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Friday, September 18, 2015

From the Archives : Acne - Home Remedies {DIY}


Yesterday, I talked about how to take care of your skin and keep hygiene for preventing more acne outbreaks. Today, I would like to talk about some effective home remedies for acne. Hope these will be helpful for you. 
  • Lemon juice is one of the best bets. It kills the bacteria in the acne and also reduces the oil production on the skin. In fact, all the citrus fruit family is great for acne. Oranges, strawberries, raspberries; take a slice of them every time you eat a fruit and rub it over your face and other affected parts of the body and keep it on till it dries off. Wash with very cold water so that it gives some relief from any burning or tingling sensation. 
  • When I talked about lemon, tomato is the next follow up. Tomato juice is also equally effective for acne.
  • Remember one thing: Whenever you feel a tingling sensation after you apply any herbal or other product, it is a proof that it is working. If it starts irritating the skin or causes change in skin color, then it is probably time to get rid of the product or remedy.
  • Onion Juice and Ginger Juice is another great remedy for acne. Extract onion juice or ginger juice or cut a slice of onion or ginger and apply it on the affected parts. Wash off with cool water. You can even mix both of them.
  • To reduce any burning sensation or inflammation, use cooled tea bags and chilled cucumber slices. They provide a lot of relaxation. You can also apply sandalwood paste. It cools the skin and is an antiseptic. Mint juice is also very useful in dealing with the acne.
  • Mix 3/4th part of sandalwood and 1/4th part of turmeric. Make a paste with any fruit juice or mint juice and apply to the affected parts.
  • How could I forget aloevera gel. Plant an aloe at home and reap its benefits. The gel straight from the plant is great for acne.
  • Do not forget to use pomegranates. They too give you a lovely acne free skin.
You can also use something which will provide a cooling sensation or relief to the acne.

What home remedies do you use for your skin?

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Monday, September 14, 2015

From the Archives : Acne - How to take care of your skin?

Acne is one of the most afflicting skin disorders. Getting rid of acne is not very difficult if a strict routine is followed. The only thing to be kept in mind is to be strict with yourself whether in diet or skin care routine.

First things first. Never exfoliate your face. That just worsens the problem. You want to slough off the dead skin. Use milk. Apply raw milk on face with cotton very gently and wait for it to dry. Wash off with cold water (as cold as you can bear). It gives a relaxing effect to your skin.

Do not ever touch your face and do not let your hair fall on your face. The dirt and oil form the fingers and hair does cause bad outbreaks. You might also want to make a change in your hair products if you have outbreaks near forehead or chin. This might happen if your skin is giving allergic reactions to the ingredients of the products.

Use a separate hand towel or wash cloth for your face. Do not use your body towel to clean the face. Use a very very gentle cleanser. Best if you can get a dermatologist recommended cleanser which is more gentle as compared to over-the counter products. A cleanser with bacteria fighting abilities would be preferred. Be very gentle while cleansing your face. Any rough movement can cause an outbreak. Wash in circular motions.

Lets talk about your skin care products. First thing is a very light moisturizer. Preferred if it has spf properties also so that you do not have to cake your face in lot of product layers which will lead to closed pores. Makeup products should be water based and best if in a powder form or if you can avoid them totally, that would be the best. At night, try to keep your skin completely naked instead of slathering any anti-aging cream. That would allow your skin to breathe.

Change your pillow covers every day. The dirt and oil is soaked up easily by the pillow covers and if you use the same ones night after night even for a week, they would cause some outbreaks. Hygiene is a very big part of your skin care regime. Change the face towel also daily and wash in an antiseptic like dettol or savlon. That would keep it bacteria free and dry them in direct sun light. That would prevent any humid bacteria build up.

Now, lets talk about your diet. Cut on junk, oily and spicy food. That just increases the outbreaks from the inside. Decrease the amount of sugar and salt too. Also cut down on alcohol, coffee, carbonated beverages and smoking. They all contribute to your aggravated acne condition. No energy bars or energy or fruit drinks too. They are just full of sugar and nothing else. Reduce the chocolates too even if it is the dark chocolate you prefer.

Drink lots and lots of water and eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies. Drink lots of fresh fruit juices made at home. Keep your body light and exercise for a hour or two daily or thrice in a week. Drink fresh lemon juice every day in the morning. Follow all the tips I talked about today and you should see some improvement in a week or two.

So, what are your acne skin care tips?

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Have you started with a new skin care routine, men?? {Five Series}

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So, two weeks back sometime I had mentioned that Garnier has come up with a new campaign #SayNoToBars specifically targeted at men for their lack of skills or interest at personal grooming. Today, I would like to talk about why is it really important to use a face wash instead of a soap. 

