Puffiness of the face spoils the impression of appearance, therefore, they try to get rid of such a flaw as soon as possible. For this purpose apply massage procedures, cosmetic creams. Folk remedies for edema under the eyes will also be equally effective. Only in this case it is important to inquire about the true cause of fluid retention in the tissues.
Causes
Bags under the eyes are excess fluid that can be localized anywhere in the body. Facial skin is the most sensitive, so it reacts first. A single swelling under the eyes is possible for various reasons, but if it is a constant symptom, it indicates the presence of problems with water-electrolyte metabolism.
Common causes of edema under the eyes:
- fatigue, stress, physical and nervous strain;
- poor restless sleep;
- improper diet with excess fat, salt;
- abuse of coffee and alcohol at bedtime;
- excessive drinking;
- kidney pathology;
- postmenstrual syndrome;
- heart diseases;
- failure of the endocrine system;
- allergic reactions;
- smoking;
- inflammatory processes against the background of a runny nose, meningitis, furunculosis;
- eye infections
- difficult outflow of lymph;
- intracranial pressure;
- obesity;
- chronic ailments;
- helminth infection;
- the use of low-quality cosmetics.
Using folk remedies for edema under the eyes to solve cosmetic problems, possible pathologies and other serious reasons that can affect the condition of the skin of the face should be excluded.
What plays against edema
In order to successfully remove the swelling under the eyes with folk remedies, in addition to this, it is recommended to observe several simple conditions:
- Practice diet food: eat organic foods, fruits and vegetables, refuse junk food. Simple carbohydrates in the composition of products (flour, sweet) also retain water in the body.
- Pay attention to certain foods rich in trace elements, potassium: raisins, bananas.
- Observe a balanced drinking regime: a sufficient amount of water allows you to remove toxins and toxins from the body, but excessive - form puffiness. The recommended amount of water in the absence of thyroid pathologies is up to 2 liters. With a lack of fluid, the body stores it for the future. It is recommended to drink non-carbonated water.
- Do not forget about the use of natural diuretics: juices, vegetables;
- Do a light morning exercise, which facilitates the removal of moisture;
- Dinner - at least 3 hours before bedtime.
- Do not overeat, as this impairs the function of the digestive system, disrupts the metabolism.
Beverages
Replacing sweet drinks with healthy and natural ones can significantly reduce the bags under the eyes. Treatment of edema with folk remedies provides for the saturation of skin cells with minerals, and also thanks to the intake of decoctions inside - the improvement of the activity of all systems and comprehensive recovery.
A cup of green tea, brewed without sugar, is able to remove salts from the body no worse than diuretics. In the morning it is recommended to drink freshly brewed leaf tea with lemon and milk to enhance the effect.
Chamomile tea, brewed in a thermos (100 g of flowers per 0.5 l), will help remove puffiness under the eyes. It is drunk alone or mixed with green tea.
Green tea with ginger: improves the functioning of the lymphatic system, which helps to eliminate fluid from the body and tone the body.
Treatment of edema under the eyes with folk remedies through fees and herbal teas:
- leaves of lingonberry, wild strawberry, bearberry;
- special collections of diuretic herbs, the so-called pharmacy kidney tea;
- juniper fruits added to ordinary tea when brewing;
- Birch buds;
- horsetail, knotweed;
- blue cornflower, adonis;
- orthosiphon sheet.
Useful juices: cranberry; carrot; beetroot; pumpkin with honey.
Useful vegetables: watermelon, melon, viburnum, onions, garlic, cabbage.
Kefir helps to remove excess fluid from the body and helps to lose weight. A portion of natural juice will be equally useful. The simplest method is water with lemon.
The best natural remedies, masks
With the help of masks, you can remove the swelling from the face, return the face to its previous shape. The ingredients for masks are usually always present in any housewife in the kitchen.
How to relieve eye swelling at home:
- Boiled potatoes in a uniform. Peel, grind, mix with warm milk using a blender; put on the skin of the face and leave for 20 minutes, for half an hour.
- Raw potatoes. Grate, add a spoonful of flour (buckwheat, rye, wheat), a spoonful of warmed milk; spread the mass over the face and leave for 20 minutes. The effect of potato masks will increase if you add parsley to them. The starch in the mask, as well as B vitamins, will quickly cope with the problem.
- Sour cabbage. Squeeze the juice from sauerkraut, combine the cabbage with chopped potato, put on the swollen skin, for about ten minutes. After the procedure of exposure to folk remedies, eye swelling disappears, the face becomes clean, problem areas are smoothed out.
- Cucumber. Perfect moisturizing, whitening, tonic vegetable; nourishes the skin with trace elements. For oily skin, itβs good to add a few drops of lemon juice to the cucumber mass. For dry skin - olive oil. Apply a mask to swollen places for a few minutes; wash with cool water.
- Cucumber and sour cream. Mix grated cucumber and a teaspoon of parsley, add sour cream to create a creamy consistency and leave on your face for 20 minutes. Wash with warm water.
