Home Remedies for Puffy Eyes

July 2, 2008 · Filed Under Home Remedies  Bookmark and Share

Usually the eyes are puffiest when you awake. Under-eye puffiness is usually only a temporary cosmetic concern and rarely a sign of a serious underlying medical condition. Lack of sleep is unlikely a significant factor for puffy eyes. If anything, sitting up instead of lying down will help to prevent fluids from collecting in the eyelid tissue. This section provides effective tips for reducing mild under-eye puffiness by means of homemade remedies.

Home Remedy for Puffy Eyes

Staying hydrated and lowering the salt intake relieves the body of the stress of water retention and keeps the urine clear. This minimizes the chances of salt being retained in the body in fluid form and later gathering in the skin around the eyes.

Steer clear of bacteria and avoid using any eye product older than a few months as bacteria in the make-up can be transferred onto the eyes, causing eyelids to swell. For the same reason, do not share cosmetics for the eyes with anyone else either.

Wearing a mask filled with cold water/gel for a few minutes in the morning or wrapping bits of ice in paper towels and placing it on the eyelids helps reduce the swelling.

When you want to look your best, set your clock an hour earlier than usual. Give yourself that extra time to depuff. Either that, or sleep sitting up so the puffs don’t get a chance to form under your eyes.

If you already have puffs, wet a couple of chamomile tea bags with tepid water and put them on your closed eyelids. Relax that way for 15 minutes.

Fill a small bowl with iced water or ice-cold milk. Soak a cotton wool pad with the liquid and lie down with the dampened pads over your eyes. Replace the pads as soon as they become warm. Continue for 15 minutes. As well as reducing puffiness, this treatment will brighten the whites of your eyes.

Cucumber. This is perhaps the best-known home remedy for puffy eyes, known by supermodels as a sure-fire and super-quick way to reduce puffiness right before a photo-shoot. The cucumber’s contracting qualities cause your blood vessels to constrict, quickly and dramatically reducing puffy eyes.

Egg whites.
Here’s a real soufflĂ© for the face with some amazing age-defying benefits. This one’s wonderful for reducing crow’s feet as well!

Use cold compress for your eye applications. Before applying, store the compresses in the freezer for some minutes. Compresses of eye packs filled with gel can be bought at any boutiques or stores.

Use cloth or nursing pads that are soaked in cold milk for about 10 minutes in the treatment of your puffy eyes as well as dark circle areas of your eyes.

Cleansing your face with 15 warm splashes of water, and then following up with 15 pure cold rinses will help in the aiding of puffy-eyes (great tip, this is also a face skin care remedy, warm water removes excess dirt from opened pores, and then when cleansed, the cold water contracts and lessens open pore size keeping dirt and oils out)

Beating egg whites to a stiff mixture and then applied to the area in question; will help firm and tighten the skin and give noticeable improvements to the puffy area in applied to



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