The addition of essential oils is another practice that is great for boosting your immunity. All essential oils come with antimicrobial properties and some of them are extremely powerful for building resistance against toxins in the environment.
The summer heat and humidity can be harsh on your skin. There's a high chance of rashes, tans, sunburns, and eruptions breaking out on your skin. Your skin may end up being rough, dull, and darker and leave your pores clogged up with grime. This is why you need to take some extra measures to take care of your skin in the summer and retain that healthy glow. Here are a few tips on some homemade natural skin care remedies you can try this summer and enhance your skincare routine.
After your skin has been beaten down and dulled by the summer heat, there is nothing more refreshing than a cooling cucumber face pack. Cucumber has multiple virtues, from hydrating your skin to reducing swelling or inflammations, battling early skin-aging, soothing rashes and redness of the skin, and so on. Grind a cucumber into a paste, add milk powder (not if you have oily skin), and an egg white. Keep the mask on your face and neck for thirty minutes and then wash off with cold water.
If you have combination skin this cucumber face mask is for you. Make a solution with cold milk, cucumber, and lemon juice and dab it on your skin with cotton. You can also try out a cooled mixture of mashed cucumber and sugar which is refreshing and soothing for your skin. All of these remedies will leave your skin glowing, healed, and hydrated.
2. Fuller’s Earth Clay (Multani Mitti)Fuller’s Earth Clay or Multani Mitti has been an age-old natural remedy used in every home for cleansing their skin. The clay is often used for its bleaching properties without using any harsh chemicals. Fuller’s Earth Clay consists of charged elements that actively separate the dirt, oil, and impurities from your skin by absorbing heat.
You can use a fuller earth clay mask to fight pimples, acne, tanning, pigmentation, sunburn, rashes, blackheads, and other eruptions. It also improves your face’s blood circulation, deeply cleansing your face and removing any excess of oil and grime, brightening and evening out your skin tone. You can apply Multani Mitti with rose water or glycerin to make it into a paste.
Aloe Vera has excellent cooling properties and anti-inflammation properties. It also actively helps in reducing blemishes and skin infections. Apply fresh aloe gel to your sunburnt skin area and enjoy the cooling and soothing sensation. You can refrigerate the rest of the gel and use it later. Aloe Vera consists of rich minerals and antioxidants which speeds up your skin’s healing process, turning the sunburnt layer, radiant.
4. Coconut OilCoconut Oil can be used to serve multiple purposes for your skin. If you have dry skin, this is your remedy. It can not only moisturise your skin but also lock it in, between your skin layers. You can also use it to deeply cleanse your face as well as use it as a natural makeup remover. All you need to do is simply rub a cotton ball drenched in coconut oil on your skin in circular motions, which will not only do the job but serve several other benefits such as improving blood circulation. Add sugar to the mix and prepare a scrub to energise and turn your beaten down, dull summer skin into glowing and acne-free. However, if you are allergic to coconut or it ends up resulting in breakouts, avoid it altogether.
5. PapayaPapaya is one of those ‘magic fruits’ that is great for your external as well as internal organs. It can help you cleanse your face, remove dead skin cells, prevent acne and other inflammations as well as heal prior acne marks, leaving your skin hydrated, soft, and young, and fit. It has skin-lightening properties and can even help with the summer tan. Blend the papaya and add fuller’s earth clay and sandalwood. Get it into a preferable consistency and apply the mask evenly on your face. Leave it on for 20-30 minutes and wash it off with cool water.
6. Gram FlourGram Flour can be used to make several kinds of face packs, to treat dry skin as well as oily skin. It is truly multi-faceted and a homemade remedy that has been used in homes through the ages.
You can use a face pack made with gram flour, milk, lemon juice, and yogurt to remove the most stubborn tans or simply with milk and lemon juice as a skin-lightening solution. Plain yogurt and gram flour can be used to not only eradicate oiliness from your skin but also act as a wonderful exfoliator. The same can be used to prevent pimples, acne, and blackheads as well as reduce their already-formed scars. You can use a face pack of gram flour, milk, and turmeric to hydrate and treat dry skin.
Green Tea has incredible health benefits and most fitness enthusiasts cannot do without it. But did you know it’s also healthy for your skin? Boil water with green tea leaves for 15 minutes and refrigerate the strained tea water. Use this cooled liquid for toning and refreshing your skin. You can also use watermelon juice that will act splendidly as a toner and enrich your skin with rich antioxidants, Vitamin A and C. Cooled rose water, apple cider vinegar, and water, or cucumber juice and Aloe Vera gel together are also effective alternatives.
8. TomatoTomato is a great preventive solution for your summer skincare. It is rich in antioxidants, potassium, and vitamins and has natural healing properties. It can protect your skin from possible skin cancer, from sunburns, reduce skin inflammation, firm up your skin, eliminate dead skin cells, moisturize, induce anti-aging to your skin, and keep your skin cells overall healthy and protected. However, people with sensitive skin cannot always use tomato juice as a skincare solution due to its slightly acidic nature. You can mix tomato pulp with lemon, or honey, or sugar, and apply it to your skin. Wash off after it's dried.
Try out these natural skin care remedies to help you retain fit and radiant skin throughout this summer.
