How to Get Smooth Skin Through Natural Ways

Eating healthy foods and not smeared on the face is the manner suggested by Brierley Wright, MS, RD, Nutrition Editor, EatingWell Magazine. Here are tips from the Shine was quoted as saying:

Smoother skin
Try grapefruit consumption. Pink hue of this fruit contains lycopene, a carotenoid that helps maintain skin smoothness.


In a study published in European Journal of Farmacy and Biopharmaceutics in 2008, researchers found that those who have skin with a high concentration of lycopene have smoother skin. You can also get lycopene from tomatoes, carrots, watermelon, guava, and red peppers.

Moisturize dry skin
Consumption of foods rich in vitamin C, such as strawberries, to help counteract the dryness associated with age, including wrinkles. Research in 2007 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition said that the effect of vitamin C to soften and moisturize the skin.

That's because the ability to eliminate free radicals from UV rays and also its role in the synthesis of collagen, a fibrous protein that keeps skin elasticity. Vitamin C is essential for collagen production. Other foods rich in vitamin C also can you eat are oranges, melons and green leafy vegetables.

Beautify skin texture
Cocoa, tea and red wine contain epikatekin type called flavonoids. In a study on 24 women, published in the Journal of Nutrition, drinking cocoa every day for 12 weeks will improve skin texture.

The authors explain that epikatekin able to increase blood flow to the skin, increasing nutrition and oxygen supply, as an important factor for maintaining healthy skin.