- Apples The mask contains vitamin C, which improves skin function; enough exposure for about 15 minutes.
- Nuts. Grind walnuts in the amount of two tablespoons into flour, add a little butter and a couple of drops of lemon juice. The mask is left for 30 minutes; washed off.
- Strawberry. Grind three berries, add a spoonful of olive oil, the same amount of honey. Distribute the resulting mass on the skin of the face, leave for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
- Cottage cheese with parsley. Grind greens, add pureed cottage cheese, a teaspoon of milk. Apply the mixture under the eyes, remove after half an hour.
- Buckwheat. Grind buckwheat in a coffee grinder, place the powder in a cloth bag, lower it in boiling water for a minute, then squeeze it out and apply it to the swollen surface in a warm state. There is a very fast result.
- Coffee. Mask in the form of coffee grounds or a more complex composition: a spoonful of ground coffee, a spoonful of cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons of yogurt without fillers, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice mixed, put a thin layer on the skin. If the skin is dry - instead of lemon, put honey in the composition, and replace the olive oil with more fat.
- Honey. Mix a spoonful of flour, honey, add egg white. Apply the mixture to the areas under the eyes. Remove the mask with water or chamomile broth.

Known folk remedies for edema under the eyes:
- Flax seed. Boil flax seed (2 tablespoons) in 0.5 l of water, insist under the lid for about an hour; add juice from half a lemon, drink the resulting product in 100 ml every two hours; the result is stable.
- Oats Pour grass (40 g) with boiling water (1 l), hold on fire for 10 minutes, filter, drink a glass 3 times a day to get rid of edema, bags under the eyes. Folk remedies at the same time eliminate the external problem by acting on internal processes, including metabolism.
- Quince. Grind fruits (0.5 kg), pour boiling water (1 l); boil for 15 minutes. Take the broth half a cup 3 times a day before meals.
- Honey, pumpkin, cucumber. The components taken on a teaspoon, mix, apply on the skin.
- A mixture of herbs (string, chamomile, sage) and brew in a glass, cool, pour into ice molds, freeze. Wipe the skin around the eyes with finished cubes.
To remove edema under the eyes of folk remedies, you do not need much time and costly expenses, and any "side effects" will only be with positive values ββif you use masks moderately. Nutrient formulations for the face can be created independently, albeit by trial. After the procedure, you need to give the skin a rest, let the skin rest, and then apply cream and make-up.
Edema Oils
Essential oils are useful as folk remedies for edema under the eyes, which will help in the process of massage or a kind of mask.
Any vegetable unrefined oil is suitable for facial skin massage. According to experts, the best are grape and olive. In order to improve the skin, oils are usually recommended, which can always be purchased at a pharmacy or cosmetic store.
How to relieve eye swelling at home with essential oils:
- mixtures of the following types of oils: black and green tea, coffee, avocado, apricot;
- mixture of oils: mint, chamomile, linden, sage, birch leaves, dill, horsetail, wild strawberry;
- a mixture of wheat germ and apricot oils.
Oils should be used in a warm form, mixed and applied with your fingertips around the eyes. Do not press on the skin. It is recommended to store oil mixtures in the refrigerator, hermetically, in glass.
Tools at hand
How to relieve eye swelling at home in 15 minutes? There are several quick ways:
- If bags under the eyes suddenly formed, and there is no time for recovery procedures, you can massage the problem areas of the face with cool silver spoons. If the additional purpose of the massage is to smooth out wrinkles, then the spoons must be warmed up. Five minutes is enough to achieve a visible effect.
- Cosmetic clay. Dilute white clay in warm water until the cream is thick and apply on face for ten minutes; rinse with running water.
- Aloe. For this purpose, you can use a plant leaf chilled in the freezer, and then leave it in the cold for 5 minutes. Then - attach to the eyelids and hold for 15 minutes.
- Salt. Sea or ordinary, perfectly tones and extracts moisture from tissues.
Salt mask for skin types:
- for normal skin: sour cream, olive oil - per teaspoon, mix half a teaspoon of fine salt, spread over the face, leaving for 15 minutes, rinse your face with warm water;
- for dry skin: prepare a hot solution from a spoon of salt and a glass of water, soak a soft cloth with it, put on the face until it cools completely, apply a nourishing cream;
- for oily skin: mix a spoonful of salt with a spoonful of chopped cabbage leaves, spread over the face, massage, rinse, complete the procedure, massaging the skin with an ice cube.
If you have time to take a bath, you can dilute 1 kg of salt in warm water, after which it is imperative to take a shower, apply a nourishing lotion. For aromatic salt, a smaller amount is sufficient.
Parsley
Parsley is rich in minerals that penetrate the blood and nourish cells.
Folk remedies for edema under the eyes of parsley:
- Lotion. Fresh herbs (1 spoon) pour boiling water (250 ml), leave for 15 minutes. Filter the mixture, apply a warm compress, wetting the cotton pads in the solution. If there is a lot of lotion, the remainder can be frozen for future use for morning procedures.
