Skin Brightening with Homemade Face Masks

Well, at some point of our life we all want a glowing and skin tone. But with such external factors like UV radiations, dust, chemical products our real skin color gets suppressed by dead skin cells and tan. Well one remedy for it, I have already you in my previous blog, now I will share some face masks with you.
Face masks are important for our skin, it rejuvenates our skin and gives our skin an instant glow.
It also removes the dead skin layer and naturally bleaches our skin hence providing an even skin tone.
Face masks are usually applied for 10 to 15 minutes. The important and effective ingredients are mostly natural supplements.
The natural ingredients are the best because it instantly gives effects and do not harm the skin, as such no chemical product is added.

1. Banana & Honey Face Mask

Banana is full of moisture, potassium, vitamin E and vitamin C, it promotes glowing skin.
Banana is also used for hair masks which makes our hair shiny and smooth.
Honey is full of antioxidants; antioxidant products are so good that you don’t need to think twice about them.
It has anti-bacterial properties and also soothes the skin making the skin glow.

How to make:

One time use face masks are more convenient because storing face masks is not good.
It causes rotting of the natural products and keeping the face mask overnight in the fridge can cause reaction of the ingredients with each other.
1 ripe banana
2 tablespoons of honey
2 tablespoons of lemons

2. Olive Oil & Lemon Face Mask

Olive oil is full of antioxidant and Hydrating, it is good for skin, nails and hair.
Olive oil is very hydrating, so it is quite good for people with DRY SKIN.
If your skin is patchy, flaky or dry around lips and nose you should define use this face mask.
This mask is really good for dry skin but people with oily skim should think twice before using this face mask.
If your skin is combination type surely you can use this face mask.
Lemon is a rich source of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) it is useful in skin rejuvenation and collagen production.
Collagen keeps our skin bright and firm.

How to make:

2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 ½ tablespoons of lemon juice
½ tablespoon of gram flour
Gram flour is used as a base and is used to thicken the entire face mask, so that it stays on your face.

3. Oatmeal & Honey Face Mask

If you have a darker tone because of exposure to sunlight/UV radiation, then oatmeal is the best option.
Oatmeal helps to sooth or calm the sunburns caused by UV radiations.
It helps to undo the damage done to your face by pollution and sunlight.
It treats eczema and sunburns and is again full of antioxidants.

How to make:

½ cup of oatmeal
4 tablespoons of honey
2 tablespoons of rose water

4. Tomato & Lemon Face Mask

Tomatoes have cooling and astringent properties.
This brightens the dull skin, if you have large pores and oily skin type you should use this face mask.
This will remove oil within your T zone and will reduce acne as well.
The combination of tomatoes and lemons mildly bleaches the dead skin cells and makes the skin lighter.
This face mask is used for lightening the skin tone and also promotes collagen production.

How to make:

Take one small sized tomato or a half of medium sized tomato.
You can make a thick paste of it, don’t use a fine paste.
Fine paste of tomato will go runny over your face and will not stay
2 tablespoons of lemon juice

5. Potato and Vinegar Face Mask

Potatoes helps in many different ways. Potatoes are used on skin for lightening the skin tone and for dark spots.
Dark spots are most common skin problem in teenagers.
We pop our acne/pimples and that leaves a scar due to putting pressure over the pimple surrounding skin.
Well, my friend that scar develops into a dark spot.
The tissue that you have ruptured while puncturing the pimple, now needs to heal and our skin produces Melanin which promotes healing in our skin and makes the scar black causing a dark spot.
So, potato juice reduces the black spots and makes our skin blemish free.
Vinegar has its own benefits, the most commonly used vinegar for skin problems is Apple Cider Vinegar.
This is extracted by fermentation of apples as it suggests, it has two methods of production that we cannot do so we got to buy it.
So, apple cider vinegar reduces acne, flushes out toxins, reduces dark spots, reduces blemishes and makes our skin tone fairer and lighter.

How to make:

Boil a potato, mash the potato so that you can have at least 3 spoonsful of mashed potato.
Dilute the Apple cider vinegar with Rose water.
Keep the ratio of both of them in 2:1.
(Apple cider: Rose water)
Let the mashed potato cool.
At last, add the liquid with it.
Mix it well use more liquid if the consistency of the face mask is thick.

6. Yogurt & Orange Peel

Yogurt is used for anti-aging, fine lines and skin pore tightening. In skin whitening it helps in dissolving the dead skin cells. And makes the skin glow. Whereas the orange peels have vitamin C which makes the skin brighter and radiant. It clears out the dead skin cells as well and even outs the skin tone.

How to make:

Take 2 tablespoons of yogurt
Take an orange a dry the peels of the orange
After drying out the orange peels in the sunlight, grind them to fine powder
Now mix the two ingredients and apply

7. Dark Chocolate Face Mask

Dark chocolate is full of antioxidant and gives our skin a glow.
It generates blood circulation in the skin and makes the skin radiant and brighter.

How to make:

Take a good quality of dark chocolate
Do refer the amount of sugar in it
Some dark chocolate manufacturers add sugar content which is not so good for your skin.
So, take 2 cubes of dark chocolate microwave it.
Add 2 tablespoons of milk and again microwave it.

8. Sandalwood Powder

Sandalwood powder face mask is easy to get and use. You can just simply apply the sandalwood powder with Lukewarm water or rose water.
I would suggest use rose water, because it adds rosy glow to you face and of course it smells so good.
And the benefits of this face mask are satisfying. It reduces blemishes, brightens skin tone, reduces WARTS, prevents acne, cools and soothes the skin, reduces tan, exfoliates the skin, reduces dark spots.