Health Benefits Of Papaya:

Apart from amazing skin care benefits, papaya is also useful when it comes to hair care. According to hair care professionals, the benefits of papaya for hair can be gained by eating the fruit regularly or by the regular use of hair care products containing papaya as its major ingredients. Papaya can also help in creating the volume by nourishing the hair shaft. Other papaya benefits for hair are listed below:

1. Rich in nutrients, papaya may help prevent balding, thus helping boost growth and strength of the hair. 

2. Papaya is also used for controlling dandruff.

3. Add papaya to your daily diet to help reduce hair thinning. Although no scientific evidence has been derived with this theory, but still many people have tried and found it worthy. Results may vary from individual to individual.
4. Papaya being rich in minerals, vitamins and enzymes also helps in removing the dirt, oil and chemical build up from the hair in a very safe way.

5. Papaya leaf extracts can be used as a conditioner for adding shine to dull, unruly and lifeless hair.

6. Using of papaya hair mask can result into thick, strong, shiny and healthy hair. 

How to Use:

This papaya hair mask will help you add thickness, strength and shine to your hair.

Ingredients: 

• 1 cup diced ripe papaya
• 1 cup diced ripe banana
• 1 tbsp molasses
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 cup yogurt

Directions:

• Blend all the ingredients together thoroughly. Take care that no chunks remain after blending
• Apply to damp hair
• Cover with a plastic cap or shower cap
• Allow it to stand for half an hour
• Now wrap a towel around your cap to generate heat
• Again leave it for another half an hour
• Now wash your hair in your  regular way
• It is optional to add your favorite deep conditioner to this recipe to get super soft hairs

Now that we have seen how Papaya is beneficial for the hair, lets discuss about the medicinal uses and how it helps cure many problems.

Health Benefits Of Papaya:

Papaya benefits are not just limited to skin and hair care. Several researches conducted on papaya also showed a lot of its medicinal properties. Many scientists have successfully concluded that papaya is beneficial for health related problems and some diseases too. Let’s find out what else papaya can do other than benefiting skin and hair.

1. Papaya acts as an antidote for hypertension. This is one of the most popular health benefits of papaya. The rich amount of potassium in papaya helps keeping the blood pressure in check along with improving the mental alertness.

2. Another of the most important papaya health benefit is that can help improve eyesight. Consuming 3 or more servings per day may keep your eyesight normal, along with improving and lowering the primary cause of vision loss in older adults.

3. Papaya also helps in boosting the immunity system of our body. The presence of Beta-carotene in papaya is required for the proper functioning and boosting of the immune system.

4. Papaya also prevents the body from recurrent ear infections, cold and flu.

5. Papaya also provides protection against heart diseases. As it is rich in nutrients too, it helps in preventing the oxidation of cholesterol, which helps preventing the cause of heart attacks or strokes.

6. Papaya can also heal external wounds. The pulp of this fruit can be applied directly on the wounds.

7. Papaya is also able to cure chronic ulcers on skins. All you need to do is to take papaya juice and mix some butter in it. Apply it on the affected area for quick drying and healing of long standing ulcers.

8. If one suffers from respiratory disorders like cough, bronchitis and breathlessness, then papaya can be helpful as it contains latex which is useful in the respiratory disorders.

9. Papaya despite being sweet in taste is also good for diabetic patients.

10. Papaya can also help you from cancer. Papaya’s fiber is able to bind to cancer-causing toxins in the colon, thus keeping them from harming healthy colon cells.

So we saw how papaya is good for health too. Till now we were talking about the papaya fruit, ripe papaya, mashed papaya and papaya peels. Now we will discuss about the benefits of its juice and also find out how it is helpful to us.

These are the numerous skin, hair and health benefits provided by papaya and its juice. Though the results are not instant, once they are achieved, they are permanent. Papaya indeed is a fruit of the angels, as it protects every possible body part and provides positive visible results.The uses of papaya are simple outstanding in number and efficac