With the current popularity of folklore remedies, one old foodstuff has been catapulted to elite status – apple cider vinegar. It all started around 5000 years ago, with the earliest recorded usage by Ancient Egyptian and the Babylonians. By 400BC Ancient Greece, the father of… Read More »Apple Cider Vinegar and Acne: Can This Popular Natural Remedy Really Clear Your Skin?
Cocoa butter, also known as oil of theobroma, is widely acknowledged as one of best natural moisturisers around. Many chocolate loving societies like the Aztecs and Mayans used cocoa butter for improving skin tone, as far back as 1000BC. Apparently beauty obsessed celebrities in… Read More »Cocoa Butter: Why This Natural Moisturiser Will Clog Your Pores And Give You Acne
There’s a new theory in the acne world that we’ve all been foolish by focussing on bacteria. Instead we should be controlling infestations of demodex mites – tiny microbial insects that live in the skin of nearly every adult human. According to one alternative medicine… Read More »Are Demodex Mites the True Cause of Acne?
Tea tree oil is a pale yellow to nearly clear oil extracted from the leaves of the melaleuca alternifolia plant in Australia. Its history is long, as for centuries, Aboriginals along the East coast crushed the leaves into a paste and dressed wounds with it,… Read More »Tea Tree Oil: An Acne Treatment That Thrashes Benzoyl Peroxide
Today we are going to discuss one of the riskiest but potentially most rewarding topical treatments around. Applying this substance to your face could produce astonishing reductions in the redness and swelling of inflammatory acne. On the other hand, you could also completely clog your… Read More »Coconut Oil – Acne Miracle Maker or Pore-Blocking Disaster?