Potato tubers contain a significant amount of starch (15-25%), proteins, pectin substances, organic acids (citric, malic, oxalic), vitamins C, B1, B2, B6, PP, carotene, folic acid. Potatoes are rich in potassium, contains a wide range of useful microelements. Crude potatoes reduce inflammation and swelling of the eyelids. When the puffiness of the eyelids, gruel from fresh grated potatoes wrap in a gauze napkin and put on eyelids for 15-20 minutes. With inflammation, you can lubricate the eyelids with a nourishing cream. Rinse with cool water, tea or chamomile infusion.
• Well cleanses the greasy skin of the mask from a slurry of a small raw potato mixed with half the beaten egg whites and a teaspoon of honey (not everyone can tolerate honey - you can replace it with a teaspoon of oatmeal with a pinch of soda). Mix the mixture on your face for 20 minutes, rinse with water at room temperature.
• Dry skin will be refreshed by a mask from a slurry of one raw potato tuber, to which is added a teaspoon of cream and a few drops of vegetable oil.
• If the skin becomes hard, flaky, reddened, rough, then 10-15-minute handbaths in the decocted decoction of potatoes will help. After the tray, grease your hands with a fat cream and put on gloves.
• Boiled potatoes soften the skin well. Puree is called a potato balsam for irritated skin, so, puree, cooked from boiled potatoes, milk and butter, apply to weather-beaten or wrinkled hands - this mask moisturizes, nourishes, softens the skin, smoothes wrinkles. After 50 years, the mask of mashed potatoes is useful to apply to the face.
• Quickly removes puffiness, smooths wrinkles, refreshes the skin of any type of mask, for which peeled potatoes are boiled in a small amount of milk and pounded. The resulting warm gruel is applied to the face.
• To reduce wrinkles on the neck, mix the mashed potatoes with a tablespoon of vegetable oil or with one beaten egg. Apply a hot mass to the neck, from above place a napkin made of cotton cloth, after 20 minutes, wash the mask with warm water.
Since among the medicinal properties of potato tubers such as anti-inflammatory and wound-healing, it is not surprising that potatoes have long been used in home cosmetics. In folk medicine, both raw and boiled potatoes are used for cosmetic purposes. Raw potatoes will soothe irritated skin and relieve swelling. It is used in the form of gruel or juice, or use a fresh cut of potatoes. In folk medicine, fresh potatoes (grated or cut in half) are applied to burns, including sun, eczema, painful calluses, and use it for trophic ulcers. Kashitsu of tubers is applied to a gauze napkin with a layer of up to 1 cm thick and applied to the affected area, after 1-2 hours a napkin is replaced with a new one. For the night the compress is removed, the problem area is smeared with neutral ointment, and the next day, another potato gruel is applied again. Similarly, potato juice can be used. If you are burned in the kitchen, it will calm the pain and prevent the appearance of blisters immediately superimposed on the affected area of raw grated potatoes, or simply a potato slice. Frozen nose is also treated with raw potatoes, or more precisely - compresses from potato juice. To remove the warts they are greased with juice from the fresh peel of potatoes 4-5 times a day. Now you know how to apply potato in the care, what values this vegetable has on a person as a medicine.