Karen’s Free Health and Fitness Tips

As you might already know, acne is a skin disorder that can occur in virtually anyone at almost any stage of his or her life, regardless of gender, age or skin type. There are several homemade acne treatments that are known to be effective in helping you cure your acne or at least control it. In this article I’m going to reveal 4 simple but effective homemade acne remedies that can help you have a cleaner smoother skin. The following tips will help you keep your skin clean from oil, which is one of the main causes of this disease.

1- Wash your skin with glycerin based soaps or sorbitol based cleansers

In order to keep your skin oil free and clean from dirt it is very important to periodically wash your face water using glycerin based soap. By using glycerin based soap or sorbitol based face cleanser, you will get rid of all your skin’s oil without over-drying or irritating it. Also another reason for using these types of soaps is that they also balance the acidity of your skin, this creates a hostile environment for bacteria to grow resulting in a cleaner face.

2- Oatmeal facial mask

Oatmeal is known to be a very good in help you maintain an oil free skin by absorbing it. All you have to do is make a thick paste by mixing regular oatmeal and water and apply it to your face for 10 to 20 minutes twice a day, preferably in the morning and at night before going to sleep. Rinse the paste off your face preferably with cool water.

3- Honey and apples facial mask

Another very effective facial mask for those with oily skin is made from honey and apples. Just make an apple paste and add 3 to 4 tablespoons of honey mix it well and gently apply it to your face, leave it to work for 15 minutes, the rinse it well with warm water.

4- The famous toothpaste remedy

Spread a little toothpaste on your zit before going to sleep at night. This is supposed to reduce zit swelling. It’s one of the most popular home remedies because it really works.

It is very important for you to know that the above homemade acne remedies are known to work well on treating and reducing the symptoms of acne, this means that they will not get rid of the root cause of it.

By: Carlos Roesch

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