Homemade Facial Packs

Homemade facial recipes for skin tightening can not only help tighten the neck, but are also easier to make and safer than commercially available ones.

Dry skin : Make a paste of papaya or peach and leave it for around 20 minutes and then wash your face or banana too for application on dry skin for similar results.

Oily skin : Make a paste of one table spoon of honey with two peeled apples. The paste should be applied and washed after 20 minutes. Also try making a paste of a fully ripe tomato. These homemade face packs can give you a glowing look in a matter of minutes.

Normal skin : mixing either clay or white kaolin powder along with cornflower, oats and one beaten egg white. A drop of geranium oil should be added to this mix and then mixed well to form a paste, which can be then be applied and left for a few minutes and then washed off.

Wrinkled skin : Take around 4 to 5 almonds and grind it well do not add water. Blend the almond power together with 1 tablespoon honey and 1 egg white. Apply to face and wash after15 minutes. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Glowing skin : Using honey, sandalwood powder and a ripped banana. The banana is mashed and then honey and sandalwood powder are added and worked into a thick paste.

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