Asafoetida is one of the common spices in Indian cuisine. It adds extra flavor to your dishes. Along with its taste, it also holds curative and therapeutic properties. Asafoetida has many health benefits, but it can do miracles for the skin as well. Asafoetida is assuredly beneficial for the skin. Consuming as food or applying it on the skin keep one’s skin glowing, healthy, and blemish-free.
Here are the uses and benefits of asafoetida for skin:
1) Get Glowing Skin
Asafoetida helps in growing the supply of oxygen to facial tissues that give a radiant glow and shine to your skin. Besides this, it also reduces dark circles and makes your skin bright and gorgeous.
How to apply:
Prepare a paste out of hing and yogurt. Sprinkle hing to 1 tbsp yogurt. Then apply it over the face. Use twice a week. Besides this, you can add asafoetida, rose water, and some sandalwood powder. Use it on your face daily to get effective results.
2) Anti-aging
Aging is a common problem. It can darken the skin, but hing uses can remove such cells from the face. This herbal spice works excellent on your skin. It also offers the decency of reducing wrinkles, age spots, and fine lines.
How to apply:
Asafoetida powder and honey. Mix well and apply over the infected area only. Use once in a day.
3) Skin Whitening
Skin whitening qualities are also present in asafoetida. It promotes fairness and reduces dark spots and oiliness. Tyrosine raises the making of melanin in the skin that leads to skin darkening, premature aging, and dullness. Asafoetida can control the production of tyrosine. Therefore, you can flaunt a radiant, fair, and youthful skin with the use of Asafoetida.
How to apply
Take tomato paste and mix with sugar. Mix well till the sugar dissolves in tomato. Then sprinkle asafoetida to the mixture and apply it on your face.
4) Reduce Acne
Hing is an effective remedy of pimples, scars, and acne. It can kill all the germs and dirt that cause acne on the skin. It is a good option rather than to try undesired creams over the face. So, people can choose the best use of hing for their delicate skin.
How to apply:
Add Fuller’s earth or Multani mitti and rose water along with a pinch of hing in a bowl. Mix all the ingredients and apply it on the affected area or you can also mix asafoetida powder with honey. Then apply it. Using at least thrice a week can get better results.
5) Eliminate Dryness
Stress and pollution can lead to skin dryness and damage. Asafoetida acts like a dryness fixing agent that gives moist and soft skin. It can wipe out all the visible signs of skin dryness like dullness, roughness, patches, wrinkles, and pigmentation.
How to apply
Fuse milk and rose water in a bowl and add honey to it. Then add asafoetida to the mixture and stir well. Apply this regularly to change your skin dryness to softness.
(Note: Asafoetida has always used in pinches. Don’t take in high quantity.
A patch test is necessary when used for skin problems. It is a must for sensitive skin.)
