5 Homemade Skin Care Ingredients to Avoid

Lemon: Rich in vitamin C, lemon juice has antioxidant properties that help lighten skin.

However, using too much lemon juice on your skin can cause skin irritation, redness, blistering and dryness. On the other hand, going out in the sun after applying lemon juice on your skin can cause severe sunburn.

Vinegar: Apple cider vinegar has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, but it can alter the pH of your skin and over-exfoliate your skin, leading to irritation and dryness. Therefore, you should not use apple cider vinegar in your skin care regimen if you have contact dermatitis or atopic dermatitis.

Coconut Oil: You should avoid using oil in your DIY skincare routine if you have oily or acne-prone skin. Coconut oil will only cause your skin to produce more sebum, which can lead to more acne.

Toothpaste: Many people think that toothpaste can treat acne, but this is an ingredient that can easily irritate and aggravate acne, causing skin pain for many days afterwards.

Baking soda: Baking soda is highly alkaline in nature, which breaks down the skin's protective oil layer called the acid mantle and strips away the skin's natural oils and moisture, causing further irritation of the skin with blistering, dryness, redness and inflammation.

Therefore, experts advise that before using home ingredients to make skin care masks, it is important to know your skin type, thereby choosing the right ingredients with essences that respond to that skin type. In addition, you should also consult an expert to know how to properly care for your skin.

According to VOV