Acne Treatment Blog

I have often used this particular mask, because it makes a great mask.  I’ll be honest.  I know olive oil is good for you anyway.  If ingested in certain amounts every day, it will help to keep everything going and keep you losing weight in some cases or better maintaining your weight in others.  This being said, olive oil is also good for the skin and can easily be used in a mask.  Olives have been used for centuries, because quite frankly they have good fatty acids, antioxidants, and nutrients of all types.  All of these things add to greater skincare.  Frankly, antioxidants kill off bacteria and free radicals while nutrients obviously supplement the skin and the good fats properly moisturize the skin without over-moisturizing or otherwise hurting your skin and making it more oily than good.  When you combine this will the antibacterial power of raw honey, rice flour, and unaltered sea salt for all their additional benefits, you can get a helpful mask that will help you to get the skin you want without acne, without dryness or oiliness for that matter, and without further problems in general.  All in all, you should definitely use olive oil for everything you need.

Salicylic acid and glycolic acid have been compared by some.  They are both used in different severities of chemical peels, and they are both also used for acne treatment at this time, because in part they cause the skin cells to shed away and regenerate themselves to clear clogged pores among other mechanisms of action.  There are various differences.  While salicylic acid is obviously used in chemical peels, it does not actually cause damage to the skin at all when used in smaller amounts.  Glycolic acid on the other hand has many of the same side effects as benzoyl peroxide, and when used in higher amounts, it has to be followed with a neutralizer.  Salicylic acid has been used in insulin by some scientists among other things.  Glycolic acid has been used in antifreeze.  So while both treatments are extremely common and can be found anywhere, this gives you an idea of the differences, and obviously salicylic acid is more gentle to say the least.  Of course, this doesn’t cover all the bases.  However, the fact that glycolic acid takes a neutralizer in higher amounts, causes side effects in smaller amounts, and is a common ingredient of antifreeze does not say much for its efficacy or safety for that matter.  It doesn’t say a lot for the substance in general whereas salicylic acid is well known for a certain number of benefits, generally speaking without side effects.

Sandalwood is one of my favorite aromatherapy scents, and frankly it’s not bad for other benefits as well.  Of course you can’t use the candles or otherwise that you use with sandalwood for these benefits.  But sandalwood essential oil has some benefits to the body and skin.  It works as an antiseptic, antibacterial, hemostatic, alterative, carminative, nervine, expectorant, diuretic, disinfectant, and moisturizer all at the same time.  I know, it gets a bit confusing in some ways.  But really, think about it.  With all of these properties and jobs that it can do, think about how many jobs and benefits it could provide and do.  It could without question fight your acne.  But the difference between it and many other acne fighters is that it would do it without side effects, without problems in general, and you would actually be able to nourish your skin instead of damaging it in general terms.  Sandalwood in case you don’t know has a great smell, and with all of these benefits, obviously you would be able to sit back, relax, have a clear face and skin and moisturize while providing various other benefits depending on how you choose to use it.  It’s not bad for a simple essential oil.

If you have oily skin, it’s one of the easiest and at the same time one of the hardest skin types to treat for acne.  You get clogged pores and so on more often.  But at the same point in time, you can use more drying agents, because quite frankly you have the extra oils to spare.  But the way to treat your oily skin is not actually to use drying agents or otherwise despite what you may think.  The first thing to do is actually to change your diet.  Chances are if you have oily skin, you are eating too many bad fats and too few good fats.  Bad fats cause more oil production as does a certain deficiency of good fats.  Good fats will better regulate oil production, and you could definitely use more fruits and vegetables, that goes without saying.  But also, stop touching your face.  Of course you have to wash it.  But in between, you often have the tendency to squeeze pimples, touch it to see how it works, etc.  You are only spreading oil and bacteria.  So stop doing that.  And finally, start using a light moisturizer.  Your skin is overcompensating for a lack of good oils in the skin.  So this will help you without clogging pores and while keeping everything in balance.  A water based moisturizer is your best choice.  All of this will help you with your oily skin while of course using a good treatment based on something non irritating yet effective such as for example tea tree oil.  Retinol has also however been known to be more effective on oily skin in some cases.