The only chemical that is approved by the FDA for being used for skin bleaching is hydroquinone. The skin bleaching solutions and creams available in the market can contain hydroquinone in different percentages; however the ones that contain over 2% of the chemical can result in harmful side effects. The most frequently occurring side effect of the skin bleaching procedure is burning sensations and irritation of the skin. One might also experience severe itchiness and a stinging sensation after undergoing skin bleaching. Another possible adverse effect of skin bleaching is temporary reddening of the skin.

There are several instances when skin bleaching has resulted in allergic reactions. The signs of allergic reactions are more severe than the mild side effects caused by the chemicals present in the skin bleaching creams. Allergic reactions from skin bleaching products can cause severe, intolerable pain, crusting of skin, swelling of the treated skin etc. if you experience allergic reactions after using a skin bleaching skin, you should never opt for skin bleaching again. It is also advisable to perform a patch test for knowing whether you are allergic to the product.

Many of the skin bleaching creams available in the market contain mercury. These creams should not be used for prolonged period of time. Too much application of mercury based products might cause poisoning. The mercury can get accumulated within the cells of our body, which eventually damages our kidney.

Getting glycolic peels done by a professional will require you to pay a hefty price. If you are not ready to spend so much money for skin treatment but require one badly for removing the ugly pimple scars from your face, you can try out the homemade glycolic acid peels. You can prepare the homemade version spending only a fraction of the amount you would have needed to spend in case of a professional treatment.

For homemade preparation of a glycolic acid peel, you can use fruits like papaya and pineapple. These fruits can be beneficial due to presence of sugar and natural enzymes in them. Lemon and strawberry are known for their natural acidic properties and thus can be used as ingredients of home peels. However, as mentioned above the ingredient that can make your homemade peel extremely effective is sugarcane. Using caster sugar for the treatment will offer you results closest to what you can expect when treated by a dermatologist. Due to its superfine texture, your skin will absorb caster sugar more easily than regular cane sugars.

The essential oil known for being most beneficial in promoting hair growth is the oil extracted from sage. This essential oil other than correcting hair related issues is also known for being an excellent remedy for conditions like digestive disorders, pimples and wrinkles.

Hair Growth Recipe 1: This recipe includes use of sage oil along with apple cider vinegar. To prepare the mix, blend 4 ounce apple cider vinegar and 4 ounce water. Now, add 10 drops sage oil to it. Apply this mix all over your scalp and hair. Cover your hair using a clean towel. Stay like this for a minimum of 30 minutes; if possible you can even stay for 2 hours, but not more than that. This should be followed by meticulous washing of your hair. First rinse the hair well using plain water; then shampoo the hair. For best effects, use a mild herbal shampoo. It’s true that no research till date have found that using a mix of apple cider vinegar and sage oil is beneficial for promoting hair growth; however, almost every individual using this remedy has reported about positive effects.

Hair growth recipe 2: Hair growth can also be promoted using a mix containing sage oil and some other essential oils. The other essential oils known to be beneficial for hair are chamomile oil, lavender oil, petitgrain oil and lemon oil. Make sure that the essential oils you are buying has ‘100% pure’ written on their labels.

1. The first thing you should do for preventing chickenpox scars is avoiding scratching the sores appearing on your body. If you scratch them, they can get infected and result in formation of small and round scars on your skin.
2. A patient suffering from chickenpox must ensure that his skin is clean. If you have clean skin, the chances of having infections in the chickenpox sores will be much less. If you can successfully avoid the occurrence of infection, you will experience must lesser bouts of itching. This will in turn reduce the need of scratching the skin. To clean the skin use saline solution (available at the pharmacy) or mild soaps.
3. Skin itching in chickenpox patients can also be reduced significantly by applying calamine lotion on the blisters Other than reducing skin itching, calamine lotion also plays the role of an antiseptic agent. It works by reducing the fluids stored in the blisters, which decreases the chances of leaking of the fluids. So, calamine lotion is helpful both as a chickenpox treatment and as a protective measure against scars.
4. Vitamin E is useful in strengthening our immune system. The stronger will be the patient’s immune system the less severe will be his sores. The doctor might ask you to have vitamin E as an oral supplement. You can also apply vitamin E oil on the affected parts of your skin.

