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Current competitive world is leading to unhealthy lifestyle, in teenagers its common now-a-days to have grey hair. This is a real problem, as it results in depression and ruin social life. Amla oil for grey hair is one such simple home remedy that can save your alluring glimpse.

Graying hair is natural and treated as a sign of intelligence. With rapid change in the way of life and hectic work culture, it’s not the same. Even age group of seven has to carry grey hair strand.

Like skin your hair is made of keratin and melanin is responsible for its color. Deficiency in nutrients reduces melanocytes production resulting in grey hair. Grey hair may be accompanied by weak and increase in hair fall.

Experts hold, hereditary, stress, low vitamin intake, health ailments, chemical hair dyes and long exposure to wind as culprits.

Thanks to natural remedies, they fill the lost gap and can strengthen hair. Let’s dive to check out the benefits of amla oil.

How to Use Amla Oil for Grey Hair?

Right from Ancient times, amla has prominent benefits in cosmetic world. Apart from its culinary use, amla has extensive use for hair growth.

Am not exaggerating, amla oil is an effective remedy to restore the lost hair color and reverse premature grey hair.

Massaging with amla oil improves blood circulation and removes dry patches from scalp. It opens pores, thereby increasing sebum production.
Free radicals and toxins are mere cause of grey hair. Antioxidant and vitamin C in amla oil thwarts these radicals and strengthens hair from its root.
Scalp ailments like dry scalp, itching, psoriasis and dandruff can be reduced by regular application of this oil.
Antiviral and antimicrobial activity of this oil thwarts infectious bacteria.

You can either directly apply pure amla oil available in the market or blend it with other natural ingredients for better results.

#1. Amla oil and coconut oil

Amla oil and coconut oil mixture. Both oils hydrate your dry scalp and help your hair grow strong. Mix 2 tbsp of amla powder in 1 cup of coconut oil.
You can prepare amla powder by grinding dry amla pieces.
Store remaining oil in a jar.

Wash your hair before applying this mixture. You can use rosemary oil blended with shampoo for removing the chemical filled hair dye.

Once you remove all impurities accumulated over the scalp, pat dry using cloth. Ask your partner to massage the oil mixture over hair evenly. Leave it to dry naturally.

You must repeat the process regularly for best results.

#2. Amla oil and henna powder

Get some henna powder from local store. Take required amount in a clean bowl and add amla oil or juice to make thick paste.

Wash your hair and apply the hair mask evenly after pat dry.

Rinse the mask off with water, once it dries up.

#3. Amla and almond oil

Take amla powder or oil and add required amount of almond oil. As mentioned above, you can obtain amla powder by grinding dry amla pieces.

Optionally, heat almond oil to some extent and then mix it with amla powder. Apply the hair mask thoroughly and let it dry naturally.

Select any one of the home remedy which goes well with your hair. Don’t jump to different remedies at a time. Stick to one remedy and regularly use it.

Did you ever use amla oil for grey hair? Share your views in comments.

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Argan Oil Face Mask

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This liquid gold oil is extracted from nuts of Argan tree. Though it’s native to Morocco, people all over the world use argan oil face mask for skin and health ailments. This face mask is all in one remedy for skin, hair and health ailments.

Versatile nature of argan oil makes it easy to blend with other homemade recipes. Besides treating acne, you can use the face mask to get rid of dry skin, stretch marks, to heal minor injuries, moisturize nails and condition your hair.

You can directly apply this oil over your face, if you’d like to be more creative then blend it with other natural ingredients.

Argan Oil Face Mask Recipe

Excess exposure to sunlight and impurities makes your skin dull and leave dry patches. Accompanying them; comes dead cells which gather over skin pores and block them leading to acne blemishes.

Assorted properties in argan oil can exfoliate those piled impurities and restrain bacterial infection. Moisturizing activity of this carrier oil will help to get rid of dry patches over the skin. It tightens the pores by firming the skin, which makes your skin look radiant.

Are you worried about premature wrinkles? Directly massage argan oil mask over the skin and nutritional properties in it will penetrate deep into the skin to make it supple.

