How to get rid of bags under the eyes: the best tips

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I didn’t get enough sleep, tired, got nervous, ate salty, drank an extra glass of wine ... All these reasons in the morning can appear on your face in the form of bags under the eyes.

Hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle, the use of large amounts of water, and the improper position during sleep can also cause them. Moreover, about 25% of the world's population have a natural dark shade under their eyes. But it can also be lightened a little.

Basic rules

1. Give up bad habits: quit smoking and drink less alcohol and coffee.
2. Sleep at least 8 hours, while it is better to go to bed no later than 23.00.
3. Eat less fatty, salty, spicy, especially at night.
4. Carefully clean and clean the skin around the eyes. Enhanced scrubbing can weaken it. Do not forget about daily hydration.
5. Use a sunscreen with an SPF above 30. Sunlight can cause thin and brittle skin.

Express methods

But there are express methods that will help you quickly and efficiently put yourself in order and get rid of the bag under the eyes:

take a hot spirit bath. The ideal remedy is a bath or sauna;
apply cryo-procedures: massage with ice cubes or cold compresses;
make a warm compress or mask;
do gymnastics for the eyes or do a massage.

Masks and lotions, prepared at home with your own hands from natural ingredients, will be your salvation in the fight against dark circles. They can be done not only by necessity, but also regularly. Masks and lotions are applied to clean skin for 20 minutes, and then washed off with warm water. Here are some simple but effective folk recipes.

Tonic

Tea. Plain black tea will help get rid of dark circles and relieve puffiness around the eyes in 5 minutes. Pour boiling water over one-time tea bags, let them cool slightly, and then put them in the freezer for half an hour. With hardened sachets, wipe the area around, making movements according to the following pattern: on the lower eyelid from the outer edge of the eye to the inside, and on the upper, on the contrary, from the inside to the outside.
Ice. If you are in a hurry and don’t know how to get rid of bags under the eyes, you can use ordinary ice. But still, it is better to always have ice in the freezer made from infusions of medicinal herbs - chamomile, birch leaves, linden or parsley.
By the way, ice should not be applied to the skin around the eyes just like that. Wrap the cubes in a towel, scarf or cheesecloth and only then do compresses. Another ice cream recipe: remove the skin from the cucumber, grate it, or grind it in a blender. The resulting slurry was distributed in ice molds. In the evening, wipe the area around the eyes with cucumber ice counterclockwise, drawing a circle around the eyelid.
Herbal lotions. An excellent cold compress is obtained from a mixture of herbs: 10 g of chamomile, the same amount of linden and plantain. Pour all 90 ml of water, simmer for 20 minutes. Strain and refrigerate. Wadded disks moistened in a solution should be kept in front of eyes for 10-15 minutes.
Metal spoons. This method was also used by our mothers. Put two tablespoons in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes. After that, they can be placed on the area around the eyes and held until the cutlery is warmer.
Sea buckthorn compress. Soak two sponges in sea buckthorn oil (10 ml), then put them in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Keep on eyelids for half an hour.
Scarlet. After cutting off the shoot of a mature plant, wrap it in parchment and put it in the refrigerator for two weeks. Then squeeze the juice and lightly driving in, apply to the lower eyelid. Hold for about 35 minutes, the rest can be removed with a damp sponge.
Lemon juice. Vitamin C improves skin color. Soak the cotton balls in cold lemon juice, and then put them on your eyes and hold for 10 minutes. Then rinse your face with cool water.
Remember! You can not use very cold compresses.

