You will have noticed an increase in products containing green tea if you are a regular visitor to health food shops.
Green tea is more than just a tasty, hot beverage. Here are some of the most popular applications of this ancient remedy.
Green Tea For Skin Care
Green tea has been found to have positive effects in the arena of skin care. Two specific areas include acne and eczema.
Green tea makes a great, cheap alternative for acne sufferers to the usual expensive toners or astringents. Often, it can be combined with other ingredients to make a concoction that can be applied with a cotton ball to the skin.
Simply drinking green tea has also worked for some to decrease the outbreak of acne.
Although caution is advised as increasing the intake of caffeine in your diet has been linked to an increase in breakouts.
Green tea can also be mixed with other ingredients, such as olive oil, to create a treatment for eczema.
Green Tea Mouthwash
In addition to skin care, green tea can surprisingly be used as part of a homemade mouthwash. Naturally, you have to keep out sugar and honey, but.what property of this light drink helps keep your teeth healthy?
It is actually the presence of fluoride in green tea that helps prevent tooth decay and strengthen teeth and gums. Mixing the brewed tea with spring water is the simplest recipe, but it can be combined with other ingredients to create more tasty flavors of homemade mouthwashes.
Green Tea As Preventative Medicine
A regular, daily intake of green tea is also thought to help overall health and well-being. The tea is full of antioxidants that bind free radicals in our bodies; these free radicals can often cause damage to cells.
This is particularly important for people who exercise a lot and therefore burn lots of energy. Free radical production is heightened following exercise.
There are also several studies linking green tea to cancer prevention and even elimination.
In addition to this essential benefit, green tea is also thought to promote an increase in metabolism that helps burn fat and lowers cholesterol in the body.
Finally, the antioxidants present in this tea may play a part in reducing the intensity of rheumatoid arthritis.
So whether you drink green tea by the cup or rub it on your skin to prevent those unwelcome breakouts, the benefits of green tea are a great reason to drink up!
Trevor Sadowski is a recent convert to
green tea using it both to aid in his weight loss campaign and to take advantage of the many other health benefits it offers.
