Tom William answers:

Before OTC and prescription pharmaceutical remedies Vitamin A was prescribed for acne. We’ve just started trying it here, but haven’t used it long enough to give you a definitive answer. We are taking 10,000 IU daily.

Tom William answers:

Steaming and Acne
Facial Steaming is by far one of the most overlooked ways to get rid of acne. In fact, it is so powerful that acne sufferers only need to do it a few times a month in order to fully benefit from its results. Let’s take the magical acne formula touted by scientists and estheticians everywhere.

Acne is the result of: Bacteria + Oil + Clogged pores

Without the three, acne simply can not form. What we are doing when we are steaming is removing one of the key ingredients that produce acne.
So, it is a wonder that steaming, which virtually eliminates clogged pores is so effective?
When you eliminate clogged pores and congestion, acne can simply not form. Not to mention, steaming is free, can be done with minimal tools, costs nearly nothing and can be done as often as necessary.
The basic idea behind steaming is that you boil water and simply let the steam do the rest for 10-15 minutes.

Herbs enhance the effectiveness of the steam and promote healthier skin. Herbs have surprising effects on the skin. Many are emollient, softening and lubricating; others hydrate and moisturize and most are anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory. Try a “Green Steam”, your skin will thank you for it.

If you want to get Gorgeous Skin as well as Longer, Fuller,Thicker & Sexier Eyelashes that enhance your overall Beauty. If you are sick and tired of spending a fortune on Expensive Acne Products and Treatments that are just not working for you or that are only breaking your bank. Read on to discover some of the most “Shocking Secrets” that you can be almost impossible to believe. – http://www.acnecuresite.org/

Tom William answers:

Fluoride toothpaste used to work for me. Just put a little dab on each blemish and see what happens overnight.

Be sure to use toothpaste though, the gel doesnt have the same effect.

Tom William answers:

There are these natural pills. They are called Perfect Skin by Genuine Health. They begin to work within 4-6 weeks. I’ve been taking them for 5 weeks and I can see big improvements! They are 100% natural.

Tom William answers:

Natual skin care is also the best way to stay healthy.

I sometimes use a tube of “Virasolve” on my very occasional pimples, just to kill bacteria and dry it out. It is a cold sore lotion, but works really well to quickly nip a pimple in the bud.

I also use a great big tube of Aloe Vera gel from Herbalife, that is REALLY CHEAP and is just incredible. This has been the only skincare product I have bought for about 10 years now apart from maybe once a year getting a jar of cheap moisturiser for winter months… The Aloe gel gets smoothed on my face after I shower. It is antibacterial and anticeptic so that kills most of the problems that might trigger any acne. It also helps soothe any sensitive skin or dry skin issues that come and go. It is non-oily so I never “feel” it on my skin… Just brilliant – and very, very, cheap for a top quality product.

THEN I have my source for “pamper” skin treatments that I love to use.

I steam my face whenever I feel a bit peaked or sniffly…. Just chuck a chamolile teabag in the hot water, some honey, some cinamon stick & cloves. Maybe add some mint.

Here are some tips for keeping your skin fresh and healthy:

1. Stay hydrated, and drink plenty of water! That doesn’t mean soda, caffeine or any other type of liquid even if it is low cal. Soda (even diet soda) has a high concentration of sodium. Sodium retains fluids. You need fluid that will hydrate and flush your body free of toxins. Make sure you are drinking at least 8 glasses a day!

2. Protect your skin from harmful ultra violet (UV) rays. We all love the sun. We love being in it and we love having a beautiful tan. The truth is you can poison yourself with too much sunshine.

UV rays cause skin cancer, and if that isn’t bad enough, it causes your skin to age faster than it should, contributing to unsightly wrinkles. If you must play in the sun, make certain you are using an adequate sun screen. Don’t leave home without it!

3. Apply your sun screen even if you only make a quick trip to the grocery store. Yes, you can get harmful UV rays even while driving your car!

4. When you purchase sun screen, make certain you are buying the right tool for the job. There are different types of UV rays and they don’t all affect our skin in the same ways. The time of year also has a bearing on how much damage the sun can do to your skin.

Altitude is another important factor. UV rays are more intense at high altitudes. Sunshine alone is not the culprit. You can do just as much damage to your skin (or in some cases even more) on a cloudy day!

5. Skin care tip:Don’t forget sun screen for your lips. They want to be healthy too!

6. Apply your sunscreen BEFORE going outdoors and allow plenty of time for it to adequately absorb into your skin cells rather than just sitting on top of the skin.

7. Read the labels on Natural beauty skin care products. The truth is that some ingredients may do more harm than good. The more ingredients are listed, the more potential harm they can do to your skin.

