Things You'll Need:
- Calendula
- Bee pollen
- Garlic
- Jewelweed
- Grapeseed
- Olive oil (to dilute essential oils)
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Step 1
Hunt the bright yellow marigold in search of Calendula, the herbal ingredient found in essential oils and tinctures and known for its ability to control acne by reducing the inflammation and redness. Apply a dab of Calendula tincture on pimples at bedtime. Dilute a drop of essential oil with olive oil and gently apply before you fall asleep.
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Step 2
Utilize the oil from the tea tree, respected worldwide for its antiseptic and anti-fungal properties. Applied to pimples after washing and drying the skin, tea tree oil can reduce the duration and swelling of a blemish.
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Step 3
Follow the honeybee’s lead and apply a natural ointment that contains pure bee pollen. Brimming with essential amino acids and B vitamins, dabbing bee pollen on your blemishes provides a dose of healthy antioxidants directly to the infected skin.
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Step 4
Keep vampires and blemishes at bay with nature’s own remedy: garlic. Often used for infections, just peel and slice a garlic clove in half and hold the cut side on your blemish or use a small adhesive bandage to hold it in place all night.
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Step 5
Try the Native American herbal treatment of gathering the Jewelweed herb where it grows naturally or purchasing the dried herb in a health food store and making a poultice of damp leaves. Apply the poultice and leave on the skin for an hour or longer.
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Step 6
Take Grapeseed supplements to bolster your body’s natural skin health and elasticity. This herb, available in capsules and powder form, provides building blocks for your skin’s production of collagen, speeding the healing process of a breakout.