Now, I have done a post on how is a soap different from a bar and how a man's skin is different from a woman's. So, assuming that you have read both of those posts, I would say I am extremely thankful that Garnier and other brands now a days are coming up with men-specific ranges. So, let me just go through five specific reasons why a face wash trumps the soaps. 

Hygiene
Soaps are handled by all family members unless you have one specifically for yourself (which in every case I would recommend) and imagine the number of germs accumulating by being handled by so many people!! Face wash is a squeeze and go. And, you do not have a soap case to clean and cover every time you use it. 

Travel-friendly
So, damn easy to pop and go. You can have on in your laptop case and use it at the office after a polluting ride on your bike (unless you are a car freak)! And, of course, it doubles up as body wash when you are out of station. 

Made specifically for your face
The face skin is different from the body and much more sensitive and needs to be handled with care. Thus, a face wash which has been specifically designed for your face instead of a bar has all the actives which will provide a deep cleansing and moisturizing wash. The ingredients will keep your skin soft and young, as well.

Soap is alkaline and skin is acidic
So, coming to a little more technical ground, our skin has a pH level of 5.5 where as all the soaps are alkaline which is why if you use a non-regulated pH product on the face, it will damage and dry out your skin and make you age faster. 

Your Acne might be due to soaps!!
The difference in the pH levels of your soap and skin can cause the sebum of your skin to get washed off thereby allowing bacteria to breed on your skin and causing breakouts. Face wash helps prevent such breakouts. 

These are just the starting reasons why you might want to shift to face washes. so, what are you waiting for?

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Do you clean your mobile? {Your Opinion}

So, when I was cleansing my face and was about to wash off the sunscreen, I noticed that the screen of my mobile was also dirty and had a layer of my sunscreen and sweat due to the excess heat in Hyderabad. 

Then, I thought that even if I do wash off my sunscreen properly from the face, this residue on the mobile screen can get transferred back on to the face, right? And, make the skin dirty and may clog the pores as well!!

Fortunately, my skin is not prone to breakouts. But, this can be a huge problem for acne prone skin or oily skin! The residue can cause a lot of breakouts on the cheeks and the chin area. So, I took a baby wipe and cleansed the mobile screen. Do you do that regularly as well?

And, this also reminds me that the same thing can happen with the pillow covers as well. The sweat and oil which gets transferred to the pillow at night does transfer back to skin the next night and the accumulated residue can harm the skin over a long run. So, do you change the pillow covers regularly?

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

How to Eliminate Acne - Things To Avoid

There are a number of actions that can worsen acne in any person. In my expertise I have discovered very a few but that does not mean there are not other people and it also does not mean that every thing I list below will impact you in the very same way. The only actual way to identify your own individual stimulants is by paying close attention to what you eat and what you do. If you can, record your every day food intake so that when you have flare ups you can reference the records and see any links.

For a more comprehensive list and additional detailed specifics I have developed a complete guide on the market at from my web site.

* MEDICATION

Some doctors will prescribe particular antibiotics to treat acne. The basis for this treatment is the idea that worse instances of acne commonly imply a high susceptibility to infections. This idea is true. Then again, all individuals who have a low pH level are highly susceptible to infections and illness. And by making use of antibiotics, you are both ignoring the reason behind this vulnerability, and stopping your body from producing its own antibodies. You will then create a tolerance to antibiotics and call for extra when you are truly ill.

Also, some conditions call for the use of anti-inflammatory medication. These can incorporate prednisolone, salazopyrin, cortelone, etc. In general, most (if not all) anti-inflammatory medicine will aggravate infections, generating what would be a minor passing infection into a key flare up. Your body regularly deals with minor infections with ease, but, in contrast to pH balance which simply makes it possible for infections to develop, taking anti-inflammatories will both cause and make these infections worsen.

Wherever probable, stay away from this sort of medication. Understandably, some conditions will demand them and there is little or no alternative. During these periods, you will need to function extra difficult on your pH balance. Consuming 80% raw vegetables and cutting out junk food and red meat altogether is a necessity, and in some instances (depending on the strength of your dosage) it will still not be enough. The only way to be positive your acne is at its absolute minimum though on anti-inflammatories is by eating entirely raw vegetables and maintaining a pH of 7 or slightly higher.

* RED AND PROCESSED MEAT

Processed meats are overall entirely lacking nutritional value. Meat pies, hot dogs, frozen meats all go via an extensive preparation method which extracts the small nutritional value they have and also enable them to further 'decompose' making them even alot more acidifying than they already were. Even fresh meat is notorious for its negative effects on pH balance. It is a general reality that a dead animal will have an acidifying impact on your body. That is not to say that it is totally unhealthy. Meat will usually have its rewards protein, energy, some nutrients. But over-indulging in any type of meat is definitely not a healthy selection. In specific, red meats must be kept to an absolute minimum. White meats like poultry and seafood are better options as they are less acidifying and still offer the necessary proteins that a meat need to.

