How to quickly remove puffiness under the eyes at home: folk remedies and pharmaceutical preparations

Puffiness and bags under the eyes are a problem faced by every fourth representative of the fairer sex over 25 years of age. However, the problem can affect not only women, but also men of different age groups. So what is the cause of the problem and how to deal with it quickly at home, without resorting to the help of plastic surgeons, we will tell you in this article.

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Causes

Bags under the eyes are excess fluid that can be located anywhere on the body. The skin of the face is the most sensitive, so it reacts first. One-time 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 puffy eyes:

fatigue, stress, physical and nervous strain;
poor quality restless sleep;
poor diet with excess fat and salt;
excessive consumption of coffee and alcohol before bedtime;
excessive drinking;
kidney pathologies;
postmenstrual syndrome;
heart diseases;
endocrine system failure;
allergic reactions;
smoking;
inflammatory processes against the background of a runny nose, meningitis, furunculosis;
eye infections;
obstructed lymph drainage;
intracranial pressure;
obesity;
chronic illnesses;
helminth infection;
use of low-quality cosmetics.

When using folk remedies for puffiness under the eyes to solve cosmetic problems, you should exclude possible pathologies and other serious causes that can affect the condition of your facial skin.

How to remove puffiness under the eyes at home

Now we come to the main point: how to get rid of swelling of the eyelids at home. Before you begin the fight against swelling of the eyelids, you need to find out the cause of the disease. Based on this, you can choose the most effective ways to eliminate accumulated fluid.

Swelling of the eyelids associated with allergic reactions may appear suddenly and disappear within a short period of time. We are not talking about Quincke's edema, since this is already a serious problem and cannot be avoided without emergency assistance.

Let's look at the optimal and effective methods of dealing with edema.

What works against edema

To successfully remove puffiness under the eyes using folk remedies, in addition to this, it is recommended to follow a few simple conditions:

Practice dietary nutrition: eat natural foods, fruits and vegetables, avoid junk food. Simple carbohydrates in foods (flour, sweets) also retain water in the body.
Pay attention to individual foods rich in microelements and potassium: raisins, bananas.
Maintain a balanced drinking regime: a sufficient amount of water allows you to remove waste and toxins from the body, but too much water leads to swelling. The recommended volume of water in the absence of thyroid pathologies is up to 2 liters. When there is a lack of fluid, the body stores it for future use. It is recommended to drink still water.
Do not forget about the use of natural diuretics: juices, vegetables;
Do light morning exercises, which facilitates the removal of moisture;
Have dinner at least 3 hours before bedtime.
Do not overeat, as this impairs the functions of the digestive system and disrupts metabolism.

What to do if nothing helps?

Expert opinion

Slonimsky Mikhail Germanovich

Ophthalmologist of the highest qualification category. Has extensive experience in diagnosing and treating eye diseases in adults and children. More than 20 years of experience.

If none of the methods has the desired effect, it is recommended to visit a doctor's office. In this case, you need to get tested for the presence of disorders in the body. It’s not a matter of aesthetics at all, it’s now important to take care of your health. The earlier the better. The doctor will identify the etiology of the edema and prescribe appropriate treatment. This way you can get rid of puffy eyelids forever.

Preventive measures should be taken as often as possible:

devote at least 7-8 hours of sleep daily;
avoid excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages and smoking;
reduce salt consumption (daily allowance 1-2 grams);
to prevent swelling, do lymphatic drainage massage;
If you have chronic diseases, consult a doctor promptly;
do not consume food or water before bedtime;
monitor the amount of liquid consumed (the norm is 2 liters);
take vitamin E and group B;
try to include protein-rich foods in your diet (lean meats, eggs, legumes, fish);
protect yourself from stressful and conflict situations;
exercise;
as a preventive measure, use the methods proposed in this article.

Beverages

By replacing sugary drinks with healthy and natural ones, you can significantly reduce the bags under your eyes. Treatment of edema with folk remedies involves saturating skin cells with minerals, and also, by taking decoctions orally, improving the functioning of all systems and providing comprehensive health improvement.

A cup of green tea, brewed without sugar, can remove salts from the body no worse than diuretics. In the morning, it is recommended to drink freshly brewed loose 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 remove fluid from the body and tone the body.

Treatment of swelling under the eyes with folk remedies through herbal teas and teas:

leaves of lingonberry, strawberry, bearberry;
special collections of diuretic herbs, so-called pharmaceutical kidney tea;
juniper fruits added to ordinary tea when brewing;
Birch buds;
horsetail, knotweed;
blue cornflower, adonis;
orthosiphon leaf.

