Home remedies to treat acne

We give you home remedies to reduce acne and pimples

Tired of the regular zits that keep popping up every now and then? While if you suffer from an acute acne problem, it's best that you visit a dermatologist, you can bid adieu to a pimple here and there by following these simple home remedies — just make sure you don't suffer from any allergies. Acne usually starts with blackheads, which are formed when oil along with dead cells gets stuck in your pores and turn black. The inflammation when it turns red are the unsightly pimples that all of us dread. While a regular clean-up will reduce your blackheads, here's what you can do to prevent them...

- Take a few pieces of jaiphal (nutmeg), mix it with some unboiled milk and apply the paste on your acne. Wash it off after about two hours.

- Make a mixture of cinnamon powder and honey and apply on your pimples before you go to bed in the night. Wash it with warm water when you wake up in the morning. Do this for a fortnight and watch your pimples disappear.

- Not only are oranges good for overall health, you can use orange peels as a remedy for pimples too. Grind the peels, mix them with a few drops of water and apply it on your face.

- Mix a tablespoon each of fresh lime juice and groundnut oil and apply it on your face to avoid blackheads.

- Leave fresh mint juice on your face overnight to tame pimples.

- Take methi (fenugreek) leaves and make a paste. Apply it every night for 15 minutes and wash it off.

- Take turmeric powder and neem leaves. Apply the mixture on your pimples. Leave it on your face for about half an hour.

- Take equal quantities of rose water and lime juice and apply the mixture on the affected area. Leave it on for 20 minutes.

- Make a face-wash by adding fresh lime juice to a cup of unboiled milk and using it on your face.

- Take some tomato pulp and apply it on your face. Leave it for 45 minutes and wash it off.

- Take a few drops of gulab jal (rose-water) and mix it with sandalwood. Apply the paste on your face and wash it off after 20 minutes.

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27 Quick and Crunchy Home Remedies for Pimples

