Home remedies for acne...?!


Question: does toothpaste accually work? and please give me some remedies that i would probably have the ingredients in the house...thanks!


Answers: does toothpaste accually work? and please give me some remedies that i would probably have the ingredients in the house...thanks!

Pimples

A simple soap and water routine can help dry out pimples. Make sure your child washes her face at least three times a day, with soap and water. If your child's skin is very oily, she should apply soap before wetting her face.

Camphor solution dries out pimples, and it soothes the skin. Keep a bottle handy so you can pat the solution onto the problem areas at regular intervals. If a pimple-head has already formed, put a hot towel on the pimple repeatedly until it comes out. Then pat on some camphor.

Onions are also useful in dealing with pimples. Cut a few onions and cook them in lard until they become transparent. When they have cooled, tie the mixture in a muslin cloth and apply it to the pimples in the form of a poultice.


Blackheads

Soap and water combined with a steam routine seems to be the best approach. Add dried lime flowers to a pint of boiling water and steam the face in this solution for 10 minutes. As a result, pores will open up. Press the skin around the blackheads with cotton wool or tissue. Then close the pores with an astringent solution, and wash with soap and water. A steam face bath with Epsom salts added to it is also effective. If the blackheads are still clinging on stubbornly, pat some almond oil on them and gently squeeze them out.

You can also try a solution made of 6 ounces of distilled water and 27 grains of soda bicarbonate. Rub this solution over the blackheads.

Milk also helps treat blackheads. Wash the face with warm water and then sponge it for fifteen minutes with tepid milk every day.

Apply a little warmed honey to the face, and wash off after fifteen minutes.

Exfoliate your skin with a facial scrub, twice a week. Make your own homemade exfoliating scrub. Dissolve four ounces of powdered almonds, two ounces of glycerine soap and one ounce of multani mitti in a little water. Then rub this solution onto the blackhead-affected areas on your face.


Large pores

While there is no permanent remedy to close large pores, astringents do help to temporarily tighten and close them.

Buttermilk has astringent qualities. Apply it on your face and leave it on for 15 minutes before washing off with cool water.

Egg white also helps tighten skin. Beaten egg white should be applied on the face with cotton wool and washed off after 15 minutes.

Tomato juice contains Vitamin C and potassium and works wonders on large pores. It can be used alone or mixed with curd or multani mitti to make an excellent pore-closing paste. Lettuce juice is another alternative.

Pastes made of cornmeal or oatmeal have also been found to help closing pores. The paste should be made with hot water, applied and left on for about half an hour. It should then be washed off with cool water.

Powdered alum mixed with hot water or rosewater and egg white is also good for tightening and closing large pores.

You can also make a good skin tonic using equal parts of vinegar and water.

As in the case of pimples, camphor works well towards tightening and closing open pores. A few drops of camphor spirit mixed with rose water or cool water makes a nice pore-tightening solution.

The most important tip of all: start taking care of your child's complexion from the outset, so she never has to endure the pain associated with far-from-perfect skin. After all, prevention is better than cure.

Some more easy-to-implement body care tips.

1.Watermelon juice clears the skin of all its blemishes leaving it fresh and lovely. Grate a watermelon, squeeze out the juice and apply it on your face for 15 minutes. Now wash it with hot water and then splash on cold water.

2. Fenugreek leaves (methi) cure pimples, blackheads, dryness and early appearance of wrinkles. Make a paste of these leaves and apply it every night. Next morning, wash off with warm water. This improves your complexion.

3. Tea leaves and lemon juice helps prevent hair fall. They also lead to soft and shiny hair. You need to boil the leaves in water and strain out the tea. Add a little lemon juice to this concoction and wash your hair with it. Rinse your hair thoroughly.

4. Bengal gram flour (besan) mixed with curd can be applied daily on your face and hair! It will not only give you a glowing complexion, but also long and lustrous locks.

5. Orange juice is great for an instant glow. All you need to do is dip your fingers in the juice and pat your cheeks, chin, neck and forehead. Wash off after ten minutes.

raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar
to open the pores and loosen dirt and grease from your face turn off the heat from a pan of distilled water, add 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar to a quart of the hot water. drape a towel over the pan and your head to steam clean your pores. take a cotton ball, dip in vinegar and pat over skin to remove loosened dirt. repeat 2 more times. then spray or dab on
chilled vinegar and equal part of distilled water to close your pores and tone your skin. do twice weekly, also can use the chilled vinegar water as a toner 2 times daily.
it is amazing ....
i also drink the vinegar, 1-2 tablespoons in water with honey in the morning..and i use the vinegar water as a toner 2 times daily..

raw unpasturized apple cider vinegar..
the following 2 testimonials can be seen at http://www.earthclinic.com/cures/acne.ht...
Angelina O, has found that applying ACV topically to her face several times a day (4 or more times) has cured her of a "very bad complexion". She reports that she applies it straight and that while it burns her skin a bit, it still works like a miracle!