Here is a list of some of the common ingredients found in skin care products, and you need to be aware that some may have the potential to irritate your skin:

• Ammonia
• Balsam
• Bergamot
• Citrus juices and oils
• Coriander
• Eugenol
• Fir needle
• Horsetail
• Lemongrass
• Marjoram
• Mint
• Papaya
• Sandalwood oil
• TEA-lauryl sulfate
• Arnica
• Bentonite
• Camphor
• Clove
• Cornstarch
• Fennel
• Geranium
• Lavender
• Lime
• Melissa (lemon balm)
• Oak bark
• Peppermint
• Sodium C14-16 olefin sulfate
• Thyme
• Balm mint
• Benzalkonium chloride
• Cinnamon
• Clover blossom
• Eucalyptus
• Fennel oil
• Grapefruit
• Lemon
• Linalool
• Menthol
• Orange
• Phenol
• Sodium lauryl sulfate
• Wintergreen
• Witch hazel
• Ylang-ylang

8. There are a few ingredients that are totally banned by the Food and Drug Administration and should be avoided:

• Bithionol
• Mercury compounds
• Vinyl chloride
• Halogenated salicylanilides
• Zirconium complexes in aerosol cosmetics
• Chloroform
• Methylene chloride
• Chlorofluorocarbon propellants
• Hexachlorophene
• Methyl methacrylate monomer in nail products

9. Keep your skin clean. Use a soft warm cloth. Skin does not require scrubbing. You will do more harm than good if you do.

10. Exfoliate dead skin cells every night.

11. Create your own Natural beauty facial masks. Here are a couple of excellent masks that you can create with ingredients right from your kitchen:

• Oatmeal mask: Mix oatmeal with skim milk and apply.

• Eggs: A raw egg yolk makes an excellent face mask.

• Honey: Try adding a little honey to the egg yolk for a change of pace.

• Mayonnaise: Is another terrific face mask and will leave your skin feeling very soft.

12. Try a milk of magnesia facial for a Natural skin treatment. Apply directly from the bottle and leave on for 5 to 10 minutes then rinse with warm water.

13. Moisturize dry skin with essential oils. A combination of juniper, cypress, mandarin and grapefruit will work as an astringent that will leave your skin feeling tighter.

If your skin is extra dry, premix the essential oils with a teaspoon of carrier oil (mineral oil) and ad ¼ cup of milk or a tablespoon of honey to give you added moisturizing.

14. If you have particularly sensitive skin, try a Pepto Bismol facial. Apply with a soft cotton ball directly from the bottle; just as it soothes the stomach, it will sooth your skin. Cover your face and neck and allow it to dry before rinsing.

15. Use an antioxidant cream. You are bombarded every day with environmental toxins that attack the surface of your skin. In fact most damage to the skin can be attributed to free radicals.

When you expose yourself to toxins like air pollution, free radical production increases. Apply an antioxidant cream to your skin before applying your sun screen.

16. If you have oily skin, only apply a toner in the T zone, your forehead and nose.

17. The best cure for wrinkles is to never have them in the first place! If you are like most of us, you didn’t listen to your Mom when she tried to tell you to stay in the shade, stand up straight and stop squinting!

18. Unlike Cleopatra, we live in the nuclear age and wrinkles can become a thing of the past.

Consider “laser skin resurfacing.” It is supposed to work for those fine lines and wrinkles of any depth. This technique reminds you of the “light swords” in the Star Wars movies.

It literally zaps and vaporizes away the lines and wrinkles. The procedure is conducted in the doctor’s office and it’s said that you heal within a week or so.

Expensive? Yes. Fast? Yes, much faster than deep chemical peels or dermabrasion.

19. If your budget won’t handle laser skin resurfacing you might try a skin peel. There are several types.

There’s dermabrasion as we mentioned. This procedure literally sands the top few layers of your skin off, just like refinishing furniture!

It’s done with a wire brush that rotates and is said to remove even deep wrinkles.

20. Maybe you would prefer something a bit less abrasive, pardon the pun. If so, you might consider a deep peel. This process is accomplished using an acid and is for moderately deep wrinkles.

There are some risks associated with the acid procedure. It isn’t as stable as the laser resurfacing because there is less control of the acid solution.

21. Have a glycolic or beta peel. This process won’t do much for your wrinkles, but if you are only looking to improve general skin tone, this is the one for you.

22. Try Retin A. If you want to see a smoothing of fine wrinkles and an overall healthy glow that will remove mottling and give your skin a youthful blush, then this is the route to go.

23. You can avoid all the nastiness of the previous treatments by choosing collagen injections.

The biggest challenge with this choice is it is temporary, lasting just a few months, so you have to repeat the procedure frequently.

24. Stop shaving your legs and use hot wax. Much gentler on your skin.

25. Mix up a tablespoon of brandy along with a smashed up peach and apply to your face for twenty minutes then rinse. Makes for a great summer facial.

Get a ton of great herbal home remedy recipes here, I love them all…

Http://www.best-natural-cures-health-guide.com/natural-cures-acne-treatments.html

http://www.best-natural-cures-health-guide.com/natural-cures-beauty-homemade-facials-mask.html

http://www.best-natural-cures-health-guide.com/natural-cures-beauty-recipes-natural-facial-recipe-almond-scrub.html

and remember to pamper your skin when you have a bath or steam facial… Use the ingredients in your kitchen, at no extra expense, and super natural for you too

http://www.best-natural-cures-health-guide.com/natural-cures-salt-bath.html

Rosemary and Thyme and Sage are also great antiseptic and astringent herbs, so you can use any of those with say, Lavendar, in a steam facial, then when the water cools, use it as a splash on toner to cleanse your skin at night.

