Acne Cure Blog

You may be totally sick of spots, pimples, boils and cysts; you may not want to leave the house without a paper bag on your head; but you still may not want to subject your already damaged skin under further attack from chemicals and antibiotics. This is where herbal acne treatments come in. These treatments use herbs and other natural plant products to help to heal and prevent acne. These sorts of treatments have been used for millennia.

Tea tree oil is a popular choice for acne treatments. This is an Australian plant which doesn’t actually come from the tea plant but from a species of tree called the Melaleuca. It is a very lucrative exporter product for that country now. Often tea tree oil a main ingredient of facial washes. It is useful for its natural drying properties. That allows it to remove excess oil from the skin, so pores won’t be so likely to be blocked and cause pimples. Tea tree oil may be a little gentler than prescribed acne medication and therefore take a little longer to work, but long-term it is equally as effective as prescribed medication.

‘Tea’ seems to be quite the buzzword for herbal acne treatments; next up is something that actually is more akin to the tea we are more familiar with: green tea. This is quite unique amongst teas as t is not fermented like other tea products are. It is harvested and steamed quickly and that way it is allowed to hang on to all of its active acne healing ingredients. It can be drunk or applied to the skin and tests have shown topic applications of green tea bags to be just as effective as other over the counter acne treatments which have less natural and more aggressive ingredients. As well as reducing the inflammation of acne breakouts, green tea has a powerfully antioxidant effect. That will be a great long-term help in combating acne as well as man y life-threatening diseases. Green tea can even help to calm down over-active hormone production that is a major contributor to the onset of acne around puberty.

Drinking four or so cups of green tea per day can really help to control acne with very few side effects. Just remember not to add sweeteners. You don’t want to negate all the good effects of this great drink by adding the sugars that will just feed your acne as well as causing other problems.

Herbal acne treatments are definitely worth trying before you opt for more aggressive and medicated solutions to your skin problems. They are easily available, cheap and good to the whole of your body. With green tea inside you and tea tree oil used topically on your skin, you will be utilizing a powerful duo of herbal acne treatments that fight the condition inside and out, as well as giving you a whole host of other benefits. You will get the benefits of these treatments being cheap, easily accessible and with a reduced risk of side-effects when compared to medication.