How to lighten the skin at home?

We all want to look good, regardless of age, gender and nationality. However, not everyone manages to receive a gift from nature such as fair and even skin. In addition, various diseases, bad habits and other negative factors often spoil it. But, as a rule, the first impression is the most important. Freckles, age spots or an unhealthy complexion cause great discomfort and bring a lot of grief to their owners. Lightening the skin hides scars, eliminates pigmentation, gives the skin freshness. How to lighten the skin at home? In this article, we will tell you about various options for achieving a good result.

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When to do lightening?

To help us come home remedies, which are in the arsenal of any housewife. The main thing - you need to know how to use them correctly so as not to harm yourself even more. First you need to be 100% sure that you generally need it.

Let's look at the cases in which bleaching should be performed:

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

If you have at least one of these signs, then you need to think about a brightening agent suitable for your skin type. In addition, you need to take the advice of professionals, since the effectiveness of the masks and other tools used depends on this.

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How to lighten skin?

Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers also used these recommendations, and we can trust them:

• Lightening procedures are best done in the warm season.
• Masks need to be done at night. So their effect will be greater, and if you go outside after the mask, then the results can be disappointing.
• Do not apply the prepared mixture to areas around the eyes.
• Choose only those recipes that include ingredients familiar to you; you should not conduct experiments on yourself. To make sure that you are not allergic to this compound, apply a little on your wrist. If there is no reaction, you can apply a mask to the face.
• Funds should be applied to prepared skin: before the procedure, it needs to be steamed, cleaned, it would be good to first apply a scrub.
• On average, the duration of the funds is from 15 to 30 minutes.
• Rinse off lightening agents better with a decoction of chamomile. To do this, pour 2 tablespoons of flowers with 1 glass of boiling water, insist for at least an hour. Then the broth needs to be filtered.
• After the procedures, a cream should be applied to the face. It is good in this case that it has a brightening effect.
• Procedures should be performed no 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 brighten your skin, but also nourish it.

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Folk remedies for skin whitening

Vegetables, fruits, decoctions of herbs, and some other products that we’ll talk about now have whitening effects.

Lemon

It has long been known that lemon juice brightens the skin well. Lemon juice can be applied undiluted on oily skin. 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. Using a cotton swab, massage it on your face. After 15 minutes, rinse with warm water and a decoction of chamomile.
• Pour a tablespoon of oatmeal with a small amount of boiling water, mix this gruel with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Mix everything thoroughly and apply on face for 15 minutes.
• You can make a mask with glycerin. In 1 tablespoon 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 sensation.

• Mix two tablespoons of fat sour cream with one spoon of lemon juice.

Soda

Soda has long earned fame as a bleach. Its properties are widely used even in cosmetology.

Important! This substance is very dry skin, therefore, masks based on it are recommended for use on oily skin. Soda will help cope with acne, oily sheen, and wide pores.

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

1. Combine 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 soda in a small amount of water, soak a cotton pad in the solution and apply to 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 also cleansed of all kinds of rashes.

Important! For those who have dry skin, the procedure should be carried out once a week, and for owners of oily skin, you can do it twice. The course of treatment is 1 month. After a few months, the procedure can be repeated.

For masks, a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution is taken:

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

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

Vegetables, fruits and other products

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

• A teaspoon of honey is ground with pulp of red currant (4 teaspoons).
• Grate the cucumber, take 3 tablespoons of gruel and add three tablespoons of finely chopped parsley and half a spoon of lemon juice to it.
• 50 ml of sour milk are mixed with one tablespoon of oatmeal and one teaspoon of grated horseradish. Such a mask is best applied not on the skin, but on gauze over the face.
• Stir in equal proportions cottage cheese and honey.
• Make pulp from the melon, put on a slow fire, as soon as the mixture gives juice, remove from heat and cool.
• Grate the cucumber, mix in equal amounts with any nutritious cream and add a little vodka to the mixture. Insist in a warm place for at least a day.
• Knead a banana with milk, apply gruel on the face, leave for 20 minutes.
• Papaya needs to be cut in half, remove the core and rub the face with fruit, intensively massaging. After 10 minutes rinse with warm water.
• Fenugreek grass perfectly brightens the skin, contributes to the disappearance of acne, blackheads, red spots. Knead a few leaves and apply gruel on the face, hold for 20 minutes.

Important! For a quick and lasting effect, you can make such masks every day.

• Rice broth will also help lighten the skin at home. Rice and cook until cooked. Strain the broth, cool, you can even pour it on the tins, freeze and wipe the face with such ice cubes. Rice can just be eaten.
• Berry masks are well bleached - juice from red or black currants, cranberries or viburnum is suitable for this. Wet gauze in berry juice and apply to face for 15 minutes. Then rinse with warm water.
• Any dairy product is suitable for whitening, 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 do several approaches.

Important! Try not to rub your face heavily with gauze; with light movements, your skin will lighten even the first time.

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Limitations

Before preparing masks for whitening, consider contraindications, as sometimes the composition includes aggressive components, which in large quantities can be harmful, but not good. Use caution with masks if you have:

• skin diseases, for example melanoma, keratosis;
• facial injuries, unhealed wounds;
• stitched seams;
• hypersensitive, thin, dehydrated skin;
• inflammatory areas on the face.

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When used sensibly and according to the preferences of your skin, all these products will help you tone up, become lighter and look younger. And if the skin is in good condition, and you will look much more beautiful and fresh.