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Sweet Potatoes: Your Skin’s Best Friend

Sweet Potato

Sweet potatoes are a delicious natural way to give your skin that much needed winter boost.

Why?

1. Acne

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Sweet potatoes are packed with antioxidants, which help keep your skin smooth and soft. They also have anti-inflammatory benefits, which helps with acne.

2. Prevents Premature Aging

To rejuvenate your dry skin, take one big sweet potato and boil it until it is soft enough that the skin can be pulled off easily. Take 1 tablespoon honey, 1 tablespoon of milk, and 1 tablespoon of ginger juice extracted by grating the ginger root and then sieve the juice out using a muslin cloth. Blend all the ingredients until you have a smooth paste. Apply the mask to your cleansed face and neck. Let it sit for 20-25 minutes. Rinse off with warm water. This mask will leave your skin fresh, hydrated and prevent premature aging. You can easily refrigerate the remaining unused face mask in the refrigerator for up to 2-3 days.

3. Moisturizes The Skin

To make a mild scrub that doesn’t dry out your skin, take half a cup of boiled sweet potato cubes, 1 tablespoon oats, and 1 tablespoon yogurt and blend them to form a thick, coarse paste. Use this to scrub your skin in slow circular…


… motions and wash it off with lukewarm water followed by moisturizing your skin with your favorite moisturizer.
One medium sweet potato contains 4 grams of fiber. Fiber can help detoxify the skin by promoting a healthy digestive system.

4. Heals Dark Eye Circles & Eye Puffiness

The next time you decide to eat this tasty vegetable, just take two slices and place them on your eyes. As mentioned before, anthocyanin helps in reducing pigmentation and has anti-inflammatory properties that will help in getting rid of dark circles, wrinkles and puffiness of eyes.

5. Heals Oily Skin

Sweet potatoes contain Vitamin E, which supports skin cell health.

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