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Tumeric Acne Teatment

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:36:00 +0300

For thousands of years it has been used as a necessary part of Asian medicine.

The bulbous root of the Curcuma Longa is the source of this spice that has been harvested, dried and crushed. It has many uses from being used as a main component of curries to the prevention of different forms of cancer.

It is believed that the Indian people are rated the lowest sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and this is put down to their diet containing turmeric.

Tumeric Phytochemical properties

The reason this spice is so potent a healer is that curcumin, a molecular oily compound, is a phytochemical with many healing properties. These properties include being a very effective anti inflammatory, antiseptic, disinfectant, anti bacterial and forceful antioxidant.

Acne begins its life as a comedo, an enlarged hair follicle filled with bacteria and oil and if this is left untreated then worsening conditions of acne will appear. This condition tends to go through the following phases.

Papule - small firm pink bump.

Pustule - small lesions that contain pus and they are red at the base with a white top.

Node/cyst - very painful inflamed pus filled lesions lodged deep within the skin and often they leave scars.

How Tumeric Works

So how does turmeric and acne work together to relieve these symptoms? The antiseptic and anti bacterial properties cleanse and break down the bacteria causing the pus to come out while the anti-inflammatory properties break down the inflammation removing the redness, heat and swelling and the added bonus is that it is also a good pain killer.

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What you can do for your acne prevention

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:35:00 +0300

So you have acne or skin prone to getting acne and you want to stop this from happening. Well I have a couple of answers and ideas for you to stop zits and acne in their tracks.

First Make sure that the outside of your body is clean. Wash your skin a couple of extra times a day. This does not mean that oyu want to strip the natural oils from your skin but you do want to block the oils from getting trapped in the pores. Wash as usual but make sure every 3 to 4 hours that you are rinsing your face with water and at least one extra time using some kind of soap to clean your face.

Soap, use clean soap to avoid acne problems. Any soap will not do on your face. You can use some scented soaps and harsher soaps on the rest of your body but when it comes to your face make sure that you are keeping your face clean using a glycerin soap, tea tree oil soap or at least a clean body wash that is unscented and does not have any chemicals in it. If you are washing your face a few times a day treat it as a sensitive area like you should.

Eat cleaner foods. I know that many dermatologists will disagree with this but it is important to note that most people with bad skin eat greasy or heavily processed foods. You want ot keep your food intake as clean as possible. Stay away from pop and chocolate, no fried foods at all and try to eat as many raw foods as possible (uncooked).

Drink lots of water. I know that some will fight me on this but I know for myself that when I am drinking at least 10 glasses of clean water a day I am feeling a lot better and my skin stays hydrated and it definitley makes my body clean including my skin. pop, tea, coffee and gatorade do not count as water so do not use them as much and drink water instead.

These are the basics of keeping your skin and body away from getting acne and these tips will help you avoid getting acne so if.. ( devamı )

What is Super Acne and how to treat it?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:34:01 +0300

Eighty-five percent of the teenage population battles acne in some form and in most cases, there will be significant improvement of the outbreak when treated with a combination of medication including antibiotics.

However, dermatologists are now warning that a new strain of acne is resistant to antibiotics.

CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton sat down with Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith to talk more about this disturbing trend.

According to Ashton, super acne has probably been around for a while, but more dermatologists are starting to see more and more of it now — “because just like with a lot of forms of resistant bacteria, it’s becoming more refractory or difficult to treat.”

Super acne, which is a bacteria, can be classified as a “bug.”

“We call this a discussion about bugs and drugs,” Dr. Ashton explained. “This is a bacterium known as P. Acnes, and it’s part of the skin flora. So what’s difficult about it is that a bacteria that we normally see with acne are normally very susceptible to antibiotics.”

Unfortunately, unlike other forms of acne, super acne is not very treatable and “about 50 percent of bacteria that cause acne can be resistant,” Ashton explained.

A patient might not find out right away if he or she has the resistant bacteria.

“That’s the important thing is that, you know, acne can be difficult to treat for a lot of cases,” she explained. “But once a dermatologist starts to put you on antibiotics, within weeks to months, your skin should really clear up. So when it doesn’t, that’s when you would start suspecting it.”

“So what alternative are you left with if you’ve got the ’super bug?’” Smith asked.

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Low GI Diet for acne?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:34:00 +0300

A low-GI diet developed in Florida, the South Beach Diet, should be considered as a potential treatment for acne, a visiting expert is to tell Australian dermatologists.

According to Professor Brian Berman of the University of Miami, a study conducted in a mostly female population of almost 3000 participants who followed the “South Beach Diet”, showed that acne improved in almost 80% of cases, usually within three months.

