Ingredients:
- Few slices of cucumber.
- Some sandalwood powder.
How to Prepare?
- Take a cucumber and cut slices.
- Make a puree of the chopped cucumber pieces in a blender.
- Add sandalwood powder to this.
- Mix well to make a paste without lumps.
How to Apply?
- Wash face.
- With the help of the fingertip, apply the mask near the dark circle regions.
- After 15 minutes, with the help of wet tissue remove the mixture.
How Often Should I do This?
- You should apply the mask every alternate day or on a regular basis if possible.
Precautions:
- While making this paste of cucumber puree and sandalwood powder, you need to ensure that the paste is entirely free from any lumps.
4. Cucumber with Potato:
We all know that potato has amazing skin lightening properties. It has a bleaching impact on the skin and when used regularly it goes a long way in helping to remove the dark patches under the eyes within a short period of time. Potato and cucumber juice for dark circles is one of the easiest and most effective remedies opted by people to deal with stubborn dark circles.
Ingredients:
- Cucumber, a few slices.
- Potato, a few slices.
- Cotton ball.
How to Prepare?
- Take a potato and grate well, run it through a strainer to obtain the juice.
- Similarly, grate a cucumber and press it through a strainer to extract the juice.
- Mix both the juices together.
How to Apply?
- Wash face.
- Take a cotton ball and soak it in the juice.
- Apply this under the eyes.
- Let it remain for 15 minutes.
- Wash well with the cold water.
How Often Should I do This?
- This juice can be applied on a daily basis.
- Make the juice daily as the results are best when fresh juice is used.
[ Read More: Homemade Potato Face Packs ]
Tips to Take While Using Cucumber:
- Allergies: Exercise caution as it is said that people who are allergic to melons, bananas, chamomile tea and sunflower seeds could also experience an allergy to cucumber.
- Quality: Buy good quality cucumbers and wash well as the skin can contain toxins hidden in the peels.
- Cucurbitacin: It is a substance in cucumber which causes indigestion, burping, and stomach pains.
Everybody wishes for flawless skin, but the common problem with dark circles is that it has always been a threat which mars beauty. There are a number of cucumber gels for dark circles available in the market for direct use. These gels can also be used by mixing it with other natural ingredients and allowing it to dry or massage it for better results. Other ingredients that are used with cucumber masks for dark circles are turmeric, green tea, mint, rose water etc. Hope you found our article useful and informative. Make use of any of the home remedies which use cucumber for dark circles and share with us your experience with these remedies.
