Do I need to wash my face after using aloe vera?

Nowadays, everyone prefers natural facial masks, because there are not too many additives in the masks, which is more conducive to the skin absorbing nutrients and avoids excessive burden on the skin caused by too many additives. Many people choose to use aloe vera as a facial mask because aloe vera has a good anti-inflammatory effect. It can also whiten and effectively calm the skin. So do you need to wash after using aloe vera for facial treatment?

Do you need to wash your face with fresh aloe vera?

Fresh aloe vera has many benefits. I believe everyone is aware of the beauty effects of aloe vera. Many people have also started to grow aloe vera themselves and use fresh aloe vera to wipe their faces to achieve beauty effects. You must wash your face after wiping it with fresh aloe vera, otherwise it is easy to get allergies. Moreover, fresh leaves are prone to bacterial infection if not handled properly, which will not be worth the loss.

Method: After washing your face, gently apply the aloe vera flesh (be sure to cut off the thorns and peel off the flesh inside) on your face in a certain order. After 15-20 minutes, wash it off with clean water. It is best to use it 2-3 times a week.

The polysaccharides and multiple vitamins contained in aloe vera have good nourishing, moisturizing and whitening effects on human skin. Green leaf aloe is the most suitable fresh aloe leaf for direct beauty care. It has the properties of astringent, softening, moisturizing, anti-inflammatory and bleaching the skin. It can also prevent small wrinkles, eye bags, and sagging skin, and keep the skin moisturized and delicate.

Other beauty treatments with aloe vera

1. Homemade aloe vera lotion

Using natural aloe vera juice and applying it directly to your face is a great beauty routine. In fact, this is also a very good hair care product. After washing your hair, apply fresh aloe vera juice evenly on your hair. This can effectively prevent gray hair and hair loss, and can also effectively keep the hair black and shiny, and help bald patients grow new hair more quickly.

2. Homemade aloe vera moisturizing cream

Ingredients: 250 grams of aloe vera leaves, 1 cucumber, 1 egg, flour and sugar.

Preparation method:

① Wash the fresh aloe vera leaves and cucumbers, crush them separately, wrap them with gauze and directly take the fresh aloe vera juice.

② Beat the eggs in a bowl, add 1 tablespoon of fresh aloe vera juice, 3 teaspoons of cucumber juice and 2 teaspoons of sugar, and let them fully blend together.

③Add about 5 teaspoons of flour or oatmeal powder and mix it directly into a paste.

The beauty effects and functions of aloe vera

Aloe vera is rich in natural vitamins E, C, A and B vitamins: mineral elements (such as potassium, zinc, selenium, etc.); amino acids, etc. These are basic nutrients to keep the body youthful. In addition, aloe polysaccharides and phenolic compounds are all beauty and skin care ingredients unique to aloe. These special ingredients together with basic beauty nutrients complete the excellent beauty and skin care effects of aloe vera.

Aloe polysaccharide: Aloe polysaccharide can regulate the body's cellular immunity and humoral immunity levels, activate the Langhans cells in the basal layer of the skin, enhance their local immune function and repair function in the skin, promote their removal of skin pigments, resist oxidative damage (including ultraviolet rays), anti-aging and increase skin elasticity, etc.

Aloe-emodin and aloin: These two ingredients can promote the peristalsis of the large intestine and the secretion of intestinal fluid, increase the activity of lipase, and have the effect of relieving laxative effects on the large intestine and increasing appetite. Aloe vera promotes the excretion of metabolic products in the body, reduces their residence time in the body, improves the internal environment and skin metabolism, and makes the skin youthful and radiant.

Phenolic compounds: Aloe vera contains many lipoxygenase compounds (such as flavonoids) that can inhibit lipid peroxidation in the body. It can prevent atherosclerosis, improve the blood supply and microcirculation of the body and skin, provide sufficient nutrition for the skin, and enhance the vitality of skin epithelial cell metabolism.

Steroid and hormone compounds: Steroid and hormone compounds are also some very important trace ingredients for people to maintain youthful vitality. They delay human aging, maintain skin vitality, and preserve women's youthful charm by participating in regulating human endocrine metabolism and improving metabolism.