How to make a Chinese medicine mask most effectively

In recent years, Chinese herbal facial masks have been welcomed by many people. Some of them are good in skin care, pigmentation prevention and whitening. You can make them yourself or buy masks made of pure Chinese herbal preparations. As long as they are regular products, they have relatively small side effects on the skin. For example, lily mask has a good whitening effect and is also good in preventing pigmentation.

1. Lily Mask

10g dried lily bulbs 50g coix seeds

1. Wash the dried lilies and soak them until soft. Wash the coix seeds thoroughly.

2. Cook the soaked lily and coix seeds together. After boiling, simmer over low heat until it becomes porridge.

3. Eat one bowl every night, and apply the remaining 50 mg on your face for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: Soothes the mind, nourishes the skin, removes freckles.

※※ Lily contains colchicine which is poisonous. It is not suitable to use fresh lily for long-term consumption, but dried lily should be used. After soaking in water, the concentration of colchicine will be greatly reduced and poisoning reactions generally will not occur.

2. Atractylodes macrocephala mask

60g Atractylodes macrocephala 100ml rice vinegar

1. Cut the Atractylodes macrocephala into thin slices.

2. Soak the Atractylodes macrocephala slices in white rice vinegar for 7 days.

3. Apply white atractylodes vinegar to freckles or dark spots for more than half a month, once a day.

Efficacy: Atractylodes is rich in vitamin A and other substances, which can enhance the metabolism of skin cells and promote the excretion of melanin. Vinegar can soften and fall off keratin cells, thereby eliminating freckles and black spots. ※Atractylodes macrocephala is available at Chinese medicine stores ※White rice vinegar (white edible vinegar)

3. Poria mask

15g white Poria cocos 30g white honey

1. Grind white Poria into fine powder.

2. Mix honey and Poria cocos into a paste.

3. Apply on your face before going to bed at night and wash it off with clean water the next morning.

Efficacy: This mask nourishes the skin and eliminates age spots and chloasma. Ancient doctors believed that Poria cocos can dissolve all dark spots and scars, and when used with honey, it can both nourish the skin and lighten pigmentation spots.

4. Liren Mask

15g plum kernels 1 egg white

1. Remove the hard shell of the plum core and the plum kernel and grind into fine powder.

2. Add egg white to the chopped plum kernels.

3. Apply on your face before going to bed every night and wash it off with clean water the next morning.

Efficacy: This mask has the effect of removing chloasma and other dark spots.

Plum kernels contain fruit acid and vitamin E, which have the effect of removing spots and beautifying the skin. Fruit acid has a significant freckle removal effect and is widely used in modern cosmetics. Ancient physicians highly praised the beauty effects of prune kernel facial mask. Chen Bangxian, a famous medical scientist in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, conducted research on prune kernel specifically, proving that prune kernel powder mixed with egg white can indeed have the effect of removing freckles.

5. Silkworm Mask

Bombyx batryticatus 20g water 30mg

1. Dry the white silkworm and grind it into powder.

2. Use clean water to mix the white silkworm powder into a paste.

3. Apply this on your face every night and wash it off the next morning.

Efficacy: This mask can remove chloasma, age spots and sun spots.

6. Salt and vinegar mask

2g salt 12g angelica 16g chrysanthemum powder 6g white vinegar 6mg

1. Go to a Chinese medicine store to buy Angelica dahurica and chrysanthemum and grind them into fine powder.

2. Add white vinegar (edible vinegar) and water to salt, angelica dahurica and chrysanthemum powder and mix into a paste.

3. Apply on face at night and wash off after 30 minutes.

Efficacy: This formula has the effect of removing various pigments on the face. The salt in the formula detoxifies and cleanses the skin, angelica dahurica promotes blood circulation and removes spots, chrysanthemum is antibacterial and beautifies, and white vinegar removes spots and whitens the skin. The combination of medicine and food can help remove facial pigmentation. I think the Atractylodes macrocephala mask is good, because I also have spots on my face! I heard from a good friend that she used it for a while and it was good. Her skin became smoother and the spots were obviously lighter. The effect was seen after about a week of use.