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A tremendous range of cosmetics are available in the market today. In the past, women made good use of all kinds of everyday items like fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals in caring for their beauty. These days even in the most beauty conscious European countries there is a definite tendency towards herbal and natural therapies. Your kitchen larder is the storehouse of beauty aids. You just have to follow a few recopies, pick the ingredients, mix them and you will soon have a beauty lotions and cream.

Skin blemishes come into the blackheads, open pores, spots and acne categories and are mostly combined with the excessively oily skin. Causes can be numerous and among them are over active glands due to puberty, a poor diet, emotional disturbances and a lack of sleep.

If one looks out for the treatments available for acne today, one would be astounded by the available range to choose from. However, there is a great range of products that could help you, but at the same time, they could be quite heavy on your pocket as well. Besides, some of these products might come with side effects. The way out, therefore, are alternative home remedies, which are inexpensive and very safe.
Here are some of the home made recopies which can help in healing acne but don't expect an overnight success as these remedies takes time and is having no side effects:-

1. Make a paste of 1 teaspoon pure sulfur powder, 2 tablespoon fuller's earth and 1 egg white. Use this mask everyday to cure acne. Some people are allergic to sulfur, so a skin test behind the ear should be conducted before use.
2. Mash and sieve the onion, and mix onion juice with a paste of 1 tablespoon of fuller's earth and 1 teaspoon of honey. It is good to prevent blemishes.
3. Milk mask is one of the cheapest masks. Damp some cotton wool with milk and rub it on face. It helps in getting acne free skin and enhances the complexion.
4. Mixture of neem leaves with turmeric has been effective in many cases of acne removal.
5. Make a paste of orange peel and water. Apply it on the affected area.
6. Mix 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and cinnamon powder and apply on the affected area.
7. Drink at least four cups of nettle tea in a day.
8. Mix 8 ounce of water and 11 drops of propolis extract. Apply it on the face.
9. Intake of aloe Vera juice is always helpful.
10. Mix 1 tablespoon potato juice in fuller's earth and apply it on the face for blemish free skin
11. Soap your face well, adding a small handful of sugar to lather. Massage this in for couple of minutes, then rinse of with warm water. This scrub is useful for acne and spotty skin.
12. Use an oatmeal or almond mask- Mix oatmeal or almond powder with rosewater to make a paste. Apply on the face with special emphasis on the affected area. Leave for 15 minutes. Wash it away with cold water.
13. Make a paste of mint leaves and applies it on acne .As mint has cooling nature; it will help to heal acne.
14.Neem is known as an antiseptic herb and applying neem to the acne can cure it in few days.

Steaming is beneficial for cleaning all types of skin. It cleans the skin all surface dirt, stimulates the circulation and unclog blocked pores. The steam will open the pores and loosen blackheads. To make steaming more beneficial add a tablespoon of herb to the water such as elderflower, chamomile, thyme, lavender and rosemary.

These are few homemade recipes which can really do wonders on skin. These all can whip up the circulation by freshening the skin and leave it soft and glowing.
Camphor, sulfur, onion, garlic, curds, yeast, fuller, earth, herbs and vegetable juices are useful in treating a blemished pimply skin.
So let's enter into the world of clean, beautiful and youth skin.

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