Magic with Multani Mitti
Something was terribly wrong. This doesn’t feel right at all, I thought, as I wiped the beauty mask from my face. My skin felt parched and raw. Why didn’t I feel blessed by the benefits of the much-touted Multani Mitti, which was the very base of my mask?
The answer lay in my skin type as well as in how Multani Mitti (Fuller’s Earth) works: I have dry skin and the Multani Mitti works by sucking out impurities from your skin, thus making it even drier. The solution? Add a bit of coconut oil to the mask. It then provides the perfect balance between moisturising your skin and cleaning it from impurities as well.
Some of the many benefits of Multani Mitti are well known: it cleans your skin, removes acne and blemishes, and adds glow to your skin, etc.
You can make customised Multani Mitti face packs by adding rosewater to it for oily skin, or milk almond and honey for combination skin; add a bit of olive or coconut oil to the combination for dry skin. A good addition to any face pack is lemon juice. It works as an antiseptic and natural bleach.