Use Sandalwood for Dark Spots

sandalwood for darkspots

Girls are surrounded by lots of problems, apart from selecting dress, hair style, shoes and accessories; you must keep your face free from annoying dark spots. Like many things, God Almighty had gifted with natural remedies to fade them. Nutrients in sandalwood can efficiently lighten the appearance of dark spots.

Also known as hyperpigmentation, dark spots are often caused by age, hormonal imbalance, unbalanced diet and life style. Because of your busy schedule you can’t reach spas every day to combat dark spots, moreover they’re not recommended by beauty experts as they involve more chemical ingredients.

Sandalwood has prominent space in Indian culture, apart from rituals; sandalwood has been used extensively to obtain supple and radiant skin. Its aroma makes your day and gets you out of stress. Antibacterial and antioxidants activity of this mask restrain infectious bacteria and thwart free radicals.

Rich nutritional profile of sandalwood attracted Indian cosmetic industries, now you can see many beauty products including sandalwood to allure their customers. However, homemade raw sandalwood mask has immense benefits.

  • Prolonged exposure to sun rays affects the production of melanin, which results in dark patches at different places of your skin. Anti-tanning activity of this natural remedy helps to clear complexion and protects from harmful UV rays.
  • Lack of nutritious food and few external factors results in premature aging wrinkles. Topically massaging your face with sandalwood face mask or with its oil will enhance cell regeneration and fade wrinkles.
  • It exfoliates dead cells, impurities and excess oil from the skin making it soft and supple.
  • Chronic skin diseases like acne and eczema can be reduced by anti-inflammatory property of this face mask.
  • Most of the skin disorders like itching, redness, minor burns, blackheads and inflammation can be reduced by sandalwood.

How to Use Sandalwood for Dark Spots?

One of the easiest ways is add some distilled water or rosewater to sandalwood powder and apply the paste over prewashed face.

To make it more effective, you can add other ingredients like milk, turmeric, lime and any essential oil with sandalwood powder.

Blend sandalwood powder with required amount of raw milk in a bowl. Wash your face with lukewarm water and pat dry. Apply the mask all over the face evenly including neck and forehead. Leave it to dry naturally and rinse it off.

Alternatively, you can mix a pinch of turmeric powder with sandalwood powder and milk. You can use this thick paste over acne blemishes as a spot treatment.

Note that excess use of turmeric powder may result in yellow stains on your skin. Anyhow, they will disappear in few hours.

Other natural ingredients that you can blend in this powder are honey, lemon juice and essential oils. Remember to include nutrients in your diet and drink enough water.

Let us know how you’d like to use sandalwood for dark spots.

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Tomato for Skin Whitening

tomato for skin whitening

Your skin protects you from harmful UV rays, impurities, pollutants and other external factors. Spare few minutes to know how to use tomato for skin whitening.

Prolonged exposure to impurities and due to lack of sufficient nutrients, your skin experience many issues including dark spots. Cosmetic creams always promise to deliver flawless and radiant skin, but they fail because of the chemical ingredients in it.

Check your kitchen and you’ll find a bunch of substances that can help healthy functioning of your skin. Tomato face mask is one among them.

Extensively, tomatoes are used for culinary purposes. With its distinct taste and high nutritional value tomatoes fill the missing vitamins in your body.

Benefits of Tomato for Skin Whitening

  • Bleaching effect of this mask lightens dark spots, stretch marks and acne scars.
  • Lycopene is a compound in tomato, which exhibits antioxidant property. These agents thwarts free radicals and restrain infectious bacteria.
  • Nutrients like vitamins A, C and B-complex, fade acne scars, dark patches, enhance collagen production and tighten your skin pores.
  • Assorted qualities of this mask helps to get rid of wrinkles, heal minor burns and hydrate your dry skin.

Without using expensive cosmetic creams you can achieve a glowing skin. (This mask can remove dead cells, impurities and clear complexion. It may not change your skin complexion.) Most of the time, skin turns dark when it gets exposed to sunlight for longer time. Nutrients in tomato mask protect your skin from such external factors and avoid dark spots.

