Horsetail has significant uses in organic skin care.
Natural Beauty Uses for Horsetail
Horsetail can be infused in distilled water. This water is effective in clearing up pimply breakouts. Horsetail tea is good for broken nails and lifeless hair. It can also help remove the white spots on nails, which are caused by a calcium imbalance in the body. Horsetail’s astringent action also makes it perfect for reducing pores.
Horsetail is a significant ingredient for moisturizers. The silica in horsetail is an excellent replacement for animal collagen, which I won’t use in my products or
on my own skin.
Silica
The stems of horsetail contain large quantities of silica, especially in the epidermis, or outer skin of the plant. For natural organic skin care, horsetail can’t be beat. Its properties benefit the hair, the skin and the skin’s connective tissues. Horsetail has long been used in natural beauty treatments to increase connective tissue tone and resistance.
Plant-derived silica helps encourage the formation of new fibers in the skin. A deficiency of vitamin C can suppress the formation of collagen in its fiber growth, fibroblast. Vegetable silica has regenerative powers. It contributes biologically catalyzing elements that start the fibroblast process again. This restart permits tissues to regain their tone and elasticity.
Collagen
In addition to horsetail, silica is found in coltsfoot and rosehip seeds. Together the three herbs make a vegetable collagen. Of course, collagen is the dermal protein that holds your skin together. Young collagen is flexible, and its molecules are displaced in relation to each other. This means it can absorb water and swell slightly. In the aging process, collagen becomes cross-linked, inflexible and insoluble, like tanned leather. The cells in the dermis lose water, and the skin becomes dry and inelastic. This is when you see the fine lines and wrinkles in the skin.
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