My Acne Remedies

Green tea has a couple of important properties that make it appropriate for helping with acne. First, green tea is a very potent provider of antioxidants, which help neutralize free radicals that cause damage to the body, and which are quite effective at prevention of acne. Second, green tea is a proven antibiotic, which is important when treating acne because one of the primary causes of acne is from a bacterium, and many treatments of severe acne involve taking antibiotics.

Drinking lots of green tea (no sugar, of course) throughout the day would provide these benefits plus the the flushing action of sending all that fluid through your body. Also, topical treatments for acne that have green tea in them can also be effective. In fact one study shows that a green tea cream is just as effective at treating acne than a cream with benzoyl peroxide.