| If you are looking for an acne cure, natural | | | | the staph and strep bacteria that cause red, painful |
| treatments are usually the way to go. | | | | pimples that can even grow together on your face. |
| A few severe skin conditions such as cystic acne and | | | | In comparison trials at Australian medical centers, tea |
| psoriatic acne really require the heavy artillery of | | | | tree oil was found to take a day longer to kill |
| modern medicine, but natural acne treatments are | | | | bacteria than the most commonly prescribed |
| usually superior for treating common acne. | | | | medication, benzoyl peroxide. |
| Let's look at five useful products. | | | | The advantage of tea tree oil is that it doesn't just |
| 1. The main acne treatment in Ayurvedic medicine | | | | kill acne bacteria. It also gets the red out of pimples, |
| and the skin treatment favored by the legendarily | | | | and it stops drying, itching, and inflammation-things |
| beautiful Cleopatra is milk. | | | | benzoyl peroxide can't do for you. |
| In treating acne, you use milk on you rather than in | | | | 4. Baking soda has two terrific benefits in skin care. |
| you. | | | | When you use anything stronger than milk to |
| Milk is a natural source of lactic acid. You know from | | | | exfoliate your skin, stop the acid exfoliation process |
| experience that the lactic acid in milk isn't going to | | | | with baking soda. A paste of baking soda you make |
| harm your skin, but a milk treatment can lift and | | | | with a tablespoon (15 g) of baking soda and |
| separate dead skin. | | | | tablespoon (15 ml) of water can be spread over your |
| Simply soak a clean cloth in fresh whole milk and | | | | face to make sure you just peel away dead skin, not |
| apply the cloth to your face. Keep the cloth on your | | | | healthy skin, too. Leave the baking soda mixture on |
| face for 15 to 30 minutes, and then rinse. | | | | your face for 5 minutes and then rinse off with |
| The lactic acid in the milk removes tiny particles of | | | | warm water. |
| skin that block pores. | | | | And if you have pimples, you might start your |
| Keeping pores open prevents the whiteheads, | | | | morning cleansing routine with a quick baking soda |
| blackheads, and pimples from ever developing-and | | | | treatment to restore a healthy pH to your skin |
| you can use this natural acne treatment for just | | | | without having to use expensive skin care products. |
| pennies a week. | | | | 5. And when pain is the problem for which you are |
| 2. Another ancient acne cure, natural beyond any | | | | seeking an acne cure, natural calendula washes and |
| question, is honey. | | | | soaps can be just the thing. |
| What honey can do for your skin is to stop the really | | | | Like tea tree oil, skincare products made with |
| nasty infections that are caused by staph bacteria. | | | | calendula (marigold blossoms) kill bacteria, but they |
| These are the bacteria that get into pores and cause | | | | also stop pain. If you have big red zits that hurt, |
| pimples that literally pop up overnight. These zits rise | | | | calendula can be just the thing you need to have skin |
| above the skin and have a yellow circle in the middle. | | | | that feels good while it is healing. |
| You can get staph bacteria out of your skin with a | | | | More Acne Cure Natural Treatment |
| honey mask. | | | | Even though these five treatments are top rated by |
| Simply take 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of honey, preferably | | | | acne sufferers they may not the best acne remedy |
| Manuka honey, and spread over your face with clean | | | | for you. Why is that? |
| fingertips. Allow the honey mask to dry. This usually | | | | Well we're all individuals and the causes of acne can |
| takes 15 to 30 minutes. Then rinse the honey off | | | | be unique to each of us. |
| your face with warm water. | | | | Give these acne cures a try and if none work for |
| 3. The Australian acne cure, natural tea tree oil, is | | | | you there are others you can use. In your quest for |
| used in creams to stop both the Propionibacter acnes | | | | an acne cure, natural treatments are plentiful, |
| bacteria that live in whiteheads and blackheads and | | | | inexpensive and definitely the way to go. |