Anti-inflammatory agents residing in argan oil can reduce acne, minor sun burns and other injuries. Repeated use of this face mask will help you to fade acne scars and lighten stretch marks.

But you must take organic argan oil to reap these benefits. Refined version may fantastic aroma, but it lacks nutritional value. I recommend Instanatural organic argan oil.

Like said before, you can either blend it with other natural ingredients or directly apply this carrier oil.

#1. Argan oil, honey and avocado

This particular mask will help you to achieve alluring youthful skin.

Argan oil – few drops
Finely grounded oatmeal – 2 tbsp
Avocado – 4 tbsp
Honey – 2 tbsp
Essential oil – 2 drops

Grind avocado pulp into smooth paste. Add other listed ingredients to the pulp and mix thoroughly to make thick paste.

Wipe or wash your face before using it.

Evenly, apply the mask and slightly massage in circular motion to remove dead cells. After 15-20 minutes, when the mask dries up splash cool water and pat dry.

You can also apply natural moisturizer like jojoba oil or olive oil after face mask application.

#2. Argan oil face mask for exfoliating

Dry skin is the most common problem that triggers other chronic skin ailments. Loss of moisturize and impurities are main culprits of dry skin. Using argan oil you can remove these impurities and make the skin clear.

Take 1 egg white, 6 tbsp of milk, 2 teaspoon of rock salt and 1-2 drops of argan oil.

Beat the egg white after adding all ingredients to make thick paste. Wash your face and apply the mask evenly. Rinse it off after 20 minutes.

Don’t expect overnight magic, natural items take item to show positive results. You must regularly use this face mask.

Other innate ingredients that you can blend with argan oil include Greek yogurt and lemon. These ingredients can make your skin free from dark spots.

Let us know which ingredients would you like to use in argan oil face mask?

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Cornmeal Face Scrub

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Growing impurities around you gets assemble over your skin resulting in dark patches, dry skin and other skin ailments. Massaging it with cornmeal face scrub will clear the pollutants and improves your skin texture.

Blend honey or other natural ingredients with cornmeal and it can moisturize your dry skin. Exfoliating property of this face mask will help to get rid of excess sebum, dead cells and dry patches on the skin. Cornmeal is derived by grinding dry maize. In United States, finely grounded maize is known as corn flour.

This inexpensive face scrub can be helpful and has no side-effects. However, if you’re adding raw honey you’ll have to spend few more bucks. Humectant activity of honey will help you hydrate your skin, fade wrinkles, treat acne and other ailments.

Nutrients like vitamin B6, A, C, selenium, iron and calcium are packed in cornmeal, which makes your skin supple and flawless.

Check out your local store for organic honey and cornmeal. Best thing about homemade face mask is you can always reuse the left over mask in a couple of days.

Initially, wash your face with lukewarm water or cleanse it. Pat dry with soft cloth; meanwhile ask your partner to mix 1 tablespoon of cornmeal with 1 tablespoon of honey. You can add distilled water to make thick paste.

Evenly massage the cornmeal face scrub in circular motion. Leave it to dry naturally and then rinse it off with water.

For acne inflammation, experts recommend to mix apple cider vinegar with cornmeal. Repeated use of this natural face mask will treat acne and fade acne scars. You don’t have to worry about the chemical filled face wash for your skin.

Apart from removing impurities and dead cells, cornmeal face scrub can improve blood circulation, control excess oil, tightens skin pores, reduce fine lines and restrain infectious bacteria.

Did you ever use cornmeal or honey over your face? Please share your views about these natural ingredients.

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Carrot Face Mask for Skin Whitening

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Believe me, it’s always fun to make your own facial mask at home, because you incorporate the ingredients and exclude those that doesn’t cope well with your sensitive skin. Carrot face mask for skin whitening is one such try to know what these kitchen items have for your skin.

It’s a known fact that carrots are filled with vitamin A and beta-carotene, which are good for your eyes and health. Interestingly, you can use this root vegetable to achieve whitening skin. Antiseptic and assorted properties in carrot help to get rid of minor skin ailments.

