You may postpone your doctor’s visit for acne treatments and try out these well tried and proven home treatments. After all, home remedies do not have any side effects. But, before discussing the healing aspects, it is important to know a little more about acne and what causes them.

A blackhead often turns blackish due the dead skin particles. A swelling appears around the blackhead, it turns reddish and hard. This then turns into a pimple or acne. Washing the face regularly will keep blackhead away.

The other ways of curing acnes are available at homes. Very often a change in diet, adequate sleep and proper bowel functions will help to keep the skin fresh and shiny. The other steps are:-

• Applying honey on the face, weekly once. Honey disinfects and heals the spots on the face. Moreover it works very subtly.

• Use special face wash elements.

• Wash your face – morning and evening with soap containing ‘sulphur’ dry the face gently with a towel.

• Tie your hair away from your face.

• Stop the hair from touching the face because oily hair will increase acne. Keep your hair clean with regular wash.

• Eat carrot. ‘Vitamin A’ present in carrot improves the skin texture and stops acne. In fact shortage of Vitamin A can cause acne. Carrots also have an anti-oxidizing quality which clears the toxic condition of the skin.

• Presence of ‘chromium in the food content has a healing quality. Take a chromium pill daily to stop the reappearance of acne.

• Eating high mineral and zinc based diet helps to keep the skin shining, fresh and acne free.

• Avoid an over use of cosmetics.

• Use clean and fresh bed linen. Change the pillow-wraps frequently. Since your face rests on a pillow, using fresh pillow wraps is essential.

• Do not try to remove blackheads and acne with force. Doing so will only harm the facial texture and increase the pimple growth.

• Apply a face pack containing ‘nutmeg and raw milk. Let the pack remain for more than hundred and twenty minutes before wiping of the cream.

• Use powdered orange peel to cure acne on the face. Using fenugreek paste or a haldi(turmeric) neem paste also helps to cure acne and its re appearance.

Try any of these cures and avoid going to a ‘dermatologist’.