Natural Ways to Remove Acne Scars

Acne scars are left behind the skin when the acne is cleared. In today's world, several number of people, especially teens suffer from acne due to the excess oil secretion by the sebaceous glands. Acne is also caused due to dirt, pollution and other natural disturbances. When the oil in the skin and the dirt reacts, it clogs the pores and forms the angry acne. Sometimes, acne might have caused by bacterial infection due to the lack of cleanliness. Always remember, prevention is better than cure. So, let we protect your facial skin from acne for being suffered with these stubborn scars. Preventing acne is much more easier than clearing out these spots left by them. Acne scar removal procedure, that too with home remedies might be a little slower but the results will be good and natural enough. In this article, we are going to look about some interesting home remedies to vanish away these acne scars. 

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Lemon Juice for Oily Skin

Lemon? A very often heard remedy for acne scars? It actually works if you use it in a proper way. It has citrus properties and anti oxidants which are very very essential for our skin. Usage of lemon juice in skincare, improves the texture of our skin and brings out the flawless complexion. Lemon also has natural bleaching properties which fades away the dull spots and scars left by acne and other bumps. So, let us take half a lemon. Squeeze the juice from it and mix it with besan (Gram flower) This paste should be applied over your acne scars, remember not the whole face, before going to bed at night. Wash off your wash with cold water in the morning. This eventually helps in fading the acne scars and also makes the action faster with it's natural bleaching properties.

Tea Tree Oil for Dry Skin

What if you have dry skin type? Go for lemon? Hmm I won't recommend. Lemon juice is something citric which may harm you already dry and moisture less skin. So, go for tea tree oil. It heals the scars by unclogging the pores. Mix 2 drops of tea tree oil with 2 teaspoons of olive oil and heat this mixture. When its heat is skin bearable, apply over your face and neck. Give circulation massaging strokes with your finger tips and relax for 20 minutes. Wash off with clean water and wipe with a towel. Regular use of this tea tree oil not only removes the stubborn scars, it also improves the overall complexion of your skin and provides moisture. 

Tit Bits to Remember

• Vitamin E oil can be extracted from a capsule and applied over your scars every night before going to bed. This helps effectively in fading out the spots and scars. 
• Drink Plenty of water and maintain a healthy diet in order to remove the body toxins which results in a scar free glowing skin.
• Do not use plain lemon juice on your face anytime! It will harm your skin. Lemon juice should be diluted with water or rose water before using it on your skin.
•  Wash your face as many times as day with fresh cold water to prevent clogging of pores.
• A good oil control face wash is needed for oily skins to prevent excess oil secretion which leads to acne and scars.

Read my another post about acne scar removal using vitamin E oil here

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Blemish Clearing Masks for Oily and Dry Skins

Strawberries are excellent sources of Vitamin C and folic acid, which helps to make your skin blemish free. It's antioxidants rejuvenates dull skin to bring out it's original glow. Making your own facial mask at home with fresh and juicy strawberries will be a lovely and yummy nourishment for your skin in all the seasons. Dry, normal or oily, whatever your skin type may be, usage of strawberries in your regular skin care regime, cleanses dirt, removes excess oil and fades blemishes naturally in a faster way. It also gives a really pleasant feel while wearing a strawberry facial mask because it delivers a wonderful flavor unlike other chemical masks which you do in salons and parlors. In this post, we are going to see two main facial mask recipes with strawberries, depending upon your skin type, one for dry and one for oily guys and girls. Normal skin types can use anything with light moisturizing agent like milk cream or honey (Read the note below the recipes). As this is a very natural homemade blemish cure mask, even sensitive and combination skinned people can use this without any fear of side effects :) Lets move on to the recipes!

Strawberry Blemish Clearing Mask for Oily Skin

Ingredients

• Strawberries     - 3 or 4, as much as required
• Fuller's earth     - 1 teaspoon (Don't get confused :P Fuller's earth is just Multani Mitti)
• Lemon Juice     - Few drops
• Rose water       - Required

Method and Application

• Wash strawberries and put them in a blender. Blend till they are smoothly pasted.
• Gather this paste in a small clean bowl, add fullers earth, lemon juice and required rose water. Mix well. This is our face mask.
• Cleanse your face with an oil clear face wash, spread this smooth mask covering all the skin surfaces, including neck and allow it to work on your skin for 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water. 

Strawberry Blemish Clearing Mask for Dry Skin

Ingredients

• Strawberries - 3 or 4
• Milk Cream  - 1 teaspoon
• Honey          - 1 teaspoon
• Glycerin       - 2 drops (Use glycerin only if your skin is extra dry)

Method and Application

• It's a very simple procedure :) Put all the ingredients in a blender. Wait till the mixture forms a creamy paste.
• This is our mask and apply it as said above for oily skins, but remember you should use an hydrating face wash or soap to wash your face before applying this mask hence your skin is dry.
• You can wait for 20 minutes and rinse your face with fresh and cold water. Moisturization after mask is must for dry skins, use a good branded moisturizer.

