How To Use Lemon Juice In Skincare 4 Different Ways

When you cut open a lemon you will instantly feel the refreshing mood spreading around. The air gets filled with the citrus scent and the juice that begins to drip makes you feel the sourness. The citric acid content in the lemon is so high that it tastes extremely sour and tart. The benefits of lemon are so many that we can never cover everything about it in our discussion. Lemon juice is highly beneficial for health and is a major ingredient in beauty care. Lets know How To Use Lemon Juice In Skincare :

How To Use Lemon Juice In Skincare 4 Different Ways

How To Use Lemon In Skincare 4 Different Ways

It has antiseptic properties, also holds the power for healing and lightening skin along with fighting acnes. When mixed with right ingredients lemon juice makes a wonderful luxurious product for skin care. Such home-made self-help all-natural products are inexpensive and deliver great results on the skin. Here is How You Can Use Lemon Juice In Skincare 4 Different Ways

Lemon-Yogurt-Honey Face Mask

Facial skin is the first priority for all of us. We try out every possible remedy to prevent ageing signs, fine lines, wrinkles, sagging skin, pigmentation, dry patches, acnes, deeply blackheads. All these skin problems can be cared by the most common ingredient in our kitchen ‘Lemon’.

Cut open a large sized lemon into half; squeeze the juice into a bowl. You should be able to collect at least 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. To this add equal amount of thick non dripping yogurt, preferably greek yogurt which has high moisturizing power.

  1. Also add few drops of honey.
  2. Mix everything well until they combine uniformly.
  3. Apply over clean skin and leave for 15 minutes and wash off with warm water.
  4. You can also use this mask all over body and massage well for minutes before shower.

Lemon-Honey-Brown Sugar Scrub

Scrub is a miracle product which polishes skin gently to remove all the dry flaky dead skin/cells from the top layer. This reveals the young looking fresh skin that glows making you look beautiful.

  1. Add 2 spoons of brown sugar in a bowl. Cut a lemon and squeeze the halves adding the juice to the sugar. Also add some honey to bind the sugar granules together.
  2. Honey helps in forming the texture needed for a moisturising scrub.
  3. Whisk well until the sugar is all wet and binds together.

Shea Butter-Honey-Lemon Body Butter

  1. Scoop put few grams of organic shea butter in a bowl. Add 4 to 5 drops of coconut oil to it and heat for few seconds in microwave. Give it a good whisk so that it becomes soft in texture and mixes well.
  2. To this melted butter and oil bowl, add lemon juice and honey and mix well. You may use the electric hand blender so that all the ingredients mix well uniformly.
  3. Refrigerate it to obtain the required solidified consistency.
  4. This body butter is skin’s best friend especially during winter. It has immense moisturizing power along with healing power.

Lemon-Rose Water Hand Soak

Our hands are the most abused organ in our body. We do all our work using hands and don’t take enough care to make our hands look beautiful. The basic rule is to keep your hands free of dead cells and stains. Also slather enough moisturizer for both hands and nails.

Here is a quick easy to make hand soak which will help you loosen all the dead skin cells and help remove them very efficiently.

  1. Take 2 cups of hot water in separate bowls. Squeeze lemon and add juice into both the bowls. For the fresh feeling aroma, add half cup of rose water each into the bowl.
  2. Optionally you can also add some amount of apple cider vinegar into the bowls of hand soak.
  3. Dip both your hands into each bowl and relax for at least 15 minutes. Pat dry and use your favourite scrub to slough off dead skin.

Do try these simple DIY treatments use lemon juice. Also share if you have tried any more lemon skin care recipes.

 

*Written  By Chand

Use Lemon Juice In Skincare 4 Different Ways

5 Comments

  • January 13, 2016

    Jayanthi Parthasarathy

    isn’t this wonderful !

  • January 13, 2016

    Aishwarya Krishnammachary

    extremly useful
    thnx

  • January 14, 2016

    Shilpa Shetty

    Lemon-Rose Water Hand Soak is the best one,.. I will be trying this for sure,..

  • January 14, 2016

    Perkymegs

    i use lemon yogurt and honey. Its awesome 🙂
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  • January 29, 2016

    Pitu

    I want something for my pore and darks marks
    please any1 can suggest me