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Sun spots are one of the most common skin problems. Due to sun lights, our skin may produce excess melanin. When this excess melanin accumulates under your skin, you will have sun spots. You can use homemade recipes for sun spots to eliminate them.
Are Sun Spots Permanent?
Sun spots can be permanent if you don’t do anything. At first, you need to prevent formation of sun spots. But this is impossible in many cases. Over the years, almost every skin type experiences sun spots. So, if you apply homemade mask recipes for these sun spots, you can eliminate them to certain extent.
How to Prevent Sun Spots?
There are lots of commercial products out there to prevent sun spots. Unfortunately, most of these commercial products include harmful chemical content. So, while preventing sun spots, your skin will absorb tons of harmful chemicals.
There is a solution to prevent this problem. You can make your own homemade recipe to prevent sun spots. There are different natural ingredients that can prevent this skin problem.
Lemon Juice
Lemon juice is the best ingredient if you want to eliminate sun spots. This amazing ingredients will work like magic when you use regularly. You can directly apply lemon juice on your sun spots or mix it with different ingredients to make an effective mask.
Apple Vinegar
Like lemon juice, apple vinegar has strong effects against sun spots. And application of this ingredient is super easy. All you need to do is dilute apple vinegar with water. After this step, dip a cotton to this mixture and directly apply on your skin spots.
Milk
Milk can make your skin look brighter and lighter. You can use milk in your daily skin care routine. Instead of commercial facial cleaners, rinse your face with milk. When used regularly, milk can be effective to prevent sun spots.
Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera gel is known for its soothing properties. But this gel is also effective against sun spots. You can apply Aloe Vera gel directly on your sun spots. Also, you can prepare a mask with this gel.
Green Tea
Green tea is often known for strong anti-oxidant powers. In addition to these powers, green tea can also work against sun spots. Dip a piece of cotton in green tea and rinse your face with that. You will start to see a difference when you apply green tea two times per day.
Mask for Sun Spots
Ingredients
- 1 table spoon of organic Greek yogurt
- 1 tea spoon of carbonate
- ½ tea spoon of lemon juice
Preparation
Mix carbonate, lemon juice, and Greek yogurt in a bowl. Your mask for sun spots will be ready in less than 5 minutes. Apply this mask on your face. Avoid eye area. Wait for 10-15 minutes. Massage your face with circular motions. Wash your ace with warm water.
You can apply this mask against sun spots for once a week. More application will cause irritation on your skin. Also, prepare this mask for single use only. This way, ingredients in the mask will not spoil.
There is one important thing you need to be careful about this mask. Since this recipe has lemon juice, you need to apply the mask at night. Lemon juice reacts with sunlight and this may increase your sun spots. But if you use this mask at night, you will not experience such problem. Also, if you have extra sensitive skin, always apply moisturiser after this mask.