Home Remedies for Acne Guide

Before we proceed with our home remedies for acne, we need to discuss the different types of pimples (zits) in existence. The reason being is that certain home acne remedies will be more successful for specific types of pimples. If you already know all of this, feel free to skip ahead.

Black Heads: These bad boys come from the skin’s own pigment reacting with the air. In some cases, they aren’t extremely visible to others, but this type of zit tends to hang around for a long time.

White Heads: These occur when sebum (oil) is trapped in the pore. In many situations, whiteheads aren’t the worst type of zit to have; they can be fun to pop and they are often small enough that they aren’t visible to others.

Papules: We refer to these as the red pimples that don’t have any white in them. They are usually larger than white heads and trying pop them won’t do you any good.

Pustules: These are a lot like Papules (in that they are bigger than white heads) the difference being that these do have white in them and can be popped (hurray!).

There are more severe types of pimples then listed above, but we don’t recommend home acne remedies for the severest type of acne (in those situations it is best to contact a dermatologist).

Home Acne Remedy – Oatmeal

Many people claim that you can use oatmeal to help cure your acne. This is ironic as some experts claim that eating grains can cause acne.

Applying the oatmeal – You prepare the oatmeal as you would when you are going to eat it. After it is prepared, make sure to let it cool until it gets to a lukewarm state. Apply the oatmeal to your face. At this point you just wait for the oatmeal to start drying out. Once the outer layer of oatmeal has crusted a little (this usually takes about 15 minutes), you wash it off with warm water. Repeat this night and day.

We personally aren’t going to try this one out. Although it may work, who wants to spend all that time cooking oatmeal, applying it, waiting for it to dry, and then washing it off? If you’ve tried this or are planning on trying it, then please let the Home Remedies for Acne Guide know if it was successful or not by posting a comment below.

Welcome to The Home Remedies for Acne Guide. This site has received its inspiration from an individual who has actually had to deal with acne. The site will consist of providing general information on acne as well as home remedies for acne.

I, the author of this site, plan on personally testing some of these home remedies, unfortunately I too still have a few zits (although they will come in handy for purposes of this website). I realize that everyone has different skin and so it is important that everyone remembers that results will vary—in fact this is the case with all acne medicines, not just home treatments.

To combat the fact that not everyone has the same skin, I will also be scouring the Internet for other reviews on the particular home acne remedy that I am researching.

Let’s get started!

Home Acne Treatment #1  (Toothpaste)

The treatment goes that all you need to do is take the toothpaste and dab the paste on top of the pimple. Most people seem to recommend leaving it on for only a few minutes (10-20 minutes) because of the potential to chemically burn your skin. After the time is up, you simply wipe off the toothpaste with water.

Other Factors: Some people say that the type of toothpaste doesn’t matter. Others claim that you need to avoid any sort of special toothpaste (i.e. gel and whitening toothpastes). They recommend trying regular Colgate or Crest toothpaste.

Our Findings: This isn’t going to “cure” all of your acne problems. Applying toothpaste does appear to reduce inflammation on a swollen pimple. Applied regularly toothpaste appears to dry out the zit, but don’t count on any miracles here.

As with all home remedies for acne we suggest you be careful about what you try. If you are having a photo shoot the next day, then we don’t recommend experimentation. However, if tomorrow isn’t the biggest day of your life, then why not experiment and find out what works best for your skin. Toothpaste does seem to help for some people; however, be careful because some people report awkward looking red marks after use.

For myself personally, I’ll only use toothpaste if I find myself in a situation where I don’t have other, safer acne remedies that I’ve already tried. That being said, toothpaste has reduced the inflammation on my own pimples and worst case scenario it gets me to stop picking at them because I don’t want to get toothpaste on my hands.?