• Dab a little lemon juice on it. The astringent properties in lemon juice will suck out some of the oil and shrink the blemish. Wash off before going in the sun, though, as this could bleach your face and make it more sensitive to the sun.
• A teeny, tiny clay mask will fix it. If you need clay, go here (and you need clay, I promise):Mountain Rose Herbs. So a search for “cosmetic clay” and you’ll find that an entire pound is a whopping $4.95 (you might want to order another thing or two, to make the shipping worth it). Now, once you have your clay, take 1 tsp of it and mix enough distilled water to make a thick paste. Apply it directly to the blemish and leave on as long as you’d like (at least 20 minutes or all night long). I’ve seen pimples completely disappear overnight from this. Yeah. Really.
• Use an itsy bitsy smudge of lavender or tea tree essential oil. Again, you can purchase these things at Mountain Rose Herbs. They’re great for a whole host of different things, and they absolutely annihilate zits. Use one tiny drop of either oil on a Q-tip and rub it on the blemish. Leave on overnight.
• Make a paste with cinnamon and honey. Use approximately 1/2 tsp of cinnamon and add to the honey. Mix to make a paste. Apply to the blemish and leave on for 20 minutes (or overnight). Zit = zapped.
• Rub a slice of potato on them. Leave it on for at least 20 minutes, or all day.
• Tomatoes. Tomatoes. Tomatoes. Try rinsing your pimply face with fresh tomato juice. Leave this on for an hour before washing. Or, try the Homemade Tomato Juice Peel-Off Mask!
• Apples and honey to the rescue. Grate a small bit of apple into a fine mush and add honey to make a sticky, fruity paste. Apply to the pimples and leave on for 20 minutes. Or, do your whole face! Wash well.
• Try the Aspirin and Honey Facial Mask. You can do your whole face, or just tiny little spots.
• Make a tiny mask with dried calendula and castor oil. Freaky, right? Oil for a zit. But castor oil is actually drying and the calendula will soothe the redness and the surrounding skin. Calendula can be purchased at, of course, none other than Mountain Rose Herbs (links above).
• Make ice cubes out of green tea. Just rub one of those things over the blemish area two or three times a day. Swelling will go down, skin will be soothed, and the green tea acts as an astringent.
• Pound an orange peel. Yep. That’s right. Take a small amount of orange peel, sprinkle some water on the pith-side and pound it with a (clean) hammer or meat tenderizer for 10 seconds. Rub the peel over the pimply areas (you could even tape it there for a few minutes for extra action).
• Dab it with strong basil tea. Boil 1 c. of water and add 1 Tbsp. dried basil leaves. Steep for 10 minutes. Strain. refrigerate until cool. Apply to the pimples (or all over your face, if it’s oily).
• Strawberries are yummy zit zappers. In addition to whitening your teeth, strawberries are excellent for occasional pimples (or acne). Slice the top off off a strawberry (eat the fruit) and rub the small amount of flesh left at the top of the strawberry on your pimples. Leave on for 20-30 minutes and then rinse off. You can read more about strawberries and skincare here!
• Witch hazel and a cotton ball. Or any kind of fabric, really. Just soak the fabric with some witch hazel, hold on the blemish for a minute or two. That’s it. Astringent to the rescue.
• Concoct your own pimple cream with lanolin, glycerin, and castor oil. Just melt, on very low heat, equal parts of all three. Store in a small jar. Apply it to pimples as necessary.
• Make a poultice with dried hibiscus. Hibiscus makes a wildly delicious tea, but it’s also very effective on blemishes. You can have it both ways with this remedy! Just steep 3 tsp. hibiscus in 2 c. water. Strain (saving the hibiscus). Add a little honey to your tea and drink up. Then take the wet hibiscus, place it in a small paper towel or piece of cheesecloth, and apply to the pimple. Hold it there for 5-10 minutes.
• Don’t be a vampire – use garlic. I know, I know. It sounds really stinky. Desperate times call for desperate measures and all that.  And garlic is pretty wondrous when it comes to clearing away the pimples. Peel a clove of garlic and then mush it up well with a fork. Apply the mush to your pimples and let it set for 20 minutes.
• Spice it up with some nutmeg and cloves. Put 2 tsp. whole cloves and 1 tsp ground nutmeg in 1/4 c. milk. Heat on low for 10 minutes (careful not to scald the milk!). Allow the milk to cool. With a small washcloth or other fabric, apply the spicy milk to the pimply areas – or all over your face!
• Splurge on some neem. Neem powder and neem oil are two magical pimple treatments, but they may be hard to find. Try Whole Foods, your local natural foods store, or Mountain Rose Herbs and pick up either one – or both. With the oil, just daub the oil directly onto the blemish. Or, with the powder, mix with a tiny amount of water or witch hazel to form a paste that you then apply to the pimply areas. Leave on all night for extra zit-busting effectiveness.
• Rosewater and lemon juice – a fragrant remedy. If you happen to have some rosewater (if you don’t, you should get some … again, Mountain Rose Herbs or Whole Foods), take 1 tsp rosewater and 1/2 tsp lemon juice and apply to the blemishes. The rosewater will act as a calmative and helps repair the skin, while the lemon juice is astringent and drying.
• Take your honey straight. At night, slather on a little honey over an extra-large pimple. Cover this with a bandaid, and sleep with the bandaid on. In the morning, remove the bandage, be amazed at the lack of pimple, and rinse your face well.
• Apple Cider Vinegar. The good old standby, the liquid that does more things than Madonna (career-wise, I mean) – just dab a bit onto the affected area and let it dry. Leave it on for 20 minutes … or forever!
• A sprig of mint’ll do you. Take one leaf from a sprig of fresh mint, rub it well between your fingers until it’s bruised. Rub the “juice” from the mint leaf over the pimple. Leave on.
• Localized egg white mask. Just separate the yolk from the white, whip the white a time or two, and dab on to spotty areas with a Q-tip. Leave on overnight and wash well in the morning.
• Aloe vera gel or leaf. For some time, I had an aloe vera plant in my home. Then I forgot to water it. For a month. Anyway, whenever I started to feel a pimple coming on, I’d break off a tiny bit of the leaf and rub the gel inside over it. Worked like a charm at heading off (sorry for the pun) the pimple. You don’t have to have a plant – just look for the purest aloe vera gel you can find in your local natural foods store.
• Bruise some fresh cabbage leaves. Just mush ‘em up and rub them on the offending area. Leave the juice on for at least 30 minutes or more. Rinse off and finish with an astringent.
• Dissolve some salt in lemon juice. If you want even MORE drying power than just straight lemon juice, try dissolving 1/2 tsp salt in 2 tsp lemon juice, rub on the zit and leave on (being aware that lemon juice is also bleaching and can cause sensitivity to the sun).

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1. Lemon Juice

The acidic property of lemon can be very useful in treating acne at home. Lemon will clean dirt accumulated on the pores and will harden the sebum. Just take a slice of lemon and rub it on the affected area and leave it for few hours before rinsing your face with clean water. Another way to treat acne is to mix lemon juice with rose water in equal amount and then with this solution wash the affected area properly.

2. Toothpaste

The toothpaste that you use regularly to clean your teeth can also be used to get rid of your acne problem. Take small amount of toothpaste and apply it on acne before going to bed. The toothpaste will reduce the swelling and dry out the acne. Within a day or two there will be no acne at all. This is in fact one of the easiest home remedies for acne.

