Home Remedies to Whiten a Dark Neck

1. Make Daily Care Routine to Get Rid of Dark Neck

It is very essential to cleanse and exfoliate neck skin every day just as we do with our faces. When we neglect neck while pampering face, this results in patchy dark skin. So follow this daily care routine for getting rid of dark neck.

• Take milk and rub your neck with it. Milk is an excellent cleanser and a toner too.
• After cleansing, use a scrub, preferably natural one, to exfoliate the skin around your neck.
• You may mix olive oil with sugar and rub gently to scrub your neck.
• Sometimes use another scrub having bleaching agent such as lemon juice. You will find many scrubs here in this article that you can use for daily exfoliation.
• After exfoliating, wash off with water and apply some moisturizer.
• Whenever you go out, apply sunscreen to your neck along with your face. This will avoid pigmentation.
• Never step out in sun when you apply lemon juice on your skin. This will make your neck darker than before.

If you follow the above neck care regime daily, you will begin seeing result in a two week’s time. However, do not stop and continue cleansing, scrubbing and moisturizing your skin.

Here are some easy tips and tricks, you can call them home remedies too, for whitening your dark neck.

2. Lemon Bleach for Lightening Dark Neck Skin

Lemon, the very common ingredient found in your kitchen, has amazing bleaching properties due to the natural citric acid present in it. You can use lemon to make your skin of dark neck light in two ways.

1st way to use lemon for dark neck

You will need:
• Lemon juice (squeezed from fresh lemon) -1 teaspoon
• Rose water – 1 teaspoon

Directions:
• Mix lemon juice and rose water.
• Apply this mixture gently on your dark neck before going to bed at night.
• Leave it overnight.
• In the morning, wash your neck with water.

You can even store lemon juice- rose water mix in a bottle. Mix both the ingredients in equal amounts and then store. Apply whatever amount is required every night on your dark skin. Do it for at least one month to see your neck get whitened.

2nd way to use lemon for dark neck

You will need:
• lemon juice from a fresh lemon
• Turmeric powder (optional) – a generous pinch
• Cotton ball (optional)

Directions:
• Take the lemon juice and apply it on your neck region with the help of cotton ball or your hand.
• Let it sit there for 10-15 minutes.
• Wash off with water.
• You may even add turmeric powder to lemon juice and then apply it on your dark neck. It gives glow to your skin.
• If using turmeric powder, wash off with lukewarm water after 10-15 minutes.
Take Precaution
Do not step out in sun just after using lemon juice on your skin or when you have it on your skin.

3. Oats – Natural Scrub and Mask for Dark Neck

Oats is not only good for your overall health but also for your patchy dark neck. As we do not pay more attention towards cleaning our necks while doing every thing for our face- from cleansing, scrubbing, moisturizing and what not – our neck gets dirty with the oil and fine grit deposits. This makes it look patchy and dark. Oats can be used as a scrub as well as a mask for dark neck when mixed with certain other skin lightening ingredients.
Use oats as a scrub for dark neck

You will need:
• Oats – ground it coarsely, do not make fine powder out of it
• Tomato pulp
• Water
• Moisturizer

Directions:
• Take the coarsely ground oats powder.
• Mix tomato pulp to it to get a paste like consistency.
• Apply this mixture to your entire neck region.
• Leave it for about 15-20 minutes.
• Now wet your fingers a littles and start rubbing your neck gently in circular motions. The coarse oats will have an exfoliating effect to remove dead skin cells from your dark neck.
• After scrubbing your neck with this natural oats scrub for about 5-7 minutes, wash off with water.
• Apply some moisturizer on neck and massage gently.
You may use this scrub twice or even thrice in a week depending upon the intensity of dark patchy skin on your neck. While oats will remove dirt and dead cells, tomato pulp will lighten the skin due to its natural bleaching properties

Use oats to make mask for dark neck

When you make a mask, you will need finely powdered oats and not the coarse ones that you use for scrubbing. There is not one but many ingredients that can be mixed with oats and used as a neck mask. You’ll get a list of these below. Whatever ingredient you mix with oats powder, you should apply the mask on the neck and leave it for about 15-20 minutes and then wash it off with water. Here are some of the combinations you can use for making oats mask for lightening your dark neck skin.
• Oatmeal Powder mixed with milk
• Oats powder mixed with honey
• Oats powder mixed with yogurt

4. Baking Soda for Exfoliating Neck with Hyper-pigmentation
Just as oats, baking soda too is a good natural exfoliant for removing patchy skin due to hyper-pigmentation.

You will need:
• Baking soda
• Water

Directions:
• Mix baking soda with water
• Apply the paste on your neck
• Leave for about 15 minutes
• Wash off with water

5. Soothe Your Neck with Cucumber

This is a cool way to brighten your dark neck. Th all soothing cucumber when applied on your neck, not only exfoliates the skin but also grant it a natural glow to match your facial spark.

You will need:
• Grated cucumber (its preferred but you can also use cucumber juice)
• Rose water

Directions:
• Take the grated cucumber and apply it on your neck.
• Leave for about 10 minutes.
• Gently rub the neck with cucumber on it as if you are scrubbing.
• Wash off and apply some rose water.
• If using cucumber juice, just apply on neck with a cotton ball and leave for 15-20 minutes.
• Wash off and apply some rose water.

