The summer months aren’t everyone’s favorite some dislike it due to heat, some because the weather causes immense sweating but it is the time of summer holidays as well, a time to relax and unwind. During this time we also notice that our skin tone turns two shades darker because it gets tanned. Your skin has natural healing properties hence the tan will eventually fade off but to remove tan instantly using of cosmetic products is not required simple home remedies can also come for our rescue. Even after using sunscreen your skin can get tanned if you spend a long time out in the sun and one needs to reapply sunscreen in every few hours to keep its effectiveness failing to keep it may cause tanning of the skin.

Some of the effective home remedies are using of a gram flour and turmeric mask, the exfoliating properties of gram flour can help in lightening sun tan and adding turmeric to it will give you a glowing skin. In order to create the mask add a cup of gram flour and add a teaspoon of turmeric powder and add water or milk into it to create a paste, apply it on the skin and let it dry off completely then remove it with lukewarm water.

Potato juice is a natural bleaching agent and corrects skin tone and makes it brighter, it helps in removing sun tan from your face overnight. Take one raw potato and extract its juice and then apply it on the tanned areas and leave it for 10-12 minutes then wash it off for getting a glowing skin.

Honey and papaya mask is also an effective home remedy for tan removal, honey has skin-soothing and nourishing properties and helps in giving relief from dryness and irritation on the other hand papaya has bleaching, exfoliating, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-ageing and skin lightening properties making it a perfect tan removing ingredient.

Milk and rice flour mask is another effective remedy. Milk contains lactic acid that mildly removes the layer of dead skin cells on the surface of the skin and reveals the brighter- looking skin underneath, rice flour acts as a whitening agent to correct uneven skin tone. To create the mask mix the rice flour and cold milk to create a thick paste and apply it generously on the tanned areas and keep it for 30 mins before wasjing it off with lukewarm water.