Homemade Facial Kit with Kitchen Ingredients

MABH 400 Followers Celebration Contest Entry Post 5 by Chand

Facial is one of the most important skin care regime. Facial massage treatment helps blood circulation, skin elasticity, reducing age wrinkles and increase skin glow. It also retains the moisture in the skin. Facial massage is the best method to get rid of black heads and white heads.

There are so many facial kits in the market. Many kits perform well and are very efficient on the skin. Yet, there is something more efficient and worth believing in its performance on the skin. All the items from your very own kitchen shelf make into a great facial kit.

I usually follow the kitchen shelf items facial massage routine. My Facial Kit comprises of

•         Milk
•         Milk cream
•         Crushed almond powder
•         Tomato juice
•         Few drops of honey

Done. These items are readily available at any point of time in any body’s kitchen.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

Step 1: Cleanse & Massage

Milk forms an excellent skin cleanser. Massage a spoon of milk on to your face for about 2 minutes and wipe it off with a wet cotton or tissue. Milk cream forms a great massage cream. The hydration it provides to the skin is excellent. I take a coin size of amount of the milk cream to massage my facial and neck. (Yes, do not forget to massage your neck as well.) Massage for about 10 minutes. [Editors Note: This process provides hydration to the skin and also cleanses the dirt, makeup residues and dust effectively]

Step 2: Scrub

My scrub is the almond powder. It is a perfect scrub granule for the skin. It is not harsh on the skin. Since it is mild scrub, scrubbing can be carried on even up to 10 minutes. But lazy, I do the scrubbing only for 5 minutes.

Step 3:  Steam

After the scrubbing I give a hot steam treatment for my face and neck. I use a vaporizer for this method. A thick towel dipped into hot water and drained can also be used for this treatment.

Step 4: Facial Pack Treatment

A pack on the face will complete the facial treatment. I usually prefer a thin layer of the face pack on my face and neck. So, I use 3 spoons of tomato juice, 3 drops of honey and quarter spoon of almond powder. If you need a thick paste, reduce the amount of tomato juice and increase the amount of almond powder. Apply evenly on face and neck and wash after the pack dries.

There….. You have saved lots of your hard earned money.

Editor's Note: That's a fabulous post Chand. I am surely trying this facial soon. 

So how about you girls? Leave your feedback below.

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Exfoliate at Home For Brighter Complexion

Even toned healthy skin is the key to flawless beautiful face. But even world beauties needs some makeup and touch ups to cover their uneven skin. Uneven skin is caused due to improper maintenance, unhealthy diet and mainly because of the hyper pigmentation. Melanin is a pigment that our skin cells contain as the colouring substance, less counting in some areas and concentrated in some areas of the skin. For example, dark people's skin contain more melanin pigments while comparing to the pale ones. It is not that pale people are beautiful than the dark ones. Dark beauties with a flawless glowing skin beats white dull skins. Whatever your skin type may be, it must be clear to be beautiful. Due to some unhealthy practices and the main enemy sun, the skin color differs which causes uneven skin tone and dullness. As skin is the largest organ of our body, it is much exposed to sun, dirt and other pollution. Harmful UV rays damages your skin and increases the uneven melanin production. In this post, let us discuss about some natural exfoliating scrub recipes that can even out skin and brighten your complexion.

Why to Exfoliate?

The first thing you should go for is exfoliation when it comes to getting clear and beautiful skin. Regular exposure to sun, dirt and pollution, improper skin maintenance causes uneven dull skin. A layer of dead cells covers the surface of your skin and makes it look lifeless and dull. Dark or pale, a uneven skin is not beautiful at all. A perfect skin should be smooth, shiny and glowing, not the one covered up with dead cells, scars and bumps. Hence, exfoliation the first step when it comes to beautiful brighter skin. You can use some natural exfoliating scrubs from the kitchen! Yes. your own kitchen. You may or may not realize, but some natural ingredients from your kitchen can remove all your dead cells. I will list you few recipes as per your skin type. Choose wisely and say goodbye to those dead cells.