Often doctors recommend application of hydrocortisone creams for controlling skin itching caused by the chickenpox blisters. Minimizing the itchiness will automatically reduce the possibilities of scratching and thus prevent occurrence of chickenpox scars.

1. Look upward stretching your neck. Now, using back of the hands make sweeping motions in the upward direction (begin from the neck’s bottom and move towards the top) all over your neck. This movement must be continued for around 30 seconds. This massage is done for toning the skin on our neck and promoting flow of blood to our face.
2. The first step of this massage involves placing the index and middle fingers on your jawbone. The fingertips must be placed near your mouth and tops of fingers should be placed close to the upper part of your ears. Now, make a sweeping movement along your jaw line, beginning from the chin towards the ears. Hold your skin in the joint and count 10. This technique should be repeated 5 times. This massage technique is particularly useful for people with saggy jaw line.
3. This massage technique will require you to hold the middle and index finger of your right hand together tightly. Then, put the fingertips on your face’s right side, just beside your nose bridge. Now, move your fingers outwards along the cheek; follow this outward movement by an upward movement of the fingers (move the finger towards top of your ears). Now, hold your skin and count 10. This technique is useful for lifting our cheeks. The same technique should be repeated on the face’s left side.
4. Make a peace sign or the ‘V’ shape using your middle and index fingers. Turn the fingers sideways keeping the fingertips towards your face. Close the eyes; place the index finger exactly below your eyebrow and the middle finger will have to be placed below the eye. Now, gently move the fingertips sideways along the eye towards the ear. Keep on moving until your reach your hairline; hold your skin and count 10. This face lift massage is done for reducing eye bags. The same technique must be repeated on the other eye.
5. Depending on how broad your forehead is, place 3 to 4 of your fingers on the forehead. Now, sweep your fingers from the hairline on the left towards the hairline on the right. This massage technique is meant for reducing fine lines appearing on our forehead.

1) The ingredients that you will need to prepare the coffee cocoa face pack are: 4 to 5 tablespoon organic coffee (choose the whole bean variety), a small bowl, a coffee grinder, 4 tablespoon cocoa butter, a mild cleanser and ½ cup of organic cream.

2) Make sure that the coffee you sue is absolutely fresh; fresh coffee is filled with natural oils and helps in cleaning the skin pores from within. Put the coffee beans into the coffee grinder and prepare a fine powder. Put 4 tablespoon of that powder into the small bowl.

3) Now, add the cocoa butter into the coffee. The cocoa butter you choose must be of high quality and be absolutely fresh. The unused part of the cocoa butter must be stored in the refrigerator. Fresh cocoa butter is essential for making this face pack as with time its healing properties tend to diminish.

4) Now, add the organic cream to the coffee-cocoa butter mix. Stir all the ingredient will and you will get a paste with mud like consistency. If you feel that the paste is not thick enough you can add a little more cocoa butter and coffee powder.

5) Now one the pack is ready, clean you face using a mild cleanser and water. Apply the pack evenly all over the face leaving the eye areas empty. If you have enough pack left, also apply it on your neck. Wait for 20-30 minutes for allowing your skin absorb the ingredients used in the pack. Finally, wash your face using warm water. This coffee-cocoa face pack is extremely gentle in nature and can be used regularly.

Massage your skin: Massage works by loosening up the blockages of our skin and also improves circulation, as a result of which the exposed and open skin pores get closed. Our facial skin can be massaged with any non-comedogenic oil like castor oil or olive oil or water. When using oil for the massage, the massage should be continued for 5 to 6 minutes. The massage should then be followed by steaming the skin so that the oil gets released. Releasing of the oil will result in cleansing of the pores and the pores will also become smaller. For steaming, place your face 12inches above a bowl filled with boiling hot water or put a cloth soaked in steaming water on your face until the cloth cools down.

