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Skin Care Tip: Safe skin lightening

submitted by elva, Scottsdale, AZ USA

Tip description / details:
This is a homemade facial skin lightener and it also lightens any melasma you may have that results from pregnancy. You have to use it religiously every night and by the end of one week you will be able to see the difference in your skin tone.

Ingredients:
one cup of buttermilk; one medium sized fresh lemon; one fresh grapefruit

How to prepare:
Step 1: mix one cup of regular buttermilk with the juice of one medium sized fresh lemon. Step2: Squeeze out the juice of one fresh grapefruit

How to use:
The buttermilk and lemon mixture is applied on a clean face at bedtime. Then, in the morning, apply the juice of the grapefruit after rinsing off the buttermilk mixture. Leave grapefruit juice on the skin. It can be applied with a cotton ball as well.

Results (observed by submitter):
The results after one week are GREAT! I kept using it because I had a lot of melasma on my face after my pregnancy.

Costs involved:
very little


     




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