Freckles - small pigment spots, light and dark yellow, located mainly on the face, hands, and sometimes on other open parts of the body. What is the cause of freckles? Why do they appear?
Hereditary predisposition, perhaps, plays a fundamental role here. Red-haired and blondes are the main owners of freckles. In brunettes, "sunspots" are extremely rare. Freckles, being a consequence of exposure to sun rays, begin to actively appear at 5 years. By adolescence, their number increases significantly, and the color becomes more saturated.
Now in a stock of traditional and national cosmetology there is a huge quantity of every possible variants of disposal of freckles.
Most cosmetic companies offer their consumers all kinds of facial products with whitening effect. Whatever promises they give, only natural products will always be natural, prepared at home. However, it should be noted that before starting to get rid of freckles folk remedies, it is advisable to comprehensively examine the body. This is due to the fact that the cause of pigment rashes can often be caused by a disease of some internal organ.
Here are some folk ways of preparing face masks from freckles, which you can prepare yourself at home.
Mineral mask
1 lemon, 1 egg, 1 tsp. sugar, 1 tsp. mineral water.
From the lemon squeeze the juice. Whip the protein with sugar. Add lemon juice and mineral water to the resulting mass. Beat again. The mask should be applied to a clean face and leave for 30 minutes. You can put a slice of cucumber or potatoes on your eyes. At the end of the mask, rinse with water, and then apply a moisturizer. This mask should be done 3 times a week.
Whitening Mask
2 tbsp. l. melons, watermelon or quince, 1 tsp. lemon juice, 10 drops of hydrogen peroxide.
Combine all the ingredients, mix them together and put the mask on a clean face for about fifteen minutes, and then wash with cool water.
Sour cream mask
2 tbsp. l. finely chopped parsley, 1 tbsp. sour cream or curdled milk .
Put the ingredients in a bowl, mix and leave to stand for 10 minutes. Apply the mask to a clean face for 15 minutes. Cover the top with a napkin with slits for the eyes. At the end, wash off the mask with tonic or water. After this procedure, apply a lemon or cucumber cream to your face.
Light whitening mask
Several leaves of cabbage, 2 tbsp. l. butter.
Cabbage sheets twist through a meat grinder, heat the butter and let it cool. Combine these ingredients and whip. Evenly apply a thick layer of mask and leave for 20 minutes. At the end of time, rinse face with warm water, and then rub it with a slice of lemon. At the end of the procedure, apply a light moisturizer to your face.
Whitening mask from white clay
Dilute the clay with boiled water until a uniform mass is formed. Apply the mask to a clean face on a clean face, leave for 15 minutes, and then wash the face.
Clay and tomato mask
1 tbsp. l. white clay, 3 tbsp. l. tomato juice, 1 tbsp. curdled milk or kefir.
Mix all the ingredients well, and then apply a cosmetic brush on the face, leaving a clean area around the eyes. Leave the mask on for 15 minutes, then rinse with warm water.
Clay and sour mask
1 tbsp. l. clay, 1 tsp. lemon juice, 1 tsp. kefir, 1 tbsp. l. sour cream, 1 tsp. honey.
Connect the components, mix them thoroughly. Using a flat cosmetic brush, apply a mask on face and cover with a special napkin. After 15-20 minutes, remove the mask with a moist cotton swab. This mask perfectly clarifies freckles and gives the skin a rested look.
Egg mask
1 egg white, 0.5 tsp. salt, 1 tbsp. l. white clay.
To prepare this mask for the face, mix egg white with salt and whisk. Then add white clay. Put the mask on your face, leaving for fifteen minutes. In the end, wash your face with warm water and apply a light texture cream to your face. Do mask at least 2 times a week.
Kefir mask
3 tbsp. l. kefir or curdled milk, leaves of mountain ash with berries, sorrel, spinach leaves.
Pass through a meat grinder or chop the leaves of ashberry, spinach and sorrel with a blender. Mix with kefir and mix thoroughly with the rest of the ingredients. Apply the mask, leaving it on your face for 20 minutes, and then wash your face with cool water.
A good and very simple remedy for freckles at home is the daily rubbing of the skin of the face with currant berries, strawberries, strawberries, and viburnum. All these products have a whitening effect.
The best "remedy" for freckles is the protection of the skin from ultraviolet rays. Especially the increase in freckles occurs in the spring with the first rays of the sun. Therefore, during this period, it is necessary to deal with their prevention. To do this, you can use all kinds of sunscreen, which must be applied every time before going out. It is possible to use decorative cosmetics containing a sunscreen.
In addition to using cosmetic products, sun glasses, a cap, wide hat-fields help protect the skin from the sun. A little change the diet. If possible, try to exclude strong coffee, black tea, carrot juice, tk. these products intensify pigmentation.