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Amazing Lemon Peel Benefits And It’s Uses For Skin, Face And Health

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Who doesn’t love a lemon, my friend? Whether it is squeezing lemon on salads, drinking it as shikanji (sweet and sour lemonade) in the hot summer or taking it on an empty stomach with honey the first thing in the morning, this small and tiny fruit has so much to offer. But the biggest mistake you could be making is throwing the lemon peels in the garbage bin, after consuming it.

Sweety, lemon peel which you happily throw away is multi-utilitarian, not just for the food value, but the beauty benefits it gives in the form of skin, face, and weight loss, too. Let us find out more about the benefits of lemon peels in our daily life and give the lemon peel its long due credit.

Lemon Peel Nutrients for health

Lemon Peel Nutrients

Lemon peels are packed with nutrients galore – whether it is fiber, or potassium, calcium, magnesium, folate and beta carotene. In fact, lemon peels have 5 to 10 times more of vitamins (example, vitamin A & C) than the juice of lemon itself. It means you can expect a nutritional boost whenever you take lemon peels.

Go by the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and the findings will surprise you. A 100gm of lemon peel gives you 134 mg of Calcium, 160mg of Potassium, 129 mg of Vitamin C and 10.6 g of Fiber.

Nutrition benifits for lemon

Now that we are aware of the nutritional value of lemon peel, let’s move on to the health benefits of lemon peel.

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Lemon Peel Health Benefits

  1. Makes Healthy Bones: Since the peels of lemon are rich in calcium and vitamin C, they go a long way in improving the health of your bones. Apart from this, lemon peel prevents bone related ailments like osteoporosis, and arthritis.
  2. Gets Rid Of Toxins: However hard we might try, our body has some amount of toxins which further make us weak. The citrus bioflavonoids content in lemon peels fights out and eradicates the toxins found in our body.
  3. Fights Cancer: Not many people know that lemon peels are used in treating the deadly disease cancer. The peels have salvestrol Q40 and limonene which fight out the cancerous cells.
  4. Minimises Cholesterol: Lemon peels are heart-friendly. The polyphenol flavonoids found in the lemon peels go all out in reducing the cholesterol levels in the body.
  5. Prevents Heart-related Problems: Potassium found in the lemon peels helps in maintaining the right level of blood pressure in the body.
  6. Maintains Oral Hygiene: As you know deficiency of vitamin C leads to teeth and gum problems such as bleeding gums, scurvy and gingivitis. Since lemon peels are extremely rich in citric acid, they make up for the deficiency of vitamin C, and in the process help you fight out teeth related problems.
  7. Helps In Weight Loss: This particular feature is something which teenage girls to working women would happily agree on (if executed well). Lemon peels have pectin in them which enables the weight loss.
  8. Tackles Skin Ailments: Whether it is fighting against wrinkles, skin pigmentation, acne or dark spots, lemon peels are pretty active in preventing and fighting skin ailments. The free radicals are rich in antioxidants which detoxify the skin to great levels.
  9. Fights Brain Disorders: The lemon peel has phytonutrient tangeretin. This has proved its talent in treating brain disorders like Parkinson’s disease.
  10. Miscellaneous Health Benefits: Cleansing the liver, curing ear infections, improving blood circulation, reducing of muscle contractions, prevention of heart strokes, strengthening of blood capillaries, aren’t you surprised at the package of health benefits that lemon peels get you.

Uses of lemon peal

Let us find out how lemon peels are effective for skin.

Lemon Peel For Skin

The Lemon peels are there for your skin complexion too. Here is how you can utilise the waste peels of the lemon.

