Shahnaz Husain Tips: Your Ultimate Beauty Care Guide Using Natural Ingredients

Plant products and natural substances are a storehouse of valuable vitamins and minerals, with definite curative and beauty enhancing properties. Natural ingredients can also be related to individual skin types and needs. A skin treatment comprises cleansing, toning, nourishing, moisturizing and protection. By using natural ingredients, these treatments can be made even more effective. Just remember that only fresh and clean ingredients should be used. Follow strict hygiene. Make less quantities at a time and keep in the refrigerator.

Cleansing And Exfoliation:

For cleansing normal to dry skin, add olive oil to warm milk. Apply on the face and wipe off with moist cotton wool. It removes impurities without disturbing the moisture balance of the skin.

To cleanse normal to oily skin, mix rose water and lemon juice in equal quantities. Apply it on the face and wipe off with moist cotton wool.

Scrub For All Skin Types For Exfoliation:

Take one teaspoon ground dry orange and lemon peels, one teaspoon oats and one teaspoon ground almonds. Add one teaspoon of rose water. Apply on the face and rub gently with circular movements. Then wash off with water. For oily skins, scrubs can be used more frequently.

Oats work wonders on oily, blackhead prone skin. Mix oats with egg white and apply on the skin. When it is dry, dampen with water and gently scrub it off the skin. The face should be rinsed off, or soak cotton wool pads in rose water and wipe the skin with it.

For dry skin you can mix oats, honey, milk and a few drops of almond oil. The paste should be applied, left on for 15 minutes and then rinsed off with water.

Toning:

Rose water can be used for toning the skin. Use chilled rose water and cotton wool pads. For pimple-prone skin, make a skin toner with cucumber and mint. Take half a cucumber and 3 tablespoons of washed mint leaves. You can get the best results by putting them through a liquidizer and then strain. Keep the lotion in a glass jar. The cucumber and mint pulp can be used as a face mask.

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Mask:

Clay masks can be made with Fuller’s Earth or Multani Mitti and are useful for oily skins, as they absorb excess oil. They also tighten the skin and stimulate blood circulation to the surface. One tablespoon Fuller’s Earth can be mixed with rose water and used on oily skin.

For oily skin, one teaspoon of honey can be mixed with egg white and lemon juice and enough Fuller’s Earth to mix into a paste. Apply for 20 minutes and wash off with water.

For dry skin mix Kaolin with aloe vera gel and rose water. Add a teaspoon of honey or almond oil. The paste should be applied on the face and rinsed off after 20 to 30 minutes.

Fruit and vegetable masks can be ideal skin-pampering treatments. Most fruits and vegetables can be made into a pulp and applied on the face like a mask.

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Fruits like banana, apple, papaya and orange can be mixed together and applied on the face. They should be mashed or made into a pulp. Keep it on for 20 to 30 minutes. Papaya is rich in enzymes and helps to cleanse dead skin cells. Bananas tighten the skin. Apple contains pectin and helps to cleanse the skin. Orange is rich in Vitamin C. It restores the normal acid-alkaline balance.

For ageing skin, take cream of milk (malai), one banana and 1 Vitamin E capsule. Mash the banana and mix with the other ingredients. Apply on the face and wash it off after 10 minutes.

While applying masks, avoid the lips and area around the eyes. After applying the mask, apply a little pure almond oil around the eyes. Then dip cotton wool pads in rose water and use them as eye pads. Rose water not only brightens the eyes and removes fatigue, but the aroma of rose helps to calm the nerves and induce relaxation.

Beauty care with natural ingredients can be most renewing and refreshing, apart from enhancing beauty.

Shahnaz Husain is a renowned beauty and wellness expert. She is the Founder, Chairperson, and Managing Director of The Shahnaz Husain Group.

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