4 Best Home Remedies for Acne Treatment

by Q Pro-team | Jul 26, 2013 | 1.1 Resources & Tips, 2.1 Acne Treatment

4 Best Home Remedies for Acne Treatment

Are you looking for all-natural home remedies to cure your acne fast? If so, you’ve made the right decision. Many over-the-counter creams and medicines don’t really work—if they did, you wouldn’t see people walking around with pimples! The problem is our diets and lack of healthy practices for our bodies and skin cause acne and once it’s there, it’s super-hard to get rid of. Thankfully, there are home remedies for acne that are quite effective.

Let’s see what acne-fighting alternatives Mother Nature has to offer that can help get rid of your acne for good.

The Four Best Home Remedies for Acne

We’ve put together the four most effective (and 100% natural) ways to get rid of your acne at home:

1. Baking Soda

Baking soda is used for acne by making a mask that cleanses and reinvigorates the skin. Not only that, but the baking soda will reduce inflammation around your existing acne and your dead skin cells will be exfoliated. This is a key step in good skin health and vital to maintaining an acne-free complexion. Further, thanks to the powerful exfoliation benefits of baking soda, existing pock marks and acne scars are reduced as well.

To get started, simply place three teaspoons of baking soda in 1/2 cup warm water and mix until it becomes a paste. If it’s too watery, add more baking soda—too thick, add more water. Then, apply the baking soda paste to your face and let it sit for about 15 minutes at first. Over time, you can build up to leaving this baking soda acne mask on overnight, but remove it at the first sign of discomfort. You should start to see results in a few days.

2. Egg Whites

When most people hear egg whites, they think of healthy omelets. When it comes to egg whites for acne and your skin, you don’t eat them, but rather use them to make a facial mask. Egg whites contain oil reducers that draw out impurities from your skin and then contracts your pores to make sure they close up afterward. This means that dirt, makeup, sweat and other pore-clogging debris has a harder time getting back into your skin, resulting in less acne.

To use egg white masks for pimples, simply crack the egg in half and separate the yolk from the clear part (the egg white). Then, apply the egg white with a cotton ball to the affected areas and after a few minutes, you’ll feel your skin tighten up—this is a good thing. You can leave this home acne remedy mask on for about thirty minutes, wash it off, and enjoy the immediate glow your skin takes on.

3. Honey

Honey is another great moisturizer for your skin that contains antiseptic properties which works extremely well on acne. For an added effect, mix nutmeg with some honey to create a facial mask and apply it to your skin for thirty minutes each day. For severe acne, you can do this once in the morning and once at night.

After the time is up, rinse the mask off with warm water and then cold water, since honey is pretty sticky. Within a few days, you’ll see amazing results and have soft, smooth skin straight from nature.

4. Eating foods that are rich in Vitamin B5

Our final home remedy for acne is more of a lifestyle adjustment that changes the environment that acne thrives in. While the rest of the home care tips for pimples we’ve given have stayed on the surface of your skin, this will help attack the problem from the inside out. After all, acne comes from underneath your skin, not above it.

Vitamin B5 is called Pantothenic Acid and can be found in eggs, bananas, oranges, whole grain breads and products, poultry, meat, fish, seeds and mushrooms.

Exciting New Discovery Could Rejuvenate Your Skin

by Q Pro-team | Jun 7, 2013 | 1.1 Resources & Tips

Exciting New Discovery Could Rejuvenate Your Skin

It’s well known that some reptiles, like salamanders, are able to regenerate a great number of their body structures such as limbs, tails, jaws, and even parts of their organs such as the heart, brain and spinal cord. Recently, a team of Australian researchers including Dr. Godwin discovered that the white blood cells called macrophages play a key role in this muscle regeneration.

Where it gets interesting, is that macrophages also exist in the human body. The term, which means ‘big eaters’ refers to the cells ability to eat up dead cells and germs within the body, thus helping our muscles to repair and grow. Earlier studies have also revealed that stimulating macrophages can help the synthesis of collagen in our skin, which leads to optimal results in skin rejuvenation.

While it might still be too early for scientists to determine how we can regenerate complete arms or legs as salamanders do, they may be able to let people heal wounds without forming visible scars, or make more advanced anti-aging products in the very near future.

How Hyperpigmentation Is Formed

by Q Pro-team | May 6, 2013 | 1.1 Resources & Tips

How Hyperpigmentation Is Formed

Hyperpigmentation is a harmless skin condition triggered by an overproduction of melanin which causes the skin to appear darker. Melanin is responsible for producing the pigment that determines eye, hair and skin colour; it is a dark-brown pigment that is a natural filter from UV rays. Melanocytes, found in the bottom layer of the skin’s epidermis, are the cells responsible for the production of melanin. The pigmentation process encompasses 3 major stages:

1. Melanin is created when tyrosinase, an enzyme naturally found in the body, converts tyrosine into melanin.
2. Melanin is then held in melanosomes which start to migrate to the surface of the skin.
3. Once the melanosomes are mature they are transferred to keratinocytes, and are then moved to the surface of the skin.

Hyperpigmentation such as melasma, age spots and uneven skin tone can add an average 10 to 15 years to woman’s perceived age. Fortunately, in most cases, the appearance of hyperpigmentation can be improved dramatically by chemical peeling, photorejuvenation or fractional laser resurfacing.