Note for Normal Skins : Hey don't worry that I didn't give you a facial mask recipe. Your skin is normal, so you can use anything according to your wish. Just rememer onething, if your skin is "normal to dry" you need to add some milk cream or honey to it and if "normal to oily" forget about the milk cream and use lime juice or tomato juice instead, that's the trick :)

Results of this Blemish Clear Facial Masks

However the ingredient list differs according to your skin type, the mask has it own strawberry properties :) So you do get the same wonderful results if followed regularly. I suggest everyone to use this mask at least twice a week to achieve faster results on your skin. You can feel your skin is so much cleared, became blemish free and acne scar free after including this mask in your skincare regime. It removes oil, dirt, dead skin cells and scars to give out a lovely glowing complexion! You can see your skin is lightened, brightened and toned without any blemishes like never before! Enjoy! :D

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Skin Benefits of Red Sandalwood

Hello Everyone! Today I am going to share with you all, few amazing skin benefits of red sandalwood powder.  I got a small pack of red sandalwood powder from my uncle and wanted to post its effective skincare uses here. When googled about red sandal, I happened to know that it acts as a good natural skincare product which helps our skin to get rid of many skincare issues. I used it to even out my skin, remove tan and vanish acne scars. Red sandalwood has skin lightening and anti-gaining properties abundantly. It fights wrinkles and fine lines to give a glowing young skin. For past one month I am using red sandal in many ways to help my skin get rid of some problems and now let us check what they are :)

Red Sandalwood Powder

Red Sandalwood Skincare Recipes

• The powder should be mixed with tomato juice and used as a face pack to remove tan and lighten skin naturally. This also removes acne and dark spots effectively with regular use.
  
• Dry skinned people, mix red sandalwood with milk and honey. Spread this cream over you face and neck and wash off with cold water after 20 minutes.
  
• Mix the red sandal wood powder with rice powder with required water to use as a facial exfoliating scrub. After applying the paste over your skin gently scrub in circular motion with finger tips. Wash off. It helps clearing out even those stubborn blackheads.
  
• To remove scars and to tighten the wrinkles mix red sandalwood powder with cabbage juice and use as your face pack.
  
• Red sandalwood powder can be combined with your bath massage oil to improve the tone and texture of your skin
  
• Add two-three pinches of red sandalwood powder to your regular homemade/store bought face pack. There you are done adding some magical ingredient to boost up the face pack results!
  
• Dilute red sandalwood with water and spray this over your body to reduce excess body heat. This process not only balances the body heat, but also helps prevent skin infections.

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Natural Face Mask for Skin lightening and Scar Removal

Tomatoes has lots of antioxidants which clears out dark spots in our skin. It can also be used in several natural skin treatments like clearing acne, large open pores, wrinkles, oily and dark skin. Rubbing a slice of tomato everyday over your face, makes your facial skin surface clean, clear and scar free. Tomato juice also natural whitens skin removing sun tan as it has whitening properties.

To say about coriander, it is an excellent home treatment for pimples, blackheads, blemishes and dull skin. It also has excellent anti aging, anti wrinkle properties and reduces the appearance of moles and dark spots with regular use.

In this post I am gonna teach you all how to use these two fresh natural cosmetic products, I mean tomato and coriander :) as a Anti scar and skin brightening facial mask. People has different skin types so they are unable to use all types of facial masks. The main two skin types are oily and dry, so let me give you two facial mask recipes with tomato and coriander, one for oily skin and another for dry skin :).

TOMATO AND CORIANDER FACIAL MASK

(For oily and dry skin types)

• Mix 2 teaspoons of tomato puree with 2 teaspoons of extracted coriander leaf juice.
• Add two drops of lemon juice and a teaspoon of fullers earth (Multani mitti) to mixture and blend well.
• Cleanse your face and apply this smooth facial mask evenly over your face and neck covering the entire surface of your skin.
• Leave this mask to penetrate and work on your skin for 15 minutes and rinse off with clean water.
• If your skin is dry, you have to avoid lemon juice and Multani mitti as they may make your skin even more dry. Replace milk cream and honey for lemon juice and multani mitti. :) Normal skinned people just add rose water to the mixture of tomato puree and coriander juice :) That's it.

RESULTS

• This facial mask, if used at least twice a week gives faster results in ur skin within a month.
• It tightens your skin, removes fine lines, wrinkles, dark spots, acne scars, suntan, dullness and also fades moles.
• This mask acts as a best home treatment for skin lightening.
• It is much more better and naturally beneficial than the other chemical face packs you use in parlors :). Natural skin care is always the best and free from side effects than chemical based skin care cosmetics.

