
The skin, or skin, is the continuous, elastic and resistant fabric that covers our entire body externally. The skin's task is to protect itself from bacterial agents and harmful substances, protection from heat and cold, regulation of the internal temperature and the body's hydro-saline balance.
For this reason it is important to take care of it and keep it healthy, avoiding some problems that may interest you, such as acne. This is possible through herbal teas with a soothing, anti-inflammatory and calming effect, such as melissa herbal tea and citrus fruit peel, or herbal teas more specific for acne skin, such as burdock tea, nettle and thyme.
Lemon balm herbal tea and citrus peel
- Characteristics: used for thousands of years in many traditional medicines, lemon balm treats every type of inflammation, even of the skin, it is also used in cases of agitation, sleep and gastrointestinal disorders. The crushed melissa leaves and rubbed on the skin keep the mosquitoes away.
- Recipe: Proceed by boiling, together with the dried lemon balm leaves, also the orange or lemon peel in plenty of water, avoiding to put the bitter white part. Turn off the heat after a couple of minutes, leaving it to infuse for about ten minutes.
- Use: Drink two cups a day. If you put a little lemon balm tea in your mouth, remember not to throw away the water: it is an excellent stimulating, purifying and decongesting skin tonic.
- Properties: soothing, disinfecting, soothing.
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Herbal tea for acne
- Characteristics: It has an anti-inflammatory action when pustular and reddened lesions prevail
- Recipe: 20 g of burdock root, 15 g of nettle leaves, 30 g of echinacea root, 10 g of sage leaves, 15 g of top of thyme .
- Use: drink two cups a day, in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before dinner.
- Properties: anti-inflammatory, soothing for the skin, emollients.