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8 Japanese Beauty Secrets That You Should Know

By Subha Bose

Japanese Beauty Secrets That You Should Know
Japanese women are well known for their healthy and ageless skin. It might be due to their enormous amount of fish consumption or the fact they product themselves from harmful sun's rays or through their well-kept beauty secrets. Here is a list of  Japanese Beauty secrets that women swear by:

          8 Japanese Beauty Secrets That You Should Know


1. Oranges:
Oranges help in reducing the melanin pigment from the skin. If you would like to make glowing and radiant complexion yours, drink orange juice twice a week and apply the pulp of the orange in your face for 15 minutes and wash it off. Do this for a month and you will see a visible difference in your complexion.
2. Rice Bran:
Rice bran mask
Rice Bran has been one of the important beauty secrets of Japanese women. It has the properties to refresh and rejuvenate your skin; it also helps in preventing the skin from premature aging. Rice bran mask helps in fading of wrinkles and dark circles. If you are wondering how to make this mask, here it is: Take one tbsp of rice bran powder and mix it with warm water and apply it to your skin in circular motion, leave it off for 5-10 minutes and wash it with lukewarm water.

3. Seaweed:
Japanese women get their glowing skin from using toners and creams made with seaweed extracts. It adds a glow to the skin while minimizing the pore size. They also use it in their food, body wraps and bath. To make your seaweed bath, add 1 cup of dried seaweed to warm water. This relaxing bath is a great option to draw out toxins.

4. Azuki Beans:
Red bean in skin care
Azuki beans also known as red beans (Karamani in Tamil), has been used by Japanese women for ages in their beauty regime. Azuki helps to keep skin free from blemishes and uneven skin tone. To prepare azuki beans scrub:
1. Dry roast the beans for 5 minutes and allow it to cool.
2. Grind the beans into a very fine powder.
3. Mix the powder with warm water.
4. Apply it to wet face and massage gently in circular motion for 2 minutes.
5. Wash it with warm water.
6. Use it twice a week for visible results.
5. Fish:
Japanese women use small toothless fishes from pond to remove dead skin from the feet. In this practice hundreds of tiny fishes nibble your feet eating away all the dry and dead skin from the feet, leaving it clean and soft.
6. Silkworm Cocoons:
Silkworm cocoon scrub
Japanese have been using silkworm cocoon to buff and polish their skin to perfection. The cocoon exfoliates the skin and leaves it soft and supple. The protein in the cocoon is known to improve collagen production.

7. Green Tea:
Green tea is one of the important beauty secrets of  Japanese women; they drink a cup of it with every meal. Green tea has antioxidants and nutrients which slow down the aging process and help in keeping the skin soft and supple. Green tea can also be applied externally to treat acne scars.

8. Nightingale Dropping:
Japanese Beauty Secrets That You Should Know
This one is a little freakish of all the beauty secrets. Japanese women do facial  known as Uguisu that uses feces of Nightingale. It is believed that the naturally occurring enzymes in the dropping leave skin soft and glowing.

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