Compresses

Herbal. As the main ingredients of such lotions may be suitable: chamomile, rosemary, linden blossom, mint leaves, a succession. Pour boiling water (a glass) into any of these herbs (a tablespoon), insist and apply a slightly warm compress to your eyes.
Perfectly struggles with puffiness and sage. By the way, he also strengthens the eyelashes.
Of tea and chamomile. Dry chamomile flowers (1 teaspoon) mix in a glass with the same volume of dry tea leaves of black or green tea (without additives and fragrances). Pour boiling water over everything, let it brew for 30 minutes, and then apply cotton pads moistened in this solution to the eyes.
From lemon balm. In the juice / solution from medicinal lemon balm, moisten the crumb of white bread. Then wrap it in gauze and put it on your eyes.
Potato. A very simple recipe. Raw potatoes (medium) should be peeled and grated. Wrap the resulting mass in a gauze napkin and apply to the eyes for 10-15 minutes. You can add a teaspoon of grape oil to the pulp. Another option: just boil the potatoes in their skins, cool them, cut them in half and attach slices to the lower eyelids.
Hot water with salt. Add half a teaspoon of salt to a glass of warm water. Stir, moisten cotton pads in solution and put on eyes. Keep it until the discs are dry.
Lactic. Pour a bag of green tea (without additives) with hot milk (20 ml). Leave on for 7 minutes. Then you can attach the soaked bags to the eyes for 20 minutes. You do not need to rinse your face, except to get a little wet with a napkin.
Strawberry It is enough to crush three berries with a fork. In the resulting juice, soak cotton pads and put them on the eyes. Hold for 15 minutes. Then you can wipe the skin around the eyes with mango oil.
From parsley. This is just a miracle cure. It is also used for toning; compresses and masks are made of it. Here is one of the recipes. It will take 20 g of greenery. Cut ponytails and chop (not very finely) parsley. Send everything to the pot on the stove with 1 glass of water. You need to cook for about 15 minutes. Let the broth cool down a bit, and then you can make compresses.
Another recipe: pass the parsley root through a meat grinder (a tablespoon) and mix with a strong brew of black tea.

Masks

Sour cream. Mix a teaspoon of chopped parsley and 2 teaspoons of fresh fat sour cream. Leave the mask for 10-15 minutes, and then wipe the area around the eyes with a damp cotton pad. For maximum effect, it can be moistened in a rosehip broth.
Cucumber. The easiest way, which, incidentally, is often used in expensive beauty salons, is to put round slices of fresh cucumber on your eyes for 10-15 minutes. But from this vegetable you can make a full mask. First, grate the cucumber, after removing the peel. Carefully apply the resulting slurry, hold all the same for 10-15 minutes, and then wipe with a sponge dipped in milk.
Honey. Take a tablespoon of melted honey, a tablespoon of wheat flour and protein from one egg. Mix, apply and hold on the skin for 10-15 minutes.
From starch. A tablespoon of starch and 2 yolks will suffice. Beat the ingredients with a mixer. The resulting mixture can be diluted with concentrated green tea. Then apply to the area around the eyes. After half an hour, remove the leftovers.
Pumpkin Bake the vegetable. Measure out about 10 g. No longer needed. Knead a pumpkin and make a mask on the eyes. After 10 minutes, you can remove and then apply a little apricot oil on the skin.
With the addition of hyaluronic acid. This tool is often used in cosmetology. It perfectly restores skin elasticity and firmness, improves complexion. Sold in many pharmacies in the form of tablets and powder. We need just the second option.Pour 50 ml of distilled water into a jar. Then, a little hyaluronic acid powder is added. So that lumps do not form, you have to stir the mixture for 15 minutes. Put the resulting solution in the refrigerator for a day. And then every evening apply this chilled gel with a driving motion. After half an hour, remove the residue with a napkin.
Keep in mind: the finished composition can be stored for no more than 10 days.

Ointment

For a long time almost legends about the miraculous properties of hemorrhoids ointments (in particular, troxevasin) have been passed from mouth to mouth. I'm not kidding! So many celebrities struggle with bags under the eyes, starting from our Lera Kudryavtseva to the Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock. But the secret is that you need to apply this ointment very little, it has a too pronounced lifting effect. And beware of ointment in the eyes: strong irritation can not be avoided.
As an option: you can simply add a little liquid vitamin E to your favorite cream for the skin around the eyes (about 4-5 drops per 20 g of cream). He will not have an instant effect, but as a means of prevention, it will fit perfectly.

Massage

First you need to clean the skin around the eyes, and then apply the oil with a light structure (wheat, rice, grape, pomegranate) or gel concentrate, which includes any of these components: collagen, caffeine, parsley, algae extract, snails or even leeches.
Massage from bags under the eyes is necessary with the pads of the ring fingers, since their pressures are considered the least traumatic. To begin with, you can make several circular stroking movements in the direction from the inner corner of the eye to the outer from the upper eyelid and vice versa on the lower eyelid. Then, light striking movements are performed in the same sequence.

Gymnastics

A great alternative to plastic surgery. Just a few exercises will not only help get rid of bags under the eyes, wrinkles and swelling, but also improve vision. True, the complex of these simple exercises is best done daily.
1. Turn your eyes to one side or the other, while holding your head straight.
2. Lower and raise your eyes, translate it left and right.
3. Close your eyes tightly, and then abruptly open, and as wide as possible. And so 10 times.
4. Alternately close and open your eyes. In the closed and open state they need to be kept for about ten seconds, and the number of repetitions of the exercise is gradually brought up to 20-30 times.