Maybe you have tried many chemical products or treatments to get rid of blackheads, and you are not really satisfied with the results or these products have caused your skin to be irritated. Or maybe you are just looking for a natural remedy and you want to find out about some good and reliable home remedies for blackheads?
Although they have not all been proven to work scientifically, many people have had great results using a natural home remedy for blackheads or a botanical acne wash. Here are some of the recipes you can use to treat blackheads. You should know that they will not work for everyone, though.
Blackheads are basically clogged skin pores. Most of them occur in oily areas of our skin, on the nose, face or chest areas, for example. If the skin is oily, this means that oil glands produce too much sebum (skin oil). Pores cannot get all this oil out on the skin and become stuffed up with it. Besides, pores may get clogged with dead skin cells, which did not exfoliate timely.
This is the reason why when we are looking for home remedies for blackheads, we want these remedies to clean up our pores and help them get rid of extra oil and dead cells. We also want the home remedy to nourish our skin and provide it with all the vitamins it needs. Plus, we want it to dry up the extra oily skin a bit, but without irritating it.
To start up your skin cleaning routine you might want to use a scrub once in a while. The simplest and most natural scrub you may use is grained salt. Apply it to your nose, face or wherever you have acne and gently rub it in a bit. Of course, you should not apply it to pimples, nodules and cysts. It may cause burning feeling and skin irritation. Salt mechanically cleanses up the skin and has a strong antiseptic effect. But salt can also dry up your skin too much, so make sure you apply it carefully and gently.
An alternative to grained salt scrubs for cleaning your blackheads is grained coffee. It does not dry up the skin so much. It cleanses it well and tones up the skin, and it also nourishes it. Apply grained coffee to your skin, rub it in gently, leave it on for a minute and wash it off. As any chemical or natural scrub, coffee should not be used too often. Use it once or twice a week.
Yogurt and orange juice is another great option among all the blackheads home remedies. Mix some yogurt and orange juice and apply it to your blackheads. Rub it in a bit and let it stay on your skin for 5 minutes. Wash it off. Yogurt nourishes the skin. It has good bacteria in it, which helps your skin to maintain a proper bacteria balance. Orange juice has acid in it. It helps to exfoliate the skin and cleanses the pores well. It also provides the skin with vitamins.
Now, after you have cleaned up your pores, exfoliated your skin and nourished it, you need to help your cleaned and enlarged pores to tighten up. Egg white is a good remedy to use for this purpose. Apply some egg white to your blackheads with a cotton wrap and let it stay there for about 15 minutes. You may feel some tightening up of your skin. It may not be a pleasant sensation while you have this mask on, but it works well for many people.
There are many home remedies for blackheads and they can be as effective as chemical ones. And at the same time, they can be safer, because they usually do not cause allergies.
