Tag: Skin Remedies

Carrot Ginger Soup Recipe for Glowing Skin

Ever thought about eating your way to healthy, glowing skin?

We often think that skin care products are the only thing that can make our skin beautiful. Turns out, what you put on your plate has a direct impact on your skin’s well-being. Your daily diet plays a huge role in your beauty routine, especially during the winter, when your skin suddenly has to deal with central heating, drier air, and cool winds!

Why Your Diet Matters

Maintaining good skin throughout the year involves more than just switching up your skin care routine – it’s about nourishing your body from the inside out. There’s nothing more important than eating and drinking right! To combat the seasonal environmental conditions, adjust your skin care products and consider incorporating skin-friendly “beauty foods” to keep you looking fresh, and feeling great. 

Check out my tips for a hydrating winter skin care routine!
Beauty Soup for a Natural Glow

To kickstart your beauty food journey, here’s a simple, delicious, and nutritious soup that’s easy to make. This golden soup is loaded with vitamins to support a healthy body, and will leave you with a radiant glow! Carrot ginger soup is PACKED with skin-loving nutrients and has anti-inflammatory properties to hydrate and soothe an irritated digestive system. An irritated digestive system leads to irritated skin!

Carrot Ginger Soup Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1.5 lbs carrots, peeled and chopped
  • 1 zucchini, chopped
  • 1 medium white or yellow onion, diced (~2 cups)
  • 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tbsp fresh ginger, minced (adjust to taste)
  • 1 tsp cinnamon, cumin, turmeric (to taste)
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 4 cups filtered water
  • 1 tbsp oil (olive oil, avocado oil, or coconut oil)
  • Garnish: chopped chives, cilantro, and/or hemp hearts

Instructions

  1. Put the chopped carrots, zucchini, onions in a large saucepan and sauté in 1 tbsp of oil of choice for 3-5 minutes, until veggies start to soften.
  2. Add ginger, garlic, and spices and sauté for a few more minutes.
  3. Add water. Bring the mixture to a boil, cover and simmer for 20 minutes (for a thicker soup, use only 2 cups of water.)
  4. Purée everything in a blender and blend until smooth. Use an immersion blender if you have one.
  5. Taste and adjust seasonings to your taste.
  6. Sprinkle each serving with garnish and enjoy!

Makes 6 to 8 servings.

Swap Your Morning Smoothie with Soup!

Consider trading your morning smoothie for a warm, nutrient-rich homemade bowl of soup! Why not? Starting your day with this comforting breakfast not only boosts your immunity but keeps you feeling fresh-faced all day.

Enhance Your Glow with a Colourful Diet

This soup recipe is just the start to what you can consume to keep your skin hydrated and glowing!. Get creative with your daily intake by choosing brightly coloured fruits and vegetables. They are rich in powerful antioxidants that protect the skin from the damaging effects of dehydration, stress, pollutants, and UV light. Also incorporating wholesome fats, like raw nuts, seeds, fatty fish, grass-fed butter, avocado, and olive oil, ensures proper absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and prevents transdermal water loss.

Beauty food is all about choosing whole, nutrient-dense foods that make you happy and nourish your soul. Remember, true radiance comes from within!

Yours Truly,
Mei xo

Let me know if you’ve tried this recipe. Leave a comment below and share a photo on Instagram and tag @glowwithmei.

Honey Lift Massage for a Rosy Glow

My Honey Lift Massage is the most luxurious, safe and effective method of treating the problem of dull, environmentally damaged, aging skin without surgery or painful non-surgical procedures. This type of massage is a lifting, toning, firming treatment for the face. It’s a natural face lift massage, which smooths fine lines, gently exfoliates, provides moisture, and gives your face a glowing look for days!!

The Secret? Raw Organic Honey!

Honey is one of the natural world’s health-producing wonders. As you know, honey is the nectar gathered from the blossoms of many flowers by industrious bees. After it is collected by some of the bees from a hive, it is then changed by the other bees to make it more useful in the hive. They condense the liquid out of the original flower nectar, producing a heavy syrup with a high percentage of natural sugar content. Though honey is used most often as a nutritional food, it has been used for thousands of years as a natural medicinal as well as in beauty products.

Sweeten Up Your Skincare Routine with Honey’s Many Natural Benefits

The antioxidants and active enzymes found in honey may play a role in protecting the skin from sun damage as well as aid in skin rejuvenation. Because raw honey is antimicrobial and the molecules take up and retain moisture, it it known to speed the drying of wounds. Raw honey also stimulates the regrowth of tissue, strengthens capillaries and the fibroblast needed for healing. It also encourages the dermis to develop new connective tissue and speeds up the growth of new epithelial cells.

More Benefits of Using Honey for the Face

There’s more! Here’s some other important benefits you’ll see when you apply honey to your visage:

  • Helps smooth fine lines
  • Provides a light exfoliation
  • Provides moisture and nourishment for dry, dull skin
  • Boosts the skin’s immune system
  • Improves circulation
  • Assists the skin to naturally express congested sebum (clogged pores)
  • Stimulates the synthesis of collagen
  • Antibacterial and antimicrobial

→ Follow my simple step-by-step instructions on how to Honey Lift Massage at home.

Be radiantly you, with natural face lift massages!

~Mei-Lana xo