We all have heard of granny using kitchen items to maintain her skin. These natural remedies have become all the more important because of environmental pollution that affects our skin. This article will give you some simple, yet effective natural treatments for skin.
Honey makes your facial skin look radiant and smooth. Oatmeal has minerals which will help your skin in fighting exposure to sun and environment. It is very easy to use. Take one or two tbsp of oatmeal and add an equal amount of honey to it and put in a grinder to make a smooth paste. Apply it on your face and neck. Keep it on till it dries or say approximately for 15 minutes. Wash it with fresh water to find soft skin underneath.
Mix the juice of cucumber in equal quantity of honey and apply it twice a day. Keep it for 5 to 10 minutes and wash your face after that. It is best to use it after you are back from outside and at night before retiring to bed.
Yogurt is a natural cleanser and moisturizer. It has been popular with the women of yore. They would use it on their face, neck and arms to get a smooth and glowing skin. To add more benefit to it, you can put black gram flour (besan) and a tsp of honey. Apply it on your body, keep it for 5 to 10 minutes, rub it well before washing it off. The roughness of gram flour will act as a gentle scrubber and remove the dead skin cells.
Put them in a glass bottle, shake well and use every night. A really easy, inexpensive and wonderful moisturizer for you. Fresh lime cleanses the skin, rose water tones the skin and glycerin acts as a moisturizer.
Now take a tbsp of baking soda, moist it and rub it gently on the skin in circular motion. It will remove the blackheads and the dead cells. Wash it off and the skin that comes out will be supple and clear.
Milk is a wonderful skin cleanser. Try it and you will not use anything else. You should use fresh unboiled milk for the maximum benefit. For reducing blemishes use milk in combination with a bit of fresh lemon juice and cucumber juice. All three clear the skin naturally.
You do not have to worry about the smell of the egg. Egg white does not leave any smell. It is the yolk that has an unpleasant smell.
Tomato juice and curd can be mixed in equal quantity. Apply this everyday, rub it for 2 minutes and wash it off. Tomato juice is acidic in nature, hence is helpful in removing oil from the skin.
Mix 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder in two tbsp of yogurt and apply it on your face or body. Rub it for sometime say for 5 to 10 minutes. Wash it with fresh water. This is great to reduce skin tan and enhance the softness of the skin.
Strain this water and keep aside. Apply a paste of sandalwood on your face for about 10 to 15 minutes. Wash it with the neem water, do not rinse it with fresh water for some time.
The stubborn black heads refuse to go away easily. Make a paste of rice flour and sour curd. Rub it on your face for 10 to 15 minutes. The rice flour should be fine one and not coarse, you may put it through the sieve if required. By now the black heads would have dislodged. Wash it with fresh water. Black heads will go away completely after a few treatments.
You can wash it with moist gram flour (besan). Milk cream will moisturize and nourish your skin and gram flour will act as a cleanser. The best time to use it at night.
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