Everyone yearns to be gorgeous, to achieve this people spend huge money on cosmetic products. Though few cosmetic creams may have shown positive results but, they include chemical ingredients in them which can trigger allergic reaction in sensitive people. Moreover, artificial products can’t combat with natural ingredients.

Being the largest organ of your body, skin needs utmost care. It protects you from harmful irritants and infectious germs. You need to pamper them; failing will result in various disorders. Dark patches or spots are one among them. Researchers say that prolonged exposure to sun rays, genetics, hormonal imbalance and low nutritious diet leads to hyperpigmentation.

Also read: Mustard face mask

You must know that your skin color is due to a pigment known as melanin. Excess exposure to sunlight increases melanocytes, resulting in dark complexion. Natural remedies like carrot facial mask, penetrates deep into the skin and lightens the dark skin.

Let’s see how carrot face mask for skin whitening works.

Vitamins in this mask helps to remove toxins and dirt piled over your skin.
Vitamin C improves elasticity of your skin and makes it firm.
Regular application will moisturize your dry skin and control excess sebum production.
Antioxidants thwart free radicals and fade fine lines.
Assorted nutrients help to reduce skin complexion and make you fell fresh.

Carrot face mask for skin whitening

Blend carrot juice with few drops of lemon juice. Optionally add gram flour and butter milk to it. Wash your face thoroughly and pat dry. Now, apply the mask evenly over the skin and leave it to dry naturally.

Use this face mask twice or thrice per week. Note to drink enough water and include nutritious diet.

Carrot and honey face mask

Slice fresh carrot into small pieces and grind them to make juice. Add 1 tablespoon of raw honey to the juice and mix thoroughly. Apply this mask evenly over the face and rinse it off after 15-20 minutes.

Carrot peel off mask

Using this mask you can effectively remove excess oil, dirt and pollutants from the skin. Mix 1 tsp of gelatin, 1/2 cup of carrot juice with few drops of lemon juice. Keep the mixture over low flame so that gelatin dissolves and a thick paste is obtained.

After cooling the mask apply it over prewashed face and then rinse it off using wet cloth.

Regular application of carrot face mask for skin whitening can improve your skin texture, moisturize, treat acne and heals minor wounds.

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Papaya Face Mask for Acne Scars

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Not just digestion, this fruit can improve your skin texture. You’d be delighted to know that you can reduce acne inflammation and fade acne scars using papaya face mask.

Acne is the most common skin disorder affecting about 40-50 million Americans. Apart from teenagers, adults within the age group 25 to 44 may experience this chronic skin condition. The condition ranges from mild to severe pimples.

Experts hold inflammation to be the mere cause of acne, which affects production of sebum. Along with dead cells, excess sebum gets accumulated over skin pores. P.acnes is one of the things which worsen the acne situation. The resulted bumps are red and accompanied by inflammation.

As the demand for anti-acne creams is growing exponentially, cosmetic industries are manufacturing thousands of different products. Though it’s enticing to read their claims, the effect is temporary. Natural remedies on other hand, penetrates deep into the skin and removes the root cause of ailment.

Papain is an enzyme found in papaya which breaks dead skin cells and hydrates your skin. Not just this, vitamin A and antioxidant properties in this mask will combat free radicals and lighten premature wrinkles. Other remedies which can treat acne include jojoba oil, cucumber, olive oil and manuka honey.

When acne gets treated, lesions leave a dark scar over your face. Acne scars aren’t associated with any health issue, but it’s a cosmetic concern. It’s really embarrassing to have big dark scars all over the face. Luckily using the same natural remedies you can fade acne scars.

Papaya face mask may not completely fade scars but it can lighten the appearance.

Also read: Sandalwood oil for dark spots

How to Use Papaya Face Mask for Acne Scars?

Alpha hydroxy acids in papaya face mask helps to lighten the appearance of dark spots and scars. As mentioned, Papain can exfoliate dead cells off the skin. When you regularly use this mask, dead cells along with impurities will be removed.

Instead of spending huge money over chemical products you can just bring one ripe papaya, make paste and then apply it over the face daily.

Unlike cosmetic creams, this face mask is soft towards your skin. However, people who’re allergic to latex must stay away from this face mask.

