While most of us don’t do much with leftover fruits from breakfast, our go-to celebrities pulp them into facials and treat their skin to a cocktail of fresh fruits very often. A ritual that dates back thousands of years, these facials aren’t just therapeutic — they’re infused with legitimate benefits for the skin. Since fruits are packed with nutrients, vitamins, enzymes, and antioxidants that deliver a multitude of benefits to your skin, they’re one of the best ways to rejuvenate, hydrate, and cleanse — safely and naturally. We’re rounded up 3 of the most effective fruit facials ever, and a guide on how to prepare them at home.
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The Benefits Of Fruit Facials
- It helps reduce blotchiness, acne, tan, dullness, and zits.
- It can fade pigmentation and spots, and improve your skin tone in the process.
- It cleanses your skin naturally and thoroughly.
- It reinstates your brightness, suppleness and radiance.
- It hydrates your skin and improves its elasticity.
- It can help reduce wrinkles and tighten your pores.
3 Effective Fruit Facials To DIY At Home
DIY facials are often better than buying OTC jars not only because DIY is more economical, but they also don’t contain any preservatives that the store-bought ones might. The cherry on top? They’re convenient and easy to make – you just apply them for about fifteen minutes and then wash them off with water.
Banana For Acne And Spots
Bananas are loaded with skin-loving nutrients. They are known to calm acne and inflammation, improve elasticity, reduce wrinkles and spots, and smoothen and hydrate the skin among endless other things. Mash one banana in a bowl, and add a tablespoon of honey and lemon to it. Mix the three ingredients together, and apply this blend to your face. Let it sit for about 15 minutes, and wash it off with lukewarm water.
Pomegranate For Dullness
The pea-sized berry-red itsy-bitsy seeds of a pomegranate (also known as the arils) are known to eliminate dryness and dullness — courtesy of Vitamin C. If your skin has been feeling drab and tired, blend a handful of pomegranate seeds into a paste, and add a couple of green tea leaves to it. Apply this mask to your face and keep it for fifteen minutes before washing it off with cold water.
Papaya For Premature Ageing
Crowned as one of the best fruits for moisturising and plumping the skin, lightening spots and acne-related marks, and exfoliating mildly — Papaya is also excellent at protecting the skin from free radicals and increasing the production of collagen for tighter and firmer-looking skin. Combine it with egg white, and you have two ingredients bolstering your skin’s elasticity. Mash half a cup of papaya, and set it aside. Whisk the egg white for a while before adding it to the papaya, and applying it to your face and neck. You can wash it off once the mask has dried on your skin.
And that’s how easy it is to whip up healthy skin!
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