Vegetable Facials - Mask Recipes and Tips
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Vegetable facials - a good choice for facial skin?
The organic homemade mask can be made with vegetables, too. The vegetable facials contain vitamins and minerals that can maintain skin health and beauty for a long time.
Each vegetable has its own vitamin levels (like retinol - is found in large dosages carrots and pumpkin) that should be considered while fitting the with homemade facial mask to your skin. Many of these vitamins and minerals are already being put in skin care face and body moisturizers and serums.
The difference here, is that you get to save money, and take care of your skin organically!
To avoid allergic responses try out the mask you use in the back of your hand for 20 minutes, then wash.
All the masks are good for using twice a week at most, to keep the natural balance of your skin. That's because fresh vegetables and herbs are acidic, and the oils can clog the pores if you use them too much.
It is the best to read first the skin treatment tips to get the best results from these vegetable facials.
Radish Mask Recipes
The radish is known for his strong impact on our health. Eating the vegetable on a daily basis can improve the whole body system: it benefits the liver, skin, respiratory system and so forth.
For more benefits of the radish visit here .
This ingredient added to your vegetable facials can do wonders to dry skin: just applying the pure radish juice at your face will smooth its surface and add vitamins to its structure.
Here are some of the radish mask recipes:
Radish mask for dry skin:
Add to radish juice (or grated vegetable – if you don’t have a juicer) egg yolk, organic yogurt and grated cucumber. Apply the facial mask for 15 minutes, then wash.
Use this mask once a week, because egg yolk contains oil that should be used moderately in your facials.
Daily Radish and Lettuce Mask
Apply a radish juice to your face for 15 minutes, then wash with moderate temperature water.
If you don’t have a juicer – add to a grated lettuce and radish some water, stir and apply on your face for 15 minutes. For an oily skin - add more water.
This mask is good for everyday use to moisturize your skin and give it strength and elasticity.
Radish and Carrot Mask for Oily skin
Ingredients
1 spoon of radish juice
1 spoon of carrot juice
1 Egg white
1 tbsp of wheat flour
how to Use:
Stir the ingredients, 15 minutes after the usage – wash with a moderate-heat water. Use this mask once a week, because the egg white dries the skin too extremely.
Benefits:
The egg white and the flour dry the sebaceous glands and clears the skin, the carrot juice nourishes the skin with vitamin A and the radish is rich with potassium.
Pumpkin Masks
The pumpkin is a great ingredient for all kind of facials. It is a low fat product – so you can use it on an oily skin, as much as on a wrinkled, dry or combined skin. It is one of the best ingredients in the vegetable facials. In addition, you can include in its mask recipes fruits, that will fit your skin type.
It has a huge dosage of vitamin A, it is rich with potassium and includes other vitamins and minerals that benefits your skin health.
It is also the best for you to combine the pumpkin in your diet, because not only it will benefit your skin, but also your metabolism.
For more information on this vegetable see this page.
Pumpkin Mask Recipe for Dry and Ageing Skin
Ingredients:
¼ a cup of pumpkin
2 tablespoons of celery
Milk
Instructions:
Cook the pumpkin and the celery for 10-15 minutes at the efficielnt amount of milk. Mash the ingredients and apply that dough for 2 minutes.
Mask Effects:
All the ingredients above, including the celery, have an anti aging effect on your skin. The mask gives your facial skin strength, elasticity and radiance.
For an extremely dry skin – add 1 spoon of wheal germ oil, which contains a large amount of vitamin E.
Use this mask once a week if you add the oil, use it twice a week if you don't.
Pumpkin Mask Recipe for Oily Skin
Ingredients:
¼ a cup of fresh pumpkin, grated
2 tablespoons of low fat yogurt
1 spoon of lemon juice
How to use it:
Apply the stirred ingredients on your face for 15 minutes, then wash. Use this mask 2-3 times a week.
The lemon is an ultimate antiseptic: It clears the pores thoroughly and reduces the size of the pores. On top of that, it also whitens the freckles and fades brown age spots.
Another Whitening Pumpkin Mask
Ingredients to put in a juicer:
Pumpkin
Parsley
Beetroot
The How to:
Mix all the ingredients in the juicer. You can use a grater instead, to cut the vegetables very thinly. Apply this mask on a clear skin for 15 minutes, then wash.
The Effect:
The mask will add your skin vitamin A and provide it more softness. Plus, the parsley and the beetroot are excellent remedy for age spots and freckles.
