Lemon has amazing akin benefits. It acts as astringent, antiseptic as well as skin lightning agent. Apart from skin benefits, lemon is also great for hair and nails. Here are some beauty benefits of lemon, follow them and have beautiful skin.

If you have lot of black heads, lemon juice is an effective way to prevent and remove blackheads. Use cotton soaked lightly with a few drops of lemon juice and gently apply on your face every alternate day.

Mix few drops of lemon juice with coconut water and apply it on skin as a moisturising lotion. For best results you can even use this every morning.

Use lemon juice to make age marks less visible. Use lemon juice on the body parts such as elbows, knees, face, hands to get smooth skin and less visible age marks.

Lemon juice is also said to be effective on pimples and acne scars. Using freshly pressed lemon juice over scars after cleansing face in the evening will help reduce the appearance of scars.

Lemon juice is a natural antiseptic and if used within a facial mask, it can help clear oil and dirt as well as bacteria which cause breakouts.

High content of vitamin C in lemon can make nails healthy and strong. First immerse nails in a bowl of lemon juice for 10 minutes and then immerse them in a mixture of warm water and white vinegar. Rinse off with water and see the difference in your nails.

By Lizitha