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Exfoliating Scrub Recipes from your Kitchen

 

For Oily Skin

1. Rice flour mixed with butter milk can act as an excellent facial exfoliating scrub. This removes all the dead skin cells, as well as the extra oiliness. Mix both to form a cream, apply it over your facial skin and scrub gently with your finger tips. After 3-4 minutes, wash off your face with clean and cold water. Pat dry.
2. You can also replace grounded oats for the rice powder. Add some diluted lime juice and butter milk to the oats. Blend well. A quick 2 minute scrub is ready now!
3. Take 2 teaspoons of orange peel powder, mix rosewater to make a paste. Workout on your face with your finger tips scrubbing gently. Splash fresh water and wash off. This scrub not only removes the dead skin cells but also improves the complexion.

For Dry Skin

Unlike the oily skin types, dry skins should be exfoliated in a very gentle way. Dry skins are easily prone to loose excess moisture and so, no moisture removing exfoliating scrubs should be used on your skin. 

1. Almond should be grounded, not to a thin paste, the mixture should be granulated for the exfoliating effect. With this almond granules mix some milk cream and start scrubbing your cleansed face. After 5 minutes, wash off your face with cold water and moisturize. 
2. Grounded oats mixed with honey and olive oil can also be used as an excellent dry skin exfoliater.
3. Khus Khus is an excellent source of Vitamin E, a skin friendly vitamin. Mix this with honey and rose water to prepare your exfoliating scrub in seconds. This can be used in alternate days to achieve even and brighter skin tone.

Normal to Oily and Normal to Dry skins should make some adjustments in these scrubbing recipes. As you observe, ingredients like milk, honey and oils are for dry skin types and the rice flour, lime juice are for oily skinned beauties. For exfoliating the body skin, get the loofah! So adjust your exfoliating scrub recipes and use it to get that parlour effect! A clean and clear skin is totally yours if you take a resolution to scrub gently twice every week.

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Skin Benefits of Red Sandalwood

Hello Everyone! Today I am going to share with you all, few amazing skin benefits of red sandalwood powder.  I got a small pack of red sandalwood powder from my uncle and wanted to post its effective skincare uses here. When googled about red sandal, I happened to know that it acts as a good natural skincare product which helps our skin to get rid of many skincare issues. I used it to even out my skin, remove tan and vanish acne scars. Red sandalwood has skin lightening and anti-gaining properties abundantly. It fights wrinkles and fine lines to give a glowing young skin. For past one month I am using red sandal in many ways to help my skin get rid of some problems and now let us check what they are :)

Red Sandalwood Powder

Red Sandalwood Skincare Recipes

• The powder should be mixed with tomato juice and used as a face pack to remove tan and lighten skin naturally. This also removes acne and dark spots effectively with regular use.
  
• Dry skinned people, mix red sandalwood with milk and honey. Spread this cream over you face and neck and wash off with cold water after 20 minutes.
  
• Mix the red sandal wood powder with rice powder with required water to use as a facial exfoliating scrub. After applying the paste over your skin gently scrub in circular motion with finger tips. Wash off. It helps clearing out even those stubborn blackheads.
  
• To remove scars and to tighten the wrinkles mix red sandalwood powder with cabbage juice and use as your face pack.
  
• Red sandalwood powder can be combined with your bath massage oil to improve the tone and texture of your skin
  
• Add two-three pinches of red sandalwood powder to your regular homemade/store bought face pack. There you are done adding some magical ingredient to boost up the face pack results!
  
• Dilute red sandalwood with water and spray this over your body to reduce excess body heat. This process not only balances the body heat, but also helps prevent skin infections.

