5 DIY Sandalwood Face Packs For Skin Whitening

Sandalwood is a type of wood belonging to a slow-growing, evergreen, and over-harvested tree Santalum Album, native to India and Indonesia. It has smooth and gray-brown bark with small beautiful flowers. The tree is highly valued for its oil called sandalwood oil (also known as East Indian sandalwood oil or santal oil or white saunders oil), which is steam distilled from the tree’s heartwood and roots. The main active ingredient in sandalwood is santalol which, being a powerful sesquiterpene, contributes to its deep woody aroma. A sandalwood stick can also be dried completely and crushed into a fine, smooth powder in order to prepare a paste.

As sandalwood itself is a skin-lightening agent, you can use it either in the form of oil or as a smooth fine powder (be careful not to use raw sandalwood oil on your skin). However, you can also make different sandalwood face packs at home to whiten your skin and enjoy many other benefits simultaneously. Just follow these guidelines-

# Sandalwood And Milk Cream

A whitening sandalwood face pack can be equally moisturizing for the skin. Mix two or three teaspoons of sandalwood powder with fresh raw milk or milk cream or rose water in quantity just enough to make a smooth paste. Apply it all over your face evenly, wait for 20 minutes, and wash off with lukewarm water. Both milk (or milk cream) and rose water add to the skin whitening properties of sandalwood to a large extent while offering deep moisturization.

# Sandalwood And Turmeric

You can diminish your existing acne and prevent further breakouts while whitening your skin with sandalwood. First, prepare the acne-busting face pack by mixing a pinch of turmeric powder and 1 teaspoon of fresh rosewater with 1 tablespoon of sandalwood powder. Next, apply the paste thoroughly to your facial skin and keep it on for 15 minutes. Finally, rinse it off with plain water. It will help you get rid of acne and pimples and fade their marks and scars away. As a result, you will get whiter, blemish-free skin over time.

# Sandalwood And Gram Flour

No matter how whiter and lighter your skin is, it will never look flawless without a natural radiance. Sandalwood mixed with gram flour and water can add a beautiful natural glow to your skin while making it whiter, thereby giving you a gorgeous appearance. Apply the pack on your face, wait for about half an hour or until it dries up, and then wash off. However, you might need to slather some moisturizer on your face after using this pack.

# Sandalwood And Lemon Juice

A sandalwood face pack can also work as an excellent anti-tan agent and whiten our skin tone significantly. All you need to do is add some lemon juice to it. Lemon juice is a powerful bleaching agent, which lightens our skin tone by removing suntan and other blemishes from it. Hence, when the juice of half a lemon is squeezed into 4 teaspoons of sandalwood powder to make a smooth paste of medium consistency, it makes a great whitening face pack with superb tan removal qualities.

# Sandalwood And Rosewater

A simple paste made of sandalwood powder and a little rose water can help you treat your dark circles while improving your complexion wonderfully. Just apply the paste in thick layers to the areas under your eyes and go to bed. Wash it off the next morning with plain water. This overnight treatment will banish your panda eyes and efficiently lighten the skin under your eyes. You can also apply this pack all over your facial skin focusing on your under eyes to get an overall whitening effect.