| Many acne sufferers don't want to pay a dime to | | | | extremely harmful. You need to purchase authentic |
| treat their acne; even I was looking into home-made | | | | sea salt from a pet shop, and soak the face with this |
| remedies when I was too cheap to go and purchase | | | | salt for as long as you feel necessary. This should |
| a real acne treatment. Although most home remedies | | | | help treat acne, however a good acne cream is |
| just don't work to permanently treat acne (they may | | | | recommended alongside this treatment. |
| initially treat acne), there are some positive outcomes | | | | The above cure is really the only known acne cure |
| a few certain home remedies can provide to the skin. | | | | that doesn't cause additional breakouts and works |
| But, before we move on, it's important to know that | | | | effectively. Other cures include applying cucumbers to |
| the majority of home remedies are skin irritants! I | | | | acne, aloe versa juice, eating many fruits and |
| remember reading about someone recommending the | | | | vegetables, honey, and cinnamon. These natural |
| use of toothpaste. Toothpaste may help to treat an | | | | ingredients are definitely good for the skin, but for |
| individual pimple by drying it out, but wait till the | | | | the treatment of acne, these homemade cures are |
| pimple disappears. Toothpaste is extremely harmful | | | | very questionable. Many people recommend applying |
| to the skin, so you are essentially trading acne free | | | | lemon juice to the skin, but based on my three week |
| skin for damaged, painfully ugly skin. Which one is | | | | trial of applying mass amounts of lemon juice to my |
| worse? Acids and bases both damage the skin if | | | | face in the past (I had a lemon tree so I had an |
| used in incorrect proportions. Skin pH is a very | | | | excess of lemons), it did absolutely nothing except |
| important part to maintaining acne free skin, so do | | | | further scar my face. |
| not use the old grand mom treatments some people | | | | If you want to keep your face acne scar free, then |
| like to promote. | | | | the best choice is to avoid homemade acne |
| Now, for our first cure. How many professional | | | | treatments completely. They are very risky and |
| surfers do you see out there with loads of acne? | | | | harmful to the skin even if they work. Every so |
| Close to none. After looking into why they don't | | | | often you can use them, but over use of fast acne |
| have acne, we figured it out: sea water has salt. Sea | | | | spot treatments isn't advised, unless you don't care |
| salt effectively dries out the pimples without | | | | about scarring. Overall, homemade remedies work, |
| damaging the skin. Sea salt isn't equivalent to table | | | | but they don't work very well and often contain |
| salt - in fact applying table salt, or NaCl to the skin is | | | | harmful skin irritants. |