Beauty recipes with lemon

The clarifying mask and the purifying one. The nail bath and the skin toner.

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LIGHTENING MASK 

In this recipe the lemon juice It works in combination with the malic acid contained in apples and with starch which also has a calming and relaxing effect.

  • Grate the pulp of a apple and put a spoonful of it in a bowl. 
  • Add the juice of a lemon, a spoon of corn starch or rice flour to a teaspoon of honey.
  • Mix everything together and apply the mask on your face and neckline.
  • Leave it on for ten minutes and then rinse. 

PURIFYING MASK

The benefit comes with lemon, honey and white yogurt.

  • Put in a bowl two tablespoons of lemon juice, three tablespoons of yogurt, two tablespoons of honey
  • Mix well to obtain a very compact natural product
  • Spread the mixture on the face with a brush
  • Leave it to act for twenty minutes
  • Rinse with warm water, without using any other toner: the lemon has done its job.

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BATH FOR WHITE AND STRONG NAILS 

Le nails They need to be protected and strengthened. Lemon has this power, but it can also lighten them.

  • If your nails are brittle and a little yellowed from nail polish, soak them in a small bowl for ten minutes.
  • Mix the lemon in the bowl with a teaspoon of castor oil, which serves to strengthen them

SKIN TONER 

In this case, the winning combination is the combination of lemon juice with some aromatic herbs, rich in properties. 

  • Take a glass container and leave 100 g to macerate for two weeks di herbs chopped up like sage, rosemary and mint, the zest of two lemons and 300 ml of apple cider vinegar.
  • Shake it once a day
  • After 15 days, filter and transfer into a dark glass bottle, adding 600 ml of demineralized water
  • At this point the tonic is ready for use

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