4 Ways Mint Leaves Can Benefit Your Skin During Intense Summer!!
Mint aka Pudina is the most common ingredient used for cooking, skincare and beauty. As delicious and tasteful it makes our food, it equally benefits our skin. It can be found in almost every single beauty and skincare products from moisturizers to face wash to face packs, face masks, scrubs, cleansers, etc . It has strong anti-inflammatory and antibiotic qualities that work wonder on the skin and make it look flawless and beautiful. We all know that summer season can be extremely unforgiving and harsh on skin. Sunburns, dry skin, breakouts and over tan can cause the to become damaged but including mint in your skin care routine can help you in dealing with all these skin troubles and the end result will be radiant and supple skin.
Take a look at four ways including mint in your skincare routine can be life changing for your skin during summer season.
Makes the skin radiant
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Grind few leaves of mint and form a paste. Apply the paste on your face for 12-15 minutes and allow it to dry, juts like face pack. Wash your face with cool water after 30 minutes and voila, you will have soft skin.
Mint helps the heated skin to calm down and soothes it.
Reduces acne
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Crush few mint leaves and add lemon juice to it. Apply the paste on the affected areas and let it set for 30 minutes. After the paste gets dry wash it off with cool water.
Mint also contains salicylic acid which not only heals the acne but also prevents them from popping out again. Lemon as we know contains Vitamin C and mild bleaching properties which help in making skin glow and reduces scars.
Heals sunburns
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Grind together one cucumber and few mint leaves and form a paste. Apply it on your sunburned areas and let it work its magic on skin for 30 minutes. Rinse it with cool water.
Cucumber and mint are both cooling agents that sooth the burns and heal the skin.
Deals with oily skin
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During summer season the skin tends to get excessively oily. Mix crushed mint leaves with multani mitti, yogurt and honey and apply the pack on your face for 20 minutes before rinsing it with cool water.
Multani mittii cleanses the skin while controlling the oil on the skin. Mint cleans all the skin pores and using this face pack twice every week can help in making the skin healthy, soft and smooth.
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Text- GirlStyle IN