6. Yogurt for Age Spots on Dark Neck

If your neck looks dark due to age spots, you may like to take help of yogurt. Yogurt is a good cleanser for skin. Also the acid present in it helps in lightening dark skin. When mixed with lime juice, the bleaching effect increases and your dark neck whitens fast. However, you can always omit adding lemon and apply plain yogurt to your neck and leave it for about
15 minutes before washing off with water. Here are some of the combinations that you can use with yogurt to brighten your dark neck.

• Make a pack with yogurt and turmeric, apply and leave for 15 minutes. Wash off with lukewarm water.
• Mix yogurt with lemon juice, apply and wash after 15 minutes.
• Add fresh milk cream with yogurt. Apply it on your neck and massage gently for 5 minutes. Then wash of with a milk soap. It’s better if you use lukewarm water with lime juice in it to wash the yogurt-cream mix instead of soap.

All or any of these packs can be used twice or even thrice a week. Yogurt tightens your skin along with diminishing the fine lines there. The bright younger looking neck gives you greater confidence in turn!

7. Powerful Bleaching with Potato Juice

The bleaching agents in potato is a good home treatment for dark neck skin. There is an enzyme called catecholase in potato which helps in lightening the skin color of your neck. It also cures your blemishes if any. Here are some ways in which to use potato remedy for dark neck.

• Cut round slices of a cold potato and rub them on your neck daily for 5-10 minutes. Do this for at least 2-3 months.
• For faster results, add lemon juice to potato juice and apply this mixture on your neck. Leave for 15 minutes and then wash off with water.
• You can even apply grated potato or potato juice without adding anything. Leave this on your neck for sometime before washing off.

8. Fruit Masks for Dark Neck Whitening

Fruit masks made with such ingredients as banana, apple, orange, papaya, avocado etc. work well when it comes to dark neck home cure. They are rich with natural minerals, vitamins and enzymes that can make your neck look whiter than ever. Here are some such wonderful fruit masks for you.

Banana Mask

You will need:
• Ripe banana
• Olive oil

Directions:
• Mash the banana with hands to get pulp like consistency.
• Add olive oil to it and mix well.
• Apply this mask on your neck and leave for 15 minutes.
• Wash off with water.
This banana and olive oil mask packed with goodness of fine anti oxidants will make your fine lines vanish from the neck and will give you a healthy glowing skin.

Strawberry Papaya Mask

You will need:
• Mashed Papaya pulp – 1-2 tablespoons
• Strawberries- 2

Directions:
• Crush the strawberries
• Add the crushed strawberries to papaya pulp.
• Apply the mix onto your neck.
• Leave it for about 10 minutes.
• Wash off with water.
The vitamins and minerals of these fruits are great for nourishing your skin cells. While the enzyme called papain present in papaya removes the dead skin cells, the antioxidants of strawberries repair the damaged skin faster.

Raw Papaya Mask

You will need:
• Raw papaya
• Water

Directions:
• Grate the raw papaya.
• Using a fine cloth or sieve, squeeze out the juice from the grated papaya. If needed, you can add a little water to facilitate squeezing out the juice.
• Apply this juice on your neck and leave for 20 minutes.
• Wash off.
The enzymes found in papaya help generate new skin cells thus giving your dull skin of neck a new glow. Apply this mask on daily basis for a month or so.

Orange Peel Mask

You will need:
• Dried Orange Peel (always dry the peel in shade and never in sun)
• Milk

Directions:
• Grind the dried orange peel to obtain its powder.
• Mix the orange peel powder with milk to get a paste like consistency.
• Apply the mask on your neck.
• Leave for 15-20 minutes.
• Wash off with water.
The vitamin C and anti oxidants of orange are a wonderful treat for your skin and so is it’s bleaching properties. Milk works as a natural cleanser to give you a glowing skin in place of dark neck.

9. Dry Fruits Make Great Scrubbers for Dark Neck

Why only fruits, even dry fruits are a great remedy for getting a light skin tone on your neck. Almonds and walnuts both can be used to make scrubs for your neck.

Walnut Scrub

You will need:
• Walnuts
• Milk

Directions:
• Grind the walnuts coarsely. Do not make a powder of it, keep it coarse so that it can exfoliate your skin.
• Add milk to the coarse walnut to make a paste.
• Apply it on your neck, leave for 10 minutes.
• Now gently rub with your fingers as if you are scrubbing your neck. Do it for 5-7 minutes.
• Wash off with water.
Repeat for two to four times a week to get the real benefits from one of the best cleansing methods. The vitamins and zinc of walnut nourishes your skin while milk acts as a fine cleansing medium.

Almond Mask

You will need:
• Almonds
• Milk Powder
• Honey

Directions:
• Make a powder of almonds by grinding them.
• Mix milk powder and honey, mix well to make a paste.
• Apply the paste on neck
• Leave for half an hour.
• Wash off with water.
The vitamins in almonds give a new life to the skin and the oil in it acts as a moisturizer to give you a soft supple skin.

10. Chickpea- Another Good Scrubber for Dark Neck

The dullness of neck region can be treated excellently with the help of chick pea flour which is yet another very good scrubber for your dark neck. Make this scrub to bring glowing life to your neck skin.

You will need:
• Chickpea flour – 1 tablespoon
• Turmeric- a pinch or two of it
• Water

Directions:
• Take the chickpea flour.
• Mix turmeric and water to make a paste.
• Apply to your neck.
• Leave for about half an hour or till it dries up.
• Wash with lukewarm water.
If you have really dry skin, you may also add some fresh cream to this mix to moisturize your skin. While chickpea cleanses your skin, turmeric lightens it up to remove the darkness of the region.

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