Can Homemade Acne Treatment Help Cure Your Pimples?

No matter if you are suffering from facial, cystic, rosacea, or other types you want treatments to give some relief

There are many different types of over the counter and prescription medications to help treat and prevent this dread skin care problem, but did you know that there are also many different ways to use natural acne homemade treatments, using household items?

It is true, however some will work and some may not. One of the funniest—though I doubt the best—homemade acne treatment I ever witnessed was that introduced by Gus Portokalos (played by Michael Constantine) in My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding.

Did you see the movie? If not, here’s a homemade acne treatment that is novel, and even makes you smell squeaky clean. In the movie, whenever someone has a pimple, the dramatic patriarch, Portokalos, chases the afflicted about the house with a Windex® bottle, swearing by its instant acne healing properties. 

The character is just that, quite a character, quirky and self-absorbed, but his well-intended approach to this unique cure for zits is understandably honorable.

We know. Those of us who have been or are afflicted by acne don’t find the whole deal all that funny. We have tried homemade acne treatments until we could open a skin care shop ...or at least write a book.

While I won’t expend the energy to do so myself, I will share with you some of the advice, tricks, and suggestions I have heard about, read about, or tried over the last thirty-plus years (yes, thirty-plus years, even if acne does now show up only once a month or so).

Traditional and Odd Homemade Acne Treatments

After washing your face with good, hypoallergenic or low-oil soap and hot water, steam pores open further by dipping head over (not INTO) a pot of boiling water, with a towel tenting head and the pot. (Do not do this at home unless someone is with you, to make sure the towel doesn’t catch fire, etc ..) Scrub again with soap and hot water, then do an ice cold splash with the coldest water you can stand.

Try rubbing freshly ground garlic cloves (now a paste) into freshly washed skin.

Try zinc pastes and clay masques.

Try fresh lemons after a hot water scrub. Try the same with vinegar instead of lemons. (Both lemons and vinegar are astringents.)

Even if you are an adult use this one with caution or get help from a qualified professional...

This may be too much of a natural cure for you but, it's a fact that clean bowels mean as few toxins reaching the skins as possible, so some people do home colonics as part of their homemade acne treatment ritual. (Another caveat: check out how to do home enemas, for too many, too much, the solution used, and too rapid an enema can be HAZARDOUS!)

A hot water and face scrub with oatmeal concoction (oatmeal has texture, good for exfoliating dead skin and oils, for example)..

Limit intake of chocolate, coffee, and tea (of which caffeine is a culprit).

Avoid overdoing it on greasy/fried foods, replacing such foods with those that are natural, fresh, and high in vitamins A, B, B5 (highly praised) B6, C, E, and Niacin.

Try taking vitamin supplements with A, B, B6, C, E, and Niacin.

Drink eight glasses of water a day.

Try the general health store for Aloe, Jojoba, or other herbal applications...

Or, you could always try that Windex... Gus Portokalos’ ultimate homemade acne treatment solution. So, no matter if you're from Texas or New York City and looking for relief this is one option. I am inclined to lean toward diet and cleanliness as first choices to avoid pimples and then the ugly scar removal procedures that have to follow later. Be smart and pretty and take care of your beautiful skin.

Bob Pardue