Take fresh tomato and slice it into two halves. Massage gently with one half over your skin for about 10 minutes. Add sugar to use it as face scrub.

Lemon and tomato face mask for skin whitening

Bleaching, acidic and antibacterial properties of lemon combine with tomato to reduce dark patches over your skin. Blend half ripe tomato to obtain smooth puree, add few drops of lemon juice to it and apply it over prewashed face.

Cucumber, tomato and honey face mask

All the ingredients in this mask recipe are renowned to hydrate the skin. You can treat chronic skin disorders like acne and eczema using cucumber and honey. Grind 1/4 cucumber with 1 tbsp of honey and 3 tbsp of tomato puree.

Don’t add ingredients which may trigger allergic reaction in you. Let us know in comments if tomato mask worked for you.

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Coriander Face Mask

coriander face mask

Coriander has extensive health benefits including reduction in cholesterol and healthy functioning of digestive system. Apart from this, you can use this aromatic herb over your skin to make it free from ailments.

Coriander face mask is one of the inexpensive yet effective home available remedies to obtain the radiant skin. It’s a known fact that your skin is the most exposed part of your body. Impurities and pollutants around you get piled over your sensitive skin leading to various cosmetic issues. Dead skin cells and bacteria accompany them resulting in acne or blackheads.

Because of its exceptional benefits cilantro or Chinese parsley is incorporated in many beauty products. As they use refined or processed version of natural ingredients to increase the shelf-life, nutritional level of these products is lower than expected.

Nutrients in unrefined coriander face mask include antioxidants, vitamin C, antiseptic, anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory agents. These properties in this herb helps to restrain free radicals, reduce acne blemishes, lighten acne scars and fasten healing process.

Benefits of Coriander Face Mask

  1. Free radicals in your body damage cell membrane resulting in wrinkles and cosmetic issues. Antioxidant activity residing in this herb fights free radicals.
  2. Acne inflammation can be reduced by anti-inflammatory properties packed in coriander.
  3. acnes bacteria that worsens acne situation can be removed by antibacterial and anti-fungal agents in the face mask.
  4. Vitamin C helps to thwart free radicals and enhance collagen production to fade wrinkles.
  5. Assorted nutrients in this face mask will hydrate your skin and treat pimples, blackheads and lighten wrinkle appearance.

How to Use Coriander Face Mask?

Cleanse your face with water or lukewarm water and pat dry with soft cloth. Blend fresh coriander leaves and add a pinch of turmeric powder to it. Now apply the mixed mask over your face and leave it to dry for about 20 minutes.

Limit the use of turmeric powder to minimize yellow stains on your face.

You can mix other innate ingredients with this herb. But, make sure you avoid ingredients that can trigger allergic reaction.

Coriander and egg mask

Take some fresh coriander leaves, 1 egg white and required amount of finely grounded oats. Grind them to make paste and topically apply it over the face.

Wipe the mask using wet cloth. This face mask will help you to remove dead cells and other impurities off the skin.

To treat blackheads and to lighten acne scars, mix 1 teaspoon of lemon juice to coriander leaves. Wash your face before applying this face mask. Excess use of lemon juice can strip natural oils from your skin, so limit its use.

Other ingredients that you can use with coriander face mask include honey, aloe vera gel and kaolin clay.

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Egg White Mask for Wrinkles

egg white mask for wrinkles

Wrinkles and grey hair is sign of elderly and intelligent person. But, who yearns to have premature wrinkles to project him/her as intelligent? Luckily using egg white mask you can fade wrinkles and achieve flawless skin.

Its unsightly to have a glimpse of wrinkles, so few people goes to an extent of avoiding mirror as they grow. Aging is natural and there is no one who can stop it. Along with your age, your skin and hair losses its enticing looks. The skin’s elasticity starts losing and fine lines appear.

