You have surely heard many times about the great properties of baking soda for cleaning and disinfecting areas of the home, but did you know that it is also a great product to enhance the beauty of your skin? True story! And also so you can use it in different aesthetic treatments. It is excellent for reducing the fat in oily skin, doing peels, lightening dark spots, etc. In this OneHowTo article, we show how you can use it and how to make a homemade face mask with baking soda for each of these issuess. Do not miss it!
Benefits of bicarbonate on your skin
Sodium bicarbonate is a product that can easily become part of your regular beauty rituals. It has truly beneficial properties for your skin as you will see in the following lines:
- Cleans the skin deep, as to unclog pores and thus the appearance of impurities is reduced greatly
- Helps exfoliate your skin, leaving no trace of dead cells and giving it a much greater degree of softness.
- Reduces excess fat and oiliness.
- Dry pimples and prevent skin infections, so it is excellent for improving the appearance of skin with acne.
- Lightens the skin and helps it look more unified and creates a simply beautiful tone.
Baking soda face mask for acne
Is your skin oily and prone to acne? If you're used to dealing with the appearance of shine on your face throughout the day and also impurities like pimples and blackheads. If they are a constant imperfection on your skin, then baking soda is your perfect beauty product. Among other things, it helps to dry skin, decreases sebum production and unclogs the pores, which results in the reduced occurrence of impurities and imperfections. In this case, to develop a suitable mask for acne prone skin we recommend also adding some lemon which the perfect citrus fruit to cleanse the pores in depth.
Ingredients
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 5 drops of lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons of mineral water
Preparation
In a bowl, mix all ingredients until a thick paste. Apply the mask on your skin and clean face and leave to act for about 20 minutes. After this time, remove with cold water and then apply an astringent tonic and a specific moisturizer for oily or combination skin.
Baking soda mask for dry skin
If on the contrary, your skin is dry and you suffer from symptoms such as tightness, redness, irritation or flaking on a daily basis, it is preferable to opt for the mask that we show below. In it, the cleaning properties and clarifying the combine bicarbonate with moisturizing and nourishing the honey. Which it is one of the most recommended to moisturize dry skin. In addition, this union is perfect to prevent the appearance of wrinkles, as this type of dermis tends to age faster than others.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon of mineral water
Preparation
In a bowl, mix all ingredients until blended completely. Apply the mask obtained on the face and leave on for 30 minutes. After this time, remove with warm or cold water and slap a good amount of moisturizer all over the skin of your face.
Baking soda mask for skin lightening
Sometimes we look for effective ways to help us reduce dark spots on the skin or darkening of some areas of the body, two aspects that negatively affect our appearance and image when out in public. Well, from now on you can stop worrying about this, because baking soda is this miraculous product you were looking for to clarify your skin for a more unified look and tone. This one will serve to reduce the pigmentation of those spots caused by sun, age, shaving, etc.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons baking soda
- 1/2 cup of mineral water
Preparation
Dilute the bicarbonate in water and apply the resulting paste left over on the area you want to clarify. If you want to enhance the effects of this mask, add a few drops of fresh lemon juice and let it stand for about 10 minutes. It is important that if the mixture contains lemon, do not expose your skin to the sun during treatment, because new dark spots may appear.
Exfoliating baking soda masks
The grains of sodium bicarbonate make them a perfect product for exfoliating treatments, leaving your skin free of dead cells and with a much softer feel. Remember that it is important to conduct a weekly exfoliation in order to have absolutely radiant skin. Below, we show you 2 masks for exfoliants with baking soda that you can prepare yourself and try at home:
- Baking soda and olive oil: mix 2 tablespoons baking soda with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and presto! It is ideal to exfoliate dry skin or lack of hydration skin.
- Baking soda and oatmeal: Mix 2 tablespoons baking soda with 2 tablespoons of oatmeal and a little water. It is suitable for all skin types, except those which are more sensitive or atopic.
Exfoliation should be carried out preferably during shower time when the skin is slightly damp. Use these homemade scrubs giving yourself a gentle circular massage for about 4 or 5 minutes.
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