How to whiten your knees?

I do yoga and some poses need to be done on my knees. I began to notice that the skin on my knees was gradually turning into the heel, and even darkening… Thorough exfoliation, regular use of scrubs simply led to contact dermatitis and in the middle of summer with a heat of forty degrees I was forced to wear trousers.

I had to look for a way to whiten my knees. I reviewed all the recipes, and most of them were quite adequate at first glance, but I did it my own way. I am very pleased with the result, which I am sharing.

How and with what to lighten the skin on your knees

First of all, I present exactly the recipe that I used to lighten my skin. I’ve been regularly using a face mask with aspirin for several months now, and I decided to try it on my knees. Happened!

• 4-5 aspirin tablets
• 1 tsp toothpaste

Crush aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid, in regular tablets) in a mortar. I take a couple of blisters of 10 tablets at once and grind them in a coffee grinder. I use this powder as needed.

Mix a teaspoon of the simplest toothpaste with the resulting aspirin powder and apply to wet, steamed knees. You can walk around with this mixture for a while, 15 minutes was enough for me. Before rinsing off, massage your knees to remove dead cells.

It was with this mixture that I was able to lighten my knees in one go. This kind of knee care should not be done every day; after all, the paste noticeably dries out the skin, but once or twice a week, why not. After the mask, use a rich cream. I didn’t use the recipes described below, but I liked the composition of the masks. Take note.

A few more recipes for dark knees and elbows

• 1 tbsp soda
• 1 tsp milk

Prepare a non-spreadable paste from milk and baking soda. Massage your knees for 2-3 minutes, rinse. After each such procedure, be sure to nourish the skin with cream.

• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp olive or almond oil

Use the mixture as a scrub. Turmeric brightens the skin and removes unwanted hair (it definitely removes the fuzz above the lip). The oil immediately nourishes the skin.

There are a lot of recipes with lemon juice:

• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp vitamin E (in the form of alpha-tocopherol acetate oil solution)
• 1 tsp honey
• a pinch of starch to thicken the mass

Mix and apply to your knees, massage, leave the mask for 10-15 minutes.

• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp olive oil
• 2 tsp lemon juice

Apply the mixture for 10 minutes, massage and rinse.

• 1 tsp unrefined coconut oil
• 1 tsp sugar

This recipe can be enriched with soda or aspirin, then whitening will definitely occur.

• Cottage cheese, kefir, yogurt, sour cream

Lactic acid also does its job. First of all, this is gentle, delicate skin care. Fermented milk products not only whiten, but also soften the rough skin of the knees. Mask-compresses with cottage cheese are also suitable for heels.

Any fruit acids work well for skin whitening. It is especially pleasant to use raspberries as a whitening mask. In winter, frozen berries come to the rescue.

I haven’t written anything about salt, although there are recipes for scrubs with salt. Salt turned out to be too traumatic for my knees. Although you can try it mixed with butter or sour cream. I find soda more acceptable.

Why knees darken and how to avoid it

Rough skin on the knees is more of an age-related problem. The drier the skin, the higher the risk of developing these spots.

The following factors contribute to the appearance of dark spots:

• Wearing tight pants and rubbing fabric
• Frequent use of scrubs and peels
• Sports exercises and washing the floor on your knees
• Self-tanners “stick” better to dry skin in these places.

The simplest prevention, which I naturally neglected, is to drink a little more water than you want and moisturize not only your face. The second mandatory rule is sunscreen.

The areas on the skin that we actively deprive of protective lipid film and fat are especially sensitive. The knees that we try to whiten are the first to be compromised.

For knees you can make glycerin moisturizing balm:

• 2 tbsp glycerin
• 1 tbsp coconut or Shea butter
• 1 tsp vitamin E

Melt the butter in a water bath, add glycerin and vitamin E, mix thoroughly and let the mixture rest in the refrigerator. This is an excellent evening care for dry areas of the legs, elbows, and cuticles. Sometimes I’m too lazy to prepare the cream and just take a small jar of the cheapest baby cream, with a simple composition, add glycerin and an oil solution of Vit. E. Also quite decent (but a bit runny, it all depends on the cream).

I had a pleasant experience making scrubs and [creams](/en/beauty/ luchshijj-krem-dlya-nog-svoimi-rukami/) with your own hands, I suggest you try it too.