#1. Mix papaya pulp with milk in a clean bowl. Wash your face with lukewarm water so that the blocked skin pores open up. Now, topically apply the papaya mask evenly over the affected part and leave it to dry naturally. Yes, you can place two sliced cucumbers over your eyes to get that spa experience.

#2. Mash papaya with manuka honey or raw honey; rinse your face just as mentioned in the above step. When the skin is still damp apply the face evenly and leave it. Humectant and anti-inflammatory properties in honey will hydrate your skin and also treat acne.

#3. This is the easiest way, eat the delicious papaya fruit and keep its peel. Now rub your face with papaya peel evenly all over the face. Needless to say avoid eye contact.

Best time to apply papaya face mask for acne scars is morning or evening. Let us know how you feel after trying this inexpensive home remedy.

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Use Sandalwood for Dark Spots

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Girls are surrounded by lots of problems, apart from selecting dress, hair style, shoes and accessories; you must keep your face free from annoying dark spots. Like many things, God Almighty had gifted with natural remedies to fade them. Nutrients in sandalwood can efficiently lighten the appearance of dark spots.

Also known as hyperpigmentation, dark spots are often caused by age, hormonal imbalance, unbalanced diet and life style. Because of your busy schedule you can’t reach spas every day to combat dark spots, moreover they’re not recommended by beauty experts as they involve more chemical ingredients.

Sandalwood has prominent space in Indian culture, apart from rituals; sandalwood has been used extensively to obtain supple and radiant skin. Its aroma makes your day and gets you out of stress. Antibacterial and antioxidants activity of this mask restrain infectious bacteria and thwart free radicals.

Rich nutritional profile of sandalwood attracted Indian cosmetic industries, now you can see many beauty products including sandalwood to allure their customers. However, homemade raw sandalwood mask has immense benefits.

Prolonged exposure to sun rays affects the production of melanin, which results in dark patches at different places of your skin. Anti-tanning activity of this natural remedy helps to clear complexion and protects from harmful UV rays.
Lack of nutritious food and few external factors results in premature aging wrinkles. Topically massaging your face with sandalwood face mask or with its oil will enhance cell regeneration and fade wrinkles.
It exfoliates dead cells, impurities and excess oil from the skin making it soft and supple.
Chronic skin diseases like acne and eczema can be reduced by anti-inflammatory property of this face mask.
Most of the skin disorders like itching, redness, minor burns, blackheads and inflammation can be reduced by sandalwood.

How to Use Sandalwood for Dark Spots?

One of the easiest ways is add some distilled water or rosewater to sandalwood powder and apply the paste over prewashed face.

To make it more effective, you can add other ingredients like milk, turmeric, lime and any essential oil with sandalwood powder.

Blend sandalwood powder with required amount of raw milk in a bowl. Wash your face with lukewarm water and pat dry. Apply the mask all over the face evenly including neck and forehead. Leave it to dry naturally and rinse it off.

Alternatively, you can mix a pinch of turmeric powder with sandalwood powder and milk. You can use this thick paste over acne blemishes as a spot treatment.

Note that excess use of turmeric powder may result in yellow stains on your skin. Anyhow, they will disappear in few hours.

Other natural ingredients that you can blend in this powder are honey, lemon juice and essential oils. Remember to include nutrients in your diet and drink enough water.

Let us know how you’d like to use sandalwood for dark spots.

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Tomato for Skin Whitening

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Your skin protects you from harmful UV rays, impurities, pollutants and other external factors. Spare few minutes to know how to use tomato for skin whitening.

Prolonged exposure to impurities and due to lack of sufficient nutrients, your skin experience many issues including dark spots. Cosmetic creams always promise to deliver flawless and radiant skin, but they fail because of the chemical ingredients in it.

Check your kitchen and you’ll find a bunch of substances that can help healthy functioning of your skin. Tomato face mask is one among them.

Extensively, tomatoes are used for culinary purposes. With its distinct taste and high nutritional value tomatoes fill the missing vitamins in your body.