  1. Lightening Of Age spots: Apply a small portion of lemon peels to the affected area and leave it for an hour. You will notice the age spots fade away.
  2. Softening Of Dry Elbows: Sprinkle baking soda on half of a lemon. Now place the treated lemon on your elbows and twist it (in such a way as if you are juicing it) for a couple of minutes. After some time, rinse it and pat it dry to see the results.
  3. Sugar Scrub: Make a paste using lemon peel (finely chopped), some olive oil and ½ cup sugar. Once done, wet your body in the shower, and after turning off the water, apply the sugar scrub all over your body. Rinse it off and bask in the smooth and glowing skin.
  4. Foot Soak: Take few citrus rinds and boil them in water. Let them cool down and then strain it. Now add 1/4 cup of cow’s milk, 2 tbsp cold pressed olive oil, and a few drops of lemon essential oil. Put your feet in this concoction for about 20 minutes and then pat dry. You will find your feet soft and moisturised.
  5. Nail Whitener: Those of you who have dark or tanned nails can whiten them by rubbing your finger nails with a lemon wedge.

Uses of lemon peal for face

After the skin part, let us move over to the face now.

Lemon Peel For Face

Look how lemon peel contributes to making your face shine.

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  1. Face Tonic: Gently rub the lemon peels on your face. It works as a nice skin tonic. While rinsing it, be careful around your eyes.
  2. Skin Whitening Mask: Mix the lemon rind powder (which is sun dried before) with some raw milk and apply it all over your face. Let it stay on your face for about half an hour. Now rinse it off with cold water. Rich in citric acid, lemon peels work well as a skin whitening agent, and is good for normal to oily skin.
  3. Acne Scar Remover: Mix lemon peels with the goodness of coconut water and apply it gently over your acne scars. You can also keep it as an overnight mask on the scars to get optimum results. When you use this tip daily, you will find a reduction in acne scars. The microbial properties of lemon peels make it an apt ingredient to treat acne and acne scars problem.
  4. Skin Bleaching Mask: Lemon peels have alpha hydroxy acid in them. This helps them bleach your skin the natural way without going the chemical path. All you have to do is mix other skin bleaching agents such as cucumber water and fuller’s earth (multani mitti) with lemon peels and you are good to go. Use this home-made skin bleaching mask thrice a week to get best results.
  5. Removing Fine Lines And Wrinkles: Rich in pectin and anti-oxidants, lemon peels keep your skin firm and elastic. Mix the peels of lemon with papaya juice and apply this paste all over your face, while keeping it on for 30 minutes. Wash it off with cold water. Follow it up by using almond oil-based moisturiser.

Removing fine lines and wrinkles from lemon peal

Lemon is an integral part of weight loss. Let us find out how lemon peels contribute to it.

To all the foodies and cooking lovers out there, how about knowing the way to cook a recipe with lemon peels.

How To Make Lemon Peel Recipe

Here are some nice and simple ways to cook and enjoy a lemon peel recipe called the Candied Lemon Peel.

1.First of all, cut the lemon into about 1/4th inch thick slices and remove the pulp of the fruit. Thereafter, cut the rings into half, so that the lemon peels appear in long strips. Now put these diced lemon peels in water in a small pan and bring it to boil. Drain the water, and repeat it with fresh cold water. Keep repeating the boiling steps three times. Drain the water again and keep the peels aside.

2.Mix 2 cups of water with 2 cups of sugar. Set it to boil and keep stirring it to dissolve the sugar. Move the flame to low and simmer until the white pith looks translucent. Store the lemon peels in syrup, refrigerate them, in order to keep them soft and let it dry. Toss the dried candied lemon peels in additional sugar and store them at room temperature.

Lemon Peel for food

Keeping beauty, skin and face aside, lemon peels make a good utilitarian item for all-round cleaning.

Lemon Peel Uses

The tiny lemon is truly versatile. Not only does it smell and taste great, it’s antibacterial properties make it just perfect for killing germs. Here is how you can use the lemon peels to your advantage in your home and surroundings.

  • Clean sinks and bathtubs
  • Remove odors from hands
  • Give your dishes a sparkling touch
  • Remove grease, even underarm stains on clothing
  • Clean coffee pots, microwave and stove top
  • Clean hard water stains and soap scum on shower doors
  • Sanitise and refresh cutting boards
  • Deodorise garbage disposals
  • Remove rust stains
  • Burn lemon peels to get fragrance

Lemon Peel for health for women

Now that you know the multiple and clever uses of lemon peels, put them to good use the next time before discarding them. It will certainly help you in getting gorgeous skin, face and good health.

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