Ayurvedic ways to remove sun tan – Dr. Prashanth S Acharya

First let us understand what is suntan. The tanning of the skin due to the rays of the sun. Do we really mean that only when it is a hot sunny day, it tans not necessary. Yes, it tans when you expose your skin directly to the sunlight when it is hot outside. Secondly sometime when you go to the seashore, we think we are in the water, is we are safe. Can you believe it? It is double suntan because there is a sun directly falling at the skin. At the same time, the sunrays reflected from the sea water or the seas surface. So it is double the suntan. Thirdly some people even tell “ I got so much tanned. But I was not in a hot sun at all, I was in Kashmir. I was in between the snow.” But for your information, in snow the tanning is triple because the clear white surface of the snow reflects the sunlight and hands us the tanning.” So it is triple tanning. Bow we understood how does the tanning happens, but how us tanning seen, tanning is seen as dark patches or dead skin on the skin, on the facial skin, and back arms, now there are various ways or means of removing the tan. Some are natural, some are chemical. But now I will deal with some of the herbs that can deal with taming. The simplest of the simplest of the combination that can deal with tanning is the old kitchen medicine called a s curd or cream. The cream of the milk, which is applied on the skin repeatedly to remove the skin tan. Secondly one more kitchen thing is that the castor oil can be applied warm and applied overnight. In the morning you can apply you can apply the paste of fenugreek seed, that is you can soak the fenugreek seed overnight. Make a nice paste of it in the morning and apply it on the face, leave it for a couple of minutes, for 45 to 50 minutes, even 1 hour. Once it is peeled out or washed out, the skin tan is removed, apart form that there are many many herbs that can remove the tanning like manjistha is the herb and there is samudra fena, which is available as a pack and there is multani mitti, which is mud that also can be used to remove the tan, there are many at times, we can make use of herbs like yashtimadhu, manjistha, samudra fena along with the base of multani mitti and then applied as a pack repeatedly can remove the suntan. Of course not the suntan. Many types of tans due to various reasons can be removed from these herbs.