Home Remedies for Quickly Removing Dark Circles Under Your Eyes

Nowadays a lot of people have problem of dark circles under their eyes. It has no age limit; it could be developed at an early age or could be common among older people as well.

It is usually a hereditary condition and dark circles becomes worse with the age as the skin is thinned and loses its subcutaneous fat, which in return exposes the blood vessels lying beneath the skin.

But it could also have other factors too such as inadequate sleep, dry skin, prolonged crying, excessive smoking, mental or physical stress, unhealthy diet, working for long hours in front of computer, pollution, allergies and excessive drinking.

Hormonal imbalances during pregnancy, menstruation or menopause can also cause dark circles.

Dark circles are not a serious skin problem to consider and worry about but it affects your appearance and gives people impact of tiredness, unhealthy and older.

Now many cosmetic products are designed for the resolution of this problem, but they are artificially prepared and include chemicals that can harm your delicate skin, and are expensive too.

So why to spend money in these products which does not even guarantees results? So home remedies for removal of dark circles under the eyes must be beneficial and natural way to nourish your skin, and natural remedies must give effective and satisfied results.

Natural Home Remedies are as Follows:

1. Cucumber

Cucumbers are best cooling agents and carries astringent property, that’s why they are widely used for the treatment of dark circles and known as a skin toner as well.

They lighten your skin colour, increases blood flow and reduce eyes puffiness. Cucumber can be used at home in the following ways:

• Grate a small cucumber and extract juice from it and refrigerate it for few minutes, then dip a cotton ball in cucumber juice and apply under your eyes and allow the skin to absorb it for about 15 minutes, and then wash with lukewarm water. Repeat this process twice daily for at least a week.
• Cut cucumber in to thick slices and chill them in refrigerator, then place cool cucumber slices over each of your eye for 10 to 15 minutes and relax. Then wash area with lukewarm water and repeat process twice daily for minimum a week time to notice change.
• The other way is to mix cucumber juice with lemon juice in equal proportions. Then dip a cotton ball in the juice and apply it on the skin under your eyes and leave it for 15 minutes. Then wash your face with water and repeat this once daily for 8 to 10 days.

2. Potatoes

• Potatoes have natural bleaching property which helps in lightening dark circles. They also aids to get rid of puffiness around the eyes. The procedure you must follow is that:
• Chill two potatoes in fridge for an hour and then peel and grate them to extract the juice, then dip cotton ball in it and apply it around your eyes before going to sleep and leave it overnight. In the morning wash it off with warm water and follow this procedure of home remedy to remove dark circles for at least a week.
• If you find the process of extracting potato juice difficult then take two thick slices of chilled potato and place them on each of your eye or dark circles for 30 minutes, then wash the area with lukewarm water and repeat the process for at least a week for positive results.
• You can also mix equal amount of potato juice and cucumber juice and chill it for 15 minutes in the freezer. They apply on your dark circles with cotton ball and leave it for 15 minutes and rinse off with normal water and repeat this regularly, until you notice the change.

3. Green Tea Bags

Green tea is naturally rich in anti-oxidants and tannins, verily green tea bags assists in lightening dark eyes circles.

The tannins present in it helps in reducing swelling and puffiness. For this remedy you must boil two green tea bags in one and half cup of water for 10 minutes then remove the tea bags and cool them in fridge for 30 minutes, then put the cold tea bags over your each eye for about 15 minutes.

Repeat this process twice daily and follow this remedy for at least 10 days to get positive results.

4. Rose Water

Rose water has the gentle ingredient with tremendous skin enhancing benefits which aids you in lightening your dark eye circles.

It is a rich source of antioxidants as well as it assists in strengthening your skin cells with regeneration of skin tissues and rejuvenates your skin around the eyes.

For using rose water, dip clean cotton balls in rose water and expand it a little and keep on your eyes, leave them for 15 minutes and then remove the cotton balls and wash your face with lukewarm water.

Do this every morning and evening for two weeks.

5. Almond Oil

Almond oil is effective and widely known for lightening the skin colour around your eyes. It is enriched with vitamins and minerals, almond oil can rejuvenate and replenish the delicate skin and keep your skin moisturized.

Ways to use almond oil for the treatment of dark circles are as follows:

1. Take 5 to 6 drops of almond oil and lightly massage it on your delicate skin under the eyes before going to bed every day. Leave it for overnight and wash your face with cold water in the morning. Repeat this remedy daily until you get satisfying results.
2. Secondly, mix 5 to 6 drops of almond oil with 1 table spoon of raw honey and apply the mixture carefully under your eyes on dark circles before going to bed each night, leave it overnight then wash in morning with lukewarm water and repeat this for atleast a week or until you get desired results.

6. Milk

Milk is comprised of lactic acid which aids in softening and moisturizing of skin under your eyes.

Milk also contains proteins, amino acids, enzymes and antioxidants which are required for the strengthening of your skin and heal damaged skin.

Milk can be used for the treatment of dark circles as a cold compress and for the reduction of eye puffiness. Milk can be used in the following way for removal of dark circles:

Refrigerate milk for at least an hour and then soak cotton balls in cold milk, then keep the cotton balls under each of your eye and leave them until they become warm. Follow these steps three to four times daily for fewer weeks for best results.

7. Tomato Paste

Tomatoes are great skin lightening agents with certain properties which helps to clear you dark circles around your eyes.

It could be used in different ways as follows:

• Take tomato juice of about one tea spoon and mix it with lemon juice of about one tea spoon, then apply the mixture smoothly on an affected area and keep it on for 10 minutes atleast or until it dries up. Then rinse off with cold water and repeat this twice daily until you notice change and get desired results.
• You can also drink a glass of tomato juice with mint leaves, with a pinch of salt and lemon juice of about one table spoon. Mix it and drink the nourishing drink. This will work internally for your dark circles proving your full nourishment. Donot store it, drink it as soon as you make it daily for best results.

8. Lemon Juice

Similarly as potatoes, lemon juice also holds bleaching properties, and vitamin C in it aids you in removal of your dark circles. Lemon juice can be used in multiple ways by making a mixture or individually as well.

• Dip clean cotton balls in fresh lemon juice and place under your eyes and leave them for 15 minutes then wash it off and follow this remedy until you get satisfying results.
• Another way is to make a paste and apply on affected area. The pate would include 1 table spoon of lemon juice, a pinch of turmeric powder and gram flour and 2 table spoons of tomato puree, mix it well and apply smoothly then rinse off after 15 minutes and follow this remedy two to three times a week to regain your skin tone, this will make your dark circles vanish in few weeks.
• Take tea spoon of turmeric paste, orange lentil flour and tomato puree with adding few drops of lemon juice in it mix it well and apply this thick paste on your dark circles and leave it for 30 minutes and then wash with normal water.

9. Mint Leaves

Mint leaves having the cooling properties enable you to relax and cool down your skin and eyes. Apart from reduction of dark circles, this is a natural remedy for soothing and refreshing your eyes, directly improving the eye health.

• Take five to six fresh mint leaves and crush them and apply the paste under your eyes and leave for 10 minutes, wipe it off with a cold cloth.
• You can also add mint leaves paste to tomato juice and apply this paste on affected area and leave it on for about 5 to 7 minutes and then wash with cold water.

Repeat these remedies until you get desired results.

There are many other natural remedies that you can easily try at home for removal of dark circles by using apple, turmeric, chamomile tea bags, coconut oil, fenugreek seeds and etc. other than mentioned above.

They are cheap and easily available commodities that are usually present in every house. Therefore, now no more worries left for your dark circles.