The success of the diet on acne symptoms allowed 91% of the participants to scale back their acne treatment, Professor Berman will tell the Australasian College of Dermatologists’ annual scientific meeting on the Gold Coast next month.

“The South Beach Diet may be an additional modality in the treatment of acne,” says Professor Berman While recent scientific data supported the use of low-GI diets in acne treatment, it was previously not known what effect the SBD had on the condition, Professor Berman says.

The South Beach Diet was created in the 1980s as an alternative to unpopular low fat diets, and is based on replacing “bad carbs” and “bad fats” with “good” ones by emphasising vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean protein.

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Green Tea to Treat Acne

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:32:01 +0300

The extract from green tea is known to be very beneficial for the skin.

Green tea helps to remove toxins from the body and recent studies have shown that green tea is just as effective (if not more effective) than benzoyl peroxide when treating acne.

Green tea has antioxidant and antibacterial properties which fight against acne in many ways. For example, it gives an instant soothing feeling to sensitive, irritated skin and can reduce the redness, and inflammation that accompanies acne outbreaks.

Green tea is also known to help correct the most frustrating of all, hormonal imbalances that contribute to adult hormonal acne each and every month.
Green tea is said to work best as a home remedy for acne when used from the inside out — in other words when you drink it.

In addition you can also use green tea extract. This is available in several forms. For example you can apply it topically using a cream or lotion and it can also be taken in the form of a pill or tablet. Also, simply placing a warm tea bag on acne lesions helps provide instant soothing effects, helps draw out toxins and promotes faster healing.

If you choose to drink the tea, avoid having sugar with it as that will neutralize the beneficial effect of the green tea. Also keep in mind to get the best results, the more you drink, the better.

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Eating to treat acne

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:32:00 +0300

For patients needing help to clear up acne, Melbourne dermatologist Dr George Varigos is more likely to urge better eating than writing a prescription for the anti-acne drug Roaccutane. A diet high in refined, processed foods can boost levels of blood sugar, making the body produce excess insulin, which creates the perfect conditions for pimples to appear, he explains.

Insulin effect on acne

“Over time, high levels of insulin can make skin thicker and dryer - and flakes of dried skin can clog the pores,” says Varigos, who heads the department of dermatology at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital.

At the same time, these high insulin levels can increase levels of free androgens - male hormones produced by women as well as men - and too many androgens have long been known to trigger acne by making the skin’s sebaceous glands produce extra oil.
“This effect of insulin can be more of a problem in adolescence because that’s when we’re more responsive to insulin,” he says.

Genes may also make some people more sensitive to insulin.

Study on Food and Acne

Three years ago Varigos collaborated on a study at RMIT comparing two groups of teenagers with acne on different diets.

While the control group ate sugary snacks, soft drinks, white bread and processed food - the kind of eating that raises insulin levels - the second group ate less refined foods: lean protein and low glycemic index (GI) carbohydrates such as whole grains and legumes that help keep levels of blood sugar and insulin down.

“After 12 weeks there was a 50 per cent improvement in the acne of the group on the low GI diet,” says Varigos who, as a result of evidence from other studies, also recommends patients with acne try reducing dairy products.

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Frugal Home Remedies For Acne

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:55:00 +0200

Acne is a botheration that strikes humans of all ages, from adolescence to adults. In adjustment to accept a bigger butt on alleviative acne, one have to aboriginal accept what causes it.

Causes of Abscess Include:

Genetics

Hormones

Stress

Poor Diet

Clogged pores due to adipose cosmetics or derma affliction products

Certain Medication

Thankfully there are lots of frugal home remedies out there to advice action acne. They include:

A adhesive of absurd and milk

Honey alloyed with biscuit and activated to pimples

Witch Hazel

Tea Tree Oil

Lemon rubbed on the face

Grated Potato

Toothpaste activated to pimples

Baking Soda Paste

Also be abiding to ablution your face alert circadian with affable soap or cleanser. Be abiding to eat at atomic 5 servings of bake-apple and vegetables a day, and alcohol lots of water. Try to abstain unneccesary stress. Last but not least, analysis all cosmetics and derma affliction articles to ensure they are oil-free. Refrain from affecting your face frequently and try not to angular your button on the buzz receiver if talking. Always absolve your face afterwards appliance to anticipate diaphoresis from bottleneck your pores.

If you are demography any medications that you anticipate may accord to your acne, be abiding to allege to your doctor.

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Five Easy Guidelines For Acne Skin Care

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:54:00 +0200

Are you accepting abscess problem? Accept you done something about it? No charge to worry, about anybody has a botheration with acne. Nearly all of high-school-age girls to earlier women, even including men, acquaintance this derma affliction problem. Abscess may not be a alarming derma disease, but the accepted appearance, abnormally if it becomes worse and severe, can become a actual austere problem. Thus, you're traveling to charge a cogent abscess derma care.

