Coffee : A Beauty Ingredient

Who doesn't like sipping on a hot cup of coffee? We all do. It's our favourite hot beverage and a cup of it can simply change our mood. It instantly charges us up with energy and helps us keep active the entire day. But have you ever wondered, that coffee can be an amazing beauty enhancer? Yes, you read that right.

Coffee has antioxidants that can help your skin fight the free radicals. It also has anti-inflammatory properties that helps your skin reduce puffiness and also can help you with those stubborn dark circles.

Here are a few ways by which you can use coffee as a beauty ingredient in your beauty routine.

1. Coffee Body Scrub

Body scrubs are extremely important to keep your skin fresh, clean and also get rid of all the dead skin cells. It promotes blood circulation which keeps your skin revitalised. Coffee scrub can help with all these things and added to them, can help you fight stretch marks as well.

Simply mix some coconut oil and coffee powder and scrub your skin. You can repeat this once a week and within a few weeks you can see visible results.

2. Coffee Face Pack

There are so many kinds of face packs that are available and each of them help your skin in a certain way. They help your skin by providing it with glow, getting rid of dead skin cells as well. Coffee Face pack is another amazing face pack for your skin that will add that extra glow to your skin, promote blood circulation which will keep the puffiness at bay. It also acts as an anti ageing property which will get rid of the fine lines on your face.

Take some coffee powder and mix it with some water. It will form a coarse paste. Apply this on your face and scrub a little, let it sit on your face for about 10 minutes and then wash it off with cold water. You can do this once or twice a week for best results.

3. Coffee as a Dry Shampoo

If you are someone who has an oily scalp then you must know how much you love your dry shampoo. Dry shampoos have become extremely popular in the recent past as they are a quick solution to your unwashed dirty hair. A quick spray that will revive your hair and make it look fresh and smell amazing too. But dry shampoos have harsh chemicals in them that can damage your hair. Coffee can be used as an alternative to dry shampoo and it will not damage your hair as well. It acts as a great agent that absorbs the extra oil from your scalp making it fresh. Although this only applies for brunettes.

Take some instant coffee powder and put it on your scalp. Massage a little and brush your hair as usual.

These are quick and easy ways by which coffee can be used as a beauty ingredient. You can try these simple hacks and see your skin and hair feel the difference.