Cleanse your skin: The process of skin cleansing is extremely delicate; if the skin is cleansed improperly, one might develop bacterial infection in his or her clogged and open pores. People with open pores on their facial skin, must not use moisturizing soaps or soap strips containing natural oils for cleansing their face. Instead, they should opt for using a gentle cleanser or soap that is formulated for people with sensitive skin. You can also prepare a cleanser at home using natural ingredients. To prepare the facial cleanser at home mix 2 tablespoon baking soda, 2 tablespoon oats and 1 tablespoon of boiling hot water together; this mixture should be massaged onto the facial skin for 2 minutes. After that, rinse your face using cold water. Using cold water while washing the face finally will close the cleansed skin pores.

Ice your skin: Too much heat, for instance hot water or steam opens up our skin pores. Cold items, on the other hand, help in closing the open pores. AS a result, it is advisable that people experiencing problems related to open pores apply extremely cold substances such as ice cubes on their skin. This will result in gradual shrinking of the pores and finally the pores will close down.

Lavender oil:

Lavender oil inspite of being oil possesses the ability of warding off pimples. Lavender oil boasts antifungal and antibacterial properties, which not only make it an extremely effective skin moisturizing agent, but also a useful remedy for the pimple causing bacteria. For using lavender oil as moisturizer, add 3 to 4 drops of the oil to 1 tablespoon jojoba oil and apply it onto your face in the same way as you apply regular moisturizers.

Grapeseed oil:

Grapeseed oil is another essential oil well-tolerated by pimple prone skin. Washing the face using with oil mix containing grapeseed oil can help you in both cleansing and moisturizing your pimple prone skin without the risk of getting the pimples aggravated. Add ½ tablespoon grapeseed oil with 1 tablespoon castor oil and apply the blend onto your face liberally. Rub the oil gently all over the face. Leave the oil on your skin for 10 minutes and then slowly wipe the oil using a damp washcloth.

Yogurt:

Yogurt contains Lactobacillus, which is a good bacterium; it fights with the harmful pimple causing bacteria while moisturizing your skin effectively. Moreover, yogurt also helps in lightening the pimple scars. Before applying yogurt onto your face, clean the face well using a mild soap. Then, apply plain, homemade yogurt on the face. Wait for 15 minutes and wash off the yogurt using cold water.

All the above remedies include procedures that will moisturize your skin from outside. It is equally important to stay hydrated from inside. For that you will have to drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water every day.

This cleansing procedure is however not recommended for people with ultra sensitive skin or problematic skin. Furthermore, it is advisable to seek the guidance of an expert to learn on the right intensity of the exfoliate cream to be used so as to suit the skin type. In case, the scrubbing agent is severe for the skin, it may leave it injured and inflamed.

Mild exfoliation of the skin, at least once or twice in a week, is known to rejuvenate the skin and improve the effects of the basic skin care products used by the person. This process is strongly suggested by experts and beauticians as it effectively removes the accumulation of dirt, bacteria and most importantly, the buildup of dead skin cells from the skin surface. Once the older skin cells are rubbed away, the renewal of new skin cells takes place. As a result, the new skin layer looks more young, refreshing and healthy.

The easiest way of removing the unwanted facial hair is by using a clean and sharp razor. The process of shaving might be followed by mild irritation on the skin; applying 1% hydrocortisone cream on the affected region will rid you from the irritation triggered by shaving.

You can also use tweezers with tight and sealed grips for plucking the unwanted hair out. Before starting the plucking procedure, heat the face using a hot and moist towel or by putting the face over a pot having steaming water in it. Heating the face will open up the pores and the hair will come out much easily, without causing much pain upon tweezing.

You can also try waxing. This procedure is more helpful for women having larger hair patches on their face. Apply the hot wax on the required parts of the face and put a piece of rough cloth on it. Now, after waiting for about 5 seconds pull the cloth off for removing the facial hair. This process can be quite painful; so should be carried out carefully.

You can also use the over-the-counter depilatories for removing facial hair. However, before applying any such product on your face, you must perform a patch test for ensuring that your skin is not sensitive towards any chemical present in that product.