What You Need To Know About Alternative Medicine Acne Treatments

Acne is annoying. One of the reasons that it is so annoying is that there is a lot of conflicting information about the best kinds of acne treatment. If you do not have severe or painful acne, then there is really no reason to take laser treatments or prescription drugs to clear your skin. That would be like swatting a fly with an anti-aircraft bazooka. You should consider alternative medicine acne treatments. They don’t just treat your acne, but treat your whole body.

Stop Playing With Yourself

No, that’s not what I mean. I mean stop fussing, picking and squeezing your pimples. You can only irritate them and make them look bigger and redder than if you left them alone. This also carries over into face washing. Don’t wash a million times a day and don’t scrub at your face as if you were scraping ice off a windshield. You’ll just cause more acne.

To best understand how alternative medicine acne treatments can best help you, stop washing your face and read about how acne is caused.

How Acne Is Caused

Your skin secretes oil called sebum normally. Your body needs a certain amount of sebum on the skin at all times or it gets paranoid. If you used a harsh acne cleaner that strips all the sebum off of your skin, for example, your skin will pump out even more sebum. So, you need to use more alternative medicine acne treatments.

What does sebum have to do with acne? Well, pimples are caused by your pores getting clogged with dirt, oil and bacteria. So your attack plan on acne should be to clean out any burst pimples, clean your skin, clean up your diet and then get on with your life.

Stress can actually cause you to sweat, which causes the bacteria and oil than can clog your pores. So relax.

Things You Can Do

Here are some alternative medicine acne treatments you can consider:

Ease up on the make up. Make up is rough on the skin.

Drink more water and less caffeinated or sugary drinks. This just helps the whole body in general.

If your hair is long, keep it clean. Otherwise, get it cut. Dirty hair can leave dirt which causes acne

Use a drop or two of tea tree oil on a clean cotton ball to wipe over your face after washing. This is a bit smelly, but is a gentle alternative medicine acne treatment.

Posted in Alternative Medicine on May 21st, 2008, 6:15 am by admin   

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