Once you had a clear, luminous complexion, but now mysterious dark spots have crept up, ruining your mood. But beautiful, spot-free skin is within reach. As women, having “a love for our looks” is one of our special privileges.
A Map of Dark Spots
There are also cases where dark spots on a woman’s face are caused by internal bodily factors. The experts consulted by Jiaodian magazine have provided our readers with a simple reference chart:
The hairline and forehead are often related to female hormone imbalances or endocrine disorders.
The eyelids are common for those with frequent pregnancies, abortions, or female hormone imbalances.
The area around the eyes is linked to uterine issues, repeated miscarriages, and emotional instability from hormone fluctuations.
The cheeks often appear in those with liver problems, menopausal women, and those with weakened adrenal function.
The temples, eye corners, and areas around the thyroid, pregnancy, nervousness, and severe emotional trauma can also cause discoloration.
The area under the nose is common for ovarian disorders.
Around the mouth often appears in those who overeat.
The jawline is typical of excessive vaginal discharge and other gynecological conditions.
Dietary Remedies to Fade Dark Spots
White Ginkgo, Milk, and Pear Soup
Ingredients: 10g white ginkgo, 5 white chrysanthemum flowers, 3 Asian pears, 200ml milk, 10ml honey.
Preparation: Shell and peel the ginkgo, wash the chrysanthemum flowers and take the petals, wash and dice the Asian pear.
Benefits: This nourishing soup combining the lung-clearing and skin-moisturizing properties of white ginkgo, chrysanthemum, pear, and nutrient-rich milk can help fade dark spots, cleanse the skin, and hydrate. It’s especially good for women with dry, dull skin from yin deficiency.
Serving: Consume as desired.
Complexion-Enhancing, Spot-Fading Soup
Ingredients: 10 quail eggs, 3 strawberries, 60g Job’s tears, 10g mistletoe, 4 red dates, 12g Chinese yam, 15g longan, white sugar to taste.
Preparation: Simmer the mistletoe, red dates, and Chinese yam in 8 cups of water for 1 hour, then strain and reserve the broth. Add the cooked quail eggs, Job’s tears, longan, and halved strawberries, then season with white sugar.
Benefits: This nourishing soup can hydrate, smooth wrinkles, and fade dark spots. Regular consumption can leave skin glowing, radiant, and youthful.
Serving: Enjoy with meals.
Lemon and Pear Juice
Ingredients: 100g tomatoes, 1 lemon, 1 Asian pear.
Preparation: Peel the tomatoes, dice the lemon and pear, then blend into a juice.
Benefits: Lemon juice is extremely high in vitamin C, up to 22mg per 100g. Tomatoes also contain vitamin C and glutathione, both of which can inhibit melanin production and brighten skin. Pear has cooling and hydrating properties. Regularly drinking this can whiten the skin and fade discoloration.
Serving: Drink the full batch 3-5 times per week.
Peach Blossom and Pork Knuckle Beauty Porridge
Ingredients: 1g dried peach blossoms, 1 pork knuckle, 100g short-grain rice, salt, soy sauce, ginger, scallions, sesame oil, MSG to taste.
Preparation: Toast and grind the peach blossoms into a fine powder. Rinse the rice. Scrub the pork knuckle clean, cut the meat and skin from the bone, then simmer the parts until very soft, removing the bones. Add the rice and peach blossom powder to the pork broth and continue simmering into a porridge. Season with salt, soy sauce, ginger, scallions, sesame oil, and MSG.
Benefits: This porridge is nourishing, promotes lactation, beautifies the complexion, and invigorates the blood. It’s great for women with dark spots, and new mothers can use it to boost milk supply, clear postpartum stagnation, fade spots, and hydrate the skin. But it’s not suitable for those with heavy menstrual bleeding.
Serving: Enjoy every other day, in multiple servings.
