Skin Care Tips for Acne

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Skin Care Tips For Acne

 Detox Your Liver

Dietary Tips to Heal Acne

Did you know your diet is always working for you or against you.? If you want lasting improvement in your skin you must eat a cooling diet.

For example, a diet of hot, spicy, salty and sour foods will only aggravate your acne. But a diet of cooling, bitter, astringent foods will bring your Pitta back into balance to heal your acne.

So then, here you can find a complete diet and lifestyle guide for reducing Pitta or heat. Pitta reducing program.

Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations 

• Cool your body heat with high-quality, low-fat dairy
• Skip anything that fermented.
• Avoid sugar and opt for honey instead.
• Pacify pitta with olive or coconut oil.
• Let grains guide you. Wheat, rice, barley, and oats are the best grains to reduce pitta.
• Eat sweeter fruits such as grapes, melons, and cherries.
• Eat cooling vegetables like asparagus, cucumbers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and green leafy vegetables.
• Reduce tomatoes, hot peppers, carrots, beets, eggplant, onions, garlic, radishes, and spinach
• Go easy on spicy seasoning. Instead chose spices that will cool and soothe. Coriander, cilantro, cardamom, saffron, and fennel are good choices.
• If you eat meat, chicken, pheasant, and turkey are best
• Avoid anything fried or heavy

• Drink water at room temperature (iced water compromises digestion
• Eat lighter foods that are easy to digest
• Take lots of raw vegetables like carrot, cucumber, etc
• Include fruits like guava, apple, pear etc
• Sleep for at least 6-7 hours at night
• Practice stress techniques like Yoga Nidra and Pranayama
• Avoid spicy, oily and sour foods
• Eat fresh, unprocessed food
• Increase the use of herbs that have cooling effects on the body
• Drink 8-10 glasses of water per day
• Wash your face frequently with mild herbal soaps
• Do not squeeze the acne lesions
• Avoid cosmetics with synthetic ingredients

Herbal Ayurvedic Remedies for Acne

Here are some of the most recommended herbs for acne. As a side note, you can find more natural remedies for acne here.

Neem

Is one of the most well-known and powerful blood purifiers. It cools and clears the toxins involved in most inflammatory skin diseases. In a medicated oil, it's one of the best healing and disinfectant herbs for skin diseases.

Turmeric

Turmeric works on many levels. First off, it helps to strengthen digestion (good digestion is the key to health)… But at the same time, it's a good antibacterial and purifies the blood. Turmeric is a tonic to the skin and helps to bring luster to the face by reducing the oily nature of the skin. I suggest you take turmeric internally and also use it topically.

Shatavari

Shatavari is a form of asparagus and is the main Ayurvedic rejuvenating tonic for women because it balances the hormones. The main reason for acne is a hormonal imbalance. Hormones make your oil glands produce too much oil. This hormonal imbalance is why so many teenagers develop acne. Not only does Shatavari help to balance your hormones, it also cleanses the blood and is an effective herb for inflamed membranes of the skin.

Manjistha

Manjistha is probably the best blood purifier in Ayurvedic medicine. It cools and detoxifies the blood and helps remove stagnant blood by improving circulation.

Herbs to Detoxify the Liver

Your acne will improve greatly by taking herbs to detoxify the liver. Yellow dock, Milk Thistle, Red Beet Root, Dandelion Root, Gentian and Angelica Root are all good choices. I've had great success with this formula because herbs often work best in synergy.

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