Acne is highly responsive to natural medicine, particularly herbs.
While there are medical options for dealing with bad acne, most people will never need to use them.
Antibiotics and harsh chemical creams are reserved for only the worst cases of acne, the cystic kind that covers a person's entire face with large, purplish welts that cause scarring.
If you have mild to moderate acne, or even just the occasional pimple or two, then there are plenty of herbal remedies you can use to clear it up quickly and easily.
Here are the top three herbal remedies you can use.
1.
Tea tree oil.
The oil from the Australian tea tree plant is one of the most effective herbal remedies for acne.
It's astringent, drying, and antibacterial, so not only will it shrink a pimple, it will keep it form getting infected.
Apply two to three drops of tea tree oil to pimples each night, and then cover them up with bandages all night.
After a few nights of this (usually three to four), the pimple should be gone.
2.
Garlic.
Though it won't smell great, garlic is a highly effective herbal remedy for acne.
Crush one to two garlic cloves (depending on the size of the pimple), then apply the crushed pulp to the acne.
Cover it with a bandage overnight and the pimple will usually be gone by the next day.
If not, do it again the next night.
Even the toughest of pimples usually can't stand up to crushed garlic for more than three nights in a row.
3.
Aloe.
You can buy aloe gel at the health food store, or simply cut open a leaf of the plant on your own and squeeze out the gel.
Apply the gel to your pimples each night, and don't wash it off.
After about a week of this, you'll start to notice your pimples going away.
The aloe reduces the pain, inflammation, and swelling of pimples and kills the bacteria inside of them.