Health and Beauty Tips of Banana
Banana
has a lot of beauty benefits. It is full of nutrients that help in keeping you
healthy. A major benefit from banana is younger looking skin. Banana helps
hydrate your skin and prevents your skin from drying and peeling. It is a great
natural moisturizer for your skin and hair. The Vitamin A present in banana
restores the lost moisture and repairs the damaged, dull and dry skin.
1. To instantly moisturize dry and dull skin, mash a ripe
banana and apply it on your face. For extremely dry and flaky skin, you can
also add honey to this face mask. Banana and honey mask also helps in getting
rid of skin pigmentation.
2. Bananas are rich in large amounts of tryptophan, serotonin
and very high carbohydrate content. This helps to produce the sleep hormone that
will help you in getting good sleep and thus a good health, healthy hair and
refreshed healthy skin.
3. Another easy face mask to get moisturized skin is to
mash half a ripe banana and mix it with 1 tablespoon yogurt and 1 tablespoon
and Vitamin E oil. Apply it generously on a clean face for 30 minutes and wash
it away.
4. Banana contains good amount of Vitamin-C which helps
in maintaining the glow of the skin. Mix one ripe banana with 2 tablespoon
lemon juice and apply it on face for 25 minutes. This mask is rich in vitamin-C
that will remove dullness and reduce spots and blemishes of skin.
5. Mash half a ripe banana and mix it with 1 tablespoon
of sandalwood powder/paste and half tablespoon of honey. Apply it on your skin
for about half an hour and wash it with lukewarm water. This face mask is good
for oily skin as sandalwood cleans excess oil and sebum while banana keeps it moisturized.
6. Banana is very rich in antioxidants. Mix one mashed
banana and one tablespoon of sugar and rub it on your skin in circular motions.
This will moisturize the dry skin and peel of the dead skin and leaves it feeling
rejuvenated.
7. Mix a ripe banana with three tablespoons oats, one
tablespoon honey and one tablespoon milk (in case of extremely dry skin replace
milk with fresh milk cream) and apply it on face and after 5 minutes rub it
slowly. Wash it with cold water.
8. Blend half a ripe banana, 1 tablespoon coconut milk, 2
tablespoon uncooked rice together to get a thick paste and massage your face with
this paste and wash with cold water.
9. To make a body scrub blend 2 bananas with 5
strawberries and mix 3 tablespoons of sugar in the paste and use it as a body
scrub when bath.
10.
Nutrients rich
banana helps in fighting wrinkles and keeps the skin youthful. For creating an
anti-aging facial mask mash an avocado and a banana together and apply it on
skin for 25 minutes and wash off. This mask keeps your skin soft and youthful
as this mask rich in vitamins E of avocados and nutrients of bananas fights
free radicals and repair the skin damage.
11.
Banana also helps
to cure of cracked heels. Mash two ripe bananas and use this pulp on clean, dry
feet for 10 minute to penetrate the banana pulp deep into dry, cracked skin to
create soft and supple skin.
12.
To treat acne and
pimples apply inside of banana peel on the affected area for couple of minute
thrice in a day for a week.
13.
For treating
itchy and swollen skin, just rub the banana peel on the effective area and the
itching and swelling will soon subside. This can also be used to get rid of
wrinkles, warts and psoriasis.
14.
Puffiness of eyes
will be removed quickly when you apply mashed banana paste or banana peels on
eyes for 30 minutes as the Potassium content draws out excess fluid from skin
and reduces the swelling immediately.
The
rich content of banana like potassium, oils, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals
are very beneficial for hair health, like softening the hair, preventing split
ends, breakage, shine, growth and controls dandruff. Here are some tips of
banana for hair benefits.
1. Mix ripe banana, avocado and coconut milk and apply it
on your hair for 15 minutes. This will conditions damaged hair and makes them soft.
Replace avocado with cocoa this will helps in bringing out the natural color of
the hair.
2. Blend one peeled banana with quarter cup of olive oil
and one egg white for a couple of minutes and apply it on your hair for 15
minutes and thoroughly wash out.
3. To Treat Hair Loss, apply ripe banana pulp with
yoghurt on your hair for 20 minutes.
4. If you are about your dry or damaged hair, apply paste
of one banana and 3 tablespoon honey on your hair for 20 minutes and usually
wash hair or apply banana pulp mixed with 4-5 drops of water for 15 to 20 minutes.
Both masks make your hair silky, shiny, moisturized and soft.
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