My cousin was telling that you could buy those vitamin c pills and crush them into a powder and mix it with warm water to make a paste then apply it to your face as a mask. She also told me that you could crush them and mix it with hot oil and apply it to your hair? I think that she might be a little crazy but i know they make face products with vitamin c so could it actually work on both?
2006-10-27 06:16:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Other - Beauty & Style
never heard of it before ..
2006-10-27 06:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by jack jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vitamin C is water based and does not disolve in oil. The heat would also destroy the vitamin C.
A face mask using water base is plasible but also pausable. There is no evidence Vitamin C facial masks does anything other than sting the eyes, so be careful.
Vitamin C is best taken orally with meals in small doses with multivitamins.
Face masks have many properties specific to an effect you are trying to accomplish. Why not use Noxema each night and test the results?
2006-10-27 13:26:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would work, but if you just go buy the face masks or hair oils, they come with vitamin C, pus ollive oil or avacodo oil, other vitamins like vitamin E and other things. She is right, but if you have the money I would just go buy the others that way you get all the benefits, but if you are short on money, go for those. You are talking to the person who used eggs and mayonaise on her hair. And boiled water, filled it with lemon juice and different oils, put a towel over my head and steamed my face. I tried it all. Good luck
2006-10-27 13:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by Barbara C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of doing that, but Vitamin C is an acid, so putting it on your face probably aids in exfoliating, and putting it on your hair contracts the fibers (similar to a conditioner) making it shiny.
2006-10-27 13:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by peon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for the face , the above described recipe may help , but there are alot of creams containg vit.c and ready to be applied to the face i.e neutrogena healthy skin lotion
to the hair , i do not think so, but u can mix lemon juice with almond , then apply this mixture to the scalp 3 times weekly
2006-10-27 13:24:59 · answer #5 · answered by cuttiiee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure it would work. I've taken vitamin C pills and I got acne from it so I had to stop. I wonder if it would happen with the paste.
2006-10-27 13:19:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'ld work for the face, but hair's basically dead except the roots so won't work there...however you can make your own honey or even yoghurt masks from websites for your head of you want! lovely smooth hair and yummy as well! haha:)
2006-10-27 13:28:16 · answer #7 · answered by rosemary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vitamin c is a natural exfoliater and plumper.
your cousin is correct. and it would work better than anything you could buy at the store!
fresh lemons and oranges and grapefruit will work even better than that.
2006-10-27 13:35:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
or the easier way... but a vitamin c cream... there are plenty out there
Avalon brand, sold in GNC is really -REALLY good
http://www.mysimon.com/Skin-Care/9000-10955_8-0.html?mlpid=30674149
2006-10-27 13:27:00 · answer #9 · answered by myself! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be one those home remedy type things and actually works.
2006-10-27 13:20:09 · answer #10 · answered by Simmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try it. Maybe an improvement.
2006-10-27 13:18:28 · answer #11 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