Beauty Benefits of Lemon

Lemon is very useful ingredient in your homemade beauty treatment. Rich in vitamin C, Lemon juice has many qualities to improve skin and hair and that is the reason they are used in most of the homemade face packs.

Lemon juice is effective in reducing weight. Add one tablespoon of honey into lemon water and drinking this water in the morning  helps in improving the metabolism of body and reduce calories.  Also drinking it helps your skin complexion and helps to cure blotchy skin.

Lemon also acts as a natural bleach. It is used to lighten the facial hair and adding lemon juice in any face pack lightens the skin tone. Also lemon is very effective in curing the dark spots and sun  tan. Rubbing lemon half with a pinch of turmeric is the best way to cure dark underarms and dark elbows. Apart from that lemon helps in removing age spots from your hands.

Lemon is wonderful for oily skin. Squeeze lemon juice in one bowl of water. Use it as the last rinse to wash tour face. It will remove the excessive oil. Also mix two portions rosewater with one portion of lemon juice. It acts as  natural astringent for the oily skin. You can replace rosewater with cucumber juice.

Lemon is considered good for improving complexion. Mix equal amout of honey and lemon juice. Apply this solution daily on your face. Leave it for 10-15 minutes and wash it off. It gives a glow to skin and leaves it soft and supple.

Mix a tablespoon of almond powder with a tablespoon of lemon juice. This is the best scrub to remove blackheads and suits all skin types.

Lemon to cure dandruff

Add lemon juice to Amla juice and massage your hair scalp with this mixture. It will remove even the most chronic kind of dandruff. Also you can add lemon juice to coconut oil. Massage your scalp with the oil and wash it off to get a clean scalp.

Also lemon works as natural conditioner for dull and limpy hair. Sqeeze one lemon juice in one mug of water. Use this water as a final rinse and it will add shine to your dull and lifeless hair especially with oily hair types.

Apart from that lemon is good to fight bad odour from your feet and underarm.