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You probably eat and enjoy fruits and vegetables for their many nutritional benefits. Filled with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, they also have many benefits for your skin and hair.
These 15 products contain extracts from fruits and vegetables, such as watermelon, pomegranate, and mushroom, to improve the health of your skin and hair.
Fruits and vegetables are more than just delicious foods that give your body the vitamins, minerals, and healthy energy it needs. They also make excellent and powerful ingredients in skin care and hair care and are another way you can enjoy their benefits without having to eat them (though you should still eat them).
The use of nature's crops to treat our bodies goes back to the days of our ancestors, and while we may have more advanced skin-care techniques now, the basics of natural skin-care and beauty aren't any less effective.
15 skin-care and hair-care products containing fruits and vegetables:
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What it does: Watermelon contains vitamins A, C, and B, as well as potassium, giving your face a fresh dose of nutrients. It also soothes and hydrates irritated skin.
The fruit or vegetable: Kale, spinach, broccoli, apple, cucumber, lemon, grapefruit, beet, orange, seaberry
What it does: The greens your parents were always pushing you to eat do wonders for your hair, strengthening the roots and hair shaft and supporting a healthy scalp. The health drink-inspired products cleanse, nourish, and hydrate hair without stripping it of moisture.
What it does: Real strawberry juice is mixed with sugar crystals to immediately remove your skin's impurities and help your complexion look healthier. The berries also make the face wash smell amazing (like candy or jam), which is a nice wake-up call as you wash your face in the morning.
What it does: The pumpkin ferment extract and pomegranate enzyme work together to dissolve dead surface skin cells. This product has a "reservoir effect," meaning it'll be active on your skin for up to 72 hours.
Youth to the People Superfood Antioxidant Cleanser
What it does: These leafy greens deliver phytonutrients and vitamins C, E, and K to strengthen, cool, and condition the skin. Combined with the antioxidant-packed green tea, they make a gentle and powerful daily cleanser.
The fruit or vegetable: Reishi, cordyceps, fermented chaga mushrooms
What it does: The most important ingredient to know here is reishi, a mushroom often used in traditional Chinese medicine to promote longevity. It calms and reduces visible redness on the skin and protects against environmental stressors.
The fruit or vegetable: Blackberry, strawberry leaf
What it does: The cream's Alpine Berry Complex is made up of naturally moisturizing wild strawberry sprouts and hydrating, environmental damage-protecting blackberries.
The fruit or vegetable: Prickly pear, goji berry, red raspberry, orange, papaya, lemon
What it does: The first half of the ingredient list above offer antioxidant benefits, while the second half, present in enzyme form, exfoliate and resurfaces the skin. The night cream must be fully massaged into the skin, not just applied on top, for full effects
What it does: Whether in your salad and toast or your nightly face mask, rich and creamy avocado is an indispensable ingredient. The thick mask moisturizes and softens skin while also preventing water loss.
What it does: The blueberries in this bouncy and hydrating cleanser protect against environmental damage and make it smell delicious. You can even see tiny remnants of blueberry floating around inside.
What it does: Remember the classic spa treatment of putting cucumbers over your eyes? These eye patches containing cucumber extract have the same idea, using cucumber to reduce under-eye puffiness.
