The fun part of drinking tea lies in savoring its color, aroma, and flavor, finding inner tranquility in its mist, and restoring the brightness in your eyes. Of course, if you also make use of the leftover tea liquid and leaves as ingredients for skincare, it's hard for your skin not to become radiant.

According to modern scientific analysis, tea leaves contain over 300 chemical components. Among them, tea polyphenols (phenolic compounds mainly composed of catechins) can抗氧化, anti-aging, antibacterial, and prevent obesity; tannic acid absorbs and eliminates melanin in the human body, making the skin fairer and抗癌肿; chlorophyll promotes tissue and blood regeneration; sugars enhance skin immunity; caffeine refreshes the mind and has astringent and pore-tightening effects; and various vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and proteins regulate skin functions, making the skin more vibrant.

The long-standing history of Chinese tea embodies beautiful natural health preservation concepts. When using skincare products and perfumes containing tea ingredients, maintain a relaxed mood and persist daily; preventive anti-aging and moisturizing effects will then become apparent.

Below, let's take a look at the secret recipes for beauty teas...

Secret Recipes for Beauty Teas

Don't easily discard some leftover tea leaves and cooled tea liquid. Applying them as external agents to affected areas can often rescue the skin in times of trouble. Experts remind that tea leaves suitable for skin application are usually soft and fine-textured. Among them, lightly fermented oolong teas, such as: Tieguanyin, Phoenix Dan Cong, and Taiwan High Mountain Oolong, are preferable. Those coarse tea stems and rough leaves—you only need to touch them with your hand to know how unsuitable they are for use on the face.

1. Reduce Dark Circles

For panda eyes caused by staying up late, mix Job's tears (coix seed) with green tea and apply warm to the lower eyelids using the heat; this can eliminate dark circles and puffiness.

2. Shrink Pores

Use unconsumed cool green tea (overnight tea is also fine if the temperature is low) as a cleansing toner. Soak a cotton pad and wipe the skin. The catechins in it can shrink pores and increase skin elasticity.

3. Astringent and Brightening

Add a small amount of Angelica dahurica (Bai Zhi) powder to green tea and apply as a mask to shrink pores and brighten the skin.

4. Brighten and Fade Spots

Use rose green tea with a little fruit vinegar, pat onto the face for astringent, brightening, and spot-fading effects.

5. Revitalize and Anti-Aging

When skin looks dull, mix a little cinnamon, saffron, and rose powder with warm black tea, and apply on the forehead and both cheeks to restore skin radiance and vitality.

6. Combat Acne

Mix a small amount of Coptis chinensis (Huang Lian) powder with cool green tea and apply on affected areas to remove annoying acne.

7. Soften Skin

Mix Job's tears (coix seed) and almond powder with jasmine tea, apply to the face, massage slightly to exfoliate dead skin cells, making the skin smooth and elastic.

Drinking Tea is Most Beautifying

Faced with a long list of choices on the tea menu, would you choose tea without hesitation? During busy work hours, have you made yourself a cup of clear tea and then completed the day's work in an orderly manner? Experts believe that even with bagged tea, drinking some daily has health benefits. Of course, enjoying the entire process of brewing tea at a tea house is very pleasing and intoxicating. Learning to drink Chinese tea and falling in love with the act of drinking tea will make a woman more nourished.

Chinese tea has a wide variety, and well-known types all present beautiful hues, refreshing aromas, and unique tastes. In the eyes of frequent tea drinkers, tea is full of spirituality, enhancing your life energy and making your skin more radiant.

Let's look at the beauty benefits of tea

1. Tea Aroma Clears the Mind

Brew a cup of tea; the aroma enters the brain through the nose, calming your emotions instantly. With the rising light mist of the tea, you become clear-minded. Set trivial matters outside the door of your heart, purely enjoying the wonderful process of tea passing through your taste buds and nasal cavity. Joy arises, healing both body and mind.

2. Tea Flavor Nourishes the Skin

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that tea "has a bitter and sweet taste, slightly cold and non-toxic, mainly treats promoting urination, dispelling phlegm-heat, quenching thirst, making people sleep less, strengthening willpower, lowering qi and aiding digestion." The "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" also describes effects such as "tea tastes bitter, drinking it makes people think more, sleep less, feel lighter, and improves eyesight." The ancients long discovered tea's effects on human organs. If drinking and using tea properly, the body receives nourishment, and the skin naturally glows.

Different teas (e.g., herbal teas, floral teas, grain teas, fruit teas, etc.) have their own properties, flavors, and meridian affiliations, each with specific effects on the human body. For example, rose tea, which is excellent for women, has a sweet and warm nature, enters the liver and spleen meridians, and has the effects of regulating qi, relieving depression, promoting blood circulation, and relieving pain. Thus, it can promote skin metabolism, fight aging, and greatly improve mood.

3. Tea Nature Cleanses the Heart

If you've eaten too greasy food, try drinking some rock tea or Pu'er tea to aid digestion and clear internal heat; if your heart is too burdened, invite two or three close friends, chat freely over green tea, and your heart will naturally find peace. If you have nothing to do all day, accompany fine tea, brew it three times a day, drink it thoroughly, joy will arise, naturally healing both body and mind.

The tea ceremony has its complex procedures. Besides savoring the aroma and taste of tea, the more important aspect is cultivating the mind and body through tea appreciation, learning traits like patience and tranquility. In today's fast-paced life, many diseases arise from "speed." Drinking tea slowly can regulate our body, mind, and spirit, relax the body, calm the mind, prevent excessive tension in body cells, and embodies the true essence of slow-paced health preservation.