Whitening face mask
Whitening mask for the face - an excellent tool for the care of pigmented skin. According to cosmetologists, special masks and creams with a whitening effect by 79.3% do their job. Regular use of such funds ensures a positive result. Freckles and pigment spots are lightened, the skin looks healthier, fresher and rejuvenated. The effect of bleaching is noticeable after several applications.
Indications for use
Whatever whitening face mask a woman suffering from pigmentation chooses, she will help in the shortest possible time to get rid of unwanted spots of the most diverse origin. If you apply it correctly, you can achieve an amazing result. The masks lighten the darkest freckles by a few tones, remove age pigmentation spots, even out the complexion, relieve various redness, pigmentation, smooth out traces left after acne and blackheads.
Possessing all these properties, a whitening face mask will make you look irresistible at any age and at any time of the year.
Perfectly safe for the skin, but such effective whitening masks are especially good to do in spring and summer, when the sun provokes a rash of freckles. The indications for their use include: freckles, pigmentation during pregnancy, age spots, redness after eliminating acne and blackheads.
Bleaching agents have a very powerful effect - they not only increase the production of collagen and elastin in tissues or remove impurities from clogged pores, but also change the structure of cells, affect pigmented areas, thereby dissolving pigment and decomposing it into components. As a result, from the spots on the face does not leave a trace. Indications for use:
- Pigment spots of various size and origin.
- A strong tan.
- Unhealthy complexion - grayish or earthy.
- Scars or scars from acne and acne.
- Complications after unsuccessful salon procedures - purple scars, blemishes, nodules and other skin defects.
- Kuperoz - spider veins on the face.
These are the cases when whitening masks cope with the task. They lighten tan in several shades, remove pigmentation, even out the complexion and make it healthy, remove scars.
Contraindications
It is not recommended to make whitening masks for those who have white, marble or painfully pale skin. Individual intolerance to the components may also be a contraindication, so look more closely at their composition. Bleaching agents should not be used if there are skin diseases, including serious ones (melanoma, papillomas, keratosis, dermatitis, vitiligo and other conditions). Absolute contraindications include:
- Severe acne.
- Sensitive, thin skin or skin prone to dryness.
- Recent cosmetic surgery on the face.
- Fresh wounds and stitches, facial skin injuries.
In the presence of at least one of the above items, whitening face masks can be not only useless, but also harmful. To engage in the removal of pigment spots at home alone, without consulting a cosmetologist or a dermatologist may be fraught with complications.
However, if there are no contraindications - an effective mask for whitening at home will certainly help in the fight for a beautiful and fresh face.
Cooking rules
A whitening face mask is a great way to get rid of pigment formations and bruises under the eyes at home, as well as an effective way to improve skin color.
As you know, to achieve perfect and smooth skin is very difficult. In addition, in summer, any aesthetic defects always become more noticeable; they cannot be hidden under clothing. It is possible to make whitening face masks at home from affordable ingredients that are in the fridge of each housewife.
If you decide to prepare a mask at home, it is important to select only fresh ingredients of high quality and apply them immediately after preparation, because no mask from natural products is intended for prolonged use. It is also necessary to select the appropriate dishes, in which you will mix all the ingredients, a small whisk and a special mortar for grinding fruit. You may also need a juicer and a coffee grinder, it crushes the bones from the berries for the preparation of various scrubs or rub oatmeal.
The most basic rule in home care for the skin is that it is necessary to apply the mask only on clean skin.
It is advisable not only to remove decorative cosmetics from the face (foundation, powder, blush and others), but also to make deeper cleansing with the help of cosmetic milk, foam, lotion or scrub. Owners of dry skin should be more careful with such aggressive procedures as peels and scrubs. It will be enough for them to wash with warm water using ordinary cosmetic milk.
Application tips
When using lightening agents to remove age spots, cosmetologists recommend adhering to the following rules:
- Apply folk remedies to lighten the pigmentation areas is necessary only for the time indicated in the recipe with a thin even layer, to avoid the development of an unwanted allergic reaction or side effect.
- It is better to apply such masks at night.
- It is best to do whitening procedures in the autumn or winter period, as the sun's rays can have a negative effect on the skin that has been bleached. For the same reason, use a lightening cream or other means preferably in the evening before bedtime.
- For the entire period of use of bleaching cosmetics should treat the skin with sunscreen against ultraviolet rays.
Each tool is recommended to pre-test for the occurrence of an allergic reaction, for which you need to put it on the skin in the elbow and wait for half an hour. If redness or itching does not occur, you can safely apply this mask or cream. Apply bleaching masks should be only on cleansed from cosmetics and dirt on the skin of the face scrub or cleansing tonic. Masks and creams with the effect of lightening can be used not only for the face, but also for the neckline.
Perfectly suited for oily and combination skin.
