One of the inexpensive and effective home remedies that help get rid of acne, whiten the skin and lighten the hair on your face, is hydrogen peroxide. However, being very active, this tool can do much harm. Today we will talk about the most effective masks prescriptions and precautions that should be taken into account when using hydrogen peroxide for the face.
How does hydrogen peroxide work?
Hydrogen peroxide, roughly speaking, consists of water and one more oxygen atom. In nature, this compound is not very common, as it collapses in contact with living matter.
Getting on the skin, peroxide breaks down into water and oxygen, due to which the oxidation reaction takes place, kills microbes and brightens the skin. It is thanks to this property that peroxide is actively used in medicine and in cosmetology as an antiseptic and bleaching agent.
However, the oxidation reaction is quite unsafe for the skin - white specks that remain from peroxide are nothing but burns. Free oxygen burns the discharge streams of the sebaceous glands, because of which there is a false impression that the skin has become less fatty. To cleanse with hydrogen peroxide is not harmful, it is important to follow the precautions described below.
How to safely use peroxide?
For cosmetic purposes, you need to use the weakest peroxide solution - 3%. Even this concentration is unsafe, so it is better to dilute the substance with tonic or add to the mask.
Apply the drug on the skin pointwise - only on the damaged and inflamed patches, but in no case the whole face.
Purification and whitening of the face with hydrogen peroxide can be carried out not more than once a week.
Acne Treatment
Reduce the acne and relieve inflammation will help the following tools.
- Tonic - Peroxide should be added to the most common liquid for facial rubbing (no more than 5 drops per 50 ml of liquid). In this case, you can apply a cotton swab to the whole face, but repeat the procedure no more than twice a week.
- Mask from honey and hydrogen peroxide - to thick honey (1 spoon), add as much fresh aloe juice and a couple drops of peroxide solution, mix thoroughly. Kashitsu is applied to the inflamed areas with a cotton swab pointwise. After 15 - 25 minutes, when the honey dries, the product can be washed off with warm water.
- Mask yeast - take 2 tablespoons of fresh yeast with the addition of 5 - 6 drops of peroxide. The mass is mixed, leading to a consistency of thick sour cream. The mask is applied in two ways:
- pointwise - only on the inflamed zones, the second and third layer is applied at intervals of 5-7 minutes; remove the mask with a cotton disc, rinse with warm water;
- a solid layer - when the mask dries, the top layer is shaken off, and the leftovers are left on the skin for the night; wash in the morning.
Removing freckles
Make less visible pigmentation spots and freckles help curd mask from hydrogen peroxide, designed for all types of skin.
In a mass of cottage cheese (2 tablespoons) and sour cream (1 spoon) add 10 drops of peroxide. The skin is thoroughly cleaned, then put the gruel and keep on the face for half an hour. The curd mask is washed off with warm water, after the procedure it is undesirable to go out into the sun, so it is more convenient to bleach the skin with hydrogen peroxide before going to bed.
Facial hair lightening
Peroxide allows you to discolor the antennae and even reduce the growth of hairs. For this, a soap solution or shaving foam is diluted with 5 drops of ammonia and the same amount of peroxide. The mixture is applied to the scalp, washed off after 15 minutes with a decoction of chamomile. The procedure is carried out every 3 to 5 days, the hairs begin to lighten and break off. If the antennae is not too thick, you can conduct hair removal with hydrogen peroxide of greater concentration (10 - 15%), reducing the time of interaction with the skin to 5-10 minutes.