset when they see bags and dark circles under the eyes that spoil their appearance and add their age. There are a lot of reasons for the appearance of bags under the eyes – this is a poor ecology, chronic lack of sleep, age, stress, and malnutrition, and excessive fluid consumption and even prolonged visual load. In some cases, bags and dark circles under the eyes can be symptoms of some urological or cardiological diseases, and then, first of all, it is necessary to eliminate the underlying disease. But if you are absolutely healthy, and your bags under your eyes prevent you from enjoying life and feeling your own attractiveness in full, you can try to eliminate them with the help of folk remedies tested by decades.
The best and most effective remedy that helps fight this unpleasant cosmetic defect is ordinary potatoes. Moreover, it can be used in different types – so, raw potatoes help someone more, whose circles need to be held in front of 20 minutes, while, naturally, in a horizontal position. It helps some well with bags under the eyes and potato mashed potatoes with milk, which must be put under the eyes for 20 minutes, and then wash it off with warm water. Mashed potatoes during the procedure should not be hot.
The skin under the eyes, as you know, is very thin and sensitive to temperature influences. Based on this and following the advice of traditional medicine, to fight bags and dark circles under the eyes, you can use frozen herbal decoctions. It is not difficult to cook them – for this it is necessary to brew a bag of sage, cornflower or medicinal chamomile with a glass of boiling water, let the decoction cool and mark it in the freezer chamber. If you don’t have medicinal herbs on hand, then freeze a decoction of dill or parsley, which have no less healing effect than herbs.
Another effective method of getting rid of bags under the eyes is compresses from ordinary fresh cucumber. For a treatment session, you can use both cucumber slices, which must be kept in front of your eyes for at least 20 minutes, and gruel from a grated vegetable, which is also applied to problem areas for 15-20 minutes.
You can eliminate not only bags, but also dark circles under the eyes with the help of a specially prepared vitamin cream. It should include finely chopped washed parsley leaves and stems, mixed with sour cream, butter or cottage cheese to a creamy consistency. This cream must be applied to the area around the eyes before bedtime and done regularly for 1-2 weeks until a persistent result is achieved.
A cottage cheese compress also helps to get rid of this problem, and if possible, it is better to take homemade cottage cheese. Take cottage cheese at room temperature, knead it and wrap it in cheesecloth or thin cloth. Then put it on the eye area. Keep this compress for at least 20 minutes. You will notice the effect of cottage cheese treatment not earlier than in 1-2 weeks.
Of course, any therapy, including the use of folk methods, requires regularity – if you deal with the elimination of such a cosmetic problem as bags under the eyes from time to time, the result is unlikely to be persistent and visible. In addition, do not try that the effectiveness of folk remedies directly depends on your lifestyle – your image will change for the better, and bags under your eyes will disappear only if you start to sleep, regularly and properly eat, avoid stress and not tire your eyes with an excess load.