Healthy juices: cranberry; carrot; beet; pumpkin with honey.

Healthy vegetables: watermelon, melon, viburnum, onion, garlic, cabbage.

Kefir helps remove excess fluid from the body and helps you lose weight. A portion of natural juice will be no less useful. The simplest method is water with lemon.

Causes of swelling

There are a lot of them. The causes of severe swelling of the eyes are a sign of the disease. This is one of the symptoms that indicates the manifestation of many diseases. When treating the disease, swelling will gradually disappear.

The appearance of swelling is promoted by:

Errors in lifestyle and nutrition.

Need to move more. The best way to relieve swelling is to walk at a fairly brisk pace.

Short sleep, overwork, insomnia, stress.
Overwork of the muscles in the orbital area.
Prolonged crying.
Fractures, bruises, ENT diseases, burns.
Allergic reaction of the body to cosmetics, medications, insect bites, etc.

To exclude factors that can provoke fluid stagnation under the eyes, it is necessary, first of all, to analyze the possible causes of its occurrence.

The main culprits of swelling have long been known:

Eating salty, fatty, spicy foods, alcohol in the evening. Salt disrupts fluid circulation and delays elimination from the body.
Drinking fluids before bed. The impossibility of sufficient lymph flow and blood circulation without human movement.
Poor drinking regime.

To ensure constant fluid removal, it is necessary to consume 1.5–2 liters of fluid per day.

The best natural remedies, masks

With the help of masks, you can remove swelling from your face and return your face to its previous shape. Ingredients for masks are usually always present in any housewife’s kitchen.

How to relieve eye swelling at home:

Boiled potatoes in their jackets. Peel, chop, mix with warm milk using a blender; put on the skin of the face and leave for 20 minutes, half an hour.
Raw potatoes. Grate, add a spoonful of flour (buckwheat, rye, wheat), a spoonful of heated milk; spread the mixture over your face and leave for 20 minutes. The effect of potato masks will be enhanced 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 potatoes, apply to swollen areas of skin for ten minutes. After the procedure using folk remedies, eye swelling disappears, the face becomes clean, problem areas are smoothed out.
Cucumber. An excellent moisturizing, whitening, toning vegetable; saturates the skin with microelements. For oily skin, it is good to add a few drops of lemon juice to the cucumber mixture. For skin prone to dryness - olive oil. Apply the mask to swollen areas 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 the face for 20 minutes. Wash with warm water.
Apples. The mask contains vitamin C, which improves skin functions; Its exposure for about 15 minutes is sufficient.
Nuts. Grind two tablespoons of walnuts 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 and the same amount of honey. Distribute the resulting mass over the face and leave for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
Cottage cheese with parsley. Chop the greens, add grated cottage cheese, a teaspoon of milk. Apply the resulting mixture under the eyes and remove after half an hour.
Buckwheat. Grind buckwheat in a coffee grinder, place the powder in a fabric bag, lower it into boiling water for a minute, then squeeze it out and apply it to the swollen surface while warm. A very quick result is observed.
Coffee. A mask in the form of coffee grounds or a more complex composition: mix a spoonful of ground coffee, a spoonful of cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons of yogurt without fillers, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, and apply a thin layer on the skin. If the skin is dry, add honey instead of lemon and replace the olive oil with a fattier one.
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 decoction.

Known folk remedies for puffiness under the eyes:

Flax seed. Boil flax seed (2 tablespoons) in 0.5 liters of water, leave covered for about an hour; add juice from half a lemon, drink 100 ml of the resulting product every two hours; the result obtained is stable.
Oats. Pour boiling water (1 l) over the herb (40 g), keep on fire for 10 minutes, filter, drink a glass 3 times a day to get rid of swelling and bags under the eyes. Folk remedies eliminate the external problem by influencing internal processes, including metabolism.
Quince. Grind fruit (0.5 kg), pour boiling water (1 l); boil for 15 minutes. Take half a glass of the decoction 3 times a day before meals.
Honey, pumpkin, cucumber. Mix the components, taken one teaspoon at a time, and apply to the skin.
Brew a mixture of herbs (chamomile, chamomile, sage) in a glass, cool, pour into ice trays, and freeze. Rub the prepared cubes onto the skin around the eyes.

To remove puffiness under the eyes using folk remedies, you don’t need a lot of time and expensive expenses, and any “side effects” will only be positive if you use masks sparingly. You can create nutritional compositions for the face yourself, albeit by trial method. After the procedure, you need to let the skin rest, and then apply cream and makeup.