3. Tea Tree Oil

Another popular natural cure for treating acne is tea tree oil. Tea tree oil acts like an antiseptic and this can help in removing damaged skin cells by slightly irritating the skin. When tea tree oil is applied on the affected skin, it produces bacteria-fighting cells which help in treating the acne. Just apply one drop of tree tea oil to the affected area three times a day.

4. Fenugreek

The herb fenugreek can also be used in the treatment of acne. Take fresh fenugreek leaves and mix it with water to make a smooth paste. Apply the herbal paste on the affected areas and leave it for about ten to fifteen minutes and then finally wash your face with warm water. Repeat the process for three to four days to allow the acne to heal properly.

5. Aloe Vera Juice

The medicinal properties of Aloe Vera can treat the problem of acne in a matter of few days. You just have to apply the juice of Aloe Vera on the affected area twice daily. Aloe Vera juice is also helpful in healing the scars caused by acne. You can buy Aloe Vera juice from the market or use fresh juice from a plant by cutting a leaf from the aloe vera plant and squeezing the gel from the middle.

6. Indian Lilac

Indian Lilac or Neem can be used for the treatment of various skin problems including acne. It contains fungicidal properties and this is why it is very effective in acne treatment. Make a paste of tender Indian Lilac leaves by adding little water. Add some turmeric powder to the paste and then apply it on the affected area. This is one of the easiest ways to cure acne at home.

7. Honey

Honey has both antiseptic as well as moisturizing properties and thus when honey is applied on the affected skin for half an hour it makes the acne disappear within a few days. Try to rinse the honey off with warm water first and then use cold water so that the pores get closed. You can also make a face mask by mixing honey and powdered nutmeg in same amount. Apply this mixture on the acne and leave it for half an hour and then wash your face. Use this mask regularly to stop the problem of acne completely.

8. Cucumber

The cooling and soothing effect of cucumber will help in treating acne. Take one small cucumber and with the help of a blender make a paste out of it. Then add one teaspoon of yogurt and apply it on the affected area. Leave it for half an hour or more and then wash it off. Well, cucumber is one of the easiest treatments at home to get relief from acne.

9. Orange Peel

The acidic property and high Vitamin C present in an orange makes it the perfect element for treating acne. The orange juice as well as its peel can be used to treat acne but it is better to use the orange peel. Take the orange peel and allow it to dry under the sun. Take the dried orange peel and grind it into a powder form. Add water to this powder to make a paste and then apply it on the affected area. Allow it to sit for ten to fifteen minutes and then wash your face with warm water.

10. Grapes

Rich in vitamin C, grapes can be very effective when it comes to acne prevention. Try to include grapes in your diet regularly. In case you have acne, take fresh chilled grapes and cut them in half and then rub the flesh of the grapes over the affected area. Leave for ten to fifteen minutes and then wash your face with cool water. It will give you relief from the pain of inflammation and will also close the open skin pores.

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From forum....

-1 egg yolk
-3 teaspoons of honey
-3 teaspoons of lemon juice
-1 teaspoon of sugar
-1 teaspoon of salt
-1 teaspoon of olive oil

Put that on and leave it between 10 and 15 minutes depending on how much time you have then wash it off with hot water (as hot as you can take it) then when you've done that use egg white and honey on and leave that for about 10 minutes then wash off with cold water (as cold as you can take it)

I got good results almost instantly and after 3 days it was completely gone so decided to share it with you guys.

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1)
- mix 3 teaspoons of honey,
- 1.5 teaspoons of olive oil,
- 1 teaspoon if salt,
- 0.5 of a teaspoon of baking soda and apply to my face. So I let this mixture sit for 5-7 minutes and then I wash it off with cool water to close my pores. Do this before you sleep and wake up with amazing results.

2)
-3 tea spoons of lemon juice,
- 1 tea spoon of salt
-1 tea spoon of sugar.
i would get a cotton ball and leave it for 5 to 10 minutes.

3)
- 5 tablespoons of honey,
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon,
-2 tablespoons of baking soda,
- and 1/2 of a lemon's juice.
Mix it together and put it all over your face. Let it sit for 4-5 minutes

4)
You prepare oatmeal for a face mask the same way you prepare oatmeal for breakfast. Take oatmeal and cook according to the instructions on the box. You won’t need to cook more than the equivalent of one serving. Allow the oatmeal to cool to room temperature. Apply warm (not hot) oatmeal over your face and leave in place for 20 to 30 minutes. After the oatmeal has set on your face, rinse off with warm water and pat your skin dry.
SERIOUSLY i didn't decide to post on this website until a few minutes ago when i noticed how great my skin is getting.
I started using the olive oil and honey first i even used it twice a day, in the morning/afternoon and before i go to bed then i found the others and mixed it up everynight and sometimes did it during the day when i wasent busy. All of these remedies are great for every type of skin because mine varies all of the time. Please try these after a few days you will be so happy.