Beauty treatments can put a huge dent in your pocket and at times these treatments are not effective. Lemons are a versatile fruit providing a number of aesthetic benefits. Lemons provides numerous skin, nail, health and hair benefits. Take a look at ten helpful beauty tips below:
1. Remove Blackheads: Take a lemon and slice it in half, rub the juice all over your face and wait five minutes before rinsing it off with cold water. Lemons have antibacterial properties, making it a perfect blackhead remedy. Blackheads are caused by clogged pores, and the acid called alpha hydroxyl from the lemons help to exfoliate the skin. It may sound too good to be true, but because lemons are antibacterial, they can help treat acne. Your blackheads will start to fade before you know it.
2. Lighten Old Acne Scars: Take a cotton ball and soak it with a little freshly squeezed lemon juice, and rub it all over your face. The lemon juice when applied daily will gradually help to lightens up the scars as it works as a chemical peel.
3. Clarifying moisturizer: Mix a few drops of coconut water with a few drops of lemon juice. The coconut will hydrate your skin, and lemon will clear and brighten it.
4. Lighten Your Hair: This is a perfect and gradual remedy for those sunny fun summer days. Mix the juice from four lemons with ¼ cup of warm water, put it in a spray bottle, and spray it in your hair until it's damp. Make sure you only expose your hair to the sun for about 30-60 minutes, depending on how light you want to make it. After you’re done, take a shower and use conditioner, as lemon juice can sometimes dry out your hair.
5. Strengthen Nails: Soaking nails into lemon juice for about 10 minutes and rinsing them with warm water once a week will not only help them to grow but will also remove any discoloration.
6. Lighten Armpits and Elbows: Discoloration and hyper pigmentation happens to people when there is more melanin in their skin. The more melanin a person has in their skin, the darker it will be. Since lemon acts as a bleaching agent, rubbing a cut lemon on armpits or elbows will help to lighten the skin in those areas.
7. Shine eliminator: Lemon is great for reducing excess oil. At night, apply lemon juice to your face and allow to dry. Go to bed and wash off the lemon in the morning.
8. Lip Exfoliator: Put a little lemon juice on your lips before bedtime, and wash it off in the morning to help remove dead skin cells and dried skin. Obviously, if you already have severely chapped lips that have any cuts, do not try this until they are healed.
9. Teeth whitener: Mix baking soda and lemon juice, and apply it to your teeth with a clean Q-tip. Then, use your toothbrush to scrub your teeth and rinse. It's way cheaper than going to your dentist's office.
10. Lemon Water for Weight Loss: If your digestive system has slowed down, most of your weight loss efforts will be in vain. Lemon water is rich in citric acid which stimulates the digestive system. Every morning squeeze half a lemon into a bowl and add water at room temperature. The water must be at room temperature to activate your digestive system promptly without spending energy on heat the water.
I hope you try some of these home remedies out and let me know how it turned out for you.
