To remove the oily appearance from your face, apply the white of an egg over it. After about 10 minutes, wash your face with warm water.

Make the habit of taking a teaspoon of the juice of tulasi leaves mixed with a little honey twice daily to make your face glowing. It also helps in removing embarrassing skin blemishes.

Massage your face with little honey every day to keep the skin smooth. Honey is a good and natural moisturiser.

Tomatoes cut in half and rubbed over the face are useful for toning up and whitening the skin, and refining pores.

Turmeric powder mixed with powdered ajwain (voma) seeds and onion juice can be applied with advantage for itching and certain other conditions of the skin.

To prevent wrinkles, gently massage with glycerine and honey. Apply a small quantity on the face before retiring; wash in soft water next morning.

Mix honey with the white of an egg and a teaspoon of lemon juice. Add fuller's earth or brewer's yeast powder. Mix in to a paste and apply. Remove after 20 minutes

If your skin is dried up, split or fissured, apply mustard oil to the affected parts before going to bed every day.

Daily take in 2-3 pinches of clean and pure wood ash on empty stomach swallowed down by a glass of water for about 6 months and the patient will be cured of many skin ailments.

Many skin ailments can be cured by the regular application of oil mixed with turmeric powder. This will also help to beautify the skin

Fresh karela (bitter gourd) juice, about half to one cup mixed with a teaspoon of lime juice and sipped on empty stomach once a day for a few months will purify and enrich the blood and clear the skin of blemishes, boils, pimples and other skin diseases.

Take a pinch of pure wood ash daily in the morning and drink a glass of water; this will keep your bowels clean and blood pure, and will ward off skin ailments.

Come winter and everybody is faced with the problem of dry, taut and acratchy skin. It's a natural phenomenon. Some of the causes of dry and parched skin are : hereditary, not enough supply of lubrication by glands, deficiency of Vitamin A and B, exposure to harsh winter cold or sun, extreme in temperatures, over use of chemical cosmetics, excessive bathing, poor diet and nutritional supplements, skin problems, mal functioning of thyroid gland, diabetic condition etc.

Some remedies :-
- To treat extremely dry skin, take a tablespoon of honey, mix it into a mashed banana. Apply it on the skin, leave on for 10 minutes and wash off.

- Take 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of honey, half a teaspoon of olive oil and a few drops of rose water and mix all the ingredients thoroughly and use as a mask.

- Take 1 cup of milk and add 1 tablespoon of Badam (almond) oil and add the mixture to a small tub of warm water to prepare a milk bath. Milk bath nourishes your skin from dryness.

To lighten stretch marks after a delivery,

- Mix turmeric powder with salt to make a paste.

- Gently run the mixture on the marks area.

- Wash off with warm water.

The marks will diminish gradually. Use this remedy during the night time while sleeping.

- Boil a little coconut oil with some old, dried-up garlic until the oil becomes dark in colour.

- Filter and cool the oil while stirring it till it becomes more consistent and aromatic.

- Apply this regularly on the skin at the affected areas.