Bharti Modi offers a few tips for keeping that glow this season
The first thing a person notices about you, is your face. With a plethora of beauty products in the market, ‘staying beautiful forever’ might be possible, but these chemical laden products snatch your skin’s natural radiance and glow. So what follows are natural beauty tips.
The rule of thumb for flawless facial skin still remains a regular cleansing, toning and moisturising routine. Pollution and dust leads to clogged pores that cause blackheads and pimples. Cleansing twice a day prevents breakouts of pimples. Toning and moisturising will bring back skin’s freshness and glow.
You may scrub your face using half a lime peel (juice extracted from it). This will remove dead cells to give a radiant glow. lime peel also aids in fading scars and pimple marks.
To treat sunburns, apply a mixture of one spoon besan, (gram flour) and two tbsp of curd. let it dry for half an hour and rinse with plain water.
Improve your complexion by applying a paste of cucumber with raw milk once in three days.
Tomatoes are great anti-oxidants. For wrinkle-free skin, apply tomato paste. To make this, use one day old curd and mix with a tomato. Apply this face pack daily in the morning.
To get rid of excess oil from the face, evenly apply tomato pulp on your face. let it dry for 15 minutes and wash your face with warm water.
To naturally remove blackheads and have fairer skin, prepare a paste with equal amounts of cucumber juice and lemon juice.
Apply this on your face and neck before taking a bath. let your skin absorb it for ten minutes. With regular use, you will notice lesser blackheads and a fairer skin tone.
If you have dry and rough facial skin, prepare a paste of equal amount of mashed muskmelon, pumpkin, cucumber and watermelon.
Blend the mixture with milk cream and apply it on your face. leave the paste to dry for one hour and rinse it using plain water for soft and glowing skin.
Make a paste of tulsi (basil) leaves.
Grind leaves to extract the juice and add lime to it. Regularly massage your face and neck area with this paste for 10 minutes for 15 days. Your skin tone will improve.
Water and good sleep are natural facial beauty enhancers. Around 10-12 glasses of water per day and six to eight hours of sleep every day is essential for your skin to revitalise and repair damaged tissue. Restricting consumption of oily and fatty food besides taking help of the above mentioned beauty tips, will also ensure a naturally gorgeous complexion and spotless facial skin.
The writer is a research scholar & director, HVM Network Pvt ltd