Red onions, also known as purple or salad onions, are used in cooking mainly raw, and rightly so.
But this is not all of its useful properties. In addition to folk medicine, this variety is actively used in cosmetology, and it is capable of much. Let us tell you more.
Red onion is presented in cosmetology in the form of masks for skin, hair, there is even a whitening agent for freckles. And this is only part of it.
Mask
This recipe will improve your skin tone and is made from what grows in your garden. In addition to red onion, you will need:
- cabbage;
- black radish;
- dill and garlic.
The ingredients need to be ground to a uniform mass (blender or meat grinder), mixed in equal parts, and the finished mass applied to the skin of the face for 25 minutes. Wash off the mask with cold water, without soap or other synthetic cleansers.
Rejuvenating mask
You will need red onion juice, white lily juice, honey and white wax.
The ingredients are mixed in a ratio of 1:1:1:1. Then heated in a steam bath with constant stirring. Apply to the skin of the face after the mask has cooled. After 1 hour, the composition is washed off with warm water and soap or cleanser.
Moisturizer
Mix 5 ml of onion juice, the same amount of cucumber juice and 250 ml of water. Use as a lotion to wipe the skin 2 times a day.
Whitening agent
The following composition will remove freckles and lighten the skin of the face: 5 grams of calendula flowers, 100 ml of boiling water. The ingredients are mixed, infused for 40 minutes, after which the infusion is filtered, 5 ml of onion juice is added. It is used to wipe the skin of the face 4 times a day.
Red onion can also be used to treat dandruff, combat oily hair, and to prepare a nourishing hair mask.
