Acne DeMystified

Most people with acne try to treat or cure it with cleansers, gels and lotions, and often find they come up short in effectively clearing up their problem skin. Fortunately there other remedies available including the following:

- stress reduction

- cleanses and fasting

- raw food diets

- adequate exercise if inactive to improve the detoxification pathways

- herbs like olive leaf extract

- drinking plenty of pure or filtered water

The methods listed here are natural techniques that improve the health of the whole body and as a result clear up skin problems. If given the right nutrients and food, as well as exercise and detoxification, the body fixes any problems it has itself, making aggressive chemical acne treatments unnecessary.

While traditional methods of treating acne have in the past included drugs like accutane, a more evolved and healthy approach is becoming more popular in recent years. This is partly because of the internet allowing people to find viable alternatives to these chemical acne options.

Herbal products are often associated with helping to clear up acne, but they have the problem of being workable only in the short term. People find that a herb like olive leaf extract can produce a startling clear up of their skin, but a few days later it loses it’s effect.

The reason for this short term gain from herbs is that they give boost to the body, but cannot provide a sustained effect.

The options for people with acne are now in the hundreds, and this can be seen as either a good or bad thing. On the one hand it means that alternatives exist to the conventional treatments of antibiotics and accutane for those not wishing to receive the potential side effects of these drugs. But on the other hand with so many acne treatments available comes the problem of finding one that is right for you.

By: David Rambai

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