Unfortunately now-a-days due to hectic schedule and alarming pollution, your skin is facing a really issue. Dead cells, impurities and your lack of care resulting in various skin ailments.

Cosmetic industries are not letting this huge demand to bring some profits to their businesses. So they are striving hard to manufacture beauty products that can fade wrinkles and remove impurities. As they use chemical ingredients and refined natural ingredients (which lacks nutritional value) to increase the shelf-life of products, beauty experts don’t recommend it.

On the other side, natural items are packed with nutrients and vitamins that can wipe impurities and fill your skin with required vitamins. Egg white face mask is one such home available remedy to tighten your skin.

How to Use Egg White Mask for Wrinkles?

  • Egg white has less calories and vitamins compared to egg yolk. But the exceptional benefits it can provide for your skin compensate the absence.
  • Astringent activity packed in egg white shrinks skin pores and tightens the skin texture reducing wrinkle appearance.
  • Egg white exhibits lightening feature that clears your impurities and reduce dark spots gradually.
  • Acne and other skin ailments that are associated with oily skin can be restrained by shrinking skin pores.
  • Unwanted facial hair that makes you embarrassing in a party can be removed by this inexpensive face mask.
  • Assorted nutrients in this mask enhance collagen production to make the skin supple and wrinkle free.

Cleanse your face or wash it with lukewarm water. Use soft cloth to pat dry. Break egg and pour its yolk with white liquid in a bowl. Remove egg yolk to use egg white.

Apply egg white mask over the face evenly and let it dry naturally. Rinse it off when it dries. You can use aromatic essential oil to moisturize your face after this face mask treatment.

Egg white, tea tree oil and honey

Whisk egg yolk and add 1 tablespoon of honey, 4-5 drops of tea tree oil to it. After mixing well, apply it over the face and then rinse it off. Add this simple yet effective home remedy to your beauty regimen for positive results.

Egg white and lemon juice

Lemon juice is known to lighten dark spots and treat acne blemishes with its anti-bacterial activity. Mix few drops of lemon juice in a bowl with egg white. Optionally add 1 tablespoon of honey to hydrate your skin.

If you’ve sensitive skin, then don’t use lemon juice.

Avocado, milk, honey and egg white for wrinkles

Take 1 egg white, required amount of avocado, 4 tablespoon raw milk and 1 tbsp of honey. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and apply it over your skin to hydrate it.

Don’t use ingredients that are allergic to your skin.

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DIY Mustard Face Mask

mustard face mask

Homemade face mask always come handy to make your skin supple and wrinkle free. Not just that, you can wipe the impurities off the face using mustard face mask.

Impurities around you are increasing rapidly and by default all of them get settled over your sensitive face. Along with this, your skin alone sheds millions of dead cells that get piled over the skin blocking its pores.

Applaud marketing campaigns of cosmetic industries. Whenever someone speaks about clear and fairer skin first thing strikes our brain is beauty products. Though they claim to give you spotless skin whitening product, facts are far away.

It’s a known fact that these industries use chemicals for fragrance and to increase the shelf-life of their products. Apart from doing well, sometimes these chemical ingredients may trigger allergic reaction on the skin.

How to Use Mustard Face Mask?

mustard and honey face mask

Mustard is prominent condiment in delicious food. You can use this homemade face mask to exfoliate dead cells and hydrate your skin. Like any other natural ingredient, mustard face mask has vitamin E, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and fatty acids.

  • Initially wash your face with lukewarm water and pat dry.
  • Topically apply grainy mustard over the face and massage in circular motion.
  • Alternatively, mix gram flour, lemon juice with mustard oil to make thick paste like consistency. Apply the mask evenly all over the face and leave it to dry naturally.

You can also blend coconut oil and mustard oil in equal proportions and apply it over the face. This application hydrates your skin and treats infectious ailments.

Exceptional nutrients in this mask help to shed dead cells and tighten the skin. Anti-bacterial and anti-fungal activity thwarts infectious bacteria.

Note: Don’t use ingredients that irritate your skin.

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