How to Grow Longer Thicker Eyelashes Naturally

For centuries, batting beautiful long eyelashes was the "come-hither" for awaiting males. Unfortunately, not everyone has longer thicker eyelashes naturally and some women would like a little help to make them that way. There are new medications, once used for glaucoma, that makes the eyelashes grow. If you want to use a natural method of growing lashes, it takes some time since the growing cycle is 4 weeks.

Things You'll Need

• Eye makeup remover
• Petroleum jelly or castor oil
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Gelatin

Instructions

1. Take off your makeup before you go to bed. If you leave mascara on overnight, it makes the lashes more susceptible to breakage and leaves them brittle. Be gentle when you take it off and use an emollient made especially for the eyes.

2. Use a bit of petroleum jelly on your lashes at night to condition them. The petroleum jelly softens the lashes and moisturizes them so they don't break off. As new lashes grow in, this makes your lashes look thicker. Some people use Castor oil on their lashes instead.

3. Make sure you're healthy. Sometimes, a loss of eyelashes result when there's an infection in the eye or eyelid. Mites called demodex folliculorum mites might even infest your eyelashes. Madarosis is also another condition that makes lashes fall out. Even conditions like pituitary deficiency or hypothyroidism cause sparse lashes. If you had long lush lashes at one time and they disappeared, see your doctor.

4. Get healthy with vitamins. Eyelashes are hair and hair needs certain building blocks to grow strong and long. Take a B complex vitamin to feed the hair. Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) helps metabolize protein, the material that makes hair and aids in treating anemia, a condition that causes hair and lash loss. Biotin helps make keratin, the material for your eye lashes. Vitamin A and E help maintain and grow lashes and hair.

5. Use supplements that contain silica. In addition, potassium, manganese, calcium and magnesium work as a team to make eyelashes grow and iron, copper, chromium and iodine help stop the loss of eyelashes. Use sulfur, zinc, silica and copper to strengthen your lashes.

6. Take a gelatin supplement daily. The body needs amino acids to grow any type of hair. Unflavored gelatin taken daily supplies 18 amino acids. Now you know why there's always room for Jell-O.