What To Eat and Drink to Improve Your Skin
Improve your skin with a balanced diet. No matter the time of day, or your dietry requirements, there are foods and drinks out there to suit everyone—and improve you skin.
Packed full of vitamins and antioxidants, plan your next meal around our guide!
Green Tea
Drinking green tea improves your skin because it’s full of antioxidants! These antioxidants not only help to prevent cancers, they also protect your face from UV damage and aging!
Although drinking green tea has many benefits, when applying it to your skin, it can also prevent and treat acne. Green tea fights off bacteria, preventing pores from clogging with the dirt and oils that commonly cause infections.
Happy (tea) drinking!
Lemons/Oranges
Two words. Vitamin C.
Like a lot of citrus fruits, lemons and oranges are full of the skin-loving vitamin that works to improve your skin.
Many skincare brands are jumping on this trend. They claim that Vitamin C aids in making skin glow, exfoliating skin, and reducing the signs of aging. They’re right, but there are easier, cheaper, and healthier ways to receive these benefits without rubbing chemical-laden products on your epidermis.
Rubbing a lemon peel or lemon juice on your skin will directly exfoliate and brighten your complexion. Eating a whole lemon will give you 99% of your daily vitamin C intake, while eating a whole orange will give you around 70% of your intake.
Pack one for school, work, or university, and get your skin glowing!
Celery
Anyone who participated in the celery juice craze will know that healthy skin, brain function, and organ health were all huge benefactors.
That’s because the vitamin K contained in celery works to improve your skin.
By promoting blood flow and circulation, the vitamin aids in the distribution of other amazing vitamins, and promotes healing!
So throw a hefty chunk of celery into your next smoothie to improve your skin!
Soy
Good news for any vegans—soymilk is full of calcium, minus the acne-causing dairy to help improve your skin.
While most dermatologists agree that dairy is not your skin’s friend, calcium is brilliant for skin.
Calcium aids in healing skin by ensuring cells stay fresh!
Almonds
Like green tea, almonds are high in the antioxidants that improve your skin by preventing skin from aging.
Not into swallowing handfuls of the things?
Almond milk is a great way to gain the benefits of almonds, while drinking smoothies, milkshakes, or your daily coffee!
Beans/Fish/Eggs
Collagen is the highest protein in your body, but it cannot be absorbed through the skin.
Throw away the unnecessary facemask you bought promising to increase collagen, it won’t improve your skin. Collagen needs to be taken orally or applied in a topical ointment.
No over-the-counter products will boost your skin’s elasticity.
Boost collagen with protein-rich foods. Beans, fatty fish, berries, and eggs all elevate your protein levels, in turn aiding in collagen production.
Tomatoes
Not only does eating tomatoes improve your skin and help to reduce cancer, but the bright red vegetable (which is actually a fruit) is also full of Vitamins C and A.
Vitamin A is cancer fighting, age fighting, and acne fighting. It fights inflammation in the skin, preventing sore, red breakouts that never seem to go away.
Avocados
The trendy treat is also a great way to improve your skin!
Avocados are full of everyone’s favourite vitamin, E! This vitamin helps in maintaining moisture levels for skin, and promoting softness.
The pitted-wonder is also full of omega-3 fatty acids (also found in fish), which negate the effects of aging and acne by promoting oil production and keeping skin hydrated. Avocados have also been found to reduce inflammatory properties in skin, aiding in the repairing of cells and healing.
Water
Not to sound like a parent, but drinking one litre of water each day is incredibly important to improve you skin.
Hydration is the number one factor to reduce fine lines and wrinkles, keeping you looking younger for longer.
While not everyone agrees on the amount of water you should drink daily, drinking water prevents acne. A body free of toxins will result in skin clear of blemishes.
Water is a natural and free way to hydrate skin and prevent acne, what have you got to lose?
