There are many benefits of carrot juice for the body, including the skin.
Carrots contain essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients for overall health. Drink it alone or add fruits or vegetables. Juice squeezed from fresh carrots maximizes on its healthful benefits, instead of bottled juices.
Carrot juice is not only used for consumption, it’s made for making homemade soap! It's found in many commercial and homemade skin care products due to its natural skin care benefits!
Learn how carrot juice can help you today!
Health Benefits of Carrot Juice:
Carrots contain vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene. Drinking carrot juice can help maintain good vision, increases the body’s immunity, remove indigestible fibers, help in the prevention of cancer, heart disease and strokes.
It contains natural sugars so those that are diabetic would want to drink fewer amounts.
Carrot juice may not be appealing, for some, to drink all by itself, so add or mix it with other fruit juices to enhance its flavor. By doing so, you will be adding nutrients to your drink! Consider tasty combinations such as: carrots and bananas, carrots and pineapples, carrots and oranges, carrots and mango or carrots and blackberries. Using the juice made from fresh fruits or vegetables, instead of bottled juices, maximizes the benefits of overall health. A daily glass of carrot juice, (an 8 oz. size), can make a healthful difference! The body will not absorb drinking more than this amount.
Skin Care Benefits of Carrot Juice:
Carrot juice can offer beautiful natural skin care.
The benefits of vitamin A and C are healthful for skin. Vitamin A is essential for body tissue growth. It provides antioxidants benefits, attacking free radicals, which can cause pre-mature wrinkles, eczema, dermatitis and rashes. Antioxidants found in carrot juice can act as a natural sunblock and help in healing sunburns. The benefits of vitamin C helps promote skin elasticity, with collagen production. It helps improve uneven skin tone, prevents scars, revitalizes skin, helps get rid of blackheads, provides acne relief, has anti-inflammatory properties, promotes smooth, soft and supple skin.
Fresh carrot juice contains other healthful nutrients: vitamin K benefits, folate, manganese, B6, panthenic acid, potassium, iron and copper. When drinking with water, it keeps the body and the skin well hydrated.
CAUTION! Be careful to not drink too much of carrot juice. It can, temporarily, turn your complexion a yellowish-orange color. It's found in commercial and homemade skin care products such as: soaps, face cream, lotions and more.
Making Homemade Soap:
Since carrot juice offers such wonderful skin care benefits, it’s used as a soap making oil.
Goats milk soap contains alpha-hydroxy acids and rich butter fat that provide moisture at the cellular level. When making homemade soap, such as goats milk soap, you can add carrot juice with many other skin nourishing oils. To give your soap a beautiful orange color, substitute carrot juice for water in a 1:1 ratio. The carrot juice in soaps, will dull over time, but gives a beautiful, fresh, look to finished homemade soap.
Consider blending goats milk, comfrey and carrot juice for a nice, comfortable, bar of soap. Another nice pure and natural soap contains a combination blend of carrot, buttermilk, honey and avocado oil.
Consider drinking carrot juice, made from fresh carrots, as a daily intake but remember do not drink too much. Also, consider using commercial or homemade beauty products made with carrot juice for natural, healthful, skin care. Carrot juice offers good vitamin A and vitamin C benefits plus other nutrients for, overall, health of the body and the skin. There are numerous, healthful, benefits of carrot juice!