You can make your own nourishing products and follow a regular skin care routine to keep your skin nourished and healthy. If you have dry or normal skin, you should use a face wash twice a day, a face scrub once a week and a face pack once a week. If you have oily skin, you will need to use a face wash thrice a day, a face scrub twice a week and a face pack once a week.
Some easy-to-make nourishing skin care products are listed below.
If you have dry skin, you will need: avocados, walnuts/almonds, brown rice, pineapples, black /Bengal gram flour.
• Face wash: Soak a cotton ball in fresh pineapple juice and gently rub your entire face with it. Pineapple juice is mildly acidic and will cleanse your skin without leaving it dry.
• Face scrub: Lightly grind a little brown rice to obtain a coarse flour. Soak about 1 tablespoon of the nuts in a little water overnight and then grind it into a thin paste. Add one teaspoon of rice flour to this paste and use the mixture to cleanse and moisturize your skin.
• Face pack: Blend an avocado to obtain a thin paste. Mix this paste along with 2 teaspoons of gram flour to form a smooth paste. This face pack will help to nourish and moisturize your skin.
If you have oily skin, you will need: Lemons, oranges, strawberries, Bengal gram flour, Fuller's earth
• Face wash: Soak a cotton ball in a little fresh Lemon juice, gently rub your entire face with it and then rinse it off. Lemon juice is a relatively strong natural acid and will dissolve the excess oil on the surface of your skin as well as unclog blocked pores.
• Face scrub: Crush 3 to 4 berries and mix the juice with a teaspoon spoon of sugar and half a teaspoon of flour. Use this paste to exfoliate your skin and even out your complexion. Berries have astringent properties and are also rich in antioxidants and vitamin A which helps to nourish and fortify the skin.
• Face pack: Mix about 3 tablespoons of fresh orange juice and 1 ½ tablespoons of Fuller's earth and use the paste as a nourishing and cleansing face pack.
If you have normal skin, you will need: grapefruit, watermelon, cucumber, honey, banana, brown rice, Fuller's earth.
• Face wash: Dip a cotton ball in a mixture of fresh grapefruit juice and watermelon juice and massage your face with it. Grapefruit juice helps to cleanse the skin while watermelon juice helps to nourish and moisturize it.
• Face scrub: Mash or blend ½ a banana and mix in a few spoons of coarse brown rice flour to obtain a gentle, nourishing exfoliating scrub.
• Face pack: Mix fresh cucumber juice, honey and Fuller's earth so that you have a smooth paste. Use this paste as a face pack to cleanse, nourish and soothe your skin.
• Face pack: Mix fresh cucumber juice, honey and Fuller's earth so that you have a smooth paste. Use this paste as a face pack to cleanse, nourish and soothe your skin.
