Is Acne Your Problem?

Monday, September 29, 2008


Acne is a skin disease caused by changes in the pilosabaceous units (skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland). Acne lesions are commonly referred to as pimples, spots or zits.

How to Treat Acne Naturally?

Honey
It has anti bacterial properties for disinfecting and healing minor blemishes and gentle on sensitive skin. Apply it twice a day or during bed time.

Washing Your Face
It’s advisable that you are going to wash your face using sulfur based soap that is purely designed for acne treatment. Do it when you first wake up during morning and right before going to bed at night.

Keep Your Hair Off Your Face
When you got a long hair, try to pull off your fair from your face. Your hair actually contains oils that will contribute acne formations.

Take Multi-Vitamins
Your skin depends on what you have intake as nutrition, think of it that having lack or proper nutrition your body will produce excessive nutrition, clogging pores and reducing the ability for your skin to heal and fight certain bacteria.

Carrots
Carrots is rich in beta-carotene or Vitamin A, it strengthens the protective tissue of the skin and actually prevents acne. It helps reducing sebum production and essential in maintenance and repair of the tissue of the skin.

Avoid Wearing Non-WaterBased Make-Up
Those makeup will contributes clogging our pores that causes pimples and blackheads. Just try to look on waterbased make-up.

Drink 8 Glasses of Water
Drinking water is very essential for clean skin and our health. Water acts as a carrier of our waste materials out from our body, so be sure you have adequate drink water daily.

Do not Pick or Squeeze your Pimples
It is very tempting to pick or squeeze our pimples and blackheads. But do not do it because picking your pimples will actually increase the sebum production and rupturing the membranes of your skin that will result to infections and more pimples.

Stay Clean in your Surrounding
Staying clean is the best way to eliminate pimples and blackheads, always check your hygiene specially clothes, pillow cases, handkerchief and other things you directly or indirectly used to your face.

Medical Treatments
There are also existing medical products that were developed for Acne Treament. Herein listed below some treatments used as prescribed:

Topical Batericidals
Bactericidal products containing “benzoyl peroxide” used to moderate acne formation. This cream or gel that has benzoyl peroxide is rubbed twice daily over the affected region.

Topical Antibiotics
External antibiotics such as “erythromycin, clindamycin, stievamycin or tetracycline, kill the bacteria that are harbored in the blocked follicles.

Oral Antibiotics
These include erythromycin or tetracycline antibiotics. Tae note that side effects of tetracycline antibiotics can include yellowing of the teeth and an imbalance of gut flora.

You may consult your attending physician or dermatologist for their proper prescription on drugs to be used during your acne treatment.
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How To Cure Dandruff?

Friday, September 26, 2008


Dandruff also called scurf is due to the excessive shedding of dead skin cells from our scalp. It’s a normal skin cells that die and flake off. It is a result of certain triggers and experiences with large amount of flaking accompanied with redness and irritations. Other people called dandruff as seborrhea which means too much oil. It is also known as seborrheic dermatitis or the common dandruff.

But Why I have Dandruff?
Others believe that the main causes of dandruff are due to impairment of general health, having wrong food intake which means you got a wrong food choice, and having a low resistance on a certain disease. But to others, an emotional tension and stress most likely affects the development of the disease. Take note that wrong choice of shampoos may consider as one of the causes.

How to Cure Dandruff?

Usage of Fruit Juices

Fenugreek Seeds

Use two tablespoons of these seeds and soaked overnight in water and ground into a fine paste in the morning. That pasted should be applied all over the scalp and left for about half an hour and wash accordingly.

Lime
Use a teaspoon of fresh lime juice for the last rinse of hair while taking a bath.

Snake Gourd
Use the juice of snake gourd and rubbed over the scalp. It’s a good prevention and treatment of dandruff.

Usage of Commercial Products

Shampoos
Try to look some ingredients in medicated shampoos. Some shampoos are labeled with ANTI DANDRUFF and help preventing dandruff during the process. Try to look some of the ingredients with Tar, Salicylic Acid, Zinc, Selenium Sulfide and Ketoconazole. Just use the shampoos all the time or just once or twice a week depending how severe your dandruff.

Creams
Cortisone Creams
This cream reduce inflammation. Just select the 0.5% or 1% concentrations. They are actually safe on the face and will help just a couple of days when applied twice daily.

Anti-Fungal Creams
This cream has been found effective, just apply this one once or twice daily.

Other Alternative of Curing Dandruff

Hot Oil Therapy
Massage hot oil into the scalp during bedtime. Leave overnight. During morning before you going to bath, just rub lemon juice into your scalp.

What If Everything Wont Work?
Try to consult your physician or dermatologist and use their recommended prescription on shampoos, creams and other medicinal remedies.

Let us remember that the best way to avoid dandruff is keeping your hair and scalp clean to avoid further accumulation of dead cells. Also, the hair should be brush daily to improve the proper circulation and removal of flakiness. The scalp should be massage thoroughly everyday, this could be after brushing the hair. Cleanliness is next to Godliness… Keep yourself Clean and keep it Dandruff Free!!!
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The Intention of The Kyur

Thursday, September 25, 2008


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