Homemade face packs for oily skin

Tired with endless bombardment of many ads advising you how to deal with your oily skin? Don’t get confused by the commercials telling you how this gel, microfoliant or cleanser is the best. Here you have your free easy do-it-yourself homemade face packs for oily skin. But before you choose on the right one, get a few facts right about your oily skin.

There are various causes of oily skin, thus requiring different homemade face packs for oily skin: heredity, diet and hormonal imbalances being the main ones. However, pregnancy, birth control pills, the cosmetics you apply as well as hot weather and humidity, can be causes. Your skin may exhibit characteristics of being oily and in another situation the exact opposite: a combination skin.

The homemade face packs for oily skin discussed below take the above causes of oily skin and try to prescribe a recipe that is known to work, with some of the essential products fairly easy to get in your local market, for example sage, lemon, cypress, cedar wood to straw berries and cucumber – those that you forgot to plant in your kitchen garden!

Papaya Pulp remedy

Rub this pulp on your face gently and your skin will be polished freeing it of all impurities that cause pimples, spots and black heads. Do this every two to three days and you’ll have been successful in reducing the formation of pimples/acne, thereby achieving a thoroughly clean, glowing skin. This homemade face pack for oily skin is probably the fastest to make and use, without much hassle.

Blend of Raw Garlic Juice and Fresh Lime Juice

This is a “quick fix” for your skin if you have persistent pimples on your face. Simply apply the blend on them. Apply this blend once a day and it will remove and reduce the formation of face pimples quickly. A word of caution is that you should be ready to hurt from the blend sting, but just a little. This homemade face pack for oily skin is for those in a hurry to achieve a pimple-free face within days. Try it!

“Combination Remedy”
Requirements:

6 strawberries, a teaspoon of Brandy, Rose water, 2 teaspoons of fuller’s earth and equal amount of breadcrumbs.

Formula

Mash the six strawberries and add one teaspoon of Brandy. To the mix, add two teaspoons of breadcrumbs as well as the two teaspoons of fuller’s earth. Finally, add a few drops of rose water. The resulting product is a thick layer which you apply on the face and neck, giving homemade face packs for oily skin 20 minutes to act on the skin.

The Vitamin C and various acidic properties from strawberries will leave your skin very clean. Dead skin will be exfoliated by breadcrumbs while fuller’s earth tightens the pores. Brandy helps adds glow.

A variation (for face mask) of this remedy is as follows:

For this home-made face packs for oily skin you need: 1 tablespoon of lemon juice (concentrated, fresh), two egg whites, four jojoba oil drops, mashed strawberries (1 cup) and 2 tablespoons of honey.

These ingredients are then mixed together and immediately applied to the face for ten minutes. The recipe above is enough for two masks or more so you could share with a friend! This is a remedy that is most effective when applied fresh – don’t keep it.

Orange Peel Remedy

Making homemade face packs for oily skin can sometimes be an activity full of fun for girls. This statement applies to the orange peel remedy. To make it, dry orange peels and make a powder from them. This is can also be done to ensure they’re granulated for further applications. Regular filtered water and rose water is added to the powder to make a paste on your skin. Your skin tone will be more even and acne attacks less frequent if you regularly use this remedy. Simple, isn’t it?