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How to make skin lightening face pack?

Mix the following ingredients in a clean bowl:

STEP 1: PUT THE BASE INGREDIENTS BASED ON YOUR SKIN TYPE:

• For oily skin: Put two spoons of Multanin mitti (or fuller’s earth) and besan (or chickpea flour)
• For combination skin: Put two spoons each of besan (or chickpea flour) and grounded oats
• For dry skin: Put two spoons each of milk and grounded oats

STEP 2: NOW PUT THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:

• Licorice- 1/4 spoon
• Aloe vera- 1/4 spoon
• Grated cucumber- 2 spoons
• Lemon juice- 5 drops

How to use it?

• Scrub your skin with this brown sugar scrub
• Pat dry with a clean, soft cloth.
• Apply the face pack in an upward direction.
• Let it dry. Leave it untouched for 15 minutes or so.
• Once it is dry, splash a generous amount of water on your face to make the mask soft.
• Gently scrub your face by removing the face pack in circular, outward motions to aid the removal of dead skin cells.
• Rinse off the leftover face pack and pat dry.
• You can use this face mask once or twice a week.

What are the side effects?

This skin-lightening face pack has many potent ingredients which could irritate, as is common for sensitive skin. Thus, always perform the patch test before the first use.

Secondly, do not expose your skin to harsh sunlight after using this face pack because the lemon might react and cause irritation.

How to store?

This face pack cannot be stored.

Why these ingredients?

We have used the following skin-lightening ingredients based on research (see references at the end):

• Licorice, called mulethi in Hindi, has glabridin that reduces hyperpigmentation by inhibiting tyrosinase, an enzyme used to synthesize skin pigment melanin. Licorice also works by dispersing melanin. Licorice powder is available online at Amazon.in and Amazon.com
• Lemon owes its skin-lightening action to citric acid and vitamin C content.
• Aloe vera helps reduce dark patches by aggregation of skin pigment called melanin. Make sure that you use pure chemical-free aloe vera gel only.
• Papaya has an enzyme called papain just underneath the peel that lightens the skin.
• Cucumber also helps in skin fairness.
• How to customise for various skin types?

The unique thing about this face pack is that we have customized the base ingredients to match your skin type:

• Dry skin: Oats and milk are used to nourish and hydrate.
• Combination skin: Chickpea flour and oats help in balancing oil secretions
• Oily skin: Multani mitti and besan remove excess oils of greasy skin.

References:

• The Hunt for Natural Skin Whitening Agents
• Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Carica papaya
• Mechanisms Regulating Skin Pigmentation: The Rise and Fall of Complexion Coloration
• The inhibitory effect of glabridin from licorice extracts on melanogenesis and inflammation.

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