Who said you have to have expensive skincare products to have beautiful skin? We bring you our natural face care recipes to do yourself at home to display a beautiful skin texture!
Stress, pollution, lack of sleep, not enough balanced diet, improper use of certain cosmetics … The factors causing skin problems are diverse and varied and the consequences on our face are just as much: dull complexion, dryness , blackheads, redness or pimples, each has their own way of reacting. But do not panic, there are solutions to all skin concerns and in particular inexpensive home remedies to overcome them without breaking the bank in an overpriced cream.
Fans of DIY cosmetics and clever grandma's tricks, know that you usually only need a few natural ingredients from your kitchen to solve your little skin problems and complete your quest for perfect skin.
Exfoliation, masks or even targeted treatment for pimples, make way for our home remedies to have beautiful skin, to choose according to your problems!
I have a dull complexion: quickly, a healthy glow scrub with sugar
An essential step for the beauty of the skin, the exfoliation is a treatment to be used regularly – at least once a week – to remove dead skin that remains clinging to the face, dislodge the impurities encrusted in the pores at the origin of imperfections and stimulate cell renewal. Thanks to it, the skin is quickly freed from the graying veil of pollution that deposits on its surface, the complexion is no longer blurred by dry skin which dulls its radiance and the epidermis is finally able to regenerate and radiate. correctly. In short, it is the SOS treatment to regain naturally radiant skin! If for the body, we willingly rely on home care based on coffee grounds, for use on the face we prefer sugar as an exfoliating ingredient because it will be softer with its thin, fragile skin. Here, we associate it with carrot, a vegetable rich in beta-carotene to beautify its complexion and gain even more radiance.
The recipe for a healthy glow face scrub with sugar:
- Cook a carrot.
- In a bowl, mash the cooked carrot with a fork to reduce it to a puree.
- Wait for the mash to cool.
- Add two to three tablespoons of powdered sugar (fine) to the carrot puree depending on the amount of puree obtained and mix.
- Apply the mixture on your face then massage the mixture in small circular movements to smooth your skin.
- All you have to do is rinse everything off with water!
* If you prefer, you can also swap the fresh vegetable for oily carrot macerate. Then put the equivalent of a tablespoon of carrot oil in the bowl.
I have ultra dry skin: I pamper it with a nourishing natural mask
Does your skin never seem nourished even after applying your day cream? Worse, it begins to crack or peel as the skin dryness is installed? It's time to give her more intense care so that she recovers and you can fully benefit from the effectiveness of your daily care. To do this naturally, we advise you to concoct a nourishing beauty mask for the face with a little yogurt and cucumber. Enough to quench your thirst and nourish your skin in just a few minutes.
The recipe for the nourishing mask with cucumber and yogurt:
- Peel half a cucumber then mix it to obtain a smooth puree.
- Add a tablespoon of plain yogurt and mix well.
- Apply this cool mixture on your face.
- Leave the mask on for a good twenty minutes so that the skin benefits from the moisturizing properties of cucumber and the nourishing properties of yogurt.
- Rinse your face with clean water, after this dose of hydration and nutrition, it should be more beautiful and more flexible.
I have a nasty pimple: I treat it with 100% natural targeted care
If purifying beauty masks are perfect for capricious skin prone to regular pimples, they are not always suitable for isolated pimples that sometimes appear on normal and sensitive skin which would quickly become unbalanced by the application of 'a mask that is too aggressive for this type of skin. To treat these isolated blemishes, which are often red and inflamed, it is best to use a targeted treatment to be applied locally to each pimple. And if treating pastes exist in certain beauty brands to heal imperfections as quickly as possible, it is also possible to concoct your own SOS remedy against pimples with a little clay (white or green) and lemon juice. .
The recipe for local care for pimples with clay and lemon:
- In a bowl, put a tablespoon of powdered clay.
- Pour in the juice of half a lemon and mix to obtain a kind of paste.
* If you have it, you can also add two drops of tea tree essential oil to the mixture as this essential oil has purifying properties.
- Apply the treatment paste locally on the pimples and leave it to act for a good quarter of an hour to twenty minutes before rinsing the treatment off with lukewarm water.
Between the drying virtues of clay and the natural antiseptic properties of lemon, this natural treatment helps to disinfect and dry pimples quickly to calm inflammation and make them go away faster.
Be careful though, this grandmother's remedy should rather be used in the evening because lemon juice is photosensitizing.
My skin is overheated and redness: I comfort it with a soothing oatmeal mask
Does your sensitive and reactive skin feel tight, overheated, itchy, and to make matters worse, redness appears on your face and affects the uniformity of your complexion? There's nothing like a soothing oatmeal mask to relieve those unpleasant sensations and reduce your unsightly redness. Oats are a cereal that contains natural anti-inflammatory substances that are useful for treating the symptoms of dry, sensitive skin and helping irritated skin. Combined with the regenerating and healing properties of honey as well as the nourishing properties of bananas and yoghurt, which also offer a fresh soothing effect, oats work miracles to soothe the skin and its redness.
The recipe for the soothing oatmeal mask:
- In a bowl, mash half a banana.
- Add the equivalent of a tablespoon of plain yogurt to the mashed fruit, and the same amount of honey, then mix well.
- Pour a cup of oatmeal into the mixture and mix again to evenly distribute the oatmeal in the homemade treatment.
- Apply the soothing mask all over your face or just the areas affected by redness and severe dryness if you prefer, then leave on for about 15 minutes.
- Rinse.
Your skin should be soothed and the redness much less intense if it hasn't just gone away.
I have blackheads: I treat them with an egg white blackhead patch
Particularly located in the T zone (nose, forehead and chin), blackheads are linked to the oxidation of the sebum which clogs the pores of the skin. For clean skin, patches to stick on the skin that remove the famous blackheads when they are removed are among the most effective treatments. Only here, get them at a significant cost that weighs in the beauty budget if you need them regularly. We therefore suggest that you make your own patches for blackheads made from egg white, a grandmother's tip that will save you money.
The recipe for anti-blackhead patches with egg white:
- Start by cutting out a few pieces of a tissue that are appropriate in size for the area of skin to be treated affected by blackheads.
- In a bowl, pour the white of one egg without adding the yolk.
- Whisk the egg white a little.
- With a brush, apply the egg white to the area of skin to be treated (nose, chin, forehead) then apply immediately over a piece of handkerchief.
- Cover with egg white and let dry.
- Once the home-made patch has hardened, remove it by first gently peeling off the edges of the piece of tissue. The blackheads then remain stuck to your patch.
- Rinse your skin with clean water and moisturize it with your usual day cream.
Our advice : always use organic ingredients for your homemade beauty products, especially if you plan to apply them to your face.
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