Rose water

Ingredients:
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Recipe:
- Soak cotton eye pads in pure rose water for a few minutes. \n- Put the soaked pads on your closed eyelids. \n- Leave them on for about 15 minutes. - Follow this remedy twice daily for a few weeks.

Raw potato

 

Ingredients:
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Recipe:
- Grate one or two chilled potatoes to extract the juice. Soak a cotton ball in the juice and place it over your closed eyes. Make sure the juice covers the dark circles under your eyes as well as the eyelids. Allow the juice to sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Rinse your eyelids well with cool water. Repeat once or twice daily for a few weeks. - Instead of potato juice, you can also use thick potato slices to remove dark circles.

cucumber

Ingredients:

Recipe:
- Cut a fresh cucumber into thick slices and chill them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Put the slices onto the affected skin area for about 10 minutes. Wash the area with water. Repeat twice daily for about a week or more. - Another option is to mix cucumber juice with lemon juice in equal amounts. Use a cotton ball to apply the mixture on the affected skin. Leave it on for 15 minutes and then wash it off with water. Follow this remedy daily for at least one week.

Almond oil

Ingredients:

Recipe:
- Before going to bed, apply a little almond oil over the dark circles and gently massage it into the skin. - Leave it on overnight. - The next morning, wash it off with cold water. -Follow this remedy daily until the dark circles disappear.

Whitening body scrub

Ingredients:
- Oats / Half cup.
- Tomato puree / Half cup.
- Curd/yogurt / 1 tablespoon.
- Lime juice / 2 teaspoons.
- Honey / 2 teaspoons.
Recipe:
- Grind oats to powder in a mixer. It shouldn’t be powdered finely because it will lose the scrubbing effect if it is smooth and fine.

- Mix tomato puree (Pasted raw tomato) and lime juice with this oats powder and blend well.

- Finally add the curd and honey. Mix well to form a smooth paste. If the mixture is too thick, you can add some rose water to it but keep in mind the paste shouldn’t be too thin.

- After taking a shower, or finishing your bath apply this paste allover your body over the clean and wet skin surface. (Can also be used on face)

- Allow it to sit there for 10 minutes. (Skin absorbs the ingredients and rejuvenate)

- Now scrub your body with a LOOFAH pad (Available in super markets) gently over the thinner skin areas and rough over the knees and elbows. Scrub well for 10 minutes. If you don’t prefer to use a loofah, you can also scrub with your fingers for a mild scrubbing effect. But loofah works really best to lighten the skin and remove tan.

- Once the scrubbing process is complete, rinse your body with clean and cold water thoroughly. Pat dry with clean cotton towel.

Salt &lemon body scrub ‘whitening

Ingredients:
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoons Epsom salt or coarse salt crystals.
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
- Juice of one lemon or lime.
- herb of choice (optional).
Recipe:
- In a bowl combine a half a cup plus 2 tablespoons of Epsom salt, or coarse salt crystals, with 4 tablespoons of olive oil.
- Squeeze in the fresh juice of 1 lemon or lime, and stir together. Place in a jar with a tight fitting lid and use once a week for smooth, glowing skin. If you’re using an herb, cover the top of the mixture with it and stir it in after the lemon/lime juice. It will infuse the salt around it, and you can use the buds/sprigs and all when you scrub.
- Place in a jar with a tight fitting lid and use once a week for smooth, glowing skin. You can scrub it on dry or in the shower, but if you do the former, rinse off with warm water afterwards.
- Exfoliation leaves your skin soft and radiant, scrubbing away dead skin cells and allowing your “new” skin to breathe and shine. It also breaks up things on the surface of your skin that can cause unwanted blemishes. Experiment with different herbs, save money making your own scrubs, and enjoy!

Bronzing whipped body butter

Ingredients:

- 1 cup (8 oz) shea butter.
- 1/2 cup coconut oil.
- 1/2 cup good olive oil.
- 1-2 Tablespoons cocoa or cacao powder.
- 1 teaspoon naturally-derived Vitamin E oil (optional).
- 5-10 drops essential oil (I used peppermint).

- Optional:

- 2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon
Recipe:
- Using a double boiler (or a small bowl that fits over a small pot), melt the shea butter and coconut oil on low heat. When they become completely liquified, remove from heat. Let cool for 30 minutes.
- Then mix in the olive oil, cacao powder (and cinnamon if desired), essential oil and vitamin E.
- Place the oil mixture in the freezer to firm up.
- When the oil mixture is partially solidified, remove from freezer and whip the partially-solidified mixture until peaks form. (The consistency will be like whipped butter!)
- Scoop into a clean, glass jar.