- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Bad Habits, Big Pores, Cabbage Juice, Cool Water, Cotton Wool, Cucumber, Egg White, Extract 1, Homemade Skin Care, Kitchen Utensils, Lime Juice, Mixtures, Ripe Peach, Skin Care Treatments, Tablespoon, Teaspoon Honey, Teaspoon Yeast, Tomato Juice, Warm Water, Wet Cotton
Enough of that stress, of those bad habits, of that anxiety, as all these show up on your face. Give your skin a little pampering. Don’t worry; it won’t be too costly. Just take a good look inside your ref, take out some stuff, prep your kitchen utensils, whip up some mixtures, and you’re good to go! Don’t worry about how to do it either. Here are recipes for homemade skin care treatments. It would be fun. Enjoy!
Cucumber Lotion
Best as skin whitener, cucumber lotion is applied on the face and neck. Let it stand for 15 minutes and rinse off with warm water.
You Need:
1 tablespoon of cucumber juice
1 tablespoon of milk
a few drops of rosewater
Procedure:
Crush one piece of peeled cucumber to get a tablespoon of juice. Then, mix the cucumber juice with 1 tablespoon of milk. Add a few drops of rosewater. Mix until the ingredients blend together.
Tomato Lotion
This lotion will tighten big pores. Gently massage on the face, then wash off after 15 minutes.
You Need:
1 tablespoon of tomato juice
a few drops of lime juice
Procedure:
Crush one tomato to extract 1 tablespoon of juice. Add a few drops of lime juice. Mix the ingredients well.
Cabbage Mask
This will prevent wrinkles and make your skin supple and fresh-looking. Pat over the face and neck. After 15 minutes, remove with wet cotton wool.
You Need:
cabbage leaves
1 teaspoon honey
¼ teaspoon yeast
Procedure:
Extract cabbage juice by grinding the leaves. Then, add the cabbage juice to the mixture of 1 teaspoon honey and dissolved ¼ teaspoon of yeast. Mix the ingredients well.
Peach Mask
Works to tighten pores, peach mask should be gently applied on the face. After 30 minutes, rinse off with cool water.
You Need:
1 ripe peach
1 egg white
The peach must be first peeled and pitted. Then, drop it into a blender with the egg white. Process the ingredients until smooth.
Honey Facial
This facial refreshes the face and leaves it radiant-looking. Best to leave on the face for 15 minutes before rinsing off.
You Need:
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 egg yoke
Procedure:
Beat the egg yoke, then add olive oil. As soon as the two ingredients blend well, pour the honey. Stir the ingredients thoroughly.
Lime Juice Facial
This mixture works well in preventing pimples. Best to apply every night, lime juice facial leaves the skin young and beautiful. It can also work to soften hands and feet.
You Need:
one lime
a glass of whole milk
1 teaspoon of glycerin
Procedure:
Boil the milk, then add lime extract and 1 teaspoon of glycerin. Mix the ingredients well. Leave the mixture for 30 minutes, then apply on the face.
Apple Tonic
Works for oily skin, apple tonic must be patted over the face and neck. Let it sit for 20 minutes, and rinse off with warm water.
You Need:
1 tablespoon apple juice
¼ teaspoon lime juice
Chop an apple and grind to extract 1 tablespoon of juice. Then, mix the apple juice with ¼ teaspoon of lime juice. Stir until the ingredients blend together.
Note: If you are allergic to any of the ingredients mentioned above, please discontinue use. Remember, these homemade skin care treatments are meant to improve your skin, not the opposite.
By: Dina Brown
- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Alpha Hydroxy Acids, Arbutin, Beauty Tips, Egg White, Elizabeth Arden, Facial Mask, Fairer Skin, Melanin, Paper Mulberry, Parasols, Pigmentation, Plant Extracts, Potent Skin, Prevage, Skin Cells, Skin Lightening Products, Skin Whitening Products, Skincare Products, Sun Exposure, White Mulberry
My. Fair. Beauty. Fair skin is sexy. A lady with fair fine skin is regarded as a fair beauty.
For centuries, men have equated fair skin on ladies with beauty. Even today, although tan skin is appreciated in the west, most cultures prize fair skin. Men love fair beauties. Not the sickly white, corpse-like complexion, but fair, translucent and radiant with a healthy rosy flush.
With sun exposure, even wearing an SPF 50 sunblock will not prevent your skin from darkening. That fair, white complexion is hard to attain and just as hard to maintain.
In the past, women would stay out of the sun as far as possible in order to prevent their skin from darkening. If they had to go out in the sun, they would carry parasols to protect themselves from the sun’s skin-darkening rays.
