Natural Skin Care For This Season
It’s humid and hot in India these days. The scorching heat is not only taking its toll on our glucose level, but also bringing down are ‘skin age’. This time is the most alarming time for ‘skin health’ and one needs to take special take.
For starters cleanse your skin often, at least three times a week. Use the following exfoliating scrub. Make equal portions of gram flour, sandalwood powder and multani mitti. Mix these with rose water and scrub your face. It helps keeping your skin clean, soft and not so dry.
When it comes to moisturizing you skin as per seasons, there is nothing better than season fruit facial masks… How should you do this? Well, cut the pulp of the fruit or squeeze it into the blender and then apply it on your face as quickly as possible before the vitamins in the fruit lose their potency.
- Mango pulp is great to cure acne problems in this season.
- Grapes and litchee’s are great to use on wrinkles around the eyes and mouth. It helps in moisturizing, detoxifies and nourishes skin.
- Papaya pulp is useful on blackheads and blotchy skin.
- Cucumber on the other hand is extremely cooling and improves dull and oil skin. One can also mix the juice of one small cucumber with one teaspoon of rose water to make a great moisturizer application for the skin.
- Watermelon juice as an application on the face is a great skin toner and makes the skin fresh and healthy.
Another key skin ingredient for skin care this summer is Coconut water, if rubbed on the skin it lightens and brightens the skin. It is also instrument in getting rid of heat rash. It can be applied as a lotion and left on the skin and then washed with cold rose water.
This summer, take special care of you eyes and under eyes. Sleep well and before sleeping put a drop of rose water in each eye. It soothes the eye as well as brightens it.
- With regard to your face this is the best summer skin routine to follow. But, one needs to take care of the rest of the body as well. Here are a few rules you can follow while bathing to take care of your body skin…
- Add a cup of buttermilk to your bath if you have large open pores it helps tightening them.
- To nourish and soothe your skin, use this bath formula. Mix 2 teaspoons salt with 1 and half teaspoon almond oil and half a teaspoon vinegar. Apply this on your body before your bath.
- If your skin is prone to getting tanned or is already tanned apply a mix of equal quantity of almond oil and vinegar an hour before bathing. You will be surprised with the results.
- In case of sunburn use a yogurt mask to cure it. Leave it on for ten minutes on the affected area. Rubbing ice cubes also is an immediate cure.
- In case of a heat rash one can apply a mix of corn starch with cold water. It will help a great deal.
After telling you all about skin care this summers lets move on to our next article: Clearing up pigmentation the natural way.
Tip of the Day: Don’t apply lipstick on chapped lips, a lip balm or gloss several times a day is what you should opt for. A home remedy for chapped lips is to crush rose petals mixed in a little butter. Apply while going to bed. See your problem vanish in a few days.
