There are many simple items which can be used for nourishing the skin — vinegar, buttermilk, curd, eggs, oils, fruits and vegetables are some of them.

A face-mask can be prepared at home with any of the above- mentioned ingredients mixed with some binding substance like egg-white or buttermilk for an oily skin and banana, Fuller’s earth, almond paste or egg-yolk for a dry skin. Egg-white and buttermilk are too drying. So they are good for oily skins only.

Peanut, olive and almond oils are also used as facial nourishers.

Different fruits and vegetables have different effects on facial skin. Some are good for a dry skin and some contain an acid which has a drying effect on an oily skin.Melon, olive, lettuce and carrot are good for a dry skin. Onion, banana, tomato, cucumber and fig are natural foods.

Most of the citric foods like lime, grapes, pineapple, apple, vinegar, honey and glycerin as well as lanolin can be added to any face mask. All of them have healing and nourishing qualities for the skin.

Leave any face mask on for about 30 minutes, cover your eyes with cotton pads soaked in rose water and put your feet up, higher than your head and relax.The simplest face mask for an oily skin is egg-white mixed with a few drops of vinegar or lemon.

For a dry skin, egg yolk with a few drops of vinegar and a few drops of almond or peanut or olive oil are good. You may break a capsule of Vitamin E and add to the face mask ingredients for an extra thy skin.

These two above-mentioned masks can be used as quick pre party masks as they are quite effective if washed off after 15 minutes.