Showing posts with label Skin brightening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skin brightening. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 June 2014

Milk Bath for Soft and Smooth Skin

Cleopatra, Elizabeth I of England, Elisabeth of Bavaria, and others have historically acclaimed the beautifying benefits of milk baths.


Milk have lactic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid, to dissolve the proteins which remove dead skin cells. Lactic acid used for anti aging, skin lighting and anti acne, improve your skin texture, remove pigmentation. Milk bath long been used to moisten and soften skin. Milk baths seem to be making a comeback in modern times as well. Many spas are offerring milk bath. But you dont have to spend a lot of money at spa. I am going to tell you the simplest way to do milk bath even daily at home it wont take more time and dont have to spend more money. I hope this will be more help for you.


Things needed


Milk -   1 Cup
Honey - 1/4 cup


Steps to do

Mix milk and honey, apply to the body in circular motion. Rinse after 10 mins and follow your regular bath rotuine. You will feel your skin got soft and smooth.

If you want to spend some more time in milk bath. You can pour this milk mixture & few drops of lavendar oil in your bath tub with warm water soak yourself for 20 mins and bath as usuall

Monday, 9 June 2014

DIY: Beetroot Face Mask for Glowing Skin

Beetroot is stain red color vegetable which is used in face pack and hair packs. Beetroot is rich in antioxidant which help to prevent skin from radicals and anti aging. Beetroot is source of lycopene which helps to maintain skin elasticity and protect skin from sun radiations. The stain of beetroot can be used as natural blush, by slicing it keep it in refrigerate and used it as natural blush. It also can use as lip tint apply beetroot juice to lip will reduce discoloration of lip and regular use of it turns lip into pink naturally. Mixing the beetroot juice to henna mix will give you natural burgundy tint to hair.


By drinking beetroot juice which will remove toxin from blood and purify blood. It will reduce blood pressure. It will help to improve skin complexion and give fairer skin.

Applying beetroot to face which will give radiant glowing skin, reduce wrinkle and reduce aging. I t will reduce pore size and tone the skin.


 

Ingredients:

Beetroot Juice - 2 tsp

Yogurt - 1 tsp

Lime juice - 1 tsp

Fullers earth/ Gram flour - 2 tsp



Method

Grate the beetroot and squeeze the juice, mix Fullers earth/ Gram Flour with Yogurt, lime juice and beetroot juice. Apply the face pack for 10 to l15 mins wash it off. You will get a instant pink, glow and radiant skin. Regular use of this you can improve your skin tone naturally without any chemicals.

Suggested: 2x Week 


Sunday, 8 June 2014

Skin brightening with Rice Powder

Rice powder or flour is a widely known ingredient to treat blemishes, wrinkles and pigmentation. In fact, this ingredient has been used as an anti-aging skin treatment in many Asian countries for centuries. 

High concentration of PABA (para amino benzoic acid) is present in rice, make our skin photosensitive.  It will protect  protect our skin against the harmful UV rays. which acts as a very good sunscreen. Ferulic acid and allantoin present in rice are also sun protecting agents. The ferulic acid is an antioxidant and allantoin is a good anti-inflammatory agent. It helps in repairing the skin and calming down the sunburn too. On topical application, rice powder inhibits tyrosinase which is good for the skin. Besides offering UV protection, rice powder has exfoliating properties and that can help to keep the skin looking brighter. Other than that, rice powder has a chemical structure similar to ceramide, and ceramide increases collagen production to make skin more supple.



Yogurt will reduce scars, brighten the skin, reduce pore size, reduce acne. You can also  mix the rice flour with milk, honey, green tea It’s really your choice of ingredients. Apply on your face and neck and rinse off after 10 minutes.

After washing your face at night apply this rice mask daily followed by toner, moisturizer and night cream.

If you followed this regime daily for 1 month you will notice the difference of your skin tone, you will get clear translucent skin. This rice pack suited for all skin type around the year.