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Winter Fairness Facial Scrub

Winter has started! We need something special to take care of our skin. Many of us may be afraid of using scrubs and peels to eliminate the dead skills as they may make our skin even more dry in winter. This dryness causes breakouts and tight skin. With few natural remedies, we can scrub our face and body at home without making skin rough or dry. This scrub exfoliates the skin and also nourishes it, which makes a good skin nourishment in winter. I recommend everyone to follow this scrub recipe at home to get a peacock feather like soft and shiny skin. This would be the perfect scrub to try during a spa day while you let Article Writing Services write content for your site. Leave your comments after trying! Good luck everyone! :)

INGREDIENTS

• Oats
• Lemon Juice
• Tomato Puree (paste)
• Honey
• Almonds
• Rose water

METHOD

• Grind little amount of oats to make it a powder. The powder shouldn't be too fine, If fine powdered it will loose the scrubbing effect.
• Soak almonds overnight or few hours in water and peel off the skin. Smoothly paste it and keep aside.
• Now, mix the pasted almonds with oats powder, lemon juice, tomato puree, honey and rose water. Blend this mixture well to make a thick paste.
• Cleanse your face and neck, apply this paste over the surface of your skin evenly and leave it to work for 15 minutes. You can also use this pack on your body skin to eliminate the dead cells and rejuvenate the skin.
• After the scrub dries, wet your fingers with water and tap your face to loosen the pack. Massage the skin gently with your finger tips in a circular motion. This process scrubs the skin and removes all the dirt and impurities from the deep layer.
• After the scrubbing process is complete, wash your face with lots of clean and cold water. Pat dry.

USAGE : This scrub recipe should be followed at least once in a week. If this scrub is used twice a week, it will give astonishing results on your skin soon.

RESULTS OF THIS PACK

• Lemon and tomato juice extracts naturally bleaches the skin and lightens it. It removes the suntan also.
• Oats exfoliates the skin while almond paste and honey nourishes the skin, preventing it from dryness.
• This scrub recipe fades scars, black spots and also cures acne bumps. It's really effective to get CLEAN and CLEAR skin. It also vanishes wrinkles!
• Honey also has skin whitening properties which gives a instant radiant glowing skin.
• Rose water softens the skin and gives you a baby like skin. This pack is an excellent winter scrub pack. If your skin is oily then you can avoid HONEY.

Good luck :) :)

Enjoy the lovely winter!! Chill.... :)

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Get Soft Hands Overnight

Hey how are you all? Today I am gonna post an interesting natural home treatment which we can do at our home to soften hands overnight. I do this every week to maintain my palms soft and flawless. I hope this post will be useful, leave your comments after trying this at home!

MY HAND (PALM)

INGREDIENTS

• Loofah pad
• Sugar
• Olive oil or Almond oil
• Milk
• Vaseline

METHOD

• The first thing I do is exfoliation. This process removes the dead skin cells from the rough outer layer of the skin. I use baking soda to exfoliate my hands. It is very simple, mix baking soda with water to make a paste. Wash your hands and apply this paste all over your hands. Scrub with loofah pad for 5 minutes. Leave on the mixture for 15 minutes and wash off.

• The next process is nourishing, I use olive or almond oil to nourish my skin because they have lots of Vitamin E. To get a gentle scrubbing effect, I add sugar with the oil and massage my hands with this mixture for 10 minutes. The essential oil adds moisture and nourishes the skin while the sugar acts as a gentle scrub to remove dead cells.

• Wash your hands thoroughly with water and wipe with a towel. Now apply milk over your hands and let the skin absorbs the milk for at least 10 minutes. Wash off with clean cold water. This is the main process which softens the skin.

• And finally, apply a good moisturizer, cold cream or Vaseline over your hands. Wear cotton gloves and sleep. It's really a magic! You would be surprised to see your soft, smooth and bright hands in the morning! :) :)

Don't forget to write back to me after trying this! Good luck friends! :)

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Citrus Fruits for Glowing Young skin

Fruits are nature's gift. They help us in many ways. They enhance our health and beauty, they are easy to digest, they are sweet and delicious and available throughout the year. Everyone should practice them self to eat seasonal fruits to delay the skin aging process and maintain good skin health. Citrus fruits do best for your skin and overall beauty!
This day, I am gonna list out few important facts about Citrus fruits, which will make you a lemon lover thereafter. Read carefully and follow the fruit diet and skin care regimen for healthy body and glowing skin!

