After a long winter, we sometimes look forward tohot days. What could be better than the sun and the sea?! However, not everyone and not always the sun gives a beautiful tan and brings a lot of joy. Freckled cuties for various objective and subjective reasons try to hide their faces from the sun and get rid of annoying spots once and for all. And what about the unsightly pigmentation that appears on the face so inopportunely? Or have you overdone it with tanning? Then you should go straight to the beauty salon. But not everyone can afford to visit a beauty salon, especially since face whitening requires multiple procedures. And remembering and applying grandmother's advice, we can once again be convinced that facial skin whitening with folk remedies is as effective as it is accessible and easy to use. To prepare masks and infusions with a whitening effect, folk cosmetology suggests using the following natural ingredients:
- Bearberry - has a bleaching effect due to the content of hydroquinone, which is often used as a component of many products for bleaching the skin.
- Yarrow is rich in flavonoids, which retards most of the ultraviolet radiation.
- Licorice - rich in organic acids, which perfectly clean the horny layer of skin.
- Parsley is a very popular product, often used to lighten the skin. Essential oils, which contain parsley, can gently and painlessly lighten the problem areas of the skin.
- Cucumber and lemon - contain vitamin C and organic acids and are the main ingredients for the preparation of most whitening masks.
You can use all recommended natural elements in various combinations, as well as independent components for whitening masks.
Recipes of masks for clarifying the skin of the face
Below we will give several recipes for masks and infusions, all you have to do is choose an acceptable option. When choosing a mask, be sure to take into account the characteristics of your skin!
- Rice broth
The recipe that was used, is used and will be usedused by many generations of women. To prepare rice broth, you need to boil one spoon (tablespoon) of rice, but make sure that the grains do not overcook. Then you need to strain the broth, cool it and pour it into an ice container, then place the container in the freezer of your refrigerator. To gradually lighten the skin color, you should wipe your face with a cube of rice ice every day.
- Decoctions of parsley and lemon juice
A decoction of this will give you an excellent whitening effect.parsley with lemon juice. Apply the decoction to the pigment spots with a cotton swab and leave it there for about twenty minutes, then wash off the mask with warm water and use your usual skin nourishing product. This infusion has a strong drying effect, so add a nourishing cream to the infusion if you have dry skin.
- Spoiled milk
This recipe was very popular.our grandmothers used to do it. Gauze should be soaked in sour milk and applied to the face, keeping this mask on for twenty minutes. There is no need to wash off the milk with water, you can just wipe your face with a damp wet disc. After a week's course, your skin will noticeably lighten and your freckles will fade.
- Mask made of hydrogen peroxide
For this mask you will need to mix the pharmacyhydrogen peroxide solution and lemon juice. Carefully wipe your face with the resulting mixture, and then apply a sour cream mask. It is recommended to use sour cream of varying fat content: for dry skin, you should take fatty sour cream, and for oily skin, dietary sour cream. Hydrogen peroxide can be combined with a mixture of fifty grams of cottage cheese and one raw yolk. Use the mask in the usual way. If you add a spoonful of natural honey to this composition, you can get a wonderful nourishing mask. Another option: dissolve one spoonful of natural lump yeast in hydrogen peroxide, achieving a creamy consistency, and apply to the face like a regular mask.
- Cucumber
The easiest and most proven way to whiten your skin— use masks from a regular cucumber. Add a little chopped parsley to finely grated cucumber. Spread the prepared gruel on your face and hold it for twenty minutes. At the same time, you can solve the problem of oily skin with the following recipe: mix the juice obtained from the cucumber with the same amount of vodka and leave for at least a day. Apply to your face two or three times a week using gauze bandages soaked in the prepared infusion. If you have dry skin, then you need to add fatty sour cream or cream for dry skin to this infusion.
- Parsley
Chopped parsley should be poured with boiling water in a thermos, let it steam for ten minutes. Then let it cool; wipe the pigmented areas of the skin with the cooled infusion twice a day.