Before traveling added to abscess derma care, it will be best to get to apperceive added about acne. It is a derma ataxia acquired by hormones on the skin's oil glands. This leads to accessible derma pores and could cause some spots, annoying ones, to emerge. These spots are alleged abscess and usually action on the face, neck, back, and chest.

A abiding birthmark and blister acquired by abscess should be advised seriously. Besides it may ache the humans who are affected, it can aswell advance to a worse derma condition. Here are some simple guidelines how to amusement the abscess - and to accord affliction to your derma in general:

1. The aboriginal and a lot of important to do is acclaim ablution your skin, abnormally your face, at atomic alert a day. Use a balmy cleanser and afterwards that, apple-pie your derma with water. Ask your dermatologist about what affectionate of cleanser to be acclimated according to your derma type.

2. Use adapted abscess products, which you can get by allurement your doctor. Allow some time for the anesthetic to plan as appropriate by the doctor or as said in the instruction. You'll see the advance later, which usually takes several weeks.

3. Be accurate if application cosmetics. You should use ones that are oil free, back adipose derma is believed to be one of the factors that accord to the actualization of acne.

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Finding Acne Skin Care Products That Work For You

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:53:00 +0200

Each one of us is different, and boilerplate is this added credible than in the abscess derma affliction articles that plan for anniversary of us. Abscess can be an abashing condition, and award a artefact that makes a absolute aberration to the superior of our derma can be a apathetic action of balloon and error. But while anniversary of us will acknowledge abnormally to altered abscess derma affliction products, experiencing altered levels of advance in our skin, it can be auspicious to apprehend of abscess articles that accept formed for others. So if you are drowning in an cutting sea of altered choices, actuality are some suggestions to get you started from some of the top abscess articles rated by absolute abscess sufferers.

There are two capital types of abscess artefact ? articulate medication, such as Accutane, or the contraceptive bolus that accouterment the botheration from the inside, and contemporary solutions that plan on the apparent of your skin, such as assorted facial cleanser products. The closing are usually your aboriginal band of defence with acne, and there are abounding abundant abscess articles about that can accomplish a absolute aberration to the superior of your skin. Some of the articles accessible can be ever astringent, which can dry your derma excessively, in about-face causing the assembly of added of the sebum that causes spots, so application a milder artefact is wise, at atomic to alpha with. Abounding of the top abscess articles accommodate either benzoyl achromatize or salicylic acid, both of which can be actual able in the analysis of acne, so attending for abscess derma affliction articles that accommodate one of these ingredients.

Acne sufferers who accept accomplished affecting advance in their derma acclaim the use of a acceptable facial cleanser artefact as the aboriginal footfall in their derma affliction routine. Sufferers begin advance if application articles such as Avon's O2 cleanser, Clinique's abscess.. ( devamı )

Treat Your Acne Naturally, With Homemade Acne Facial Masks

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:16:00 +0200

Over the adverse abscess treatments can be big-ticket and accomplish your acute derma even added sensitive. If you're searching for a way to amusement your abscess by itself at home, accede authoritative your own abscess facial masks. All of the capacity that you charge are apparently already in your kitchen!

Baking Soda

For a basal abscess facial mask, mix some baking soda with baptize until it is adhesive and acclaim beating it over your face afterwards appliance your approved cleanser. Let the affectation dry and artlessly bathe it off.

Your derma may automatically feel smoother and cleaner, due to baking soda's acrid properties. If you see advance in your abscess afterwards appliance this affectation already a anniversary for several weeks, accede accretion the appliance abundance to several times per week.

Eggs

To bind your skin, abstracted the whites out from an egg and whip it hardly until it is frothy. Spread it over your derma and acquiesce it to sit for twenty minutes. Ablution it off with a affable cleanser.

To amusement scarring, exhausted an egg yolk until it is aqueous and bland and administer it to your skin. Wait twenty account and ablution off with a affable cleanser. The vitamin A should advice advance any scars from your acne.

The downside: if you're allergic to eggs, don't use masks with egg ingredients!

Oatmeal and Basil

Oatmeal and basil are added home remedies for acne. Steep two-three teaspoons broiled basil in one cup baking water. Already the baptize has cooled to a blood-warm temperature, mix in some plain, approved biscuit until you've created a adhesive mix.

Don't mix in the biscuit if the baptize is hot - that will could cause the biscuit to cook! Acquiesce it to sit for twenty account and bathe off. This abscess facial affectation is advised to both ambition alive abscess infections (basil) and allay your derma (oatmeal).

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