Acne and Treatment – 2. Have You Tried These?
This is the second posting on acne and the treatment available to deal with it. We were talking about excess keratin produced by your skin cells and how to prevent it from blocking the oil ducts within your hair follicles, or even from forming at all.
Most over-the-counter remedies concentrate on unblocking the blockage by making your pimples and spots open up to release their contents, thus resolving the problem. But there is a downside to this.
And that downside is the side effects that usually manifest themselves. The treatments make the spots open up by drying them out. The trouble is that adjoining areas of the skin, which invariably share the same treatment applied to the spots, also dry out, often leading to irritation, chaffing and rashes, and often the return of the acne.
If your treatment involves drugs or antibiotics then there are often further side effects such as nausea, headaches, bone and joint pain and even, in rare cases, tendonitis. This leads us to consider the next possible treatment – herbal remedies.
The dandelion flower is probably the most well known repository of a herbal remedy for acne. You can eat the leaves in a salad or steam them in order to ingest their valuable vitamins and minerals, which are conducive to healthy skin by assisting with digestion and helping the body to rid itself of skin bacteria.
Take the roots and dry them before chopping and roasting them. Then put two teaspoonfuls of them into a quarter of a litre of water and simmer for twenty minutes. Drink three to four cups of this each day.
For a more direct treatment, take some lavender oil, which is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and dab it on individual spots with a cotton bud. If you prefer, use pure aloe vera instead.
Alternatively, you can raise your game and treat your whole face to a natural remedy mask. The fruits usually used are grapes and pineapple husks or strawberries. Put them into a blender and make them into a puree. Apply to your face for ten or fifteen minutes and then wash off. This can help remove excess amounts of keratin and dead skin cells that are probably blocking your pores.
We’ve covered some of the treatments available. In the next posting we’ll look at some preventive measures.
Philip Gegan
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March 13th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Good read, appreciate it. Constantly looking out for strange and great stuff to read