9 Smoothie Recipes for Beautiful Skin
Dieting isn’t just all about energy, weight loss, and muscle toning for pro cheer health. What you eat also dictates your skin health.
Based on a 2012 study, different vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants target specific skin beauty needs. Some vitamins and minerals promote skin glow. Other antioxidants reduce and remove wrinkles leading to younger skin. And there are some food combinations that protect your skin from free radicals while keeping it hydrated and moist. The best part is, they can be prepared into healthy smoothies. We've rounded up a list of 9 skin-boosting smoothies below. Check them out.
1. Baby Face
It’s common knowledge that Vitamin C helps in preventing flu and colds. But did you know Ascorbic Acid helps in the production of collagen? Collagen is a protein that helps in maintaining skin elasticity. In this smoothie, the sweet potato will provide you an abundance of Vitamin C. Prepare yourself this smoothie and say goodbye to skin sagging!
2. Green on Green on Green Smoothie
Skin hydration is important to prevent dryness and eyebags. With this smoothie’s main ingredient - cucumber, you’ll be reducing the appearance of wrinkles and promoting skin smoothness. Add Kale’s Vitamin A and E into that and you’ll quickly recover from free radical damage caused by going outdoors.
3. Summer Strawberry Sunset
Health fact: Strawberries have more Vitamin C content than Oranges. Double your dose of Ascorbic Acid with blood oranges in this smoothie to reduce and prevent fine lines! Summer Strawberry Sunset also has the benefits of coconut and almond milk’s good fat that’s best for toning and making your skin smooth.
4. Tropical Green Energy Smoothie
Here at PRO CHEER LIFE™, we want you to provide you all the beauty and fitness needs. The best way to give you that is to introduce this skin-brightening and energizing smoothie. Packed with skin beauty-boosting vitamins and minerals from kale, papaya, pineapple, and chia seeds, the Tropical Green Energy Smoothie also has nutritional yeast - an energy-boosting vegan product. Add this smoothie to your pre-workout snack to stay active and beautiful as you exercise!
5. Apple Carrot Top Wake-Up
Apples have polyphenols - an antioxidant that provides protection against ultraviolet radiation. Combine that with carrots, you’ll be able to maintain younger skin while clearing up breakouts. And don’t worry about dry skin - this smoothie has the hydrating properties of cucumber as well.
6. Lemon Thyme Blueberry Smoothie
Zinc is a mineral with anti-inflammatory properties that prevent acne and Blueberries are in abundance of that. Blueberry is also the King of Antioxidant Foods. The antioxidant found in it belongs to a family of polyphenols called flavonoids - a plant metabolite that prevents skin aging by protecting your skin against free radicals and UV rays.
7. Spicy Mango
Do you have skin blemishes and patches? The antioxidants found in mangoes such as mangiferin, catechins, anthocyanins, quercetin, kaempferol, and rhamnetin help in evening skin complexion. Add some hemp seed into the smoothie and you’ll get hydration and skin oil balancing benefits.
8. Beet Smoothie with Strawberries and Kale
Beets contain a concentrated source of folic acid - a B Vitamin that not only increases skin hydration but also helps in retaining moisture in it. The folate found in beets has other skin-barrier bolstering properties that both protect your skin inside and out. This stimulates skin repair resulting in a healthy and young glow.
9. Cinnamon Chocolate Maca Madness
Beauty fact: Cacao has more than 300 antioxidant varieties. Part of the benefits of these antioxidants is collagen-level boosting and complexion improvement. Protection and repair from skin damage and premature aging are included as well. This is due to the potent flavonoid contents. That’s one good reason to love a chocolatey drink!
Fruits and vegetables are the best sources of vitamins and minerals for skin health. They’re also low calorie, low-fat, and low-carb which is ideal for both fitness and beauty. Lastly, I’ll tell you a little secret - most of the ingredients you find above can also be used as homemade scrubs for exfoliation!
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