With regard to fruits, mangoes are commonly eaten especially at the period of the year when summer season is being experienced. You can wait for it to ripen and have a yellow and soft texture or consume using the green one as well. It is not only tasty but also has a place in skin treatments regimes and therapeutic practices that involve raw mango. That’s the words of my mom! It is taken internally and orally as a home remedy to help in attaining clear and beautiful skin through the nutrients and antioxidants found in the fruit.

Raw mangoes are rich in vitamin C in its large amount, the current research in the Nutrients journal suggested in 2017. It is needed in your body to synthesise collagen, the protein that forms skin and makes it smooth and full, giving you a glamorous look. Eating raw mango poses a potential way of getting the nutrient required by the body to maintain young looks.

Another element of raw mango is water and since skin is a significant body organ, these fruits help a lot in hydrating it. Dry skin is rough, and the skin cells are also flat and look so because the cells of healthy hydrated skin are round and tightly packed. It is believed that eating raw mangoes or even applying its pulp directly to your face as a face mask in the form of homemade scrub could help with your daily water intake and therefore skin hydration from within, according to an Ayurveda expert.

A 2022 published article from the Antioxidants journal established that the consumption of raw mangoes increases the body’s antioxidant levels of vitamins A and E. These antioxidants fight with free radicals which are hazardous compounds that are damaging skin cells and hence leading to wrinkle formation and early ageing . Raw mangoes may assist off,’using up’ the free radicals and preventing your skin from being under attack from an environment.

Raw mangoes can be used to help clear the skin because it has astringent properties that are good for sucking out the excess oil in a person’s skin. It also claims that the astringent property of this mask is effective in tightening pores and regulating sebum production that may minimise the formation of pimples and blackheads according to the beauty expert.

Raw mangoes contain malic acid, and even though this component contributes to glowing, the results are not very noticeable. Malic acid may also help in exfoliation to get rid of the sun-dead skin leading to improved better skin tone and luminosity, according to the Journal of Drugs Dermatology article published in December 2013.