A HERBAL tea visibly improved one woman’s hair and skin when she began to routinely drink it. She revealed that she buys the miraculous tea in bulk and uses a special method to make it. The woman raved about the tea in a post on Reddit’s Beauty forum, which has over 929,000 members.
She wrote in response to a user who was curious to find out about the beauty secrets other Redditors swear by. “Nettle infusions,” the woman, who has since deleted her account said. “I drink them by the pint.
“It cleared up my skin, my hair got thicker, my nails got healthier, and I just feel better.” The beauty enthusiast said Starwest Botanicals on Amazon is her favorite place to buy nettles in bulk. She said urtica dioica, commonly known as stinging nettles, tastes “very much like green tea.
” She uses a “heaping tablespoon per cup of cold or hot water,” when drinking the tea. However, the nettles have to be prepared hours in advance. “Cold water let steep for at least 12 hours in the fridge (I make it by the 1/2 gallon) and strain it out,” she said.
“Hot water let it sit until lukewarm or you can put it in the fridge and steep it overnight like with cold water.” Many people upvoted the post and said they wanted to try the tea to improve their own appearance. The woman replied to a commenter suggesting that the tea may also help to slow the signs of aging on the skin.
“I found an overall reduction in redness, but nettles are also full of the nutrients that help re.