Home Remedies for Pimples

 

Home Remedies for Pimple

 

There are many home remedies for pimples which vary in effectiveness. Apples, aspirin, basil, clay based face masks, eggs, garlic, honey, horseradish, lemon juice, lime juice, potatoes, vinegar, and toothpaste are all possible ingredients when creating home remedies for pimples.

 

Pimples Treatment with Home Remedies

 Apples and honey can be used together in a mask that is said to heal acne; grate the apples, mix it with honey and leave on the face for half an hour. Apples contain natural malic acid, a chemical which is an exfoliant and therefore sometimes used in acne treatments,, and honey has healing properties. This home remedy for pimples is one of the better ones.

 

Aspirin masks are another effective home remedy for pimples; aspirin contains salicylic acid, the active ingredient in many popular acne treatments. Take plain uncoated aspirin, crush them into a paste, add a little water to the paste to make it malleable and then coat the pimple with the mask. You can leave the treatment on overnight for individual pimples, or cover your whole face with the mask and leave it on for a half an hour as a preventative measure.

 

Another mask that is a useful home remedy for acne is a mixture of lemon or lime juice and raw eggs. Juice from a citrus fruit contains citric acid, which is another skin exfoliant, and raw eggs contain sulfur, which is a skin disinfectant. Like the other masks, this one can be left on for half an hour for the whole face or concentrated on individual pimples and left on overnight.

 

Covering a pimple with an ice cube is another home remedy; it won’t make the pimple go away but it will reduce the redness and improve the pimple’s appearance.

 

Other home remedies for pimples involving food such as garlic, horseradish, potatoes or vinegar are probably not effective and can be very irritating to the skin, so they are best avoided. Toothpaste may have been an effective home remedy for pimples at some point, but the new formulations do nothing to help. However, a clay-based facial mask that also contains sulfur is excellent for getting rid of pimples. One of the best known remedies of this type is Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque. It can be left on the entire face for half an hour to clear up acne; do this every night for a week or two and at the end of the treatment your acne will be gone, and then you can repeat the treatment once a week for maintenance. It’s also great for drying up individual pimples.

 

Cortisone is also very effective at getting rid of pimples; it shouldn’t be overly used because it can break down the structure of the skin, but for a single pimple that’s irritating you an over-the-counter skin cream with 1% hydrocortisone or less such as Cortaid can do the trick. Unlike the other home remedies for pimples mentioned, this should be used as a spot treatment only, not as an all-over treatment for the face.