How To Get Fair Skin Naturally?

Skin Care

oi-Anwesha

By Anwesha Barari

Thursday, December 8, 2011, 16:45

To get fair skin with natural ingredients is the safest way to lighten your complexion. In a society that favours light complexion, every individual wants to be fair. However you complexion depends on your genetic makeup and you can"t become 'white' overnight. What you can do however is to use these beauty recipes for natural skin lightening. You will brighten up and the shade of your complexion will lighten by a few tones. But it will be enough to catch people's eye so it is definitely worth trying.

Here are some tried and tested recipes or ubtans as they are called in India, to get fair skin naturally.

Beauty Recipes To Get Fair Skin:

1. Creamy Turmeric Face Pack: Turmeric is the best known natural ingredient to lighten complexion. To get the best out of turmeric mix it with another yellow ingredient, besan or gram flour. Always use the turmeric fruit (it looks like ginger but is yellow from inside) not the packaged turmeric powders available in the markets; they have chemicals in them. Grind turmeric with milk cream in a blender; them mix it with equal amount of gram flour and milk into a thick paste. Apply it on your scrubbed face and leave for 10 minutes before washing.

2. Honey Almonds Scrub: Almond is a dry fruit that has exception properties of naturally lightening your skin. You need to soak 10 almonds in a bowl of water overnight. Peel them in the morning and make a coarse paste by grinding in the blender. Almonds are solid so the paste will have small particle; it need not be fine because you will be using it as a scrub not a face pack. Whip this almond paste with 1 tablespoon of honey and use it to scrub your body. You can apply the above face pack after scrubbing with this paste to get fair skin quickly.

3. Sandalwood Face Pack: Sandalwood is another one of the beauty secrets of Indian women. Apart from giving you lighter complexion it soothes your skin of allergies and acne. You can either use sandalwood powder or rub a piece of sandalwood on a stone stab to get a pure paste. Mix 1 tablespoon each of lemon and tomato juice in the sandalwood paste and apply it on your face and neck region. In ancient times women coated their entire body with layers of sandalwood paste as a beauty therapy to get fair.

4. Saffron Face Pack: The highland women of Kashmir attribute their beautiful fair skin to saffron. Don't clutch your purse, we know saffron is expensive but the good news is that you need just a few strands. Blend saffron with yogurt and milk cream with a blender. Apply the resulting paste on your face and keep it till it dries up. Wipe it off with cotton balls dipped in lukewarm water.

Use these natural beauty tips to get fair skin in matter of weeks of regular application.