Do you want fair, brighter, and glowing skin?
If you answer yes, I have 7 home remedies for pigmentation that can help obtain a fairer complexion.
I love natural ingredients because they don’t contain chemicals, are safer, and are also friendly to your pocket. Yes!
If you are short of time, like me, apply the ingredients at night while watching TV or even when preparing dinner.
Or let the ingredients work longer.
You can also multitask and use these homemade recipes to rejuvenate your hands and neck and eliminate age spots.
Lighter and brighter skin is closer than you think when you make a habit of using these ingredients on a daily basis.
7 Home Remedies To Get Rid Of Pigmentation
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Take advantage of “mother nature” and make your own DIY home remedies to reduce and prevent dark patches in the skin.
Are you using sunscreen every day to protect your skin from ultraviolet light?
That will be your very first step in preventing dark skin patches.
Let’s make these home remedies for pigmentation.
These ingredients help to clarify the skin, but if you really want them to work you need to use them often and for a few months.
You could alternate the recipes and use a couple of them every week.
Or, you can use the same remedy during the week and then a new one the next week.
Is up to you what you decide, but keep using them to see results.
Note: To prevent solar interaction is best to use these remedies at night (especially the ones using lemon) and always apply sunscreen during the day.
1. Parsley + Milk Mask to Lighten the Skin
Be a queen, like Cleopatra, and bathe your skin in milk.
The lactic acid in milk helps to get rid of dead skin cells, exfoliating the skin.
Parsley can help to lighten the skin.
To make this facial mask blend milk with parsley.
Apply over the face for 20 to 30 minutes and remove with water.
With this mask, the skin will be smoother, brighter, and lighter.
For a facial overnight treatment, dip cotton in warm milk and apply over the face and neck until is covered.
Apply with cotton and leave for 20 minutes.
Rinse the next morning.
2. Onion Juice
It might not be the ideal natural ingredient because of the strong smell, but it does an excellent job of lightening the skin.
Onions contain sulfur and vitamin C and when used as a skincare ingredient keep the skin and hair looking healthy.
Extract the juice of one red onion and soak a piece of cotton with it.
Apply it over the dark spots or pigmented areas on your face and leave it for 10 minutes.
Rinse with water.
Alternatively, use onion juice mixed with cider vinegar and apply over the age spots.
Leave overnight for a more intense treatment.
What is good for?
Besides clarifying the skin it also works wonders to reduce acne scars and fine lines.
Use the juice directly on hair to eliminate dandruff and prevent hair loss (by stimulating the hair’s follicles).
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3. Cucumber & Natural Yogurt Facial Mask
These two natural ingredients are a match made in heaven to whiten the skin.
With the vitamins, C, and A of the cucumber and the exfoliating properties of yogurt, your dark spots will be a thing of the past.
Peel a small piece of cucumber and make a paste with the flesh.
Add one tablespoon of natural yogurt and mix well.
If the mask is too runny add ground oatmeal until you form a thicker paste.
Apply over your face and neck and rest for 20 minutes.
Place two slices of cucumber over your eyes to reduce puffiness.
Wash your face with warm water and apply your usual moisturizer.
4. Blueberry and Oatmeal DIY Mask
This face mask is great to lighten the skin thanks to the fruit acids, the power of vitamin C, and the exfoliating properties of oatmeal.
Blend 1 tbsp of oatmeal, a handful of blueberries, 3 almonds, one teaspoon of honey, and 3 drops of lemon juice.
Apply on the face, neck, or hands for 30 minutes.
Remove using water.
Use it at night.
5. Potato + Honey Mask
Peel one potato, boil it, and crush it using a fork.
Add two spoons of milk (Yes, it looks like mash) and one spoon of honey.
Stir well and apply it to the troubled spots.
Leave it for about 20 minutes and remove it with a clean wet sponge or just water.
6. Aloe Vera
Aloe vera has been used from time immemorial and it is said it was a top beauty treatment for Cleopatra and Nefertiti.
To get clear skin and reduce brown spots apply aloe vera gel directly from the plant.
Use it twice a day or leave it overnight.
7. Papaya Facial Mask
The enzyme papain has clarifying properties, making it an ideal skin-whitening ingredient.
Peel and crush one papaya.
Add a few drops of lemon juice.
Mix it well and apply it over the brown spots for 20 minutes.
Rinse it using tepid water.
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Other Home Remedies for Pigmentation and Fair Skin
- Buttermilk – Just apply it with cotton soaked in buttermilk.
- Watermelon peel – Rub the inside of the peel against the brown spots. Leave to act and rinse.
- Chickpea paste – Make a paste with a handful of chickpeas and add onion juice. Apply it over the brown patches.
- Tomato – Just rub half a tomato over the pigmented skin. To get good results use it often.
- Sandalwood – Make a sandalwood paste and mix it with rose water. Use it to reduce skin pigmentation.
These ingredients are one of the best you can use to elaborate home remedies for pigmentation.
Although the remedies take time to work keep using them to see a gradual improvement.
For an effective skincare product to reduce pigmentation and brown spots check Licorice Extract Skin Brightening Serum.
If you are looking for an instant fix then better try one of the professional treatments. IPL, microdermabrasion, and peels will reduce skin pigmentation much faster.
OTHER EASY SKIN AND HAIR RECIPES:
- clay mask to detoxify your hair
- DIY lavender clay mask to cleanse the skin
- homemade flaxseed gel serum recipe
- DIY lip gloss recipe with Versagel
- DIY face-tightening remedies
Do you have your own DIY recipe to get rid of pigmentation? Please share it with us!
