subject: Home Treatments For Acne [print this page] If you have been dealing with persistent acne for a long time and haven't gotten significant improvement by using any of the commercially available solutions, it may be time to consider home acne treatments. Even if you are just beginning to struggle with acne-as so many teenagers do at some point-it may be worthwhile to try out some acne treatments at home before spending time and money on commercially available solutions.
There are a number of reasons why you should consider acne treatment at home over pharmaceutical solutions or clinical treatment. For one thing, home acne treatments are usually much cheaper than the aforementioned alternatives. In fact, you probably even have some useful ingredients for it right in your own kitchen. Other ingredients are easily available and can be bought in supermarkets or groceries in any good sized city.
You can actually use grapes to make a facial cleanser as part of an effective home acne treatment program. Simply slice a couple of grapes in halves and rub the pulp over the problem areas on your face. Afterwards, all you have to do is rinse off with some cool water.
You may also utilize cucumber as part of an effective home acne treatment regimen. In the same way that cold cucumber slices can help get rid of puffiness and swelling when placed over the eyes, a cucumber face mask can have wonderfully rejuvenating powers on acne ridden skin. For refreshing and easy to do acne treatments at home, blend together a small cucumber and a cup of oatmeal and mix the concoction thoroughly into a thick paste. Then, take a teaspoon of this paste and mix in a teaspoon of any kind of plain yogurt. This resulting mixture is what you then apply on your face and leave on for half an hour, until rinsing off with cool water.
You can also clean out your pores by applying a honey mask that you can easily do in a few minutes. All you really need for this acne treatment at home is honey, which you apply onto your skin. Before doing so however, it would be best to wash your face with some warm water in order to open up the pores. Leave the honey on your face for half an hour and rinse it off again with warm water, after which you rinse with cool water in order to close the pores.
This is a slightly more involved form of acne treatment at home, but it works wonder in reducing excess oil and clearing up existing cases of acne. For this home acne treatment, you will need some Brewer's yeast and yogurt. Mix one teaspoon of yeast into a little yogurt and apply the resulting paste onto the problem areas of the face and leave it on for 15 to 20 minutes. Again, this should be washed off with warm after first followed by cool water, in order to have the most beneficial effect on the pores of the face.
