My Acne Remedies

I have had acne for a long time - like 5 or 6 years. I tried just about everything - including Proactive, which made my face dry and itchy, without doing anything for my acne. Recently I've really gotten into making my own face products, for a few reasons: it is cheap, it is easy, it is good for my skin, and I know exactly what all the ingredients are.
So first, an exfoliator. (more...)

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. (more...)