Skin Moisturizing

Moisturizers provide moisture to the skin. Lanolin, avocado oil, vitamin E oil, jojoba oil are the natural ingredients of it. Lanolin has good water absorbing properties. Avocado oil has skin penetration properties and is rich in vitamin A and B. Milk protein helps to soften dry and wrinkled skin. Honey is a natural moisturizer.

There are three basic types of Moisturizing.

• Moisturizers for Dry Skin
• Moisturizers for Normal Skin
• Moisturizers for Oily Skin

Functions of Moisturizer

A moisturizer is not only prevents loss of moisture and rehydrates of the skin but also helps to speed up the process of cell renewal. It should also contain active ingredients that supply vitamins, minerals, enzymes to nourish the skin, keep it healthy and minimize cellular built up on the skin surface. Many natural ingredients have been incorporated into moisturizing lotions and creams to provide the skin with additional benefits.

Home Made Best Moisturizers

Lemon moisturizer

• Take one cup of distilled water.
• Hundred grams of gelatine.
• Two teaspoons of lemon juice.

Mix gelatine in water and add lemon juice to it and then refrigerate this mixture for twenty minutes. Apply this mixture on face and neck for 20 minutes. Wash it off with lukewarm water.

Avocado moisturizer

• Take one teaspoon honey
• Take 200 gm curd
• One teaspoon of lemon juice.
• Take a medium size avocado.

Mix honey and the pulp of avocado and make a thick paste of it. Add lemon juice and curd to make stiff cream. Refrigerate this mixture for half an hour. Massage it on face and neck till the cream is totally absorbed by the skin. Leave it on for one night and you will see a luster to your skin.

watermelon moisturizer

• Take one slice of water melon
• Take one tablespoon of lemon juice

Squeeze the juice of lemon over the watermelon slice and refrigerate it for 25 minutes. Then take out the slice and cut it into bits and place it over the face. This will help in reducing body temperature and moisturising it. This would also tighten your skin.
 
lanolin moisturizer

• Take 1 tablespoon of lanolin.
• Take 2 tablespoon of almond oil.
• Take 1 ½ vitamin E capsule.
• Take 2 teaspoons of cold water.

Warm the almond oil and lanolin in a dish over hot water. Add the vitamin capsule content and cold water and blend the mixture well. Apply the mixture on your face and neck.