 Skin care for winter
 Its winter and your skin starts becoming dry. You put your face packs away in the cupboard for summer. Stop!! Get over the myth that face packs make your skin dry.
The right combination of face pack powders along with various treats of nature will do wonders for your skin this winter. Follow this regeme regularly to look utterly ravishing for Christmas and New Year parties.
You have to apply a face pack and a fruit pack once a week.
Standard ingredients: (face pack)
Multani mitti (Fullers earth): 1 tbs
Sandalwood powder: 1 tsp
Honey: 2 tbs
For oily skin add:
Curd: 1 cup
For dry skin add:
Milk/malai (cream): 1 cup
Pimple-prone skin add:
Neem leaf paste: 2 tbs (exclude honey and add rosewater to make paste.)
For mature skin:
2 raw egg whites to be added to the above as suggested for your skin type.
Method:
Mix all the ingredients except rosewater. Then keep it aside for half-an-hour. Wash your face with water and then apply the mixture stroking upwards or in a circular motion to improve blood circulation. Doing the facial downwards will stretch your skin and make it lose its elsaticity. Leave the pack on your face till it dries completely. Then wash it with lukewarm water. Take a swab of cotton and pour cold rosewater on it and wipe your face in a circular motion. Apply cold cream if required.
Repeat this once a week.
Ingredients: ( fruit pack)
Ripe papaya: 1/2 cup
Ripe banana: 1/2 cup
Watermelon (if in season): A few pieces
Honey:1/2 cup
Saffron (kungumapoo): A few shreds. subjected to availability.
Oats or rava: 1/2 cup
Method:
Mix all the fruits together and mash them to a pulp. Pour honey on it and leave it for half-an-hour. Then wash your face and apply the paste in the same way as above. Leave it for 1/2 hour. Then wash your face and massage the oats or rava in circular motion to exfoliate. Then wash your face completely and wipe with rosewater.
Remember to leave a gap of three to four days between the face and fruit pack. The face pack helps the skin to get rid of the damage caused by daily pollution and the fruit pack helps the skin to glow and become fair.
All the ingredients above are easily available in Nilgiris, Food World and other shops near your home.
Next week look forward to my article on tan removing easily at home. By New Year, you'll be the belle of the ball. Deepika Sriraman
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