Sunday, January 18, 2009

Treat Acne With Home Remedies

By Lucy Collins

When it comes to acne, we all just look at it as a simple annoyance, something that makes us feel incredibly self conscious. And, when it comes to treating out acne, we would prefer to find something effective, and something that will not put a damper on our wallets. Here are a few home remedies acne treatments that you might find rather helpful!

It has long been debated whether or not home remedies can work for acne or not, or that they are weaker than other things you can use to fight acne. In many cases they are weaker, but you get less side effects and in many cases they can clear your acne up easily. It is all about allowing the body to heal itself. If you learn to change the way you treat your skin, it may also have lasting results where medications may allow acne to return.

Vitamins can make your body stronger against acne. Niacin, Vitamin A and E are powerful acne-fighting vitamins particularly. You still need to take care how you use vitamins and consult a physician before starting any treatment regimen, of course, even though they are 'natural'.

Unfortunately one of the most effective home remedies, garlic, is often avoided for obvious reasons because not only will it get rid of your pimples, but it may get rid of your friends as well. Jokes aside, rubbing raw garlic directly onto a pimple or pimples a few times each day will certainly clear up your skin and it will clear it up faster than you imagine.

As mentioned at the beginning of this article, vitamins are a proven cure so it stands to reason that you should include plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables in your diet. A healthy diet is considered my many health professionals, to be the most effective tool for combating acne, including prevention.

Fruits and vegetables also include many antioxidants which help your body resist acne breakouts. One acne solution that is common is to squeeze lemon juice onto acne prone areas, or to rub orange peel onto the affected area. These do not work for everyone, but are effective at times.

If you need something a little stronger, try zinc supplements. It is a common and popular home acne remedy even today. You should take zinc supplements at the regular dose at the beginning and then start to reduce the dose after taking them for about one month. Results may not be visible for several weeks, however.

Of course, as there are many different home treatments you'll need to find which ones work best for you simply through trial and error. The remedies I have mentioned in this article are only the tip of the iceberg and with a little research, you'll find a wealth of others which you may wish to try.

Believe it or not, these remedies do work. Of course you may be sceptical so why not go right now and rub some garlic of your pimples? Do this a few times each day and watch those pimples disappear then at least you'll have witnessed the effectiveness first hand.

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