Apply Baking Soda
Baking soda or sodium bicarbonate works as a gentle defoliant for your skin. So, it unplugs the pores and removes your dead skin.
- Apply a paste of 1 or 2 teaspoons of Baking Soda and a little water. Then wash it off after a few minutes.
- You can also mix as one together 2 tablespoons Baking Soda, 1 teaspoons cinnamon powder, the juice of half a lemon, and 5 tablespoons honey. Then apply it on your face and rinse after 5 minutes.
Use Baking Soda on your skin once or twice a week.
Use Oatmeal
Use Oatmeal
Oatmeal is very helpful to reduce acne because it cleanse your skin pores and absorb excess oil. Plus it removes your dead skin.
- Mix 1 teaspoon of honey and juice of half a lemon in a cup of cooked Oatmeal.
- Massage this mixture over your skin.
- Leave it on for 30 minutes and then rinse with cool water.
Do this once or twice a week.
Use Fuller's Earth
Use Fuller's Earth
Fuller"s earth (multani mati) is also good for acne-prone skin as it absorbs your excess oil (without more drying your skin) and unclogs the pores.
- Mix Fuller's earth, rose water, and sandalwood powder with equal proportions. You can also add more rose water to get a better constancy of the paste.
- Then apply this mud to your face and cleans after it dries up.
Repeat this process once a week.
Apply Lemon Juice
Apply Lemon Juice
Lemon has the acidic property. So, it is very useful in treating acne. Lemon clean out dirt that has accumulate in the pores and consolidate the sebum.
- Rub a slice of Lemon on the acne affected skin.
- Leave it for a few hours before washing your face.
- You can also mix Lemon juice with rose water with equal proportion.
You can apply it on your skin daily but if your skin is too drying, then use it 2 or 3 days in a week.
Apply Toothpaste
Apply Toothpaste
The Toothpaste that you use everyday commonly at early in the morning to clean your teeth can also clean up your acne problem on your face. This is one of the easiest home remedies for acne. The Toothpaste reduce the swelling and dry out the acne.
- Use a small amount of Toothpaste on the affected area before going to bed and clean it up a few moments.
Within 2 or 3 days you should see significant improvement.
Use Tea Tree Oil
Use Tea Tree Oil
Tea Tree Oil is another natural treatment for acne. Tea Tree Oil works as an antiseptic and disinfects the pores. It also kills the bacteria that cause acne.
- Apply one drop of Tea Tree Oil on the affected area three times in a day.
If it causes skin irritation, redness or over-drying, then diluted Tea Tree Oil in water or mix it with aloe era gel and then apply.