home made face mask

Home made facial masks are very easy to make and very beneficial if applied. They have no side effects and saves lots of your money, as most of the ingredients are easily available in the kitchen. So they are cost effective, time consuming and can do wonders to one's skin. One can make facial masks at home depending on one's skin type. Regular use of homemade facial masks can make drastic positive changes to one's skin.

Facemask for oily skin-certain homemade facemasks are extremely good for oily skin.

• Keep calamine power and sandalwood powder at home. They have extremely good agents to reduce oiliness from the skin. By adding other ingredients to them we can make many face masks for the good of the skin.
• Take two spoonful of calamine powder in a bowl and add rose water to it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. When it dries, remove it with a sponge and then wash off. Don't laugh and talk when this paste is applied on your skin. It removes the greasiness from the skin and tones it up.
• Take a spoonful of calamine powder, one spoonful of sandalwood powder, add few drops of lemon juice to it. If you want, you can add cucumber juice to it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. Wash it off when dries. It clears the complexion, diminishes the blemishes from the skin and reduces oil.
• Take two spoonful of gram flour and make a paste with curd or yogurt. Yogurt has bleaching agents so clears the complexion. Add a pinch of turmeric powder to it, which helps in reducing the marks caused by acne and pimples. This pack can be used as a scrubber also. Scrub it off from the skin in adverse direction when half dries. It will remove the dead skin also.
• Take tomato juice, cucumber juice and lemon juice; add a little calamine powder or gram flour to it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. Wash off with lukewarm water when dries. It cleanses the skin and adds glow to it. Tomato has toning agents so it helps in toning the open pores caused with oily skin.
• You can rub a lemon peel on the skin to reduce the oiliness and grease from the face.
• Honey and lemon paste if applied on the skin reduces the tan and oil from the skin.
• Make a paste of neem leaves and add it with calamine powder. Apply this paste on problematic skin. It helps in reducing acne and pimples.
• Dry orange and lemon peels and make a powder. Add rose water and milk cream to it apply on skin. Wash off with water when dry. It clears the complexion and makes the skin tone even. It is extremely useful for highly oily skin.

Packs for dry skin-kitchen is full of lots of ingredients, which can do wonders to a dry skin.

• Take gram flour powder, add a pinch of turmeric powder to it and make the paste using milk cream or raw milk. Apply it on the face and wash it with lukewarm water.
• Take milk powder and add honey to it to make a paste. Apply it on your skin and wash off after 20 minutes with lukewarm water.
• Take wheat flour and add milk cream in it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. It makes the skin smooth and supple and reduces the dryness.
• Soak almonds in the water. Make a paste by adding honey to it and apply it on the skin. Leave it for at least 20 minutes. Wash off with lukewarm water. It adds glow to the skin, enhances the complexion and makes the skin smooth.
• Make a paste of gram flour and rose water, add milk cream to it. Apply it on the skin and scrub off when half dry.
• Milk cream is a very good solution to soothe dry skin. It can be added in any of these packs to reduce the dryness of the skin.

For normal skin-for a normal skin any of these packs can be applied, the only thing which has to be kept in the mind is that normal skin requires both the things as milk cream and lemon juice. But the proportion should be equal. As normal skin needs both the things a little of cream to give smoothness and a little of lemon juice to reduce oiliness. Normal skin is the best skin which requires least care and have few problems.

Make any of these packs; just add both the ingredients to them required for oily and dry skin. Regular usage of such homemade packs is extremely helpful for one's skin. One can make and apply them depending on the weather also.