Here are a few tips on how to make your complexion fair. Nearly all the sunburn aids like vinegar, potato juice, cucumber juice, lime juice and buttermilk, etc. are skin whiteners also. But mostly all these are good for oily skins only, because they have a drying effect on your skin. So you must apply some nourishing cream after using these above mentioned mild bleachers, if you have a dry skin.
Milk serves as a mild bleach and is good for a dry skin also Soak one slice of lemon in one cup of milk. Then after straining the milk, apply on the face.
A pinch of bicarbonate of soda in a little milk acts as a mild bleach.
Grapes also act as a mild bleach and are milder than lemon juice. Take a bunch of grapes and after washing them, sprinkle them with alum powder and salt. Then wrap them in an aluminium foil or brown paper and bake for 20 minutes either in an oven or hot ashes. Squeeze out the juice and wash your face with it. This grape juice is good for freckles also.