Hope all this is of some help… Like I said, I havent needed to buy skincare products for 10 years now, and my skin is fantastic for a 49 year old, no acne, very few and slight creases, with very little maintenance needed.

Tom William answers:

My son has been using pine tar soap for a lil over a month now. It has really helped clear it up. He had it really bad. Huge sores on his face, back and some on his arms and chest. You can get it thru your pharmacy. It costs about $4 a bar and a bar can last 3-4 wks.

Tom William answers:

Beware of using any products for acne unless they have been prescribed or recommended by your doctor. People make all kinds of suggestions about the best thing to do to cure acne. Some cures I’ve heard include putting oatmeal, honey, lemon juice, tea tree oil, cucumber, vinegar, milk of magnesia or toothpaste on your face. Practically every cosmetics company and company that makes personal care products makes something that is a “sure cure” for acne. If we think about this, and use some common sense, we have to come to the conclusion that there is no quick or easy cure for acne, because if there was it would be well known and doctors would be telling everyone about it.

Numerous companies make a lot of money persuading people to buy products that at worst will make the acne worse, and at best may help some people a little. Often fewer products are better. People often make their acne much worse by using too many products. There really is no quick fix for acne. Don’t spend a lot of money on products just because their ads say that they will cure acne. Your doctor is the best person to ask for help, and he or she may recommend some prescription medication or non-prescription treatment that may be suitable for you..

There are some very simple and basic things you can do that cost nothing. Keep your face or any other area affected by acne very clean. Any mild antibacterial soap will help with that. Rinse the area well to remove all soap residue. Drink plenty of water – it really does help to clear up acne. Eat a nutritious diet and get enough sleep. A healthy life style will make a difference. Try to reduce the stress in your life – stress contributes to acne, so also probably the more you worry about the acne and focus on it, the worse it will be.

Probably the most useful and effective things you can do are to apply hot compresses to pustules and cysts and never to pick or squeeze pimples. Playing with or popping pimples, no matter how careful and clean you are, nearly always makes bumps stay redder and bumpier longer.

Here are a few informative links with additional ideas about preventing and treating acne.

Http://www.medicinenet.com/acne/article.htm

http://www.acne.com/cause_effects/causes_acne.php

http://www.acnerecovery.com/acne-information/causes-of-acne.html

Tom William answers:

First off, I’d like to say I completely undertstand how you feel because I have suffered with acne since puberty until now (I’m 28 now). I know how hard it is to deal with. I commend you for wanting to use all-natural treatments as opposed to the treatments filled with harsh, synthetic chemicals. Now-a-days, most people have been brainwashed into thinking the only way to cure acne (or keep it under control) is to scrub their face day and night with harsh, irritating and potentially dangerous products. What a lot of people don’t understand is that the cause of acne has nothing to do with poor hygeine and over-cleansing the face with harsh products can actually irritate the skin and make the acne worse.

100% pure Tea Tree essential oil is known for helping with acne.
Tea tree oil is an oil extracted from the leaves of the Australian Melaleuca Alternafolia tree. It has powerful anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral qualities.

In fact it has been proven effective killing acne bacteria when topically applied. And because of that it is often used as a replacement to benzoyl peroxide in many of the “natural” acne treatments.

Tea Tree oil is one of the very few essential oils that can be applied “as is” to the skin – it doesn’t need to be diluted. Just put some Tea Tree oil on a cotton ball and gently apply to the affected areas of the skin.

You can find pure Tea Tree oil at just about any store that sells natural products. You’ll want to check the ingredient label though to make sure it is in fact 100% pure Tea Tree oil (with no additives or “fillers” of any kind). Also, it is always best to get organic essential oils if you can find and/or afford them. One very trusted company that sells organic pure essential oils is Simplers Botanical Company. I’ve listed their website below.

There are a few companies that make and sell 100% natural (chemical-free) products that you may want to check out. Aubrey Organics has a skincare line for different skin types, including combination skin and oily skin. I, personally, use Aubrey Organics and am happy with the results of their products.You can find Aubrey Organics at just about any natural store or you can order online. Another company that uses all-natural ingredients in their products is Suki. Suki has a Lemongrass facial cleanser and White Willow facial toner that is oily skin/acne specific and I’ve read several positive reviews on these products. I actually am going to try Suki for myself soon. Another company with all-natural products is Terressentials. I’ve listed all the websites below for you.

Good luck! Keep in mind that there is no magical “cure” for acne but there are several things you can do to keep it under control. You’re doing the right thing by using all-natural products.

Tom William answers:

I’m sorry my friend but there is no easy way to get ride of it, my boyfriend went through the same thing and it’s worst because he is dark skin so the scares are way more visible.

Vitamin E is the best thing you can use but it wont clear it up in days, it slowly will as long as you use it everyday. He used it and it’s been about 5 months and he is almost scare free

I also use it when I decide to take out a piercing and it has given me nothing but results!

Good luck and congrats on the clear up