CITRUS FRUITS

One of the best variety of fruits I like is citrus fruits. They include lemons, oranges and sweet limes. These are magical fruits that are capable of enhancing our inner and outer beauty. Few of the uses of these fruits are..

• DIET : Daily intake of citrus fruits makes you stay young forever as it consists a lot of Vitamin C. They produce and protects collagen in our body which are meant for the elasticity of your skin, thus the fine age lines and wrinkles are prevented. Citrus fruits take a main part in the daily diet of every model to keep them young forever. So, include lemons and oranges in daily diet to reduce your age and stay beautiful!

• WRINKLE FREE GLOWING SKIN : Outer application of juices from these fruits makes your skin glow like a diamond. You can use lemon juice or orange juice to bleach your skin naturally for good lightening effect and dark spots removal at home. Follow this procedure once in a week to say goodbye to wrinkles and dull skin.

• HAIR CONDITIONER : Lemon juice mixed with curd can act as an effective hair conditioner for soft and shiny hair. It also removes dandruff and maintains the beauty of your hair.

• DARK PATCHES : Orange or lemon juice, when applied over the darker parts of knees and elbows gradually removes the dark patches and dead cells with regular use.

• EXFOLIATING BODY SCRUB : Peels of these fruits can be used as an excellent face or body scrub and their benefits are more than the chemical scrubs we do in parlor, wasting our money. Dry the orange, lemon or sweet lime peels and powder them. Store this powder in an air tight container. Mix curd with this powder to make a paste and use this as an exfoliating body scrub every other week. This gives you a most beautiful skin which is clean and clear without any blemishes. You would be the most beautiful person among your friends and family!

Good luck. Try out these tips and write your feedback to me !

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Whitening Body Scrub at Home

Our skin gets damaged day by day due to UV rays and pollution. Our inner health also affects the skin and makes it looks lifeless and dull. We all should first take care of our inner health, should purify blood by drinking more water, should increase fruit and vegetable intake in order to achieve healthy glowing skin. Few homemade skin recipes can also remove long time sun tan gradually, removes dirt and dust from deep and gives a flawless skin. Today I am gonna write here about an effective BODY SCRUB recipe which lightens skin, which we can prepare within few minutes from your kitchen items :) Read below

OATS LIGHTENING BODY SCRUB (Removes tan, rejuvenates and lightens skin) 
 

INGREDIENTS

• Oats - Half cup
• Tomato puree - Half cup
• Curd/yogurt - 1 tablespoon
• Lime juice - 2 teaspoons
• Honey - 2 teaspoons

METHOD

• Grind oats to powder in a mixer. It shouldn't be powdered finely because it will lose the scrubbing effect if it is smooth and fine.

• Mix tomato puree (Pasted raw tomato) and lime juice with this oats powder and blend well.

• Finally add the curd and honey. Mix well to form a smooth paste. If the mixture is too thick, you can add some rose water to it but keep in mind the paste shouldn't be too thin.

• Our body scrub mixture is ready now! :)

HOW TO APPLY

• After taking a shower, or finishing your bath apply this paste allover your body over the clean and wet skin surface. (Can also be used on face)

• Allow it to sit there for 10 minutes. (Skin absorbs the ingredients and rejuvenate)

• Now scrub your body with a LOOFAH pad (Available in super markets) gently over the thinner skin areas and rough over the knees and elbows. Scrub well for 10 minutes. If you don't prefer to use a loofah, you can also scrub with your fingers for a mild scrubbing effect. But loofah works really best to lighten the skin and remove tan :)

• Once the scrubbing process is complete, rinse your body with clean and cold water thoroughly. Pat dry with clean cotton towel. That's it :)

RESULTS

You can see instant results, your skin becomes more soft,smooth and radiant after this scrubbing bath. Following this scrubbing procedure once or twice in a month will remove all the sun tan, improves overall complexion and offers you a flawless radiant skin within fewer uses :) :)

Feel free to submit your doubts and feedback :) All the best for your glowing skin!

