Our skin becomes dull and damaged as we age. Our diet and lifestyle habits reflects on our skin. Unhealthy eating habits can make our skin dull. If you really care for your skin then you need to keep a close eye on what you eat and how you spend your day.
Healthy lifestyle requires exercise, stress free life, sound sleep, eating fruits and vegetables, staying hydrated and avoiding junk, alcohol, smoking.
Here you are going to know how to make yours skin free from dullness and make your skin relive again.
Home Remedies To Get Rid Off Dull skin
1. Sugar To Exfoliate
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Sugar is not good for your health but it acts as an excellent remedy for your dull skin. Take tea spoon of brown sugar and white sugar each. Give it a nice mix by pouring few drops of water. Now apply this on your face and give a massage in circulation motion. Leave it for few minutes and then wash with water. This remedy exfoliates your skin and remove dead skin cells.
2. Honey
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Honey is one of the natural ingredient that has got skin lightening properties as it is anti oxidant, anti inflammatory and anti septic in nature. Honey can be used in many ways, some of them are as follows.
- Mix a tea spoon of honey along with a tea spoon of lemon juice in it and apply it on your face. Give it a gentle massage and leave it for few minutes before washing.
- Take 3 table spoon of honey, 2 table spoon of finely powdered oats and one egg yolk. Make a paste of it and apply it on your face. allow it to dry and then wash it.
- Take 2 table spoon of honey and mix it with half a tea spoon of cinnamon in it. Apply this on your face and leave it for 5-10 minutes.
3. Lemon
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Lemon can prevent premature ageing as it contains vitamin C. It can even brighten the skin due to the presence of citric acid. You can use lemon for internal and external purpose as well. Drink a glass of lemon juice every day morning, apply lemon juice on your face and neck. You can even rub the lemon peel on your skin.
4. Almonds
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Almonds are not only good for your memory but for your skin too. Eating handful of almonds daily can be helpful in making your skin free from dullness. Almond oil is best to moisture your skin and make it soft and smooth. You can even apply almond face pack by grinding few almonds, mix a little milk to make a paste. Apply this on your skin and leave it for about 10-15 minutes and then wash.
5. Coconut oil
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Coconut oil is the best remedy to hydrate the skin and make it look fresh as it removes the dead skin cells. the anti oxidants present on coconut oil will heal the damaged skin and prevents premature aging. Massage your face and neck with coconut oil daily. You can even mix a bit of honey in coconut oil and give a nice massage on your face.
6. Cucumber And Orange
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Cucumber has hydrating properties while orange supplies anti oxidants, when these two are combined together, it can do wonders to your skin. Apply cucumber juice on your face to get rid of dark spots. You can even make a scrub by mixing two table spoon of cucumber juice, two table spoon of orange juice and a table spoon of rice flour. Apply this on your face to exfoliate your skin.
Additional tips
- Drink lots of water and juices to stay hydrated.
- Avoid sleeping and waking up late.
- Avoid junk food
- Restrict alcohol intake
- Eat right
- Workout regularly
- Moisturize your skin
