Home Remedies for Acne
Sandal wood and rose water
Take sandal wood powder (at least one tablespoon) and make a paste adding rose water. Apply the paste on the area of your skin affected by acne. Leave it for half an hour and then wash it off. This is a good home remedy.
Baking soda and water
Making paste of baking soda and water, you can apply on your skin (on the area affected by acne). Leaving for fifteen minutes, you can rinse with warm water. Follow with a moisturizer (of course it should be light).
Cucumber Paste
Making a paste out of a fresh cucumber you can apply the paste on the area of your face affected by acne as a mask. After leaving at least for half an hour you can rinse it off. You can try this for several days.
Honey and Cinnamon powder
You can make a paste taking cinnamon powder and adding honey to it. You can apply this paste on the pimples before going to bed and leaving it for overnight. You can wash it with warm water the next morning. If you repeat this for at least fifteen days your pimples may vanish.
Sandal wood powder, turmeric powder and milk
Make a paste taking one teaspoon of sandalwood powder, one teaspoon of turmeric powder and adding milk to the mixture. Apply this paste on the area of your skin affected by acne at least for fifteen days. This is also a very good home remedy.
Author: Surya Narayan Bhattacharya
On the skin of human body there are very small holes or pores called hair follicles. Hair follicles contain sebaceous glands or oil glands.
Comedones: – When skin pores or hair follicles are plugged with tiny hair, sebum, dead skin cells, dirt etc. then comedones develop. There are two types of comedo (Plural comedones) Black head or open comedo and white head or closed comedo.
Acne is most common in teenagers and occurs during adolescence but in many cases continues into adulthood. No body can predict how long it will take to vanish completely. But in most people acne diminishes overtime and after early twenties it decreases considerably. In some people it may continue till late thirties also.