Black spots on face doesn't look good, this is the plain truth. We get the color of our skin due to the pigmented skin cells known as melanocytes. Sometimes, these melanocytes gather in some of the areas of the skin in higher amounts. These areas of skin then become darker or get black and dark spots.
There may be many causes for black spots on your face. Hormonal imbalance is one of them. Sometimes, dark spots are due to some blood vessel deformities under the skin where these black spots appear on your face. However, excessive sun exposure seems to be the biggest reason behind dark black spots on face.
Sun exposure can give you age spots, also known as liver spots, by damaging the pigment-producing melanocytes in your skin and leading to its higher production. The good news is that you can get rid of black spots on your face caused by such reasons other than hormones and blood vessel deformities! While there are many skin cosmetics such as hydroquinone cream, tretinoin cream and azelaic acid cream as well as various skin treatments like chemical peels and intense pulsed light therapy, we are going to talk about the all natural ways to get rid of these black spots on your face. Yes, we would discuss some excellent home remedies for black spots on your face!
Home Remedies to Remove Black Spots
Lemon Juice
Lemon juice has loads of citric acid in it and this acid has great beauty benefits. Citric acid not only helps shed dead skin cells but also lead to growth of new cells, giving you a brighter skin. This alleviates the problems of age spots along with acne scars, wrinkles and uneven tone and texture of your skin. This remedy may, however, give you a slight burning, tingling, and temporary redness. To see whether you can tolerate this acid, test with some lemon juice in your inner elbow skin. If its all right even after 8-12 hours, go ahead with this remedy to get rid of black spots on your face.
Do this:
- Pour some lemon juice on the cotton ball.
- Now apply this juice to your black spots.
- Let it dry off on its own.
- Wash your face with water and moisturize it.
Do not step out in sun after applying lemon juice as it makes your skin more sensitive to the sun rays that can further damage your skin.
Aloe Vera, Tomato juice
Aloe vera is the best gift for your skin given by the nature. Aloe vera has anti-septic, analgesic and skin soothing properties along with excellent moisturizing capabilities. It is just a miraculous herb that can reduce skin pigmentation, sun tan, skin rash, premature aging, acne and pimples, dry flaky skin, dark black spots, pimple marks, acne scars and any other blemishes that you may have on your skin.
You may either directly apply pure aloe gel on your spots or make one of the below masks to get rid of the ugly black spots on your face.
Use
- Mix aloe vera gel and tomato juice.
- Gently massage your face with this mixture for 2-3 minutes focusing more on the black spots.
- After massaging, take some more mixture and apply this to your face like a mask.
- Leave it for 20 minutes.
- Wash off with water.
- Repeat 2-3 times a week initially and then once a week.
Buttermilk, Tomato juice
Buttermilk made out of churned curd or butter has a lots of lactic acid. If you don’t know, then you must know that lactic acid is one of the acids that is used in chemical peels to give you a lighter and brighter skin. Lactic acid helps slough off the dead skin cells helping you to reduce the spots on your face.
Why not use cheap and natural buttermilk rather than expensive chemical peel to get rid of black spots then!
Use
Mix buttermilk and tomato juice. Tomato juice has excellent bleaching properties and will thus enhance the skin lightening capacities of buttermilk.
- Apply this mixture to your black spots.
- Leave for 15-20 minutes.
- Wash off with water.
Potatoes, Lemon juice and Honey
Potatoes are rich in vitamins and minerals, essential fatty acids and a variety of phytochemicals such as carotenoids and polyphenols. With all its treasures of Vitamin-C, B-complex, as well as minerals like potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus and zinc, potatoes are able to stimulate collagen and elastin synthesis. This gives you an evenly toned complexion. In fact, potato juice is one of the best remedies for dark spots due to its skin lightening properties.
Many natural enzymes, sugars and starches of potatoes along with its vitamin C, exfoliate your skin to slough off the dead cells and thus diminishing the black spots.
Use
- Grate the potatoes and extract their juice using a cloth or a sieve.
- Add lemon juice and honey to this.
- Apply this to your face.
- Leave for about 20 minutes.
- Wash it off with water.
Almond Oil
Almond oil is one of the oils that is very good for skin issues including dark spots. It contains unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins E, B2, B6, PP along with various minerals and phytosterols. These nutrients help you get an even toned skin complexion and helps a lot in removing blemishes and black spots. It also protects your skin from harmful sun rays due to the presence of vitamin E in it.
Use
Warm up the almond oil using indirect heat. You can use double boiler or just take the oil in a stainless steel bowl and place this bowl in a bigger bowl half full of hot water. In a couple of minutes, the oil will be warmed up.
- Gently massage your face with this oil for about 5-10 minutes.
- Do this every night before you go to sleep.
Continue doing this for about 2 weeks or so. There is no harm if you do it more than this period too.
You may also add some lemon juice to the warmed up oil for enhancing its capacity of removing dark spots.
Turmeric, Milk and lemon juice
Turmeric has been used since ages in some countries like India, not only for its health benefits but also for its excellent skin care abilities. Circumin is the active ingredient of turmeric which gives the herb spice its fine antioxidant properties. Antioxidants can protect your skin and other body cells from getting damaged by the free radicals formed due to oxidative stress. Free radicals are mostly responsible for premature aging and giving you age spots.
Use
- Take the turmeric and add milk to this in drizzle so that you put only such amount of milk in it which is enough to make a paste.
- Add lemon juice to this.
- Apply this to your face or only on the black spots affected area.
- Leave it there for 10-15 minutes.
- Wash off with lukewarm water. You may also use a very gentle soap.
- Take care when handling turmeric as it leaves stains.
Papaya
There is an enzyme in papaya called papain. This enzyme lends the fruit its excellent properties to exfoliate skin and slough off the dead skin cells. Not only this, papaya also helps grow new skin cells to give you a brighter skin tone.
Papain enzyme also works to inhibit the enzyme tyrosinase used by pigment-producing skin cells use to create melanin that gives you black spots. Green papaya or the raw papaya contains more papain than the ripe papaya. However, both of these are beneficial in getting rid of dark spots.
- Get some ripe papaya pulp.
- Mash it properly.
- Apply this to your face.
- Leave it for 20 minutes.
- Wash off with water.
- Repeat daily for quick result
Oatmeal and Lemon Juice
Oatmeal contains antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that can soothe your skin in more efficient ways than you can imagine. If you have an acne prone skin and suffer from dark spots due to this problem, oatmeal becomes all the more important for you. It absorbs oil from form your skin along with exfoliating the skin to shed dead skin cells. This may thus get you rid of black spots.
Use
- Grind the oats to get its powder.
- Add lemon juice to this and mix well to make a paste.
- Apply this to our face and rub gently focusing more on black spots ridden areas.
- Do this for few minutes and then leave for a couple of minutes.
- Wash off with lukewarm water once it dries down.
If this sticks to your skin, take a clean cloth and wet it with warm water. Rub your face gently with this cloth to remove the oats scrub from your face.
Repeat 2 times a week to get rid of black spots on your face.
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