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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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Gram Flour for Dark Circles

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Prominent in Southeast Asia dishes, gram flour can be used to obtain radiant and soft skin. Dark circles ruin your physical appearance. Using gram flour you can lighten the dark circles.

Hormonal imbalance, lack of sleep and unhealthy diet may result in dark circles, also hereditary plays vital role in this skin disorder. As you grow older your skin slowly loses its elasticity and becomes thin under eyes. Due to which the blood veins can be seen through it resulting in dark patches.

In some people, late night sleep and stress worsen dark circle appearance. Though it’s not associated with any health ailment, if not treated you may have to face serious issues.

There are chemical based products which claim to treat dark circles. Apart from being expensive, they may irritate your sensitive skin. Only, home remedies can be able to help you because they’re cost effective and prefect for sensitive skin.

How to Use Gram Flour for Dark Circles?

Gram flour or besan is known to remove impurities including dead cells and excess oil from the skin. Repeated use of this face mask will make your face free from impurities and keep ailments at bay. Assorted properties in this natural mask improve skin texture and removes tan.

To use it over the face and on dark circles:

Rinse your face with water and pat dry.
Mix gram flour powder with distilled water or rose water till you get thick paste like consistency.
When the skin is damp, apply the mask evenly and leave it to dry naturally.
After 20 minutes, take a wet cloth and wipe the gram flour mask.

Gram flour and turmeric powder

To make the mask more effective, mix 1 teaspoon of gram flour and turmeric powder with 1 tablespoons of lemon juice. Optionally, add 2 tablespoons of tomato puree.

Wash your face and apply this mixed mask under eyes and leave it for 20 minutes. Increase or decrease the quantity according to your use.

Gram flour and mint leaves

Get fresh mint leaves, which are known for its cooling properties. Blend mint leaves to obtain juice. Mix mint juice with turmeric powder and gram flour powder. Wash your face thoroughly and apply the mask under eyes.

Along with this mask you can try other natural oils to lighten dark circles. But, gram flour for dark circles alone can’t help you. You must drink enough water, include nutritional rich diet, have plenty of sleep and avoid long hours of exposure to computer screen.

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Why Fingers and Toes Prune Underwater?

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Ever wonder why wrinkles appear on your fingers and toes in bath tub?

I remember taking long hours of bath in swimming pool resulted in wrinkled skin over my toes and fingers. I used to like that uneven surface on my toes. But, now-a-days as we pay more attention to our appearance I don’t like to have those ridges on my fingers.

Only way to prevent them is to avoid spending long time under shower dreaming about some unusual things.

However, as a blogger I started my research to know the main cause of these wrinkled fingers.

There are various theories rolling behind the prune. Don’t expect me to write about all those theoretical data here. Anyhow, I’ll be discussing few important theories.

Your skin is made of keratin, it’s a protein. Outer layer of your skin has dead keratin cells. When you immerse your hand or expose it to water for longtime, the skin cells absorbs water and swells. Because the outer layer is tightly attached to underneath skin, to atone the increased area wrinkles are formed.
Few Scientist say that wrinkles appear because of blood vessel’s constriction. Nerve fibers shrink and your body temperature reduces resulting in wrinkled fingers when you immerse them in water.
Patients with damaged nerve system when soaked in water showed no or less prune.

Few researchers carried out interesting studies, which are listed below.

Participants in the study are asked to immerse their hands in water tub for about 30 minutes. Then they were asked to pick varied sized marbles (wet and dry marbles). The study states that people with more prunes were quick in holding the marbles. (source)

Though it’s very interesting to know that fingers prune can improve grip, there is no proof to show that these wrinkled fingers has any significant benefit.

Your skin has three layers, namely: subcutaneous layer, dermis and epidermis layer.

Subcutaneous layer consists of fats, connective tissue, large blood vessels and nerves. Dermis layer include sweat glands, hair roots and nerves. Epidermis is the out layer which consists of four layers, which protects from dehydration and bacteria.

As mentioned above, when you immerse fingers in water, the dead cells in epidermis layer absorb water and results in prune.

But, why other parts of the body doesn’t prune? Because the skin on hands and feet include thickest dead keratin cells, imagine if you were given with soft skin on palms like that of its back. How could you enjoy playing basket ball?

Resources:

http://www.bad.org.uk//site/491/default.aspx
http://www.umm.edu/dermatology-info/anatomy.htm
http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/skin_noSW.html
http://www.pgbeautygroomingscience.com/the-world-of-skin-care1.php