Monday, May 6, 2024

How to look 40 at the age of 72 with the help of a banana: beauty secrets from Japanese women

 Japanese dermatologist Mamina Turegano talks about the scientific basis of prescription and over-the-counter skin care products in her videos on TikTok.


This time, she talked about the secret of her mother's youth, who is 72 years old, and according to her followers, she looks 40.


Mother Terugano showed in the video how her mother Michiko wipes her face and hands with a banana peel. "These are my beauty tips," said the 72-year-old.


Subscribers were amazed at what a Japanese woman looks like at the age of 72, and wrote that they would never have thought that a woman was so old.


Michiko, 72, has been using banana peels for her skin for years.


According to Mamina, her mother rubs the peel into different areas of the skin, leaves it on for 20 minutes, then washes it off.


Mom believes that completely natural cosmetics have many advantages. Bananas have many useful properties, so they are often used in homemade face masks. The fruit contains such substances as potassium, vitamins A, C, E, B vitamins, zinc, amino acids.


The benefits of banana peel are that it perfectly moisturizes, exfoliates, fights wrinkles and evens skin tone, reduces puffiness around the eyes. Banana peel has an antioxidant effect. A 2012 study published by the Department of Applied Traditional Thai Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University in Thailand, found that banana peel extracts have anti-inflammatory properties.

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