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17 Best Natural Home Remedies For your Skincare Routine

17 Natural Home Remedies For Your Daily Skincare Routine

Your skin says a lot about you. How you look and feel plays a major role in your everyday life. The first thing people tend to notice is our faces. Having great skin will boost your confidence and show how well you take care of yourself. Having great skin shouldn’t always be costly. Before you spend all that cash on creams, serums, and toners, try using natural home remedies.

Home remedies for clear skin may be just the thing you need to get healthy clear skin. Although there are many great skin creams, lotions, and moisturizers available on the market, not everyone can afford them. Natural products work just as well as the expensive stuff and will cost you nothing.

It’s hard to figure out what our skin really needs to stay clear and healthy sometimes. With the right knowledge of plants, oils, and herbs, you can treat your skin at home with your own DIY face masks and oils. You may be surprised at what you can do for your skin with just some of the ingredients in your kitchen!

Do you know your skin type? What helps and what doesn’t in the quest for clear, radiant skin? If you want clear healthy skin, try these natural home remedies for all skin types.

Here are 17 Best natural home remedies for great skin. 

1. Tomato face mask

Drink a glass of tomato juice daily or apply tomato juice on your face to help reduce open pores and blackheads. Simply cut a tomato in half and rub all over the skin, letting the juice saturate into the pores.

2. Cucumber face mask

Cucumbers are high in vitamins and minerals and that is good for your skin. By applying cucumber juice or mask on your face, you will get the wrinkle-fighting, skin-smoothing benefits that they have to offer. Simply by placing raw cucumber on your skin, or mixing it with other ingredients to create a cucumber face mask, can yield some excellent results.

3. Turmeric face mask

Applying a turmeric face mask to your face will provide glow and luster to your skin. According to dermatologists, it has multiple beauty benefits such as Soothing, detoxifying, exfoliating, and brightening the skin.

4. Honey and Sugar Scrub

One of the best home remedies for clear and healthy skin is using a simple homemade honey and sugar scrub. Using this mixture on your skin will remove dead and dry skin leaving your skin feeling smooth and healthy. Apply the honey sugar scrub to your skin and gently massage the skin for 3-5 minutes and rinse it off after 15 minutes. Repeat this at least once a week. After exfoliating with a honey sugar scrub, pat your skin dry with a soft towel and apply moisturizer.

5. Avocado face mask

Avocado has an abundance of antioxidants, omega-9, minerals, and vitamins, mainly vitamins C and E. A homemade avocado face mask can be done alone or with a combination of oats/honey.

6. Charcoal face mask

One of the best home remedies for clear skin is to apply a mask made from activated charcoal. It has excellent adsorption qualities and helps pull impurities from your skin. It can also be mixed with olive oil or water to make a paste. Once you’ve created a paste, apply it to your face and leave it for about 15 minutes. Repeat as necessary, until your skin is clear and radiant. You’ll be glad you did!

7. Oatmeal face mask

Another good home remedy for clear skin is oatmeal. It contains high levels of glucans, phenols, saponins, and starches that help keep your skin hydrated and reduce inflammation. Make an oatmeal scrub by combining equal parts of honey and oatmeal, and apply it to your face. Leave it on for around 10 minutes, then rinse off with lukewarm water. This homemade scrub will also make your skin feel soft and moisturized.

8. Apply honey on your face

Honey can work wonders when it comes to beauty, it has antiseptic, antibacterial, lightening properties and it hydrates the skin. Using honey twice or once a day on your face can help fight acne and also reduce breakouts.

9. Exfoliate with Sugar

Sugar is a natural humectant, which simply means it draws moisture from the environment into the skin. Creating a face scrub using sugar and honey will help exfoliate your skin by removing dead surface skin cells and reveal the glowing, healthy-looking skin underneath.

10. Using Charcoal 

Charcoal provides numerous skin benefits. Creating a charcoal face mask from powdered charcoal and applying it unto your face daily will help cleanse the skin, unclog pores, remove deeper impurities, and dead skin cells.

11. Petroleum Jelly Vaseline 

Using pure petroleum jelly such as Vaseline is a safe cost effective way to treat your skin. It helps keeps your skin moisturized, easily removes makeup, protects sensitive skin, and can even be used to help small cuts and bruises heal.

12. Green tea bag

Green tea is rich in Vitamin B2 and Vitamin E. It also has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties which may make it an effective treatment for acne and oily skin. It hydrates the skin and reduces sebum secretion, which can lead to acne.

13. Neem leaves (Azadirachta indica)

Neem is known as Azadirachta indica or Indian lilac. It is a magical plant with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. The neem oil is believed to relieve skin dryness, skin itchiness, and redness. It also prevents pimples and skin blemishes. Steaming your face or bathing with boiled neem leaves daily will cleanse your skin and even out your skin tone.

14. Cucumber

Cucumber contains high water content, has high levels of vitamin A, C, and other antioxidants. You can drink cucumber juice or use it as a face mask. Cucumber is great for Acne-Prone Skin, can rejuvenate the skin, fade dark circles, reverse skin tanning, helps combat premature aging, reduces swelling and puffiness, and tighten pores.

15. Lemon juice

Lemon juice naturally provides a dose of the free radical fighting antioxidant and vitamin C, that may help reduce skin damage and premature aging. Drinking or applying lemon juice on your skin can help treat acne by reducing inflammation and oil production, lighten your skin,and evens your skin tone.

16. Turmeric

Turmeric contains antioxidants and anti-inflammatory components. Drinking turmeric or applying it to your skin will protect the skin cells from free radical damage, penetrate and improve the function of the skin membrane cells, which can help prevent and treat stretch marks, reduces redness, inflammation, fades acne, helps with eczema, psoriasis, wound healing and helps restore your natural glow and treat uneven skin tone.

17. Steam your face

Steaming your face daily will give you a great skin in no time. Steam opens up your pores and helps loosen any buildup of dirt for a deeper cleanse. When you steam your face, you are exposing your skin to the water vapor from hot water. A typical steam lasts about 10 minutes and does wonders for the skin. Clean your face thoroughly with a gentle cleanser before steaming.

Read also: 15 Best Fruits and Herbs For Healthy Clear Skin

Your diet also plays a vital role in improving your skin’s health from the inside out, so to obtain a clear and healthy complexion, you need to begin with eating a healthy diet.

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Jimmy Smartt
Jimmy Smartt
3 years ago

Green tea has only recently caught the attention of Indian consumers who were till now pretty happy with their cup of milk tea. Thanks to the multiple benefits that Green Tea provides this market is growing at a decent pace leading to more and more players entering the market.