Impure skin is greasy to the touch, uneven, inflamed in areas . The cause of such a skin is, very often, an excess of sebum production by the sebaceous glands.
For the skin, sebum is a sort of shield against external agents that can harm it: microorganisms (bacteria, fungi ), air, water, smog, pollution, sunlight, heat, cold.
When the skin tries to defend itself in a very active way and is not treated enough, or even treated with soaps with the wrong pH of the skin and unsuitable cleaning tools, here it becomes a skin that is not quite in full health.
Yes, because impure skin is also particularly sensitive: it must be treated from the outside with appropriate products, and from the inside following a diet rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals . Smoking, consuming alcohol or too many coffees is strictly forbidden.
Impure skin and natural remedies: how to start the counterattack
The counterattack to the impure skin with the use of natural remedies can be implemented already in the early morning, by cleaning the face : after washing the face with warm water alternated with cold water and having it gently dabbed with the towel, take some skim milk and apply it in drops on cotton wool or sterile gauze and start to dab the face.
After the milk comes the tonic, always homemade. You can choose between a fennel tonic, prepared by infusing dry seeds and fennel leaves for about 5 minutes and then applied to the face when cold; or the astringent mint tonic, prepared leaving, for 5 minutes, still fresh mint stems and leaves. Or the willow with lemon and willow: an infusion is made with chopped willow bark, to which is added half a fresh filtered lemon.
The combination of the two elements and principles is excellent for dissolving the keratin plugs that clog the pores of the skin. All three are therefore excellent tonics to eliminate blackheads.
The same procedure can be repeated for cleaning the evening face before going to bed. If you wear make-up, you must also use a good cleansing milk that they sell in herbal medicine or pharmacy, possibly based on avocado oil and wheat germ .
Try the mixture of essential oils for skin with blackheads
Impure skin and natural remedies: continuous help
To continue exploiting and combining the synergistic action of natural remedies, a very useful nutrient preparation for the fight against impure skin is the following: take a base of wheat germ oil, to which a drop of oil is added of rosemary, or of geranium oil, or of sage oil or of lavender or malaleuca .
Apply the oil obtained on the face, massaging gently. Its beneficial and nourishing action will be felt throughout the day.
Impure skin and natural remedies: one-off reinforcement
Very important to counteract the imbalance that is the basis of impure skin is a natural remedy that can be done once a week: the fumeggios or herbal vapors .
Take a pot and boil about a liter of water, put in a bowl a choice of herbs among chamomile, nettle, calendula, thyme and rosemary (cleansing and softening properties), or mint, lemon elder flowers ( astringent properties ), leek and fennel (healing and purifying properties) together with a nice spoonful of baking soda, pour over boiling water, bring the face close by holding the head under a towel for about ten minutes. This operation purifies the pores of the skin and makes them breathe.