Moreover, though there is no direct scientific evidence to link red meat to cancer, it is widely accepted by medical practitioners that red meat aggravates the bowels and can cause (or at the extremely least worsen) diseases that develop in the bowel. As the most essential part of the digestive method, the bowels are responsible for extracting nutrients from the food you eat. Any damage completed to either of the bowels will adversely impact your body's capacity to digest food, even healthy food. This will, among other and extra severe issues, lead to a lower pH level.

* TOUCHING AFFECTED AREAS

Do not touch your pimples! I am certain you have all heard this 1 just before but here is why you shouldn't. As mentioned in previous posts, acne on the skin is based bacteria and infection. Touching affected areas spreads bacteria and infection to the surrounding areas. Moreover, our hands come into contact with hundreds of diverse objects every single day. Door handles, keyboards, tables, cars, floors, plants, etc. All of which hundreds of other consumers have touched and which have most likely not been cleaned for a large number of months (if ever). Bacteria and/or dirt cover the majority of these objects and until you wash your hands, you will spread both over anything you touch. So why touch an region that is poor sufficient to have acne and make it worse?

* JUNK FOOD

Typically, you will get that specific foods will aggravate your acne far alot more than others. For example, chocolates, ice cream, fried foods, oily foods, etc. Foods that are high in sugar and fat content have a strong acidic impact on your body's pH balance. And whilst your body can digest and dispose of small amounts of these kinds of food, you must keep away from having them alot more than once or twice per week. For some of you, even that will be too considerably.

* OILY, DIRTY AND DEAD SKIN

Throughout the course of the day, your skin will both sweat, shed, and create oil. On leading of that, it will also collect any dirt from the air. You must stay away from permitting this to build up. There are a couple of techniques to maintain your skin. The initial is to make certain you have a shower each and every day (twice a day is far better but as soon as is minimum). Normally use an exfoliator (a facial scrub and loufa will do). If you physical exercise or play sport, continually shower right away afterwards - if no shower is offered at the incredibly least you need to wash your face.

Sweat is 1 of the most efficient ways for your body to discharge toxins that have built up. This is why physical exercise will consistently assist the fight against acne. Nonetheless, if you allow the sweat to stay on the skin it will enable excessive growth of bacteria and collect even more dirt than usual. It is challenging to say how sweat effects the buildup of oil given that the moisture could be either. Regardless of that, the other elements really should be enough to convince you to maintain your skin as clean as probable.

Oh and 1 even more issue. For those of you that do suffer from oily skin, the best treatment I found is to apply Himalayan Crystal Salt 2-three times a day. It is 100% entirely natural and does not damage the skin. Basically wet and apply. Easy.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Acne Treatments Are More Affordable Than You May Think


Acne remedies are on the rise with dermatologists practicing the newest advancements in decreasing the appearance of acne marks, scars and indentations they can leave on the skin. Millions of people today suffer from many sorts of acne every day and over half of those many people do not seek treatments just because they assume they can not afford it. Dermatologists are developing house skin care lines and reducing the fees for their acne remedies they perform in the office to help these folks live with clearer skin.

Living with acne of any type is no picnic, it can be 1 of the greatest self-esteem crushers there are. When you look in the mirror and are faced with blemishes day right after day it can be a rather frustrating expertise. Countless people today suffer from acne merely due to their genetics, if your parents had a poor case of acne chances are you will to. Prevention is key with all forms of blemishes and if you start treating it at the first signs of it you do have a better chance of clearing up your skin just before it becomes a lifelong battle. The dilemma appears to be a monetary 1, either most folks do not have a health insurance program that covers dermatologist treatments to repair their skin or they assume it is out of their budget.

Acne treatments can come in the form of procedures in the office performed by the dermatologist that are chemical peels or they can be injections or laser remedies. These procedures are not as costly as 1 might imagine, in fact lots of of them are just a few hundred dollars from start to finish. Some acne treatments require that you pay a visit to the office a few times to have many remedies over the course of four to six weeks. This allows the skin to heal efficiently between treatments and to continue killing the bacteria under the skin that causes the acne to develop. For acne scarring treatments, you ought to have a dermatologist evaluate your skin kind just before they can provide you with an accurate price and the ideal treatment to treat or minimize your acne scars. Each and every case is several with some patients needing a few remedies over the course of a year and other people only needing 1 or two treatments. Depending on how lengthy you have had the scars in the skin and how severe your acne is, that will decide the cost of your remedies.

Be intelligent when shopping around for prices on acne treatment packages, and see a few dermatologists for a free consultation to get a greater overview of what you have to have accomplished to clear up your skin. Ask the offices if they are running any specials and if you do not have any type of insurance that covers these types of acne remedies, inform the office of that and in most cases they can cut you a break on their fees. Having clear skin is necessary for a very good overall image of yourself and if you can have it repaired, then you ought to.