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HOMEMADE FAIRNESS BATH POWDER

As it is winter, many of us need a good moisturizing soap which doesn't make our skin dry,dull and rough like other soaps available in the market. Everyone needs to take care of their skin in winter as the humidity in the air dries out the skin and makes it lifeless. I use DOVE soap, but I wanted to try something different that doesn't dries out the skin, also clears out scars and blemishes for overall soft and smooth body skin. I consulted my beautician for an excellent HOMEMADE NATURAL BATHING POWDER which does miracles to your skin. It improves the skin texture, skin tone and complexion. It evens out overall complexion that gives a perfect body skin like a model! Read below.

INGREDIENTS

1. ORANGE PEELS 100 gm

( Naturally bleaches skin)

2. NEEM LEAVES 100 gm

( Removes bacteria which cause acne)

3. TULSI (Holy basil) LEAVES 100 gm
( Makes skin smooth and soft, removes dark spots)

4. TURMERIC POWDER 30 gm
( Removes fine hairs over body and improves skin tone)

5. ROSE PETALS 100 gm

( Gives a wonderful flavor to skin and controls sweat)

6. CHANNA DHALL 200 gm

( Scrubs skin to give clear fair skin)

7. GREEN GRAM 250 gm

( Prevents skin from drying and cleanses it well)

8. MULTANI MITTI 100 gm

(Eliminates acne and removes excess oil and dirt)

PROCEDURE

1. Spread all the items (Except Turmeric powder and Multani mitti) in separate plates and allow it to dry in shade until the items lose all the moisture.

2. When the mixture is dry completely, powder the items separately and mix the all powders finally. Store this mixture in a air tight container. Homemade Bath powder is ready !

HOW TO USE

• Take 2 table spoons of bath powder in a small bowl.
• Add water or rose water to it to make a smooth paste.
• Wet your face and body, and apply this paste over your skin, gently scrub with your finger tips and massage with circular motion. Use a LOOFAH to scrub for double results on your skin!
• Rinse off completely with clean water. It cleanses out dirt and improves the skin textures.

This powder can be used instead of soaps to achieve a great looking skin allover the body ! It gives you flawless fair skin in weeks :) I recommend this bath powder to everyone.

NOTE: This powder can also be used as a skin lightening face pack. It removes dark spots, pimples and gives a glowing complexion.

Try this BATH POWDER recipe at home and write your feedback to me :) :)

Good luck friends !

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EXFOLIATING BODY SCRUB FOR SMOOTH SKIN

Daily usage of soap while bathing is not just enough to remove the dead skin cells from the surface of our body skin. The dead skin layer gives skin a dull look. At least once in 15 days we should do a perfect exfoliating body scrub, especially after rinsing our body after bath. The scrub naturally conditions the skin and gives soft, smooth and blemish free skin. There are many exfoliating scrubs available in the market, but we always doubt that chemicals may harm our skin. No worries! We can make our own scrub at home with SUGAR. Sugar is a natural exfoliating scrub that does wonders to the skin :)

SUGAR BODY SCRUB (For soft, smooth and blemish free skin)

INGREDIENTS

1. Sugar
2. Lemon Juice
3. Honey

Here's how..

• Mix all the ingredients well to make our Exfoliating body scrub.
• After bathing (With good soap or body wash), Apply this scrubbing mixture allover body in wet skin.
• Gently scrub with your finger tips. You can also use a LOOFAH pad to scrub, for better results.
• Scrub for at least 15 minutes (Harder on knees and elbows, softer on thin skin and sensitive areas)
• After finishing the scrubbing process, Take a shower which rinses out the scrub mixture completely :) Scrubbing is done.

RESULTS

• Instantly gives soft, visibly smooth and radiant skin.
• It removes all the dead skin cells, thus the complexion is improved.
• No harsh chemicals, so we can even use this on children skin :)

Good luck. Try this scrub and give your feedback.

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