How to lighten the face skin at home?

All of us want to look good, regardless of age, gender and nationality. However, not everyone can get by nature such a gift as a light and even skin. In addition, it is often spoiled by various diseases, bad habits and other negative factors. But, as a rule, the first impression is the most important. Freckles, pigment spots or unhealthy complexion bring great discomfort and bring a lot of grief to its owners. Lightening of the skin covers the scars, relieves pigmentation, gives the skin freshness. How to lighten the face skin at home? In this article, we will tell you about the different options for achieving a good result.

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When to make lightening?

To help us come home money, which is in the arsenal of any hostess. The main thing is to know how to use them properly so as not to hurt yourself even more. To begin with, you need to be 100% sure that you need it at all.

Let's look at the cases when you need to whiten:

• when you have freckles on your face, pigmented spots;
• if you have dark skin;
• if you incorrectly calculated your tan;
• unhealthy complexion - gray, yellow or even crimson;
• scars, traces of acne and acne.

If you have at least one of these signs, then you need to think about a clarifier suitable for your skin type. In addition, you need to take advice from professionals, as this affects the effectiveness of masks and other tools used.

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How to lighten the face?

These recommendations were used by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, and we can trust them:

• It's better to do clarifying procedures in the warm season.
• You need to make a mask for the night. So their effect will be greater, and if you go outside after the mask, the results can be disappointing.
• Do not apply prepared mixtures to areas around the eyes.
• Choose only those recipes, which include familiar to you ingredients, you should not carry out experiments. To make sure that you do not have allergies to this compound, put a little money on your wrist. If there is no reaction, you can apply the mask to your face.
• The funds should be applied to the prepared skin: before the procedure, it should be steamed, cleaned, it is good to pre-apply the scrub.
• The average validity period is from 15 to 30 minutes.
• To wash off clarifying agents it is better to decoction of a camomile. For this, pour 2 tablespoons of flowers 1 cup of boiling water, insist for at least an hour. Then the broth should be filtered.
• After the procedures on the face, apply the cream. It is good in this case that it should be with a clarifying effect.
• Procedures should not be conducted more than 2 times a week.

Important! Usually after the first procedures the skin becomes more even, beautiful and young. After all, such procedures not only lighten your skin, but nourish it.

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Folk skin whitening products

Vegetable, fruit, herbal tea and some other products have whitening effects, which we will now talk about.

Lemon

It has long been known that lemon juice brightens the skin well. On the oily skin can be applied lemon juice in undiluted form. True, this method can cause allergic reactions. Therefore, it is better to make masks, lotions based on lemon juice:

• Mix in equal proportions lemon juice, honey, olive oil. It should be a liquid substance. Wipe the cotton swab with massage movements on her face. After 15 minutes, rinse with warm water and a decoction of chamomile.
• Pour a tablespoon of oatmeal flakes with a small amount of boiling water, mix this slurry with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. All thoroughly mixed and put on the face for 15 minutes.
• You can make a mask with glycerin. In a spoonful of glycerin, add half a spoonful of apple and lemon juice.

Important! In the first procedure, the amount of citrus juice can be slightly reduced so that there is no burning.

• Mix two tablespoons of fatty sour cream with one spoonful of lemon juice.

Soda

Soda has long earned itself the glory of bleach. Its properties are widely used even in cosmetology.

Important! This substance strongly dries the skin, therefore, masks based on it are recommended for oily skin. Soda will help cope with blackheads, greasy shine, wide pores.

How to whiten the skin with soda? You can prepare a soap mask:

1. Mix baking soda and natural soap.
2. Apply the mixture with massage movements and leave for 5 minutes, then rinse.

You can make lotions from soda - dilute the soda in a small amount of water, soak the solution in a wool disc and put it in the right places for 10-15 minutes.

Hydrogen peroxide

This is one of the most famous and simple means, hydrogen peroxide perfectly whitens the skin of the face and gives an amazing effect. The face not only brightens, but is cleaned of all kinds of rashes.

Important! For those who have dry skin, the procedure should be done once a week, and for owners of oily skin can be two times. The course of treatment is 1 month. In a few months the procedure can be repeated.

Masks are taken with a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution:

• The yeast mask is prepared from dry yeast and peroxide solution, in a ratio of 1 to 1. It is applied for 15 minutes, then washed off.
• For curd mask, mix a spoonful of fatty cottage cheese, yolk and a few drops of hydrogen peroxide. Apply the mixture for 15 minutes, then rinse.

Important! Please note that peroxide brightens not only the skin of the face, but also your eyebrows.

Vegetables, fruits and other products

There is a huge variety of recipes based on fruits, vegetables and other products available to us:

• A teaspoon of honey is ground with redcurrant pulp( 4 teaspoons).
• Cucumber rubbed on grater, take 3 spoons of gruel and add in it three spoons of finely chopped parsley and half a spoon of lemon juice.
• 50 ml of sour milk is mixed with one tablespoon of oatmeal and one teaspoon of shredded horseradish. This mask is best applied not on the skin, but on the cheesecloth over the face.
• Stir in equal proportions of cottage cheese and honey.
• Make a slurry of melon, put on a slow fire, as soon as the mixture gives juice, remove from heat and cool.
• Grate the cucumber on a grater, mix in equal quantities with any nutritious cream and add a little vodka to the mixture. Infuse in a warm place for at least a day.
• Mash a banana with milk, apply a slurry on the face, leave for 20 minutes.
• Papaya should be cut in half, removed from the core and rubed face with fruit, intensively massaging. After 10 minutes rinse with warm water.
• Grass fenugreek perfectly brightens the skin, promotes the disappearance of acne, blackheads, red spots. We knead a few leaves and apply a slurry on the face, hold for 20 minutes.

Important! For a quick and lasting effect, you can make such masks every day. Rice broth also helps to lighten the face skin at home. Rinse and cook until ready. Decoction to filter, cool, you can even pour into molds, freeze and wipe your face with such ice cubes. You can simply eat rice.

Good berry berry masks - this is suitable juice from red or black currant, cranberries or viburnum. Wet the gauze in the juice of the berries and attach to the face for 15 minutes. Then rinse with warm water.

Any sour-milk product is suitable for bleaching, the right amount is one spoon. Take a piece of gauze, folded several times, blot it into the product and wipe your face, you need to make several approaches.

Important! Try not to rub the face strongly with gauze, with the help of light movements, the skin brightens even the first time.

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Restrictions

Before preparing bleach masks, consider contraindications, as sometimes aggressive ingredients are included in the composition, which in large quantities can harm, not benefit. With caution, you need to apply masks if you:

• skin diseases, such as melanoma, keratosis;
• face trauma, unhealed wounds;
• superimposed seams;
• is hypersensitive, thin, dehydrated skin;
• inflammation on the face.

With reasonable application and according to the preferences of your skin, all these remedies will help to come into tonus, become lighter and look younger. And if the skin of the face is in good condition and you will look much more beautiful and fresh.