Home Remedies for blackheads
Monday, October 29, 2007
1). Apply a paste of gram flour and curd on the blackhead affected area. When the mixture hardens and dries up, gently scrap off with your finger tips and wash the face.
2). Wash your face. Take steam and scrub little with paste of oatmeal or almond powder in rosewater.Rub it with your fingertips especially over the affected area.Then leave it to dry for 20 minutes.Wash with cold water.
3). Take some oatmeal powder and boil it in little water. Cool it , mix some lemon juice in it. Apply on the face.
4). Take equal amount of lime juice, almond oil and glycerine. Apply on the face. It cures blackheads and also the discolouring spots on the face.
5). Apply undiluted lemon juice, three times a day, on the affected areas.
6). Heat little honey and apply on the blackheads.Wash off after 10-15 minutes.
7). Beat an egg white stiff and add 1 tablespoon of honey to it. Apply on the face with a cotton roll and leave for half an hour. Wash with warm water and pat it dry.
8). Take one and a half cups of hot water and add half a tablespoon of boric powder it, soak a face napkin in this hot solution and press on to the skin, repeat twice. Extract blackheads carefully with a blackhead remover and sterilized cottonwool. Apply astringent.
9). Mix 1/4 cup boiling water with one teaspoon of Epsom salt and three drops of iodine.Cool until it can be touched.Saturate a cotton ball with this mixture and dab on blackheads.This will loosen the blackheads so that they can be easily squeezed with a gauze pad.
10). Mix cornstarch with vinegar, apply on the area for 15-30 minutes; wash off with washcloth and warm water.
11). Apply a paste of fresh methi (fenugreek) leaves over the face every night for 10-15 minutes and washed with warm water.This prevents blackheads.
12). Mix 1 tablespoon of groundnut oil with 1 tablespoon of fresh lime juice to prevent formation of blackheads.
13). Make paste of ground radish seeds with water and apply on face to remove blackheads.
14). Take the mixture of glycerine soap, fuller's eartth (multani mutti) and almond powder in the ratio 2:1:4.Add boiled water to make paste,apply on the blackheads.
15). Apply a paste of jaggery to blackheads . Let it dry for 20 minutes. Peel off, and the blackheads will come out too.
16). 2 tablespoons fullers earth, 2 tablespoons sandalwood powder, 2 drops of garlic juice, 1 egg white, rose water.Apply it on blackheads,it definitely shows results.
Never go for squeezing a blackhead directly or it will result in a scar on your face.
Drink lot of water.
October 6, 2009 at 5:39 AM
Try apricot scrub 3 times a week.
May 15, 2013 at 4:39 AM
Hi, could u please let me know how to prepare jaggery paste? I hav lot of black heads on my nose :( can I apply it daily?