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Fresh Tomatoes in Skincare {DIY Recipes}

Besides from giving flavour to your food items, tomatoes have a big list of skin benefits, that you may or may not realize. I have already posted many skincare tips and even a “At home skin whitening peel recipe” with tomatoes. In this post, we are going to look about simple and easy recipes with tomatoes which we can do within few minutes to enhance our skin’s beauty and texture. First, let me tell you in which skin problems tomatoes help.
Almost every thing! You don’t believe? I will list them out here. 
  1. Dull Skin
  2. Sun Tan
  3. Sun burn
  4. Itchy Skin
  5. Dark spots and blemishes
  6. Acne bumps
  7. Uneven skin tone
  8. Skin Darkening
  9. Patchy Skin
  10. Oily Skin
  11. Rough skin
  12. Pores
  13. Blackheads

Exited about knowing these magical skin benefits of tomato? Now you need to know how tomatoes do this much to our skin. The main season that tomatoes are skin friendly is that tomatoes contain Vitamin A, C and K in abundant amounts. Vitamin A is very essential for healthy skin while Vitamin C plays a very important role in the age of our skin. Vitamin C prevents wrinkles as it helps producing collagen and maintains good young skin texture and hence it takes place in the diet of beautiful models and actresses. Vitamin K is also meant for making your skin look younger, thus you look younger too.
  Other than these skin vitamins, tomatoes contain a huge amount of lycopene, an antioxidant.Studies found that they develop skin and reduce the redness caused due to sun burn.
So, now you got to know the skin benefits of tomato with its sources. Now let us move on to the simple skin care recipes with tomatoes.
Facial Pack for Oily Skin
  • Slice a tomato and extract juice from it. 
  • Mix fuller’s earth with this tomato juice to form a smooth paste. 
  • After cleansing your face, apply this pack evenly over your facial skin.
  • Allow it to work on your skin for 10 to 15 minutes.Wash off.
 This pack gives a radiant glow and softness to your skin, reducing extra oiliness. The tomato juice nourishes and bleaches your skin naturally while the fullers earth deep cleanses to remove oiliness. This will be beneficial in removing black heads too. This pack can be performed every other day for oily skins, after a facial steam will be more effective.

Skin Tonic for Dry Dull Skin
  • Tomatoes are not only meant for reducing oiliness and add glow in oily skins. If mixed with a moisturizing natural ingredient like honey or avocado, it nourishes dry skin without striping of its extra moisture.
  • Take 2 teaspoons of honey in a small bowl
  • Drop few drops of fresh tomato juice to it. Blend well
  • Apply this tonic over your cleansed face and wait for 20 minutes. Wash off
This tonic naturally whitens your dull skin to reveal the original glow without removing the moisture from your skin. This can be followed every other day to get model like skin within weeks.
Skin Calming Mask for Redness and Sunburns
Came home tired from study place or work? how does your skin feel? Tanned, reddish and itchy due to the harmful sun rays? Just don’t worry about it. Here’s a easy cooling mask to soften your skin and make it normal within minutes.
  • Mash a juicy tomato
  • Add yogurt/ curd to it in required quantity. Blend well to make a mask.
  • Cleanse your face with a mild face wash and spread this cream smoothly over your face and neck.
  • Place a water dipped cotton pad or cucumber slice over your eyes to cool down eyes. Relax
  • After 15 to 20 minutes, wash off with clean cold water. Pat dry and moisturize.
Hope these tips were helpful. A simple, last but not least tip, Are you a very lazy person like me? :p
Then just remember these things if you don’t have time to do these above skin regimes.
If you are a oily skinned person, mix tomato juice with cucumber juice and apply on your face. Dry skin? Mix with honey. That’s the trick. Keep in mind, Tomato always does magic to your skin in a very natural way!

Blemish Clearing Masks for Oily and Dry Skins

Strawberries are excellent sources of Vitamin C and folic acid, which helps to make your skin blemish free. It’s antioxidants rejuvenates dull skin to bring out it’s original glow. Making your own facial mask at home with fresh and juicy strawberries will be a lovely and yummy nourishment for your skin in all the seasons. Dry, normal or oily, whatever your skin type may be, usage of strawberries in your regular skin care regime, cleanses dirt, removes excess oil and fades blemishes naturally in a faster way. It also gives a really pleasant feel while wearing a strawberry facial mask because it delivers a wonderful flavor unlike other chemical masks which you do in salons and parlors. In this post, we are going to see two main facial mask recipes with strawberries, depending upon your skin type, one for dry and one for oily guys and girls. Normal skin types can use anything with light moisturizing agent like milk cream or honey (Read the note below the recipes). As this is a very natural homemade blemish cure mask, even sensitive and combination skinned people can use this without any fear of side effects 🙂 Lets move on to the recipes!

