Five kitchen ingredients that can dry your skin

Most of us just love to potter around our kitchen, opening cupboards to whisk up some magical beauty recipes that will make our skin and hair glow naturally!

- Suparna Trikha

However, there is some danger when mixing or using the wrong ingredients, and I have always propagated that natural ingredients need to be changed in usage with the seasons, which means what you were using at 16 degrees cannot be used at 60, and that beauty products need to change in summers and again in winters.

So what are some of the kitchen ingredients that could make your skin dry? Let's have a look:

• Gram flour: This highly popular ingredient has been used in face masks, body ubtans, and scrubs nearly all over the country. However, avoid as a face pack during winters; this is when our skin needs to be kept moist. In the dry, dormant air, face packs and scrubs mixed with reducing agents like besan atta dry out the skin and make it look dull and lifeless.