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Neem Face Pack for Acne and Blemish Free Skin

Hi readers.. Most of the teens main worry is acne these days :( Acne is caused by many physical and mental health problems such as hormonal imbalance, stress, improper diet and vitamin deficiency. To prevent acne we should include fresh fruits and vegetables in our daily diet cutting down the fried oily foods and junk food items. I do get acne in all the seasons because of my sensitive skin but still I would manage it every time with few skin care routines and diet plans.

If I get no time to follow all these, I would simply apply a magical face pack which cures acne overnight or within 2 days. The acne bumps gets dry and fall off when we use this face pack. Is it a chemical one? or a branded cosmetic face pack? Not at all. :D I prepare this every time at home in a quick method. This face pack is fully herbal as I prepare it with Neem. I hope you all know what is Neem. Luckily there's a Neem tree near my house, so I could easily pluck some leaves from my terrace.

I have prepared a neem powder by grinding dried neem leaves which I have collected and dried in shade for a couple of weeks. I use this powder whenever I get acne and whenever I feel to clear out the scars and spots. This powder can be used in all the seasons :). The greenish powder won't be too fine but still it is okay to use as a natural acne clearing face pack. If this face pack is applied thrice a week, it vanishes out all the blemishes :) :) :D Look at the picture below, dried neem leaves which I have collected.

Now I will tell you all few important facts about this neem face pack. Neem is an ayurvedic medicine which is really good for our skin :) . It does helps our skin in many ways without any side effects :) So, this face pack is fully natural and organic, so that you can never worry about side effects.

NEEM ACNE AND BLEMISH CLEARING FACE PACK

1. Take two teaspoons of neem powder in a small bowl.

2. Add few drops of rose water and lemon juice to make a thin paste like this.

3. The consistency won't be like what all the other packed face packs have. It won't be fine or smooth but it is quite enough to use as a face pack. Take a look at this! The paste when applied over skin, will look something like this..

HOW TO APPLY

• Wash your face with a gentle face wash and pat dry.
• Spread this neem paste allover your face and neck, leave on for half an hour.
• Wash off with clean and cold water. Moisturize! That's it :)
• If you're too lazy like me just apply this paste over you acne before going to bed at night. It will clear out the acne by reducing the bulge. :)

I have already mentioned the results above, so I believe you all got to know how good neem is ! :)

NOTE: This Neem facial pack suits all skin types. Add two drops of glycerin if you have extremely dry skin :) No worries! Have a acne free and blemish free face! Good luck friends!

Feel free to leave your comments.. See you all in my next post!

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Acne Scar Removal at Home

Acne scars look ugly and gives a bad look. We need not go for laser treatments or chemical cosmetics. We can use some natural home products to get rid of this scar problem. Few kitchen items that can be used to fade out these scars are..

1. Lemons 2. Tomatoes 3. Potatoes

Believe me, These are magical and natural kitchen items which are not only meant for cooking, we can also use them to naturally bleach our face and eliminate scars. Whenever you get time, simply extract juice from lemon, potato or tomato and apply over the affected skin area. Leave on for few minutes and wash off with clean water. Other than this remedy, we have an effective home treatment to follow, to eliminate the scars completely within few weeks. Then what? Clean, clear and glowing young skin is all yours!

Do you want to know what that skin magic is? It is Vitamin E! No wonder, Vitamin E has the ability to fade out the acne scars as it has lots of antioxidants and rejuvenating skin properties. Topical application of Vitamin E oil vanishes acne scars and black spots. This process not only removes scars but also gives you a soft nourished young and radiant skin. You can get Vitamin E oil from beauty shops, departmental stores or super markets. If you don't get one, Don't worry. You can buy VITAMIN E CAPSULES from your nearest pharmacy and extract the thick oil from it to remove acne and bump scars over your face or body. The best Vitamin E brand available in your nearest pharmacy is EVION. It's dirt cheap and also very effective. I take a Vitamin E capsule (Evion) everyday to maintain good skin health, I also use it on my skin to avoid and get rid of blemishes.

EVION (Vitamin E) costs Rs.15 for 10 capsules

HOW TO EXTRACT OIL

Just take a pin to make a hole in each capsule and extract oil from it. If you are going to use the oil only on your scars two capsules are enough. For a whole facial massage extract oil from 4 or 5 capsules. The oil is thick and colorless.

HOW TO APPLY

• Take facial steam before doing Vitamin E oil massage, because steaming opens up the pores and allows the oil to penetrate deeply.
• After taking steam for 3 to 5 minutes, apply the oil over your facial skin and massage gently with your finger tips in a circular motion for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Now leave the oil to work on your skin for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Wash off with mild soap and clean water. Pat dry. Follow this procedure everyday for faster results. You can also follow this oil massage twice or thrice in a week to remove acne scars.

I hope you all liked this home treatment to remove scars and dark spots. Try it out and write your feedback to me. Good luck! :)

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