Benefits of Tomato for Skin Whitening

Bleaching effect of this mask lightens dark spots, stretch marks and acne scars.
Lycopene is a compound in tomato, which exhibits antioxidant property. These agents thwarts free radicals and restrain infectious bacteria.
Nutrients like vitamins A, C and B-complex, fade acne scars, dark patches, enhance collagen production and tighten your skin pores.
Assorted qualities of this mask helps to get rid of wrinkles, heal minor burns and hydrate your dry skin.

Without using expensive cosmetic creams you can achieve a glowing skin. (This mask can remove dead cells, impurities and clear complexion. It may not change your skin complexion.) Most of the time, skin turns dark when it gets exposed to sunlight for longer time. Nutrients in tomato mask protect your skin from such external factors and avoid dark spots.

Take fresh tomato and slice it into two halves. Massage gently with one half over your skin for about 10 minutes. Add sugar to use it as face scrub.

Lemon and tomato face mask for skin whitening

Bleaching, acidic and antibacterial properties of lemon combine with tomato to reduce dark patches over your skin. Blend half ripe tomato to obtain smooth puree, add few drops of lemon juice to it and apply it over prewashed face.

Cucumber, tomato and honey face mask

All the ingredients in this mask recipe are renowned to hydrate the skin. You can treat chronic skin disorders like acne and eczema using cucumber and honey. Grind 1/4 cucumber with 1 tbsp of honey and 3 tbsp of tomato puree.

Don’t add ingredients which may trigger allergic reaction in you. Let us know in comments if tomato mask worked for you.

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Coriander Face Mask

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Coriander has extensive health benefits including reduction in cholesterol and healthy functioning of digestive system. Apart from this, you can use this aromatic herb over your skin to make it free from ailments.

Coriander face mask is one of the inexpensive yet effective home available remedies to obtain the radiant skin. It’s a known fact that your skin is the most exposed part of your body. Impurities and pollutants around you get piled over your sensitive skin leading to various cosmetic issues. Dead skin cells and bacteria accompany them resulting in acne or blackheads.

Because of its exceptional benefits cilantro or Chinese parsley is incorporated in many beauty products. As they use refined or processed version of natural ingredients to increase the shelf-life, nutritional level of these products is lower than expected.

Nutrients in unrefined coriander face mask include antioxidants, vitamin C, antiseptic, anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory agents. These properties in this herb helps to restrain free radicals, reduce acne blemishes, lighten acne scars and fasten healing process.

Benefits of Coriander Face Mask

Free radicals in your body damage cell membrane resulting in wrinkles and cosmetic issues. Antioxidant activity residing in this herb fights free radicals.
Acne inflammation can be reduced by anti-inflammatory properties packed in coriander.
acnes bacteria that worsens acne situation can be removed by antibacterial and anti-fungal agents in the face mask.
Vitamin C helps to thwart free radicals and enhance collagen production to fade wrinkles.
Assorted nutrients in this face mask will hydrate your skin and treat pimples, blackheads and lighten wrinkle appearance.

How to Use Coriander Face Mask?

Cleanse your face with water or lukewarm water and pat dry with soft cloth. Blend fresh coriander leaves and add a pinch of turmeric powder to it. Now apply the mixed mask over your face and leave it to dry for about 20 minutes.

Limit the use of turmeric powder to minimize yellow stains on your face.

You can mix other innate ingredients with this herb. But, make sure you avoid ingredients that can trigger allergic reaction.

Coriander and egg mask

Take some fresh coriander leaves, 1 egg white and required amount of finely grounded oats. Grind them to make paste and topically apply it over the face.

Wipe the mask using wet cloth. This face mask will help you to remove dead cells and other impurities off the skin.

To treat blackheads and to lighten acne scars, mix 1 teaspoon of lemon juice to coriander leaves. Wash your face before applying this face mask. Excess use of lemon juice can strip natural oils from your skin, so limit its use.

Other ingredients that you can use with coriander face mask include honey, aloe vera gel and kaolin clay.

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Egg White Mask for Wrinkles

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Wrinkles and grey hair is sign of elderly and intelligent person. But, who yearns to have premature wrinkles to project him/her as intelligent? Luckily using egg white mask you can fade wrinkles and achieve flawless skin.

