Freckles

* Apply sour lemon cream on your face. Do not rinse this mask off completely; gently wipe off with a soft tissue and top it up with a moisturizer.

* Lemon juice is a tried and tested remedy for treating freckles. Apply lemon juice with your fingers on the affected area; lemon juice bleaches the dark spots.

* Regular use of fruit and vegetable masks such as those made with apricots, strawberries, cucumbers and red currant will help lighten freckles.

* Wash your face with sour milk. Lactic acid promotes gentle peeling of skin minus the irritation or dryness.

* Heat honey slightly and apply to face, tap face gently with your fingers. Wash honey off with warm water then rinse with cool water. Stir in a little quantity of wheat germ into the honey before applying.

* Horseradish juice or horseradish vinegar, or oatmeal dabbed on the skin is also helpful in lightening freckles.

* Apply parsley juice mixed with equal amounts of lemon juice, orange juice, and red currant juice under your favorite cream will help you keep your freckles invisible.

* Apply odorless olive oil or vitamin E at night before going to bed.

* Dissolve some sugar in the juice of one lemon. Apply mixture to each freckle with a brush.

2. Grind yellow mustard in milk and apply to the face during the night. Wash your face the next morning.

* Onions also can be used for removing freckles and age spots. Slice a red onion in half and rub on the spots twice daily. Continue until the spots fade.

* Applying buttermilk on freckles is thought to help in lightening them.

* Mix an equal quantity of turmeric and sesame seeds. Grind in water and apply to the face.

* Take a watermelon, make a hole in its rind and introduce some grains of rice in it. Take out the rice after 9 weeks. Be sure to put it in the fridge! Grind into a paste and apply on the face.

* To lighten freckles, mash 1/4 cup of unripe currants and mix with 1 tbsp. of unpasteurized honey. Put on freckles and leave on for half an hour. Rinse off with warm water and dab on diluted fresh lemon juice.

3. Apply sour cream to face and leave for 15 minutes and rinse off with warm water.