Your Facial Skin

Your facial skin 

Do you have a soft, smooth, clear, attractive and glowing facial skin ?

If so you are the fortunate one. The beauty of the skin will not last long with the advancing age.Normally, worries, tensions and coupled with the climate effect, many women look aged even in their prime. There are a couple of means to keep up your youthful glow, but the best is to look after your skin and maintain a routine for the skin.

Facial skin is of three types

Normal

Dry 

Oily

Normal skin

Normal skin is one of the best which retains freshness.It requires very light make up, it should be washed with soft water, if the tap water is hard you can soften it by adding little " borax powder" to it.To keep up the glow of your skin, wipe off your make up before going to bed with a good cleansing cream.Do not use make up at least once in a week so as to let your skin breath fresh air.

Dry skin

Dry skin should be protected against wind, sun, and water, it is very sensitive to the weather, and it is prone to wrinkles. Dry skin should not be washed with cold water nor should use any astringent lotion instead, before bed-time after cleansing better to use a good  non- alcoholic freshner which might give some freshness. Diet rich with vitamin A,B,C,D should be taken.

Oily or Greasy skin

This type of skin is prone to pimples and dark shadows, and requires frequent cleansing at least three times a day. Sulphur soap is beneficial. Before retiring to bed clean your face with a good cleansing cream or with unboiled milk. Avoid greasy food and drink at least 6 glasses of water daily. A greasy skin does not require make up, and if skin is left greasy pimple and black heads may appear. Cleansing the pores with steaming once a week is very effective in keeping skin grease less. Use a face pack after steaming.

Home Made Remedies for Complexion Whitening

With home remidies one can make ones complexion clear and fairer, with the following home remedies 

• A paste made out of sandal wood and rose water may be applied every day.

• Turmeric paste combined with sandal wood paste makes your skin noticeably fairer

• Cucumber juice is considered to be an excellent whitener.

• Coconut milk combined with equal quantities of cucumber juice may be applied as often as possible.

• Gently massage coconut water all over face and neck to lighten skin tone.

• De seed and mash grapes, it may be applied liberally over face and neck. This helps to make your skin fairer

• Almonds ground to a paste using rose water or milk is said to make your skin fairer.

• Make a paste using red sandal wood and rose water. This preparation not only whitens your complexion but also helps to fade away scars and blemishes on the skin's surface.
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Few Tips to Postpone Wrinkles

• Wash face with warm water, apply a thin coat of oil, smooth it out with a splash of cold water and blot it with soft cloth.

• Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice into some egg white, beat up the mixture thoroughly. Apply the mixture all over the face, let it dry thoroughly and then rinse it off.

• Daily application of a couple of banana slices to the face and neck will also prevent wrinkles.

• Coat your face thinly with honey and keep it on for 15 minutes. Remove with cotton pads and warm water.

• To protect yourself against harmful and cancer -causing ultra -violet rays of a blazing sun, grind a handful of sesame seeds with some water in a blender, add enough water to cover and blend till you get a milky lotion. Strain this through a piece of gauze and rub the lotion into your skin before going out.

• Onion juice could be very effective against wrinkles. Use the juice of and onion and one teaspoon of honey. Avoid a greasy diet and lastly, avoid stress. But this is the hardest to do. 'Happiness is the best ingredient for keeping young longer'.

Uses of Yoghurt in Beauty treatments

• Yoghurt may be combined with other ingredients to make excellent facial masks.

• Yoghurt is an excellent cleansing, softening as well binding agent. Yoghurt is suitable for all skin types. Hence you can combine yoghurt or buttermilk with other ingredients.

• Yoghurt combined with tomato pulp serves as a good astringent

• Yoghurt with mashed cucumber has a toning and freshing effect.

• When yoghurt is combined with crushed parsley leaves it makes an excellent mask for combination skin.

• Yoghurt mixed with honey, helps dry skin.

• Yoghurt with egg white softens the skin.

• Yoghurt can be combined with equal parts of fuller's earth and diluted with mint juice, and apply as a face mask, and wash it off with warm water after 20 minutes and splash off with cold water.

• All yoghurt based masks, must be first washed off with warm water and finished off with a splash of cold water.

Home made face cleansers

Cleansers can be made at home with out using any chemicals.  Few of the home made face cleansers are mentioned below :
1) Unboiled milk
 The simplest way to clean your skin is by unboiled milk


2)Yogurt and egg mask (cleansing mask)

• One egg white
• 3-5 tblpsn of yohurt

Beat white of egg until stiff, add yoghurt and mix well. Apply and wipe clean using a muslin cloth dipped in hot water followed by the muslin cloth saturated in cold water.
For dry skin add one tspn of honey to the paste

3) Turmeric cleanser mask

• 1 1/2 tspn turmeric powder
• 1 1/2 tblspn of lemon juice

Combine both to make a paste, apply on face and wash of after 10 minutes to 15 minutes

4) Oatmeal cleanser

• 1 Tblspn cucumber juice
• 1 Tblspn oatmeal

Make a paste and apply on face and leave it for 15 minutes. Rinse it off after 15 minutes with cold water.

5) Oatmeal cleanser mask

• 1 tblspn oatmeal
• 1 egg yolk
• Milk

Mix oatmeal with enough milk to make a paste. Beat the egg yolk and blend it with the paste. Apply on the skin for 15 minutes and rinse of with tipid water.
The egg yolk softens the skin and oatmeal helps to cleanse and nourish the skin. For dry skin add a tspn of honey.

6) Kaolin cleanser

• 2 tblspn kaolin
• 2 tblspn cucumber juice

Mix kaolin and cucumber juice and apply on face and wash after 10 to 15 minutes

NOTE : For all the cleansing creams you may add a few drops of perfume of your choice once to mixture has cooled down