The mustard oil has a lot to beauty and skincare. Apart from keeping skin glowing it helps promote hair growth and give whiter teeth. Here are few ways how mustard oil can help enhance your beauty.
Acts as natural sunscreen
Being thick in consistency and having high levels of Vitamin E makes this vegetable oil a natural sunscreen. The vitamin E in the oil helps to protect skin from the harsh sun rays and other environmental toxins. In fact, it also helps to prevent wrinkles and arrests premature aging of the skin. However, if you are to replace your sunscreen with mustard oil, make sure that you massage your face well so that there is no excess oil on your face. Else it could lead to collection of dust on your face and do your skin more damage than good.
Skin care
Mustard oil can help you get glowing skin, reduce pigmentation and nip wrinkles and acne in the bud. You can use this oil in combination with other kitchen ingredients or just apply it on your face to reap its benefits.
Lightens tan and dark spots.
Massaging mustard oil on your face regularly can help reduce tan and lighten dark spots and pigmentation. Make face mask by mixing mustard oil with besan or gram flour, one teaspoon of curd and few drops of lemon juice. Mix the ingredients well and apply it on your face and neck. Wash your face after 10 to 15 minutes and try applying the face mask at least thrice a week for best results.
Protects chopped Lips
The thick vegetable oil is known to be a natural moisturiser that can do wonders on your skin and lips. It can heal chopped lips better that packaged balm.
Acts as natural cleanser
Topical application of mustard oil stimulates sweat glands and opens the pores of the skin. This helps in reducing body temperature and removes toxins, unwanted salts and water from the body. Mustard oil disperses into the skin swiftly. When the oil is massaged on the face enzymes activated by body heat transported the oil to the areas that needs attention effectively. This helps the skin to get cleansed naturally within minutes.
Hair care
Improves scalp health
It helps to combat fungal infections in the scalp when massaged regularly. It keeps the scalp clean and wards of dandruff, the most common of all hair problems. It improves scalp health which leads to strong and lustrous hair. You can mix equal quantities of mustard oil with olive and coconut oil and massage your hair from root to tip. Cover your hair with warm towel for 10 minutes after the massage. Wash off your hair with water and mild shampoo after two hours.
Restricts hair loss
By restricting bacterial and fungal infections that could invade your scalp, mustard oil prevents hair loss and ensures hair growth.
Stimulates Hair Loss
This vegetable oil is also high in beta carotene. When massaged regularly on the scalp it converts into vitamin A which helps I hair growth. Apart from this, the oil is also a good source of iron, fatty acids, calcium and magnesium, all that promotes hair growth.
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