Cheryl writes, "My daughter developed a case of moderate acne, and after trying a number of different things for over a year which helped very little or not at all, she started drinking 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar three times a day and applying it topically once at night. She has been acne free for two months. It took about three weeks to clear up."

to drink, add to water and honey, or to apple juice.

you can get the vinegar at the health food store, or in some super markets.

Your kitchen shelf has been secretly storing all these beauty secrets for years. It is up to you to discover more. And when you do, don't forget to share them with us!

The rude shock in the mirror
You wake up in the morning, stumble to the basement and wash your sleepy face. As you wipe it dry with a towel, you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, and let out a loud groan. No, you're not having a bad face day. It's something much worse than that. It's the (shudder!) biggest darned pimple you've ever seen in your life! Ugh! Where did you go wrong?

toothpaste has been said that it doesn't work but for me it actually dries out the pimples... if the pimple is just a red bump don't try to squeeze ite because it will just leave a mark on your face when it goes away..

my remedy for acne is to keep a clean face... rubbing alcohol after i wash my face and also after i shower... ( if you have bad acne it might hurt alot so i don't recommend using it) but after that i let my face breathe

I used to use a wet hot towel over my face to break the pimples and get the blood flowing. Barbers use this method to swell beards to shave men.
Heat it in a basin of hot water as hot as you can stand it, for as long as the towel is uncomfortable.

No, toothpaste does not work. All it does is dry up the skin, which in turn might cause the acne to go away, but it can also cause more irritation and make it worse. You try to calm acne down if it is red and irritated by making an oatmeal mask. Just take some oatmeal and add water to make a paste and put it on your face. You can try aloe vera as well to calm it down. The best things to help acne is benzyol peroxide or salycilic acid. If you don't have any acne medication that has these, try crushing an aspirin and making a paste with it by adding a little bit of water and dabbing it on the problem area. Aspirin is made from the same component as salycilic acid is, so that will work.

EDIT: Please do not use rubbing alcohol on your face!! It strips off the protective barrier of oil that your skin needs to keep bacteria out, so it can actually cause it to be worse. It also changes the pH of your skin, which also makes the ance worse. If you would like a toner, which helps to clean out and tighten your pores, you can use witch hazel, and that is also an antibacterial product that can help with acne as well.

Steaming your face can help bring out impurities. Boil a pan of water, then take it off the stove, and sit with a towel draped over your head with your face over the pan of water. After you are done, try exfoliating with sugar, or dry oatmeal. I would not exfoliate if your acne is very red and inflamed though, because that can irritate it and make it worse.

There are different kinds of ance, and different remedies help with the different kinds.

Also, another product that can help is tea tree oil. That is antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-inflamitory.

EDIT: One more thing, please do not pop or pick at your acne. This can cause scarring if you don't do it correctly. If you must do this, make sure you apply a hot cloth to it first, or steam your face. Then you take a sterilized needle (a diabetic lancet works great you can buy a whole bunch of these in the pharmacy area of your local drugstore) then prick the acne in the white area only. (Only do this to whiteheads, "popping" any other forms of ance won't do a thing, except make it worse and cause scarring) Then take two q-tips or your gloved fingers and place them on each side of the bump. Then you slowly push down and together. You want to make sure you get underneath the pore and push the bacteria up and out. If you only get the top part and squeeze, your end up rupturing the pore on the bottom and causing the bacteria to spread out the bottom into other pores, which causes more ance to be formed. Then make sure you wipe the area with some witch hazel or other toner.

my dermatologist recommended washing with Spectrogel, and a prescription, I never got it filled. the spectrogel worked great and it's not expensive, still use it to this day.
great for sensitive skin too.
if you are trying to sooth a sore bump, try using a wet tea bag
it calms a swelling.

acv - apple cider vinegar, dilute it though so it doesn't sting your face ar first. gd luck





The consumer health information on answer-health.com is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment for any medical conditions.
The answer content post by the user, if contains the copyright content please contact us, we will immediately remove it.
Copyright © 2007-2011 answer-health.com -   Terms of Use -   Contact us

Health Categories