7 Brilliant Ways To Use Cornstarch In Your Beauty Routine

Cornstarch is a product found in every housewife’s kitchen, used to thicken sauces, soups or to replace wheat flour for various cakes.
This cheap and handy product can be used in cosmetics, as a beauty product.

As a deodorant

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Cornstarch can be used in hot days when you run out of deodorant. All you have to do is to clean your armpits with rubbing alcohol and after drying, apply cornstarch powder. It’s the cheapest and most natural deodorant. It can’t be simpler and easier than that.

As perfumed body powder

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A few drops of lavender, lemon or mint essential oil, mixed with a few tablespoons of cornstarch and, voila you have your scented body powder which can be used throughout the body.

Anti-wrinkle remedy

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A highly effective anti-wrinkle mask is based on cornstarch. So, with 30 grams of cornstarch, 1 egg white, 2 tablespoons of milk you’ll have the best homemade anti-wrinkle mask. Mix these ingredients well, apply the mask over the thoroughly cleaned skin and leave to act 20 minutes or until it’s hardened. Use this mask once a week and wrinkles will become just a bad dream.

As a face scrub

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If you are allergic to trade market exfoliating creams or simply you don’t like it, try using cornstarch. All you have to do is to moisten your skin and apply cornstarch rubbing circular with your fingers.

As dry shampoo

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If you don’t have time to wash your oily and dirty hair, use confidently cornstarch as a dry shampoo. Apply it at hair roots, massaging the scalp. Then comb and use the hairdryer to remove cornstarch surplus.

As lipstick mattifying

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You want matte lipstick, but you don’t find your favorite color? You can transform any glossy lipstick in a matte one using cornstarch. Apply lipstick on your lips and then apply cornstarch by tapping it with your fingers until it’s absorbed.

As a sunburn remedy

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Sunburns are very painful. To release the pain, make a paste using water and cornstarch and apply it on the affected area for a few minutes, until the pain is gone.