- Mask. Grind a teaspoon of grass in a mortar, add a spoonful of sour cream, apply on the eyelids, leave for 20 minutes. The mask is suitable for daily use.
- Lotions. Parsley (50 g) pour water (0.5 l), boil, leave on fire for 10 minutes, filter. Apply cotton pads to the eyelids, repeat about 4 times a day. Wash, apply a nourishing cream.
- Decoction. Pour a spoonful of parsley with a glass of boiling water, leave for an hour, filter, add half a glass of lemon juice to the resulting mass. Take the medicine twice a day in a third of a glass.
Parsley in salads has an effective diuretic effect, which is also observed with a salt-free diet.
Chamomile
Chamomile has a large list of properties and copes with edema. A spoon of grass should be brewed in 120 ml of boiling water, insist about 15 minutes. In the resulting infusion, moisten a cotton swab, soak the desired area of ββthe skin.
Treatment of eye swelling at home with a chamomile product:
- Drink. To make a drink - mix a teaspoon of chamomile and tea herbs. Then repeat the procedure described in the first embodiment.
- Compress. Place chamomile inflorescences in gauze, dip in boiling water for 5 minutes. Get a bag, cool, apply to eyes. You can use ready-made bags with chamomile flowers. Daily use will relieve not only edema, but also from early wrinkles.
- Cubes. Prepare an infusion of chamomile (pour 2 tablespoons of flowers in a glass of boiling water), insist for half an hour, filter, pour into molds, place in the freezer. With awakening in the morning, wipe your face with a cube of chamomile broth. Face care with chamomile-based products will relieve natural edema and allergic infections.
Herbs and Fees
Folk remedies for edema under the eyes in the form of herbs and their fees:
- Forest bill. The leaves and roots of the plant will strengthen blood vessels, effectively remove excess fluid from the body. The grass is favorable and is indicated in cases where the cause of puffiness is unknown. Decoction: brew a spoon of dry root with a glass of boiling water, insist for about half an hour, filter, take a spoon 3 times a day before meals. Leaves - good to add to salads, soups, brew in the form of tea.
- Collection: horsetail, immortelle, leuzea - ββ1 teaspoon each, oats - 3 teaspoons, pour 2 cups boiling water, leave for a couple of hours. Take a third cup 4 times a day.
- Collection: rosehip, oats - 1 spoon each, flax seed, chicory root - 1 teaspoon each, put in a thermos in crushed form, leave for 6 hours; take 3 times a third of a glass before meals. Harvesting is useful for heart failure.
- Collection: plantain, calendula dried flower, marsh calf (root) - take in equal parts of each product, boil for 5 minutes. In the prepared broth, moisten napkins and apply morning and evening to problem areas.

Alternative measures exist such as:
- lymphatic drainage - to improve the outflow of venous blood, restore skin elasticity;
- mud therapy - to restore metabolic processes;
- microcurrent therapy - to activate the production of elastin and collagen.
Pharmacy cosmetics
Anti-varicose and hemorrhoid creams do an excellent job of swelling, as they constrict blood vessels, and excess fluid does not accumulate in the tissues. After applying the creams, the venous reticulum disappears from the skin if it has been seen before.
But before using medicines with side effects, everyone will be interested in how to remove swelling with folk remedies, and the latter should be used as auxiliary or - infrequently.
Pharmaceutical preparations for vasoconstriction:
- "Heparin ointment."
- Lyoton
- Troxevasin.
Preparations in the form of tablets need to be ground beforehand. Dissolve the powder in water and apply gruel to the skin. In this case, it is important not to damage the cornea of ββthe eye by chemical exposure, it is not said about their hypoallergenicity.
Pharmacy diuretics:
- "Furosemide" - used in emergency cases: pulmonary edema, brain. The first couple of days, its effectiveness is especially high, and then decreases. The permissible dose per day is 40 mg. Side effects - nausea, low blood pressure, dizziness. Requires potassium supplementation using Furomesis.
- "Hypothiazide" - accelerates the excretion of calcium in the urine. The action lasts 12 hours. Dosage: 50-100 mg per day. Side effects: weakness, impaired cardiac function.
- "Cyclomethiazide" - removes chlorine and sodium, reduces pressure; permissible dose - 4 tablets per day. Side effects: dyspeptic disorders.
- "Triamteren" - a diuretic that acts with the preservation of potassium in the body; dose - 0.05 g, up to three times a day, up to 20 days; provokes weakness.
- "Diacarb" - one tablet every other day; may cause drowsiness.
- "Spironolactone" - the action grows slowly, manifests itself completely from the second day of use; does not reduce pressure, does not remove potassium from the body (2 tablets up to 4 times a day).
- "Mannitol" - indicated for renal failure; appointed by a doctor.
With the help of a specialist who professionally selects the product and procedure for the face, you can solve the most serious cosmetic problems. Do not forget about the integrated approach: to identify hidden diseases and not neglect treatment.