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you’re right haha, i haven’t done many diy masks but i do have a few tips:

avoid lemon juice. i see a ton of diy recipes that recommend lemon juice but don’t do it!! lemon juice is extremely acidic which messes with the natural pH of your skin (which is about pH 5.5)

i’ve heard yogurt is good for evening out skin tones and there are a lot of commerical masks that use it too. try just natural, unsweetened yogurt and maybe mix some honey in with it.

orange can also help brighten skin but again don’t use the juice, try drying out orange peels and then crushing/grinding them. you can mix them in with yogurt too for a soothing mask~

listen up kids ive seen a lot of misinformation floating around tumblr and im so over seeing it left and right without any critical or medically supported thought attached. so im going to address some of the most common offenses that i see

myth #1: mineral oil suffocates skin

wrong wrong wrong, mineral oil is extremely harmless to skin and if you want to use baby oil to remove your makeup that is 100% safe and i support that. chemically, mineral oil is composed of giant hydrocarbons and cannot form a solid at room temperature. therefore mineral oil will not clog pores because forming a solid simply isn’t within its chemical properties. i wouldn’t recommend using baby oil as a moisturizer though, only because there are better moisturizers out there that’ll help your skin stay protected in the daytime and aid repair during the nighttime. but the point remains, you have nothing to fear about mineral oil.

myth #2: vaseline is bad for skin

like mineral oil, vaseline is also extremely safe for use on the lips and skin, including facial skin. i wouldn’t recommend using it as your only moisturizer because its only an emollient but it wont damage your skin in any sense. its a very common misconception that skin needs to “breathe” but skin actually has zero relation to the respiratory system and gaseous osmosis via skin is essentially negligible for our purposes here. hospitals widely use vaseline to protect sensitive areas of the skin on burn victims in order to speed along the healing process

myth #3: apple cider vinegar is essential for clearing up acne

acv is extremely acidic and i know a ton of people swear by it for clearing up acne and i can see how acv’s antibacterial properties would help w/ that. however acv is so acidic even when diluted a reasonable amount, the ph of an acid (or base for that matter) does not change and thus stays very acidic which i don’t see as a good thing in the long run. if you add a significant amount of water to acv to heavily dilute it then you’re just putting water on your face and the antibacterial benefits of acv will be very small. based on its chemical properties, i think there are other acne solutions that are much better suited for the skin like salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide which can be found in both high end and drugstore products