The best recipes at home
In order to correctly choose the popular recipe for a whitening face mask, be guided by the type of your skin and the availability of the ingredients that make up the mask. Such means stand on the face for about twenty minutes and wash off with cool water. Before applying the mask, do not forget to put the prepared mixture on your wrist: this will help to find out how your skin will perceive the prepared composition.
Of the products, lemon, sour cream, cucumber, cottage cheese, milk, oatmeal and parsley have excellent whitening properties for the skin.
- With lemon. Lemon pulp must be turned into a pulp and applied to the face, then rinse with water. Mask is not recommended if acne is present on the skin.
- Lemon with sour cream. Pulp or freshly squeezed lemon juice (tablespoon) mixed with sour cream (2 tablespoons) and apply on face. Then rinse with warm water.
- Cucumber. Cucumber, peeled, crushed to a mushy state, mix one tablespoon with the same amount of sour cream and a teaspoon of pulp or lemon juice.
Another wonderful mask: rub cucumber on a grater (with skin) and mix it in equal proportions with whitening cream: the effect will exceed all expectations.
- Cottage cheese and honey. Mix one tablespoon of cottage cheese with the same amount of honey. The peculiarity of the mask is that the mixture should be kneaded for a long time, until it looks like a cream by its consistency.
- Curd-yolk. Cottage cheese (100 g) mixed with egg yolk and hydrogen peroxide (5 g). You can add a teaspoon of honey to the mixture: then the mask will become more nourishing.
- Oatmeal. Chop the oatmeal into flour using a coffee grinder, mix one tablespoon with the protein, pre-whipped into the foam.
- From parsley Chop parsley leaves, mix (2 tablespoons) with the same amount of sour cream, apply on face for twenty minutes, rinse with warm water.
To prepare a mask of sour cream and parsley, you need to take the following ingredients: a few spoons of sour cream or cream, a few drops of lemon juice and chopped parsley. In order to get a quick whitening effect, it is enough to put a mask on the face (excluding the eyelid area) and keep the skin on for 15 minutes.
- Sour cream and onion. Onion juice one tablespoon mixed with sour cream (2 tbsp.) Add honey (1 tsp.), Apply to age spots or the entire surface of the skin.
- Dairy. Oat flakes (1 tbsp.) Mix with warm, sour milk to obtain a thick mass and apply on the skin.
- Yeast. The mask is very useful, as there are many group B vitamins in yeast. For its preparation you will need: yeast (one packet), milk (if dry skin, you need to take it with a large percentage of fat).
All components are mixed to form a thick consistency. After that, the mixture is applied to the face for half an hour, then washed off with running water.
- Strawberry. Lightening mask helps to quickly deal with freckles or pigmentation after acne eruptions. For the preparation of such a means you need to take fresh strawberries and pound it in mashed potatoes. The mixture should be applied to the face with a sponge and hold on the skin for ten to fifteen minutes.
- From starch. Starch whitening face mask also helps to improve the condition of the dermis and helps to cope with the problem of darkened areas on the skin. For the preparation of funds, you need to take in the same amount of lemon juice and starch, mix and apply for 20 minutes. Then rinse under running water.
- With herbs. The mask is suitable for any skin type, but can cause severe dryness. It contains the following components: agave, hop cones, St. John's wort, strawberry leaves and egg yolk. From the herbs you need to make a decoction, and then add lemon juice and yolk to it, then apply the mask on the skin and hold for fifteen minutes.
Traditional recipes based on decoctions of herbs help to cope with the problem of black acne on the face and restore the function of the sebaceous ducts and glands, as well as whiten.
- With turmeric. Take an equal amount of turmeric powder and rice flour, add a little milk and tomato juice to form a paste. Apply the paste on the face, neck and décolleté, leave for half an hour. Wash the mixture with warm water.
This home remedy is considered very effective. The mask brightens the skin, with regular use makes it radiant and healthy.
- Another recipe: take turmeric powder and lemon juice (or cucumber juice) and mix to form a paste.. Apply the mixture to the affected skin for half an hour and rinse with clean water. Regular use reduces pigmentation and relieves sunburn.
- With aspirin. Ingredients for the mask: aspirin (3 tablets) and liquid honey (5 ml). Crush into powder aspirin in a saucer. Add to it 3-4 drops of boiled warm water and honey. Stir and apply to the problem areas with massage movements.Wait twenty minutes.
- Another effective composition, the ingredients of which are as follows: salicylic acid (3 tablets), liquid honey (12 gr.), aloe juice (5 ml). Crush aspirin, add the rest of the ingredients to it and mix well. Aspirin composition is applied in a thin layer and lasts for twenty minutes.
- From blue clay. Ingredients for blue clay masks: aspirin (6 tablets), lemon juice (5 ml), melted honey (12 gr.), Blue clay (12 gr.), Salt (10 gr.). Dissolve the salt in the lemon juice, strain the solution so that there is no sediment. Then add the remaining components. Hold the mask for twenty minutes, then rinse with water.
