1. Ghee:
Indian women possess luscious pouts that are often prone to cracking and chapping. Indian women also experience cracked heels during winters. You can use ghee for curing both your chapped lips and cracked heels. Here’s how:
- For Lips: Right with onset of the winter, your lips start cracking.
Solution: Clarified butter or ghee. This creamy delight helps in hydrating lips like no other lip balm. Your lips get a velvety smoothness and a radiant shine too.
- For Heels: Winters or very dry summers call in the problem of cracked heels.
Solution: Clarified butter or ghee. Rich with saturated fats, ghee has the innate ability to quickly heal the cracks on your heels too.
2. Turmeric powder:
Pure turmeric is well-known for its antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and astringent properties. And here is a list of ways you can put these qualities to good use for your skin.
- Fight Acne: Turmeric has been widely used to thwart off acne breakouts. Exfoliate your oily skin with a mild scrub prepared by mixing this powder with lemon juice to solve the problem.
- Prevents Growth Of Facial Hair: South Indian women, in earlier days, used to apply a fine paste of turmeric powder mixed with water. They did this daily while bathing to prevent the growth of facial hair.
- Prevents Under Arm Hair Growth: This tip can totally relieve you from waxing your underarms. Regular application of haldi or turmeric can prevent your underarm hair growth. Plus, it can also help in preventing infections and thwart off odour.
- Fights Dark Circles And Wrinkles: Prepare a paste of this turmeric powder mixed with buttermilk and sugarcane juice. This when applied to under eye regularly, helps keep away dark circles and wrinkles.
3. Honey:
Most of us are not even aware of the fact that our grand moms used honey for keeping their skin young and rejuvenated. Here’s how you can use honey for keeping your skin young.
- For Dry Skin: Honey, known for its moisturizing properties, is a blessing for Indian women with dry skin. Regular application can not only solve dry skin problems, but also add a shine and glow to the face. It helps keeping all fungal infections and other skin problems at bay.
- Anti-Ageing Properties: Be it your lips, face or cracked heels, apply honey and see the difference. Packed with antioxidants, honey is a quintessential part of an Indian woman’s anti-ageing skin care regimen. Use it yourself to believe in what we just said.
- Eliminates Free Radicals: Along with soothing out fine lines and wrinkles, and moisturizing the skin, it helps in fighting against infections and eliminates free radicals that cause skin to age.
- Fights Bacteria: People prone to bacterial acne outbreaks should apply honey regularly to obtain relief from the same.
4. Coconut Oil:
Sincetime immemorial, we have always looked at coconut oil as good for hair. But coconut oil has many benefits for skin too. Here are few simple ones you can use on a regular basis.
- Makeup Remover: I just see no point in spending hundreds of rupees on those costly makeup removers which only add to our skin problems on a longer run. Use coconut oil as a makeup remover. Just apply about a teaspoon of coconut oil on your skin, leave for about two minutes and wash off with a mild cleanser. Coconut oil has innate moisturizing and exfoliating properties.
- Exfoliating Agent: Use coconut oil along with baking soda to prepare a mild exfoliating agent. Regular application of coconut oil on your skin will help you gain a radiant, younger-looking and supple skin. This applies to even those who have oily skin.
- For Oily Skin: The sole thing you need to do if you have oily skin – just apply very little of this oil and steam so that the oil gets completely absorbed.
- Hydrates Skin: Just mix about 2 tbsp of coconut oil to your warm bath to keep your dry and itchy skin hydrated. Regular application of coconut oil is known to render soft, luscious lips too.
- Fights Dark Circles: If dark circles are troubling you, don’t worry. Just dab a little coconut oil and subtly massage into the eye area. Follow this regularly for about two weeks and you will see the result for yourself.
5. Lemon:
Lemon is one of the most reliable ingredients of the Indian skin care regimen. And the reasons listed below will tell you why!
- Fights Acne: The natural antiseptic, antibacterial and antifungal properties of this yellow-skinned fruit are beneficial for those who have acne and pimple-prone skin. Get rid of your blackheads with a simple mixture of lemon juice and honey.
- Removes Stretch Marks: If your stretch marks bother you, take the help of this simple juice. Apply it regularly to lighten the stretch marks. This skin lightening property of lemon can also be put to use for owning a more radiant complexion.
- For Chapped Lips: This is a time-tested overnight beauty regimen for chapped lips. Apply it just before you hit the bed only to find your cracked lips healed the next morning.
- Fights Ageing: Slow down the ageing process by delaying the onset of fine lines and wrinkles with regular use of lemon juice, internally and externally.