Oils for swelling

Essential oils are useful as folk remedies for puffiness under the eyes, which will help in the process of massage or a kind of mask.

Any unrefined vegetable oil is suitable for facial massage. According to experts, grape and olive are the best. 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;
mixtures of oils: mint, chamomile, linden, sage, birch leaves, dill, horsetail, strawberry;
a mixture of wheat germ and apricot oils.

Oils should be used warm, mixed and applied with fingertips around the eyes. Do not press on the skin. It is recommended to store oil mixtures in the refrigerator, airtight, in glass.

How to remove swelling

There are many different methods available.

Let's get acquainted with a few of them:

Carry out cosmetic procedures in a beauty salon: mesotherapy (subcutaneously injecting drugs for treatment), cryolifting (short-term exposure to cold on the skin).
Limit the presence of “harmful” foods in your diet, try not to drink various drinks before bedtime.
Follow the required regime. It is required not only to work, but also to rest periodically.
Take care of your face and eyelid skin.
Fight swelling on your own. You can use folk remedies: contrast lotions, compresses, various masks. For them you can use decoctions of chamomile, mint, oak bark and others. Tea compresses with vitamin E are very good.
It is necessary to find out the cause of the disease and analyze the possible causes of swelling. If you suspect kidney disease, heart disease, or allergies, you should consult a doctor.

Of course, the easiest way is to purchase an expensive cream, if funds allow, and quickly eliminate those swellings that do not indicate existing ailments.

But you can prepare the cream yourself using only natural ingredients. This, of course, is a troublesome task, but you can be 100% sure of the naturalness of the cream. You can watch the video below to learn how to prepare one of the creams.

Available means

How to relieve eye swelling at home in 15 minutes? There are several quick ways:

If bags under the eyes suddenly form, 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 cream thick and apply to face for ten minutes; rinse with running water.
Aloe. For this purpose, you can use a plant leaf chilled in the freezer, then leave it in the cold for 5 minutes. Then apply 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 - a teaspoon, mix half a teaspoon of fine salt, spread over the face, leave for 15 minutes, rinse the 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 in it, put it on your 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 by 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 you must take a shower and apply nourishing lotion. For aromatic salt, a smaller amount is sufficient.

Parsley

Parsley is rich in minerals that penetrate into the blood and nourish cells.

Folk remedies for puffiness under the eyes from parsley:

Lotion. Pour boiling water (250 ml) over fresh herbs (1 spoon), leave for 15 minutes. Filter the mixture, apply a warm compress, soaking cotton pads in the solution. If you have a lot of lotion, you can freeze the remainder for future use in the morning.
Mask. Grind a teaspoon of herbs in a mortar, add a spoonful of sour cream, apply to eyelids, leave for 20 minutes. The mask is suitable for daily use.
Lotions. Pour parsley (50 g) with water (0.5 l), boil, leave on fire for 10 minutes, filter. Apply cotton pads to eyelids, repeat about 4 times a day. Wash, apply nourishing cream.
Decoction. Pour a spoonful of parsley into a glass of boiling water, leave for an hour, filter, and add half a glass of lemon juice to the resulting mass. Take the medicine twice a day, 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 well with swelling. Brew a spoonful of herbs in 120 ml of boiling water and leave for about 15 minutes. Moisten a cotton swab in the resulting infusion and soak the desired area of skin.

Treatment of eye swelling at home using chamomile remedy:

Drink. To prepare the drink, mix a teaspoon of chamomile herbs and tea. Then repeat the procedure described in the first option.
Compress. Place chamomile inflorescences in gauze and dip in boiling water for 5 minutes. Take out the bag, cool it, apply it to your eyes. You can use ready-made bags of chamomile flowers. Daily use will relieve not only swelling, but also early wrinkles.
Cubes. Prepare an infusion of chamomile (pour 2 tablespoons of flowers with a glass of boiling water), leave for half an hour, filter, pour into molds, place in the freezer. When you wake up in the morning, wipe your face with a cube of chamomile infusion. Facial care with chamomile-based products will relieve natural swelling and swelling caused by allergies.

Folk remedies

If the appearance of swelling on the eyelids is not associated with chronic diseases, then you can resort to traditional medicine. This approach can eliminate expensive surgical intervention. However, you should first consult with a specialist.

It has now become possible to purchase special patches that also cope with the disease. However, more effective methods are suggested below.

Masks

Various masks often enter the struggle for aesthetics, thanks to which the desired effect can be achieved.

From cucumber

One of the proven methods: grate a small cucumber on a fine or coarse grater, put the mixture in a gauze cloth and apply it to the area around the eye for about 20-25 minutes.