- From soda. For the mask will need: baking soda - 1 tbsp.; vitamin A in oil form - 2 drops; vitamin E - 4 drops; hydrogen peroxide 3% - 2 tbsp; oatmeal - 1 tbsp. l .; natural badyag - 0.5 tsp. First, mix the dry ingredients - baking soda, badyagu and oatmeal. Add vitamins to the mixture. Dilute the composition with hydrogen peroxide. The mask should be applied only to the areas of freckles and pigment spots. Keep the composition on the skin for no more than 15 minutes.
Remember that its composition is aggressive, try not to apply to places that do not need to be subjected to deep bleaching. After 15 minutes, rinse with plenty of water and apply natural olive oil to the skin.
If during the procedure any discomfort (burning, tingling), immediately wash off the composition.
- Potato. Mask from potatoes has an excellent whitening effect, so it is considered the most effective. Ingredients: one potato, milk (150 ml), cucumber juice (30 ml). Boil the potatoes in milk, mash it and add cucumber juice. This mixture effectively whitens the skin, eliminating pigment spots.
More recipes for whitening skin, see the following video.
Popular manufacturers
Cosmetics intended for the care of pigmented skin, improves the complexion, cleans, brightens even dark spots. Pharmaceuticals, masks, which include active ingredients, have a regenerating, regenerating effect.
The Korean brands of whitening, moisturizing and refreshing masks and creams have proven themselves well.
- "White flax". Whitening mask brand Floresan provides active whitening of the skin, evens out its color, brightens pigment spots and freckles. The complex of fruit acids removes the upper dead skin layer of the epidermis, brightens the skin and evens the complexion, and also promotes the penetration of active whitening ingredients into the deeper layers of the skin.
Vitamin C, bearberry and orange extracts have an active whitening effect, reducing melanin production in the deeper layers of the skin. Extracts of flax seeds and green tea nourish, soften and make the skin more elastic and soft.
Whitening mask feedback "White flax" - in the video below.
- Bielita-Bitex. The mask is designed for whitening and deep cleansing of pigmented skin. It brightens and cleanses the skin, promotes the renewal of epidermal cells, improves firmness and elasticity.
Whitening mask experiment from Bielita-Bitex See the next video.
- Miracle Glow. Wonderful face mask, with which you can remove freckles, rejuvenate the skin and deal with such a problem as age spots.
- Premium. Through a combination of active ingredients with a different mechanism of action, the skin is effectively whitened, intensively nourished, deeply moisturized, and reliable antioxidant protection.
Effectively to eliminate such manifestations of skin hyperpigmentation, such as chloasma, age spots after intensive insolation, post-traumatic age spots, freckles.
- Holy Land. The brand produces a very active cream and a mask for lightening age spots. The peculiarity of its use is that it can cause skin redness. That is why this effective remedy should be applied as prescribed and under the supervision of a physician.
- "Black Pearl". The brand produces cosmetics for women of different ages. The assortment of "Black Pearl" has masks and creams that contain bleaching components. They gently affect the skin, lightening pigmentation and freckles.
- Dr. Sea. Mask-plasticizer "Dr. Sea" gently removes dead skin cells, stimulates skin renewal, reduces and prevents dehydration, evens the texture: bumps and wrinkles. Refreshes the complexion, has a lightening, tightening effect.
Contains Dead Sea minerals, pearl powder and vitamin C. Suitable for all skin types.
- "Ahromin". Active cleansing and bleaching tissue mask with active ingredients. Designed to combat the manifestations of aging skin, reduces the intensity of age spots and evens out uneven facial tone.
It has noticeable effects of lightening and moisturizing, as well as skin cleansing.
- Natura Siberica. Whitening night face mask "Black Currant". Arctic black currant has natural whitening properties, lightens freckles and dark pigment spots, speeds up the metabolism in the skin cells. The Siberian benthole component activates collagen synthesis, strengthens and moisturizes the skin, eliminates irritation, making it soft. Lemongrass Nanai has a tonic effect.
It enhances the protective functions, stimulates the metabolism, renewing and rejuvenating it.
Natural active extract from turmeric root, has brightening properties. It visually brightens hyperpigmentation, eliminates freckles, acne and other skin imperfections, significantly improves skin tone, improves elasticity, deeply nourishes, gives it shine and even tone.
Reviews
Purchasing whitening masks give a quick effect, which is noticeable after several applications. This opinion came from many women who used bleaching agents from popular manufacturers. Most of the positive feedback from the mask "Whitening" Belarusian brand Bielita-Bitex. It is inexpensive, has a pleasant texture, in the composition there are fruit acids. The mask tightens pores, removes pigmentation, cleanses the skin, evens out skin color, and is economical to spend.
In addition, effective whitening masks can be done independently at home. Among the shortcomings: a possible allergic reaction, not suitable for sensitive skin, there are a number of contraindications.