Dark circles: Natural Remedies

In the history of cosmetics, we started with completely natural cosmetics, which were then almost completely replaced by products with synthetic ingredients. In recent years this trend has been reversed, combining the natural with modern experimentation and research technologies.

The "old" derivatives of oil, silicones and aggressive surfactants for the skin and the body seem to be overtaken by purely natural compounds such as vegetable oils, essential oils, phytoextracts, floral waters.

To consider, however, that the cost of modern research is so high that it sometimes raises the prices of natural cosmetic products to the stars: despite this fact, the choice of Bio cosmetics is privileged, because more and more there is the trend to take care of our health and also of the environment around us, and the consumer seeks product safety, quality and well-being.

Introduction

The natural remedies for dark circles available today are truly many and increasingly in demand by consumers.

In fact, regardless of the causes that originated them (for more information: dark circles: causes of origin), dark circles are a real misunderstanding of appearance for the individuals who manifest them. In particular, dark circles give the face a dull and "old" appearance which for many people may constitute a real disorder to be treated even if, in fact, there are no basic pathological conditions.

For this reason, the vast world of anti-age cosmetics - as well as in the treatment of wrinkles and skin blemishes - has become increasingly oriented towards the creation of anti-eye cosmetics containing natural ingredients of different types.

Anti-age cosmetics

Natural anti-age cosmetics are an excellent remedy that attracts a good portion of the population, especially women, because counteracting the signs of aging seems to be a priority goal: in fact, over the years, the skin ages and becomes dry, with wrinkles, loses elasticity and dark circles and spots form.

Skillfully, the market strategies promise to stop "the biological clock": we could really expect, therefore, to somehow hinder the formation of the signs of the time, in particular the dark circles, and of course to hide the bags already present.

However, these expectations often turn out to be only broken promises.

Natural research

Modern society can now be compared to an environment irreversibly manipulated by the artifice of man, but among all of them it still emerges who is animated by the need for a "natural" philosophy: this need refers to both the food sector and agriculture, but also the need for a return to nature certainly does not escape modern cosmetics.

The search for natural remedies for the care of one's appearance (anti-aging products in general and anti-dark circles in particular) has not diminished: the only explanation for this seems to lie in the consumer's needs, ever more attentive to their health and to the choice of products in line with nature, because the goal of taking care of oneself in a balanced and healthy way has become a priority.

Vegetable oils, essential oils, phyto-extracts and floral waters are the protagonists of natural cosmetics: in an anti-dark circles product we will choose those plants that exert a capillarotropic and anti-inflammatory action, which serve, respectively, to stimulate the microcirculation in the lower eyelid and to ignite the area itself.

The active ingredients extracted from plants such as red vine, centella asiatica, blueberry, butcher's broom, chamomile, horse chestnut, cucumber, magnolia and coffee are a good natural remedy for anti-dark circles treatment.

The properties and characteristics of these plants, nowadays widely used in the production of natural cosmetics against dark circles, will be illustrated below.

The second part of the article will also describe some DIY natural remedies to be used against this annoying blemish.

Rusco

Ruscus aculeatus

The ruscus belongs to the Liliaceae family: it is a bushy plant with leaves that end with spines. Very common in Europe, especially on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. What determines the importance of the drug are the sapogenins present, as well as steroidal saponins (ruscogenin and neoruscogenin), tannins, essential oils, phytosterols, anthraquinones, flavonoids and mineral salts including potassium and calcium.

From the cosmetic point of view, the topical application of a ruscus-containing cream is particularly suitable for treating venous disorders: it gives greater resistance to the capillaries, decreasing the permeability of the venous plexus. From here you can understand why ruscus can be an excellent natural remedy for combating dark circles.

Considering, then, that the dark circles derive from a swelling in the periocular area, a delicate part that also presents a stagnation of liquids due to poor spraying, the ruscus is suitable to counteract these disorders. Thanks to its soothing and refreshing properties, it is an excellent match for chamomile and calendula.

Centella

Centella asiatica

Centella is a plant belonging to the Umbelliferae family, whose most important active ingredients are, also in this case, saponins, more precisely asiaticoside.

It is a very effective natural remedy, if considered as a microcirculation stimulant ; so much so that it is also used in creams for improving the functionality of the blood venous circulation. It is a drug that due to its properties is widely used together with horse chestnut, ruscus and ivy.

Chamomile

Chamomilla recutita

Another drug considered is Chamomilla recutita, belonging to the Labiatae family: in an anti-eye cream the chamomile is important for the presence of terpenes (ethereal cyclic sesquiterpenes), and of azulenes including camazulene and bisabolol. These lipophilic constituents (therefore soluble in oil) confer excellent antiseptic but especially soothing properties (thanks to bisabolol).

Lives

Vitis vinifera

The red vine is a shrub belonging to the Vitaceae family. The extract obtained from its leaves is rich in flavonoids (such as rutin and quercetin) and anthocyanosides, active ingredients with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity and which also perform a protective action against capillaries and microcirculation . In detail, the active ingredients extracted from the vine leaves are able to influence the capillary permeability, hindering the formation of edema and swelling.

For this reason, the extract obtained from this plant is particularly useful in anti-dark circles and anti-age cosmetics.

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