Acne natural cure
Is there a natural dietary way to prevent acne breakout?
I hear of a lot of acne solution but that's all chemicals. I'd like to find
a natural way.
-Also try tea tree essential oil applied externally.
-Some have found that removing gluten and/or dairy has cleared up their
acne. See: http://www.gluten-free.org/hoggan/acne.txt. I also believe other
food intolerances could be involved. How about some intolerance testing for
many foods?
-Acne is a very common problem. If the cause is known, then it's easy to
handle. Here are what IBIS says are the known causes:
1. Oil based cosmetics
2. Improper diet
3. Food sensitivity
4. Corticosteroids
5. Halogens
6. Coal tar derivatives
7. Chlorinated hydrocarbons
8. Oral contraceptives
9. Fatigue
10. Stress
11. Poor skin hygiene
12. Chronic skin irritation
13. Low pituitary in females at mid-cycle
14. Trans fatty acids
15. Simple carbohydrates
16. Alcohol
17. Chocolate
18. Nuts
19. Coffee
20. Spices
To deal with skin bacteria, pads can be purchased to try to lower the level
in the areas where acne occurs.
To deal with the over production of oil in the pilosebaceous glands, you
have to get at the cause of this over production of gland oil. It's highly
unlikely that only one of the known factors that IBIS lists is going to be
the cause of the over production of gland oil.
You have to go down the list and see which ones may apply to you.
For diet, the single most effective change is to go on a high fiber diet and
eliminate as much sugar as you can.
If you can't get relief without moving into the food allergy issue, then
maybe you should pursue this possible cause.
Foods high in silicon can help. IBIS lists a lot of therapeutic foods, too
many to list here. Garlic, onions and burdock root are ones I would look
into.
IBIS also lists a lot of external mixes to be applied to the affected area.
Again, too many for me to list here. The ones that I would look into are
tea tree oil, azelaic acid (a 9 carbon fatty acid produced by molds), and
aloe vera (juice from a plant that you grow rather than what you buy in a
store).
The list of supplements is also very long. I'd focus on omega-3 fatty acids
and vitamin A (I would never use what they say to use). You can get a
prescription for active vitamin A which is much more effective and a lot
safer than the retinol intake that they suggest.
Vitamin B6 (helps mostly women).
Vitamin E, selenium, folic acid, vitamin D.
My personal opinion is that you are going to get better relief by trying to
cut off the stimulus for over production of gland oil rarther than trying to
mitigate the effects of this over production which is what most of the
supplements are trying to do.
About 25% of dermatology is devoted to acne which usually starts at puberty
in both men and women. Scarring can occur if bacteria get involved.
Propionibacterium and Staph aureus are the two bacteria most commonly
involved in inflammatory acne that can lead to scarring.
Some of the external mixes that IBIS recommends are designed to try to cut
back on the level of skin bacteria but I think that using the pads are a
much better approach.
These pads can cause some skin irritation and I think that after the pads
are used, applying aloe vera to the cleaned area can really help cut down on
this skin irritation. You can mix the aloe vera juice with vitamin E to
improve it's effect. Again I would grow my own aloe vera plant rather than
buying any of the many aloe vera products on the market, some of which do
contain vitamin E.
Tea Tree oil and Azelaic acid are really going after the skin bacteria so I
would not use them with a pad designed to do the same thing.