DIY Cleanser To Get Rid Of Oily Skin

If you have oily skin, you already know how difficult it is to take care of your skin. Skin care starts with cleansing, and it is not easy to find a perfect cleanser for oily skin. Most of the time, the oily skin face washes that we get in the market end up drying out the skin so badly that you get a different set of skin issues to battle with. Instead of ‘experimenting’ with various face washes and putting your precious skin under the risk of damage, why not prepare a cleanser for oily skin at home? Don’t worry, because you’ll only need few very easily available ingredients to prepare your cleanser for oily skin. Here we’ve shared a simple homemade cleanser for oily skin recipe for you all. Check it out below.

Ingredients

Multani Mitti
Rice Flour
Gram Flour
Raw Honey
Cucumber Juice
Lemon Juice

Method

- To prepare homemade cleanser for oily skin, first take 4-5 tbsp each of multani mitti, rice flour and gram flour.

- Mix them together.

- Store the mixture in a airtight container.

- Every time before application, take out required amount of powder mixture.

- Add a little raw honey, a tsp each of lemon juice and cucumber juice.

- Mix together to prepare homemade cleanser for oily skin.

- Apply this all over the face as well as neck.

- Massage in gentle circular motions for some time. Concentrate on the T-zone.

- Keep it on the skin for 5-10 minutes.

- Wash off with plain water.

Benefits of Ingredients

* Multani Mitti

Oily skin tends to attract more dust and dirt, that get accumulated on the skin surface and often end up blocking the pores and leading to various skin problems, including acne and pimples.

Multani mitti has great exfoliating benefits for our skin. This is an important reason to use multani mitti to prepare cleanser for oily skin.

With regular use, multani mitti helps in removing the impurities and dead skin cells from the skin surface. This way it keeps the skin clean and reduces chances of blocked pores.

We know that blocked pores are one of the major factors that cause acne. But through exfoliation, multani mitti helps to clear up the debris from the pores, thus reducing the chances of getting acne and pimples.

The major problem with those with oily skin is the excess oil build up on the skin, which just doesn’t seem to go away.

* Rice Flour

Rice flour has multiple benefits for our skin, specially oily skin and that’s why we have used it as one of the main ingredient to prepare cleanser for oily skin.

It has amazing absorbing benefits, which helps in getting rid of the excess oil present on the upper layer of the skin.

This way, it helps in keeping the skin oil free and prevents pores getting blocked by excess oil. This in turn, reduces the risk of breakouts.

Plus, rice flour has great exfoliating ability. It exfoliates the skin and removes the dirt and impurities from the skin. Also, its powerful exfoliating benefits help to get rid of the pigmented skin cells and brightens our complexion.

The astringent properties of rice flour is very effective in shrinking the large skin pores and reduce the risk of breakouts.

Along with that, rice flour can control melanin synthesis on the skin, and helps to lighten as well as brighten our skin tone.

* Gram Flour

Gram flour is another very important ingredient to prepare homemade facial cleanser for oily skin. It has amazing absorbing properties and this is chiefly why it works so effectively for oily skin.

When used in a cleanser for oily skin, gram flour absorbs the excess oil present on the skin and helps to keep skin oil free for a long time.

While soaking up the excess oil from skin pores, gram flour unclogs the pores in the process and minimizes the chance of getting acne, blackheads, whiteheads etc.

Gram flour has natural alkalizing properties. It helps in maintaining the ideal pH balance of the skin and regulate sebum production, thus preventing the skin from getting too oily.

Gram flour helps in deep cleansing the pores and eliminating the accumulated dirt and dust, thus keeping the skin clean and clear.

* Raw Honey

Oily skin is caused due to overactive sebaceous glands. Sebum works as our skin’s natural moisture barrier. But excess sebum can lead to oily skin.

For any reasons, if our skin gets dry or dehydrated, the sebaceous glands produce more sebum to maintain the natural moisture balance of our skin and in the process, our skin gets oilier.

One of the best way to control the oiliness of the skin is by keeping it well moisturized. Raw honey is a natural humectant.

It absorbs moisture from the environment and locks it into the skin, thus, keeping the skin hydrated and moisturized as well as preventing the over-production of sebum. This way, raw honey controls the oiliness of the skin.

Excess oil accumulation on the skin can cause acne and pimples. Raw honey, with its powerful anti bacterial and anti septic properties fights off against acne and pimples and give us a healthy, beautiful skin.