What Is Ubtan – Facial And Body Masks

Ubtan is a mixture of sandalwood powder, haldi (turmeric), besan milk & milk cream. We all know about it. It’s our forefather skin care tip. It has been used especially by “brides”. They start applying ubton some months before their wedding.

Ubtan is a Hindi name for any kind of beauty mask/pack. Please understand people, it’s not a name for anything particular, but it means a mixture of home made things which make you beautiful. In earlier days turmeric was used widely hence most of beauty masks had yellow color and all of them have different ingredients and different properties.

It is just a name, some of the very old recipes for masks are still called ubtan. So if you have any recipe which uses turmeric/ chickpea flour and it is very old that can be called ubtan.

Ubtan is mostly applied on face, left till dried and then gently removed with fingers moving in circular motion.

Full Body Ubtan Formula (for general beauty massage):

• 4 tablespoons chickpea flower
• 2 tablespoons mustard or almond oil
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon fenugreek powder
• 1 teaspoon wheat-germ oil
• 1/4 teaspoon rose oil.

Facial Ubtan Formula (for general facial ubtan) :

• 1 tablespoon almond paste
• 1 tablespoon cashew paste
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pistachio paste
• 1 tablespoon malai (skin of boiled milk)
• 1 tablespoon wheat germ oil
• 1 tablespoon rose water
• 1/4 cup red lentil paste
• chickpea flower (to thicken)

Mix apply, let it dry, rub off and have a lukewarm water bath.

EXCELLENT HOMEMADE UBTAN:

• Baisan 125gm
• Atta 125gm
• Haldi powder 12gm
• Sandal powder 12gm
• powder of dried orange peel 50 to 60gm

Mix them all and preserve it in a bottle. Use this ubtan daily by making paste either with water or with milk. You will see the excellent result just in two weeks.

Another Recipe:

• Haldi or Ubtan powder Ready made from market. 4tbl sp
• Baby oil 5-7 drops
• Rose water 1tbl sp
• Lime juice some drops
• Cucumber juice 1 tbl sp
• Milk for making paste.

The mixture was very good i got the best results out of it.