| Acne remedies can range from how you treat your | | | | It provides nothing that your body can use for |
| body, to what you put in your body, to what you | | | | maintenance and repair. Sugar, especially, is an |
| put on your body. If you have a dislike of modern | | | | inflammatory food that can interfere with your |
| medicine and wish to avoid chemicals and drugs, you | | | | immune system. Healthful food is a natural acne |
| may be in search of a natural acne remedy. These | | | | remedy that works from the inside out. Fruits and |
| natural remedies are often simple common sense, or | | | | vegetables of a dark green, yellow, or orange color |
| they may be a complicated - yet still natural - | | | | are good sources of Vitamin A, while avocados, |
| treatment requiring the attention of a professional. | | | | eggs, nuts, seeds, wheat germ, and wholegrain foods |
| How to treat your body. The simplest and most | | | | provide Vitamin E. |
| natural acne remedy may be the hardest: Don't | | | | What to put on your body. Many plants have |
| touch. As you go through your day, you | | | | properties that can be used as a natural acne |
| automatically touch your skin, usually without even | | | | remedy. Some of these are extracted as essential |
| knowing it. Every time you do so, it stimulates nerve | | | | oils such as oils of tea tree, bergamot, clove, |
| endings. If your skin is already inflamed with acne, a | | | | lavender, and rosewood. These are naturally |
| simple touch can irritate it and set up further | | | | antiseptic and anti-bacterial, and can be applied to the |
| inflammation. Even worse is picking at and squeezing | | | | acne lesions at bedtime to fight the infection. |
| your pimples. The pressure can drive infection deeper | | | | Other plant-based approaches are created from |
| into your skin causing even more damage. | | | | foods you have right in your kitchen. An oatmeal |
| Next is cleansing. It may seem as if you should scrub | | | | mask absorbs excess oil and helps remove dead skin |
| to remove the excess oils and dead skin cells that | | | | cells. Honey, cinnamon, and garlic are natural |
| plug your skin's pores. But the same cautions apply. | | | | anti-bacterials. Lemon juice, orange peel, lime juice, |
| Scrubbing will irritate and damage already infected | | | | vinegar, and tomato are antiseptic due to their acid |
| skin. Instead, lather your skin gently with your | | | | content. Mint juice, tumeric, and tea are astringents. |
| fingers, using a mild soap, and rinse thoroughly. It will | | | | These ingredients, and others, are combined in |
| clean just as well without adding insult to injury. | | | | various ways to create a topical acne remedy. |
| What to put in your body. The health and function of | | | | The next step. If these simple remedies don't help, |
| your body depends upon the fuel it is given to work | | | | you don't necessarily have to resort to drugs and |
| with. Just as you'd provide the proper fuel for your | | | | chemicals. Homeopathy is a natural acne remedy that |
| car's engine to get the best performance, you should | | | | considers acne to be a symptom of a deeper issue |
| give your body the right foods for its needs. Healthy | | | | and works to stimulate the body's own healing |
| skin requires Vitamins A and E, as well as plenty of | | | | abilities. Choosing the correct remedy and dosage is a |
| water to flush away toxins. | | | | very involved process which considers the whole |
| Junk food does nothing more than fill your stomach. | | | | person instead of just the visible surface problem. |