Turmeric For Beauty - Homemade Beauty Recipes

Turmeric has powerful qualities for healing. The wonders of Turmeric have been used for centuries by women, and is now catching on with men, as they join the fight of ageing gracefully. With store bought beauty aids being so plentiful and so high priced, people are finding other means of taking care of their skin, hair, and teeth, without resulting to over priced products who's price is often based on just the packing alone.

 Turmeric Beauty Recipes

Turmeric Face and Body Mask

(Also known as the Indian Bridal Glow)

For glowing skin

-1 Cup Gram Flour (AKA garbanzo flour / Besan / Chickpea Flour)

- 3 tbls Turmeric Powder (preferably organic or Indian)

-Almond Oil (enough to make a paste)

-Combine the flour and Turmeric in a bowl and mix.

-Gradually add the almond oil until a paste is formed.

-Apply the paste to the body and let it set for about 15 minutes.

-Begin the exfoliation process by rubbing the dry mixture off with your hands.  This process will also help you get rid of any unwanted peach fuzz hair.

-Wash off with cool water

-Dry Turmeric Root

- Milk

- Pound the turmeric root with milk to form a fine paste.

-Apply to face and neck and leave for 1/2 and hour.

-Rinse with cool water

-Combine Neem leaves and turmeric into a paste and apply.

This also works well for chapped lips so be sure to have a mixture on hand in the winter season or when you're out in the snow.

Turmeric Pre-Bathing Oil

For Radiant Healthy Skin

-2 tsp turmeric powder

- Coconut Oil

-Add the turmeric to the coconut oil and shake well.

-Apply oil to skin before taking a bath or shower.

-Let stand on skin for 10 minutes and then have your bath.

- If you use it only once or twice a week then leave it on 10 minutes or longer. With regular use you don't have to leave it for the full 10 minutes.

-2 tsp Turmeric Powder

- Sour Curds

-Gram / Besan Flour

-Mix the above together well.

-Massage into arms and legs as required

-Remove with cold water

-Use Besan Flour instead of soap

Helps reduce dark circles, fine lines, and crows feet

- 2 tsp turmeric powder

-Malai (clotted cream)

-Combine mixture

- Apply to skin around the eyes.

- Leave on for 10 minutes

- Remove with cool water

-Coconut or caster oil (warmed)

- 2 tsp. Turmeric Powder

- Combine ingredients

-Massage oil over entire foot, including heels, toes, in between toes, and top and bottom of foot. Pay attention to the area that is most affected.

-Put on socks (old ones because the turmeric color will stain)

-Leave for 15 minutes and rinse off.  You can increase the time to a longer period of you wish.

-Pound turmeric root with tender coconut water.

- Apply to required area

-Leave on as long as you can - you can even sleep with it overnight and wash your face normally in the morning.

This will also help to lighten skin discoloration



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The more often you use Turmeric in your beauty regime the more impact it's wonderful qualities will have. I noticed a difference after only 2 applications.  I use it regularly and have benefited from it's glow effect on the skin.

I have traveled both roads of buying the store bought, top of the line beauty aids and reverting to the olden days natural beauty remedies. Personally, the natural remedies worked better and I also found them to have a stronger staying power. I feel good using them and even better that my money is going elsewhere of importance instead of in the pockets of the beauty industry that some might say has been ripping people off for years.