Whitening home remedies have been in existence for as long as fair skin has been in vogue. In the kitchen, a woman might mix egg white with lemon juice to use as a facial mask to lighten the skin.
Licorice root contains substances that fade away the pigmentation in the skin and hence is used in many skin lightening products. Hydroquinone is another potent skin lightening ingredient used in skin whitening treats. It disrupts the production of melanin and hence prevents skin from darkening. Arbutin is another skin lightening ingredient that works by inhibiting the production of melanin.
Many of the skin whitening products contain plant extracts to give you fairer skin. Mulberry, white mulberry and paper mulberry contain arbutin which makes skin fairer by preventing your skin from darkening. Elizabeth Arden’s Prevage White Concentrate Brightening Serum has Soy Ferulate-C.
Most whitening skincare products make skin fairer by sloughing off the darkened surface of the epidermis. Alpha hydroxy acids like lactic acid and glycolic acid remove hyperpigmented skin cells and boost cell turnover, hence making skin fairer. Garnier light night overnight whitening peeling cream uses AHAs to peel the skin and slow down melanin production.
Then there are those that prevent skin from darkening by inhibiting melanin production. Melanin is the pigment that gives skin its color. More melanin is produced when the skin is exposed to sunlight. Vitamin C, Kojic acid, Azelaic acid, Arbutin and Hydroquinone are substances often used in skin whitening products to lighten your skin through the inhibition of melanin production. Biotherm white detox targets RAB27 which would otherwise support the melanin that would cause dark spots.
Typically, whitening skincare products treat the epidermis at most. Recently, Lancome has come up with a range that treats the dermis as well as the epidermis. Since UV rays penetrate the dermis as well as the epidermis and causes inflammatory messengers to stimulate melanocytes to produce melanin which causes skin to darken, Lancome’s blanc expert GN-White generating new whiteness spot eraser targets these inflammatory messengers on the epidermis and dermis to prevent the darkening of the skin.
This is done through the use of sphinganine and mint to neutralize those signals so that melanocytes aren’t stimulated to make melanin.
By: Janice Tham
- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Complexion, Dermis, Egg White, Elizabeth Arden, Facial Mask, Fairer Skin, Home Remedies, Licorice, Licorice Root, Melanin Production, Parasols, Peeling Cream, Pigmentation, Plant Extracts, Potent Skin, Prevage, Skin Lightening Products, Skin Whitening Products, Skincare Products, Sun Exposure
My. Fair. Beauty.
For centuries, men have equated fair skin on ladies with beauty. Even today, although tan skin is appreciated in the west, most cultures prize fair skin. Men love fair beauties. Not the sickly white, corpse-like complexion, but fair, translucent and radiant with a healthy rosy flush.
With sun exposure, even wearing an SPF 50 sunblock will not prevent your skin from darkening. That fair, white complexion is hard to attain and just as hard to maintain.
In the past, women would stay out of the sun as far as possible in order to prevent their skin from darkening. If they had to go out in the sun, they would carry parasols to protect themselves from the sun’s skin-darkening rays.
Whitening home remedies have been in existence for as long as fair skin has been in vogue. In the kitchen, a woman might mix egg white with lemon juice to use as a facial mask to lighten the skin.
Licorice root contains substances that fade away the pigmentation in the skin and hence is used in many skin lightening products. Hydroquinone is another potent skin lightening ingredient used in skin whitening treats. Many of the skin whitening products contain plant extracts to give you fairer skin. Elizabeth Arden’s Prevage White Concentrate Brightening Serum has Soy Ferulate-C.
Most whitening skincare products make skin fairer by sloughing off the darkened surface of the epidermis. Garnier light night overnight whitening peeling cream uses AHAs to peel and slow down melanin production.
Then there are those that prevent skin from darkening by inhibiting melanin production. Melanin is the pigment that gives skin its color. More melanin is produced when the skin is exposed to sunlight. Biotherm white detox targets RAB27 which would otherwise support the melanin that would cause dark spots.
Typically, whitening skincare products treat the epidermis at most. Recently, Lancome has come up with a range that treats the dermis as well as the epidermis. Since UV rays penetrate the dermis as well as the epidermis and causes inflammatory messengers to stimulate melanocytes to produce melanin which causes skin to darken, Lancome’s blanc expert GN-White generating new whiteness spot eraser targets these inflammatory messengers on the epidermis and dermis to prevent the darkening of the skin.
This is done through the use of sphinganine and mint to neutralize those signals so that melanocytes aren’t stimulated to make melanin.
By: Janice Wee