Strawberry Blemish Clearing Mask for Oily Skin
Ingredients
  • Strawberries     – 3 or 4, as much as required
  • Fuller’s earth     – 1 teaspoon (Don’t get confused 😛 Fuller’s earth is just Multani Mitti)
  • Lemon Juice     – Few drops
  • Rose water       – Required
Method and Application
  • Wash strawberries and put them in a blender. Blend till they are smoothly pasted.
  • Gather this paste in a small clean bowl, add fullers earth, lemon juice and required rose water. Mix well. This is our face mask.
  • Cleanse your face with an oil clear face wash, spread this smooth mask covering all the skin surfaces, including neck and allow it to work on your skin for 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water. 
Strawberry Blemish Clearing Mask for Dry Skin
Ingredients
  • Strawberries – 3 or 4
  • Milk Cream  – 1 teaspoon
  • Honey          – 1 teaspoon
  • Glycerin       – 2 drops (Use glycerin only if your skin is extra dry)
Method and Application
  • It’s a very simple procedure 🙂 Put all the ingredients in a blender. Wait till the mixture forms a creamy paste.
  • This is our mask and apply it as said above for oily skins, but remember you should use an hydrating face wash or soap to wash your face before applying this mask hence your skin is dry.
  • You can wait for 20 minutes and rinse your face with fresh and cold water. Moisturization after mask is must for dry skins, use a good branded moisturizer.
Note for Normal Skins : Hey don’t worry that I didn’t give you a facial mask recipe. Your skin is normal, so you can use anything according to your wish. Just rememer onething, if your skin is “normal to dry” you need to add some milk cream or honey to it and if “normal to oily” forget about the milk cream and use lime juice or tomato juice instead, that’s the trick 🙂
Results of this Blemish Clear Facial Masks
However the ingredient list differs according to your skin type, the mask has it own strawberry properties 🙂 So you do get the same wonderful results if followed regularly. I suggest everyone to use this mask at least twice a week to achieve faster results on your skin. You can feel your skin is so much cleared, became blemish free and acne scar free after including this mask in your skincare regime. It removes oil, dirt, dead skin cells and scars to give out a lovely glowing complexion! You can see your skin is lightened, brightened and toned without any blemishes like never before! Enjoy! 😀

Natural Face Mask for Skin lightening and Scar Removal

Hey Everyone!
Tomatoes have lots of antioxidants which clears out dark spots in our skin. It can also be used in several natural skin treatments like clearing acne, large open pores, wrinkles, oily and dark skin. Rubbing a slice of tomato everyday over your face, makes your facial skin surface clean, clear and scar free. Tomato juice also natural whitens skin removing sun tan as it has whitening properties.
To say about coriander, it is an excellent home treatment for pimples, blackheads, blemishes and dull skin. It also has excellent anti aging, anti wrinkle properties and reduces the appearance of moles and dark spots with regular use.
In this post I am gonna teach you all how to use these two fresh natural cosmetic products, I mean tomato and coriander 🙂 as a Anti scar and skin brightening facial mask. People has different skin types so they are unable to use all types of facial masks. The main two skin types are oily and dry, so let me give you two facial mask recipes with tomato and coriander, one for oily skin and another for dry skin :).


TOMATO AND CORIANDER FACIAL MASK
(For oily and dry skin types)
  • Mix 2 teaspoons of tomato puree with 2 teaspoons of extracted coriander leaf juice.
  • Add two drops of lemon juice and a teaspoon of fullers earth (Multani mitti) to mixture and blend well.
  • Cleanse your face and apply this smooth facial mask evenly over your face and neck covering the entire surface of your skin.
  • Leave this mask to penetrate and work on your skin for 15 minutes and rinse off with clean water.
  • If your skin is dry, you have to avoid lemon juice and Multani mitti as they may make your skin even more dry. Replace milk cream and honey for lemon juice and multani mitti. 🙂 Normal skinned people just add rose water to the mixture of tomato puree and coriander juice 🙂 That’s it.

RESULTS
  • This facial mask, if used at least twice a week gives faster results in ur skin within a month.
  • It tightens your skin, removes fine lines, wrinkles, dark spots, acne scars, suntan, dullness and also fades moles.
  • This mask acts as a best home treatment for skin lightening.
  • It is much more better and naturally beneficial than the other chemical face packs you use in parlors :). Natural skin care is always the best and free from side effects than chemical based skin care cosmetics.