facial hairs on your face and some other areas of your body like your chest, hands and legs.
Here are natural ways to remove unwanted facial hair using basic cooking ingredients.
1. Sugar and Honey Paste:
Sugar is readily available in most Nigerian kitchens. You can always buy it from small kiosks around you.
Honey is also easy to get. You can buy refined honey from your food stores or you can use unrefined honey which is always better.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
1/8 cup honey
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
Method.
Pour all the ingredients in a ceramic bowl or in a pot. Mix gently. Place the pot on fire and heat the mixture for 3 minutes. Remember to stir while heating.
If you are using a ceramic bowl you can place in a microwave and heat it for about 3 minutes.
Remove it from the heat and let it cool down a bit. If you let it cool down for too long the mixture will harden making it unusable.
Meanwhile, if you have a clean cotton fabric or unused white cotton handkerchief, cut into small rectangular strips - The size of wound plasters.
Make sure that the area you want to apply the mixture on your skin is clean and dry.
Use a spoon or spatula to place the mixture on the desired skin area. Immediately place a cotton strip on it as if covering what you just applied.
At this stage you need to let it dry. Pull the strip in the opposite direction of your hair growth.
2. Oatmeal, Honey and Lemon Juice.
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon Oatmeal
1/2 ripe banana (without the peel)
Method:
Pour the oatmeal and banana in a blender. Blend until it forms a paste. Please do not add water.
Use a spatulatar or spoon to place the mixture on the desired skin area.
Let it sit on the skin for about 30 minutes.
Wash off in a circular motion with cold eater.
3. Irish Potato, Lentil and Honey
Ingredients:
1/2 Irish potato
1/2 Cup of lentils (yellow lentils preferably)
1 tablespoon Honey
Method:
You need to soak the lentils in water for about 8 hours. Then wash off the water and blend.
Set it aside.
Peel Irish potato and grate or blend it. Do not add water when blending.
Pour the blended potato into a sieve and squeeze out the juice.
Add the juice to the blended lentils.
Then add honey and mix properly
Apply this to the desired skin area and let it sit for 20 minutes.
Wash off in a circular motion with cold water.
Repeat once a week as desired.
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