Avocado is known as the super-food for all the right reasons! It has a myriad of benefits for our health as well as beauty. Talking about avocado’s beauty benefits, it can work wonders to transform your dry skin and dull hair. Here in this article, we will share few DIY remedies on how to use avocado for dry skin care. Avocado is a pear shaped fruit, which comes loaded with over 20 vitamins and minerals including vitamin B, C, E and K, riboflavin, magnesium, potassium, lutein, beta-carotene, omega-3 fatty acids as well as anti-aging antioxidants. When used in a face pack, avocado can help eliminating dryness of the skin and also keep premature skin aging at bay. Find out below how to use avocado for dry skin care.
# Apply Mashed Avocado
Take one ripe avocado and cut it into half. With the help of a knife, scoop out the flesh from both the halves and mash it with the back of a fork or using your fingers.
Prepare a lump free paste and apply it onto the face as well as neck evenly. Let it sit for 20-30 minutes. Wash off with fresh water and repeat every alternate day.
# Coconut Oil and Avocado for Dry SkinScoop out the flesh from half of a ripe avocado with a knife and mash it using a fork or your fingers. Prepare a smooth paste. Mix it with a tbsp coconut oil and apply the resultant mixture all over the face and neck, gently massaging with fingertips for few minutes.
Let it sit on the skin for 20-30 minutes, before washing off with plain water. Reapply this face mask with avocado for dry skin care twice or thrice weekly.
# Yogurt and Avocado for Dry Skin Care
Take one avocado and cut it in half. Remove the seed and the skin and mash half of the avocado. Add a tbsp plain, fresh yogurt to the mashed avocado and mix them together. Apply this face pack all over the the face as well as neck and gently massage with your finger tips.
Leave it on the skin for 15-20 minutes, before washing off with plain water. Reapply this avocado face pack for dry skin care twice in a week.
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Raw Honey and Avocado for Dry Skin CareCut a ripe avocado into half and take out the flesh from one half of the avocado. Mash it to prepare a lump free paste. Add a tbsp of raw honey to the mashed avocado. Mix again and apply the resultant mixture evenly all over the face and neck.
Let it sit for 20-30 minutes and then, rinse off with fresh water. Reapply this remedy with avocado for dry skin care twice or thrice in a week.
# Shea Butter, Vitamin E Oil and Avocado for Dry Skin Care
Take one tbsp raw shea butter and melt it using a double boiler. Cut one ripe avocado and remove the seed as well as the skin. Mash the avocado nicely with a fork and add the melted shea butter to it. Also add few drops of vitamin E oil and mix all of them together to prepare a lump free paste.
Apply an even layer on the face and neck and gently massage in circular motion for some time. Keep it on the skin for 15-20 minutes and after that wash off with plain water. Reapply this face mask with avocado for dry skin twice weekly.