12 Essential Homemade Beauty Tips For Fair Skin

An all-time favorite! The results have always been so stunning that this has now become a must ritual for a bride before the wedding day! Things you will need: Gram flour (Good exfoliator) Pinch of turmeric (lightens skin tone) Milk (moisturizer)

  

Who doesn’t crave for that perfect Barbie look – long hair, fair skin and a flawless glowing complexion? In this article, I am covering an exhaustive list of beauty tips for fair skin at home. But this isn’t all about just face packs, I have tried to cover foods and other basics that are often ignored. Before we get to fairness tips, you need to realize that protecting our skin from further damage is of utmost importance. Otherwise all our attempts will be of no use as skin will keep sustaining damage and you will keep wondering why none of the treatments are showing any results! So how can we do this?

Simple Daily Skin Care Necessities:

Our skin needs time and care for it to regenerate and leave behind the old and tired. Without this, improving our skin condition and color is an absolute impossibility. This is why we need to ensure the below basics to make time for the skin to heal itself.

• Drink a lot of water
• Sleep well
• Exercise
• Follow a good skin care routine. Do not skip the exfoliation on a regular basis! For without this we cannot get rid of dead and dry skin. You needn’t always buy a scrub. Homemade scrubs are just as effective! Use oatmeal for an exfoliator instead of a packaged product. There are many options!
• Remove your makeup before you sleep every night. Yes every night without fail no matter how dead tired you are! With makeup on, our skin cannot repair itself.

Homemade Beauty Tips For Fair Skin:

So how to become fair? Now that you have taken good care of your skin, it’s time to pamper yourself. Lather on these lovely face packs and relax as they work their magic. These are some of the oldest and most popular Home made beauty tips for face that our grandmas have passed on to us!

1. Tea water and honey face pack:

Things you will need: I cup of tea water (cooled down) 2 spoons of rice flour ½ a spoon of honey The rice flour acts as a very good scrub and honey moisturizers the skin.

Method:

• Mix the above ingredients and apply on the skin. Leave it on till the mask dries completely for 20 minutes or more.
• Before cleaning the mask with water, make sure you massage the facial skin in circular motions, this is very important as it removes the dead skin and evens the skin tone.
• Then wash your face with cold water .This gives you a fairer and even skin tone.

2. Oats and lemon face pack:

Things you will need: 1 TBSP of oats; cooked and mashed (helps reduce inflammation and heals skin) I TBSP of lemon juice (lemon helps lighten skin tone) If you have sensitive skin, then you can dilute the lemon juice with water.

Method:

• Mix the above ingredients and apply on the face by massaging the skin.
• Let it dry for 20 minutes
• Wash it and pat dry.

Look into more of oatmeal face packs for fair face and glowing skin.

3. Turmeric and lemon face pack:

Things you will need: Gram flour Turmeric Lemon juice Milk

Method:

• Mix all the above ingredients and apply evenly on the face.
• Scrub the paste gently on your for 5 minutes and let it dry for 20 minutes.
• Once it’s dry, clean your face.

4. Turmeric and tomato face pack:

Things you will need:

• Turmeric
• Tomato juice

Method:

• Mix turmeric with tomato juice
• Apply to face and allow to dry
• wash face with tepid water.

This is quite a popular pack among women for the simplicity and results!

5. Turmeric Face pack:

Method:

• Mix all the above and apply the mask
• Scrub the paste gently on your for 5 minutes and let it dry for 20 minutes.
• Once it’s dry, clean your face.

6. Yogurt and dried orange peel:

Things you will need:

• Dried orange peel
• Fresh and unflavored yogurt

Dry the orange peel first under the sun. That is where is pack begins.

Method:

• Grind the dried orange peels to powder.
• Mix 1 tbsp of it with 1 tbsp fresh and unflavored yogurt to make a paste.
• Apply and keep on cleansed skin for 15-20 minutes
• Then rinsed off.

7. Milk, Lemon Juice and Honey:

Things you will need:

• Milk
• Lemon Juice
• Honey

Method:

• Use 1 tsp each of milk/milk powder, honey and lemon juice and mix together well.

• It should be applied on cleansed skin and left for 15-20 minutes
• After which you can rinse it off.

8. Potato:

Things you will need:

• Potato slice, in pulp or juice form.

Method:

• Use slices or paste of potato as a mask or even just the juice on tanned portions of the skin.
• This can be applied twice to your skin.
• After 15-20 minutes, wash off with plain water.

9. Lemon or orange rind:

Things you will need:

• Lemon or orange rind
• Raw milk

Method:

• Take lemon zest or lemon rind ( the outer skin grated), or even orange zest, dry them out in the sun (do not microwave) and then grind them to powder.
• Store in a dry air tight container
• Mix it with raw milk and use as pack on affected areas.
• Wash off with warm water only.
• Immediately use a cool toner after.

Here are some more ayurvedic face packs for fair skin.

10. Healthy Diet:

With daily care and treatments nailed, what we need to monitor next are our eating habits. For without the right nutrients, our skin cannot undo the damage that it sustains on a daily basis! Here we tell you what you should eat. In other words, a healthy diet for your skin! The right quantities of all the ingredients need to be consumed for the skin to portray health and the fairness to show.

• Eat fruits with Vitamin C for the antioxidants.
• Balance your diet to get the right amount of proteins and unsaturated fats along with vegetables to get the right portions of nutrients for your skin to naturally care for itself.
• We Have some excellent resources to help you with your diet:
• Best Fruits for Glowing Skin
• Best Foods for Glowing Skin
• Yoga Poses for Glowing Skin

Sun Protection and Care:

With all this attended to; there is still one thing you need to keep firmly in mind! Do not step out into the sun without protection! Are you wondering why? How can forgetting one lotion cause so much damage? Don’t ever question the effects of the harsh sun rays and the UV radiation that we are exposed to when you step out of your home. That is why you need to use a sunscreen!

• Always apply a sunscreen before stepping out.
• An SPF of at least 30 or more depending on your skin type.
• UV rays darken and damage your skin! So make sure you reapply every four or five hours.

These are of course not fail proof! But what if you have already spent too much time in the sun, you first need to lose the tan and burns. Try these out.

11. Homemade Tan removal:

Tans are inevitable! No matter how much sunscreen we lather on…the brutal sun these days finds a way to harm us! There are several ways to remove tan right at your home. Here is an excellent article to remove tan at home. But here is one of the most famous tan removal packs ever! Ubtan This traditional country treatment includes the use of a mixture of besan, turmeric and yogurt. Turmeric removes the blemishes and dark spots. Yogurt clears the excessive tan. And, besan handles the cleansing of your skin. It suits all the skin types and can be done everyday as it is very gentle. The effects are visible quite immediately but removal of tanning needs a couple of days or weeks depending on the intensity of tan.

12. Homemade sun burn cure:

Sun burns well are but natural once you hit a beach for your vacation but that doesn’t mean you need to go back to work looking toasted. Here is one solution you will definitely love!

Vinegar

Vinegar has antioxidants which fight free radicals and also keeps bacterial and fungal infections away. More than these reasons however, the pH level of your skin is restored effectively with the use of vinegar. Take a clean spray bottle and fill it with some vinegar. Spray it directly on the affected areas and allow it to dry. Normally vinegar dries within 2 to 3 minutes and you can instantly feel the cooling and relaxing sensation on your skin. You can follow the same procedure once in every 5 hours to prevent the burning sensation and cure your sun burn faster.