What are the traditional Chinese medicines for beauty and skin care?

People nowadays pay great attention to their appearance. Everyone hopes that their image is the most beautiful, or at least not make others feel uncomfortable. Nowadays, many people have developed Chinese medicine for beauty and skin care based on people's needs and wishes to become more beautiful and whiter, hoping to help people achieve their wishes in this way. Next, let’s take a look at traditional Chinese medicine for beauty and skin care.

Traditional Chinese medicine beauty therapy is the most content-rich part of various TCM beauty methods. The beauty Chinese medicines commonly used in cosmetics can generally be divided into two categories: health-care type and therapeutic type. Health-care and beauty Chinese medicines mostly have the functions of moisturizing the skin, preventing wrinkles and removing lines, brightening the complexion and whitening the skin, protecting the hair and enhancing its brightness, and preventing the skin from cracking, such as the so-called "good color", "pleasing face", and "fair and beautiful" effects in ancient herbal literature. Therapeutic beauty Chinese medicines mostly have the effects of blackening hair, removing black hair, removing coarse thorns, eliminating scars, corroding warts, eliminating black spots, and treating sores.

Because of its rich content, Chinese medicine beauty therapy is the most important one among various beauty methods and has become the key research content of Chinese medicine cosmetology.

There is a big difference in the principles of skin care between using traditional Chinese medicine for skin care and the so-called foreign fine chemical products.

Most skin care products use chemical synthetic substances to solve specific skin problems, while Chinese herbal beauty theory focuses on balancing qi and promoting blood circulation, and comprehensively conditioning the skin. Traditional Chinese medicine may have better therapeutic effects on some skin problems. For example, anti-acne products. Some products will make the skin resistant after use, but traditional Chinese medicine will not do this because it regulates the skin by speeding up blood circulation in the skin. Traditional Chinese medicine has the saying "treating skin with skin". Skin medicines enter the skin and reach the diseased body directly, playing a cosmetic role, such as poplar bark, magnolia bark, pomegranate bark, etc. In addition, there is a saying that "color complements color". Flower petals are delicate, light and can make blood flow to the face, making the face beautiful, such as peach blossoms, roses, and inula flowers.

The above is a detailed introduction about the Chinese medicines for beauty and skin care that people are very concerned about. Beauty and skin care are what everyone wants to do. But we must choose the right method to achieve our wishes and not easily believe in the so-called medicines on the market.