Its unsightly to have a glimpse of wrinkles, so few people goes to an extent of avoiding mirror as they grow. Aging is natural and there is no one who can stop it. Along with your age, your skin and hair losses its enticing looks. The skin’s elasticity starts losing and fine lines appear.

Unfortunately now-a-days due to hectic schedule and alarming pollution, your skin is facing a really issue. Dead cells, impurities and your lack of care resulting in various skin ailments.

Cosmetic industries are not letting this huge demand to bring some profits to their businesses. So they are striving hard to manufacture beauty products that can fade wrinkles and remove impurities. As they use chemical ingredients and refined natural ingredients (which lacks nutritional value) to increase the shelf-life of products, beauty experts don’t recommend it.

On the other side, natural items are packed with nutrients and vitamins that can wipe impurities and fill your skin with required vitamins. Egg white face mask is one such home available remedy to tighten your skin.

How to Use Egg White Mask for Wrinkles?

Egg white has less calories and vitamins compared to egg yolk. But the exceptional benefits it can provide for your skin compensate the absence.
Astringent activity packed in egg white shrinks skin pores and tightens the skin texture reducing wrinkle appearance.
Egg white exhibits lightening feature that clears your impurities and reduce dark spots gradually.
Acne and other skin ailments that are associated with oily skin can be restrained by shrinking skin pores.
Unwanted facial hair that makes you embarrassing in a party can be removed by this inexpensive face mask.
Assorted nutrients in this mask enhance collagen production to make the skin supple and wrinkle free.

Cleanse your face or wash it with lukewarm water. Use soft cloth to pat dry. Break egg and pour its yolk with white liquid in a bowl. Remove egg yolk to use egg white.

Apply egg white mask over the face evenly and let it dry naturally. Rinse it off when it dries. You can use aromatic essential oil to moisturize your face after this face mask treatment.

Egg white, tea tree oil and honey

Whisk egg yolk and add 1 tablespoon of honey, 4-5 drops of tea tree oil to it. After mixing well, apply it over the face and then rinse it off. Add this simple yet effective home remedy to your beauty regimen for positive results.

Egg white and lemon juice

Lemon juice is known to lighten dark spots and treat acne blemishes with its anti-bacterial activity. Mix few drops of lemon juice in a bowl with egg white. Optionally add 1 tablespoon of honey to hydrate your skin.

If you’ve sensitive skin, then don’t use lemon juice.

Avocado, milk, honey and egg white for wrinkles

Take 1 egg white, required amount of avocado, 4 tablespoon raw milk and 1 tbsp of honey. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and apply it over your skin to hydrate it.

Don’t use ingredients that are allergic to your skin.

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DIY Mustard Face Mask

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Homemade face mask always come handy to make your skin supple and wrinkle free. Not just that, you can wipe the impurities off the face using mustard face mask.

Impurities around you are increasing rapidly and by default all of them get settled over your sensitive face. Along with this, your skin alone sheds millions of dead cells that get piled over the skin blocking its pores.

Applaud marketing campaigns of cosmetic industries. Whenever someone speaks about clear and fairer skin first thing strikes our brain is beauty products. Though they claim to give you spotless skin whitening product, facts are far away.

It’s a known fact that these industries use chemicals for fragrance and to increase the shelf-life of their products. Apart from doing well, sometimes these chemical ingredients may trigger allergic reaction on the skin.

How to Use Mustard Face Mask?

Mustard is prominent condiment in delicious food. You can use this homemade face mask to exfoliate dead cells and hydrate your skin. Like any other natural ingredient, mustard face mask has vitamin E, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and fatty acids.

Initially wash your face with lukewarm water and pat dry.
Topically apply grainy mustard over the face and massage in circular motion.
Alternatively, mix gram flour, lemon juice with mustard oil to make thick paste like consistency. Apply the mask evenly all over the face and leave it to dry naturally.

You can also blend coconut oil and mustard oil in equal proportions and apply it over the face. This application hydrates your skin and treats infectious ailments.

Exceptional nutrients in this mask help to shed dead cells and tighten the skin. Anti-bacterial and anti-fungal activity thwarts infectious bacteria.

Note: Don’t use ingredients that irritate your skin.

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