- Honey and lemon
One tablespoon of unsweetened honey andmix the same amount of lemon juice, use the resulting mask as intended. And in order to melt thick honey, you need to heat the required amount of it in a steam bath.
- A raw egg
A very interesting way to whiten freckles.You need to take the film that covers the inside of a raw egg, put it on your nose and wait until it dries completely. Repeating this procedure daily for a week, you can get rid of freckles.
- Protein of raw eggs
A common option that is usedYou can successfully whiten chloasma (pigment spots) by mixing one raw egg white with lemon juice and adding a quarter of a spoon of sugar; pour half a glass of water over all of this. Then apply to your face and leave for fifteen to twenty minutes.
Folk masks for bleaching
Berries like these also have a whitening effect:such as blackcurrant and elderberry, strawberry and wild strawberry. You can use them both on their own and in various combinations with the addition of milk, sour cream, cream. It is also recommended to take vitamin C during the whitening course - to enhance the effect. Herbs will also give you a good lasting result, but masks made from them need to be used for a longer period of time. Here are some plants that will help you in the fight against freckles and age spots:
- Yarrow
You will need fresh or dried inflorescences.yarrow (one tablespoon), whey (also one tablespoon), one teaspoon of cloves (spicy cloves, which are usually used as a seasoning), one teaspoon of citrus juice (lemon, orange, grapefruit). Crush and mix all the ingredients. Use the resulting mask as directed, keeping it on for twenty minutes. A slight tingling sensation is possible; do not be alarmed, this is normal. After removing the mask, use olive oil instead of nourishing cream.
- Rosehip
A mask based on sour cream with rose hips will also help you against freckles. Grind the rose hips in a mortar and mix with sour cream. Then use the mixture as a regular mask.
- Rowan
You can try to whiten problem spots withusing the following mixture: mix rowan, rosehip, and sorrel leaves in equal amounts and add sour cream to them. Then use as usual. It is recommended to wash off the mask with diluted milk, keeping it on the face for twenty minutes.
- Black radish
Black radish mask is also consideredan effective remedy for lightening excessively tanned skin. Take a medium radish and cut a hole with a spoon. Put a spoon of honey in the resulting depression. The juice that comes out of the radish will be the skin-whitening lotion.
- Tea mushroom
Infuse for a month a composition of two teaspoonsmushroom and one such spoon of onion juice, you will get a remedy for lightening pigmented skin. Wipe your face with the resulting infusion during your evening toilet, leaving it on your skin until the morning.
- Horseradish and apple
Horseradish combined with apple also haswhitening effect. To prepare the mask, grate the apple and horseradish roots on a fine grater, apply the resulting gruel to the face. It is recommended to wash off the mask with a weak solution of chamomile or plantain infusion.
- Calendula
Wipe your face daily with the lotion preparedfrom equal proportions of lemon juice, red currant and already prepared decoction of calendula leaves, you will lighten freckles and age spots in the shortest possible time.
- Elder
A whitening elderberry decoction is prepared as follows:Pour a couple of large spoons of black elderberry flowers into a thermos and pour boiling water (300-400 g). Let it brew for thirty minutes, strain and cool. Regularly wiping your face with the resulting decoction, you will get rid of age spots and annoying freckles for a long time.
- Celandine
Wipe pigmented areas of skinsqueezed celandine in the morning and evening or prepare an infusion of dried celandine in vodka (in a ratio of 1:5). Cover the face with disks soaked in the infusion for twenty minutes, then be sure to wash the infusion off the skin and apply cream.
- Dandelion
This mask not only whitens, but also heals.inflammatory processes on the skin. Finely chop the dandelion leaves and mix with warm milk. After ten minutes of infusion, add a raw yolk to the mixture. The mask is ready for use! Finally, we would like to protect you from mistakes. When using the mask, make sure that you are not allergic to any of the components, and check how comfortable you feel after using it. You should not risk the well-being of your skin, even if it is inopportunely covered in spots or too tanned. After all, it is important to be not only beautiful, but also healthy. We sincerely wish you both!