Published 18:47 IST, October 25th 2019

Coffee: A single DIY solution for 6 of your skin problems | Details

Coffee can do wonders to your skin. It can help you look brighter, fight acne, and many more. Read here the best skin benefits you will get from coffee.

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Coffee consumption provides some health benefits, including skin benefits. Coffee has high antioxidants potential, and quality of caffeine can help improve circulation. Coffee can improve blood flow and make your skin smooth, light, and make you feel alive.

Skin benefits of coffee:

Dark circles and puffy eyes

herbal spice in your kitchen cabinet also works to lighten your dark circles. Make a grounded coffee paste and apply it under eye. Besides providing relief, pack would also reduce tissue swelling around your eyes. It would also make skin under eye lighter. mixture of caffeine and coffee antioxidants shrinks under-skin blood vessels, thus aiding in lightening your dark circles.

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Exfoliating scrub

Coffee serves as an effective scrub that can exfoliate skin and eliminate cellulite and make body smoor. It is effective without being rough on body. coffee powder can be blended with coconut oil and olive oil until it has a paste-like texture. n scrub your face, cellulite-prone areas, or your whole body gently with paste.

Skin whitening

According to PaleoHacks, coffee can be used to brighten and tighten skin in facials. This facilitates blood circulation and helps remove cellulite from body. You can use coffee to make a home-made face mask. antioxidants in coffee can revive dull and tired skin by putting necessary nutrients in pores. Coffee can quickly brighten your skin when used as a mask or scrub.

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Tightens skin

According to Stylecraze, a beauty website, ar advant of caffeine is that it can tighten fine lines and smooth puffy skin with its topical use. Your skin absorbs caffeine used in creams to firm and tighten its appearance. Reportedly, coffee also prevents development of cells in skin cancer. Beauty products also contain caffeine as it can help give you a beautiful appearance. Caffeine is a vasoconstrictor, which means it allows blood vessels to expand as a result of contraction of muscular wall of vessels, so when applied to skin it helps in tightening.

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Protection against Sunrays

According to a beauty website, Stylecraze, Skin can be protected from UV rays by covering skin with caffeine. Caffeine effectively prevents dam, reby shielding skin from UVB's adverse effects.

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Acne

Coffee scrub on face will help you clean dead skin cells and unblock pores. According to Medical News Today, coffee chlorogenic acids can also reduce inflammation and guard against certain bacterial strains. 

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Disclaimer: effect of coffee on skin varies from person to person. It is always recommended to check with your doctor before applying it on your skin to avoid any skin reactions.

10:35 IST, October 25th 2019