Carrot oil
Great for skin and hair
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Carrot oil is an absolute beauty tip. It is said to clear the skin, protect it from the sun and repair broken hair ends.
Turnip, root, carrot or carrot? It doesn’t matter – the main thing is that it makes you beautiful!
We know the good old carrot as a visionary, but that it is just as good for skin and hair is largely unknown. Carrot oil is often used in cosmetics as an ingredient for body and face skin, its carotenes are valued for their repairing effect. It’s in Skin masks, creams, face oils and hair products. It is most commonly used as a skin care product for pimples. For cosmetics, the oil is obtained from the seeds of the wild carrot. Only the roots of the carrot are used to extract the oil.
Carrot oil for the skin: cell protection in orange
- The ones stuck in the carrot Carotenes have a cell-protecting effect, they are Antioxidants. Your provitamin A is important for the cell renewal of the skin. Note: It is essential to integrate it into our anti-aging care.
- In a plant, carotenes have the task of contributing to photosynthesis and protecting the plant from the consequences protect against harmful UV rays. Using carrot oil as pure UV protection would be grossly negligent, but the carrot is considered a great helper in natural sun care.
- Oily and blemished skin appreciates the ingredients of the beet! Because it has a regulating effect, helps reduce inflammation and can clear up impure skin. It also has a slightly drying effect, which is why oily skin can benefit from it.
- The light coloring effect that the oil has on the skin can be a natural self-tanner. Whether the coloring of the skin looks natural depends on the skin type. If you want to experiment with it, you should start outside of the face. After all, we don’t want to become a Donald Trump look-alike, we just want to give our complexion a summer glow.
Carrot oil for hair
Carrot oil is great for caring for broken hair ends. It is also said to have a positive effect on hair loss – however, there are no studies on this.
A DIY recipe against split ends:
Warm carrot oil slightly, massage into the ends of your hair, leave on for 10 to 15 minutes and rinse thoroughly with warm water. Important: Do not use the carrot oil on the scalp, because the carotenes discolor them – which is particularly irritating with light hair.
Make carrot oil yourself – this is how it works
You can even get pure carrot oil in drugstores (e.g. from Diaderma). But it’s not that difficult to make carrot oil yourself. You need:
- 20 ml cold-pressed sesame oil (jojoba oil or almond oil is also possible)
- a grated carrot (preferably organically grown)
- a large lockable jar
- a sterile glass bottle (boil beforehand)
- a pot
- a kitchen towel or a clean tea towel
And so it goes: Put the sesame oil and a grated carrot in the sealable glass and pour it into the hot water bath. Heat until the rasps are soft and the oil is colored orange. Strain the mixture through a clean tea towel and pour into the storage bottles.