Excellent Skin Cleanser
- Strawberry has great cleansing properties
- Strawberry extracts are often used as an ingredient in skin cleansers, face washes, refreshing bubble baths and rejuvenating face masks as they contain vitamin C, salicylic acid, antioxidants and exfoliants.
- Salicylic acid removes dead cells from the face while tightening the pores.
- Ellagic acid being an antioxidant combats skin damage to maintain its youth and freshness. Thus, strawberries remove impurities and soften the skin as well as soothe allergies and other irritants and provide protection against pollution.
Improves Complexion
Strawberry juice has skin lightening properties. It is effective in removing age spots and freckles
Protection from Ultraviolet Radiation
Strawberries contains ellagic acid. Applied topically protects the skin against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, which are primarily responsible for skin ageing.
Anti Ageing Properties
Vitamin C and other antioxidants present in strawberries prevent damage caused by free radicals to the skin and body. Free radicals occur during the process of transformation of food into energy. Free radicals accelerate the ageing process and vitamin C is effective in blocking the damage caused by free radicals.
Treatment of Acne
Vitamin C, Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHA), salicylic acid and flavonoids in strawberries help in clearing acne and reducing oil. Fresh strawberry masks are effective for people with dull, damaged or acne-prone skin.
Diminishes Under-eye Puffiness
Strawberries are astringent in nature and can reduce puffiness and circles beneath the eyes.
Treatment of Pigmentation
Strawberries are rich in ellagic acid and oral ingestion of strawberry extract can cure slight hyperpigmentation caused by UV rays. They inhibit the synthesis of melanin, the chemical that gives the skin its color.
Oily Skin
Oily Skin
Rich in vitamin C, strawberries can be used to make excellent face masks to fight oily skin, as well as nourish and revitalize your skin. Strawberries are acidic in nature and this is effective to remove the excess sebum on skin.
Skin Repair
- Vitamin C in strawberries enables the body to grow and repair its tissues as it is involved in making collagen.
- Collagen is water soluble and this vitamin cannot be stored in the body and has to be provided from food sources. A cup of strawberry provides 100% of Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of vitamin C that plays a vital role in repairing skin damage
Prevents Alopecia and Hair Thining
Strawberries have a high content of ellagic acid, which protects your hair from thinning or falling and can even be effective in delaying androgenetic alopecia. Strawberry also contains folic acid, vitamin B5 and B6 which prevent hair loss.
Moisturizes Hair
Strawberries protect the cell membranes of the scalp due to its potent antioxidant effects. They prevent the formation of hydrophobic layer on the scalp surface.
Fights Dandruff
Strawberry can be mixed with phytochemicals having antifungal effects like tea tree oil or thyme oil to get rid off dandruff.
Prevents Fungal Growth
Strawberry is a good source of minerals like copper, manganese and magnesium. Manganese and copper in combination with dicarboxylic acids produce complexes that can inhibit fungal growth on the scalp.
