Beauty Benefits of Castor Oil for Skin Lips Cracked Foot and Hand

Tired of using those readymade moisturizers available in the market? Want to try something homemade? Get your hands on a bottle of Jamaican black castor oil since it retains the hydration in skin and keeps it glowing. The traditional yellow castor oil will help too. Apply some of the oil to your face with a cotton ball and leave it overnight. Obviously, do not plan on applying castor oil to your skin before going out somewhere as you do with your regular moisturizers, you do not want a mess of dust particles and oil mixed together on your face right?

Women who are of age more than 30 are well acquainted with wrinkles on their face due to climate and pollution and girls in their 20s are always in fear of seeing those fine lines and wrinkles in due time. Castor oil helps in treating wrinkles as well since it has anti-ageing properties. Apply some drops of regular castor oil to your night cream and apply to your face.

Castor oil has a soothing effect when applied. It calms the applied regions. So, it can well be used to treat irritated skin or red patchiness that is seen during summer. It relaxes troubled skin and calms it. Same way as the others apply some to your face directly with a cotton ball or mix with your night cream, both ways it would help.

Castor oil, both regular one, and the Jamaican one are heavy in texture, this feature makes this oil suitable to treat small and mild acne. Also, this oil is a natural astringent that cleanses skin. The triglyceride fatty acids in castor oil are anti-viral, so they kill the bacteria that cause acne. The undecylic acid in castor oil disinfects skin and kills bacteria that cause acne and also removes clogged dead skin cells. Gently massage a few drops of castor oil to freshly cleansed affected areas. Leave for an hour and rinse with cool water. Repeat twice for better results.

We often forget to moisturize our delicate lips or use lip balms available in the market. But those lip balms darken our lips with time. What if we could use a natural lip balm which would nourish our lips without any side effects? No need to fear, when castor oil is there. It keeps the lips well moisturized and nourished all day long. Just apply a bit of castor oil mixed with coconut oil to your lips and forget about dry and chapped lips forever. It would give a natural transparent glow to your lips too.

Since we talked about lips what about dark lips that have already faced much neglect? Since we do not think about or invest much time to care for our beloved lips, with time, they often darken. We forget to scrub our lips along with our skin. Castor oil acts as a natural scrubber. Massage your lips with castor oil for 15 minutes and then rinse it with cool water. Do this regularly to get those pink lips back.

With our modern lifestyle, we can not really avoid being in sun no matter how much we think of avoiding it. Though all those sunscreen commercials assure 0% sunburn, but let’s face the reality, our skin gets tanned, no matter how many layers of sunscreen you have to your skin on. So let’s try and treat it at home while we can. Apply castor oil mixed with coconut oil in 1: 1 proportion to the affected area. Castor oil’s anti-inflammatory properties help reduce pain and redness and calm your skin.

Castor oil twice a day keeps dry skin at bay. Interesting, no? While we have tried numerous things to help soothe dry skin, it never leaves us. Let winter come and we are ready with our whitened, scaly skin. The moisturizing properties of castor oil naturally moisturize your dry skin and keep it healthy and glowing.

Cracked heels can be very painful at times, also they are not really delighted to look at. Castor oil is the most effective ingredient to treat cracked heels. Massage castor oil in your cracked heels at night and leave it overnight. Pro tip: you can wear socks so that the oil does not get transferred from your feet to the bed sheet.

As the few advertisement show, regular ‘torture’ on our underarms say it by waxing, say it by ‘razor’ing or by applying deodorant directly on skin, darkens our underarm with time. But while choosing a sexy sleeveless dress the darkened underarms cannot be ignored. You can get rid of these dark underarms if treated regularly with castor oil. Rub the oil in your armpits for 5 minutes before bath every day to get visible results.

Waxing gives smooth, beautiful skin but it presents us with redness on skin or rashes sometimes, especially for women with sensitive skin. As one applies toner or some moisturizer after waxing, you can try castor oil instead. Apply castor oil immediately after waxing to treat the inflammation or redness since it has astringent properties too.

Due to its moisturizing properties, it can be used as an excellent hand cream too. Put some drops of castor oil to your hand cream and apply as usual. Leave overnight.

For treating stretch marks use castor oil. Apply some to the affected area and massage for few minutes. In fact, it is proved in many studies that a massage with castor oil on your abdomen while going out or exercising can help reduce cellulite there and reduce belly fat.

Castor oil is beneficiary to brittle and cracked nails, massage your nails every day with some castor oil to get strong, long and beautiful nails. While massaging the nails massage some onto your cuticles too to keep them soft and supple.