When my daughter started having digestive problems, a friend recommended an easy, inexpensive fix. Lemon water. It worked. Lemon water acts as a tonic to the liver and stimulates the bowel to eliminate waste.
Now here’s how this relates to beautiful skin. Toxins trapped in the colon can find their way to other body parts as well as to the skin showing up as acne flare-ups, rashes and other skin issues. Basically, lemon water aids in washing toxins out of the body.
Lemons are a rich source of vitamin C which is a powerful antioxidant – good for neutralizing those pesky free radicals that damage skin cells.
Some of the other benefits of drinking lemon juice in water are:
- reduces the amount of phlegm in the body
- blood purifier
- boosts immune system
- may lower blood pressure
- makes body more alkaline/less acidic
My suggestion is to start with the juice of half a lemon squeezed in to 8oz of warm or room temperature water. Drink this the first thing in the morning. You can work your way up to the juice of a whole lemon in 16oz of water if you wish. Rinse your mouth with fresh water after to neutralize the acid from the lemon so you don’t have to worry about the possibility of it eroding the enamel on your teeth.
Lemon water is a tasty, refreshing drink and FYI – Trader Joe’s sells a bag of 6 lemons for $1.49. Now that’s what I call an affordable beauty remedy.
To your health and beauty!
-Sheila