Homemade Chinese herbal whitening and spot removal mask

With the improvement of living standards, people's pursuit of beauty is getting higher and higher, so applying facial masks has become an indispensable part of people's daily life. There are many ways to make Chinese medicine whitening and freckle-removing masks, but they are all similar and very simple and easy to learn. You only need to prepare the necessary materials and tools, and then follow the given steps step by step to complete it. Interested friends can try to make it themselves.

11. Lily mask: 10g dried lily, 50g coix seed 1. Wash the dried lily and soak it until soft. Wash the coix seeds thoroughly. 2 Cook the soaked lily and coix seeds together, and simmer over low heat until it becomes porridge. 3 Eat one bowl every night, and apply the remaining 50 mg on your face for 30 minutes. Efficacy: Soothes the mind, nourishes the skin, removes freckles.

2 Lily contains colchicine which is poisonous. It is not suitable to eat fresh lily for a long time, but dried lily should be used. After soaking in water, the concentration of colchicine will be greatly reduced and poisoning reactions generally will not occur. 2. Atractylodes macrocephala mask 60 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala and 100 ml of rice vinegar 1. Cut the Atractylodes macrocephala into thin slices. 2 Soak the Atractylodes macrocephala slices in white rice vinegar for 7 days. 3 Apply white atractylodes vinegar to freckles or dark spots for more than half a month, once a day. Efficacy: Atractylodes is rich in vitamin A and other substances, which can enhance the metabolism of skin cells and promote the excretion of melanin. Vinegar can soften and fall off keratin cells, thereby eliminating freckles and black spots. ※Atractylodes macrocephala is available at Chinese medicine stores※White rice vinegar (white edible vinegar) 3. Poria mask White Poria 15g White honey 30g 1 Grind the white Poria into fine powder. 2 Mix honey and Poria cocos into a paste. 3 Apply on your face before going to bed at night and wash off with clean water the next morning. Efficacy: This mask nourishes the skin and eliminates age spots and chloasma. Ancient doctors believed that Poria cocos can dissolve all dark spots and scars, and when used with honey, it can both nourish the skin and lighten pigmentation spots. 4. Plum kernel mask 15g plum kernel 1 egg white 1 Remove the hard shell of the plum core and the plum kernel and grind it into fine powder. 2 Add egg white and diced plum kernels. 3 Apply on your face before going to bed every night and wash off with clean water the next morning. Efficacy: This mask can remove chloasma and other dark spots. Plum kernels contain fruit acid and vitamin E, which have the effect of removing spots and beautifying the skin. Fruit acid has a significant freckle removal effect and is widely used in modern cosmetics.

3 Ancient doctors highly praised the beauty effect of plum kernel facial mask. Chen Bangxian, a famous medical scientist in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, specially studied plum kernel and proved that plum kernel powder mixed with egg white can indeed have the effect of removing freckles. 5. Silkworm Mask White Silkworm 20g Water 30mg 1 Dry the white silkworm and grind it into powder. 2 Use clean water to mix the white silkworm powder into a paste. 3 Apply this on your face every night and wash it off the next morning. Efficacy: This mask can remove chloasma, age spots and sun spots. The "Shennong Bencao Jing" records that white silkworm has the effect of "eliminating black spots and improving complexion". Current research shows that white silkworm contains amino acids and active mercerin, which have skin nourishing and beauty-enhancing effects. The protein contained in silkworm pupa can stimulate the sebaceous glands and regulate the secretion of sex hormones. Therefore, it has a certain therapeutic effect on chloasma caused by imbalance of female sex hormone secretion. Bombyx batryticatus contains 9.89% vitamin E, which can scavenge free radicals and resist age spots formed by lipid oxidation. The active mercerin it contains can promote the regeneration of skin cells, regulate sebum, improve skin microcirculation, whiten and protect against the sun, eliminate pigmentation and maintain skin elasticity. The Japanese are very fond of using silk health products. If there is no silkworm, silkworm cocoons or silkworm pupae can be used instead. 6. Salt and vinegar mask: 2 grams of salt, 12 grams of angelica, 6 grams of chrysanthemum powder, 6 milligrams of white vinegar. 1 Go to a Chinese medicine store to buy angelica and chrysanthemum, and grind them into fine powder. 2 Add white vinegar (edible vinegar) and water to salt, angelica dahurica and chrysanthemum powder and mix into a paste. 3 Apply on face at night and wash off after 30 minutes.

4 Effects: This formula has the effect of removing various pigments from the face. The salt in the formula detoxifies and cleanses the skin, angelica dahurica promotes blood circulation and removes spots, chrysanthemum is antibacterial and beautifies, and white vinegar removes spots and whitens the skin. The combination of medicine and food can help remove facial pigmentation. I think the Atractylodes macrocephala mask is good, because I also have spots on my face! I heard from a good friend that she used it for a while and it was good. Her skin became smoother and the spots were obviously lighter. The effect was seen after about a week of use.