Step By Step Acne Treatment

There are a lot of health products on healthyonline that you can use externally on your skin, so today I thought I would go over the main ones that I recommend to people who come in with Acne. As you are probably already aware, if you’ve had a look at our website, there are so many different products to choose from – so it’s always good to know what we have used and what we have had good results with.

One of the most important things when you have external acne, is to make sure that you don’t touch your skin, especially with dirty hands! It’s very important to keep your hands away from your face. Our hands carry so many germs on them.  The last thing we want to be doing is touching our skin (and particularly our face) when we’ve got dirty hands.

So before you touch your face, it’s very important to wash your hands really well with a good antiseptic soap. Beauty therapists are going to hate me for telling you this, but the fact of the matter is that most people who have pimples or acne are going to squeeze them or deal to them in some way. Who wants to walk around with pussie spots on their face?  If you are going to squeeze your spots, the very first step, after washing your hands thoroughly, is to cleanse your skin properly before you touch those spots.

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Below I will take you step by step through the different processes I recommend, for helping to control and hopefully get rid of external acne.  You can click on the picture, to find out more information about the product, at my website healthyonline.

Cleanse Your Skin

Living Nature's Purifying Cleansing Gel

My most favourite product for cleansing your skin properly (particularly if you have acne prone skin) is the Living Nature Purifying Cleansing gel. Living Nature is a New Zealand company, located in Keri Keri, up in the North Island.  I recommend this product to all people who come into my shop who have acne.   We get really good results with this.

You use Living Nature’s Purifying Cleansing Gel instead of soap. One of the benefits of this product, is unlike a lot of soaps or pharmacy face washes for Acne, this product does not strip your skin of all the oils. You should use Purifying Cleansing Gel as part of your daily facial cleansing regime (Ideally twice a day).

How To Use Nature’s Way Purifying Cleansing Gel:

Splash some water onto your face.
Put a small amount of Living Nature Purifying Cleanser onto your hand.

• Now gently rub this onto your skin and gently lather, concentrating particularly on your problem areas.

Then get some warm clean water and splash it on your face to rinse off the purifying cleanser.

• Get a towel or cloth and gently pat your skin dry.

Make sure you don’t rub your face because that will damage your already delicate irritated skin.  So once we’ve done this we’ve got nice cleansed skin and all of that oil and dirt from the day will have all been cleaned off.

Replenish the moisture!

Dr Hauschika Clarifying Toner

After we have cleaned our skin with the Purifying Cleanser, it would be a good idea to replenish the moisture levels.  One of my favourite products for doing this is the toner from Dr Hauschka Clarifying Toner, specifically for problem skin.  This product is great because it’s an atomizer so you can spray it directly onto your face. Unlike a lot of the natural toners the Dr Hauschka Toner contains alcohol so this means that it evaporates off your skin rather than many other natural toners, that just sit on your skin.

Dr Hauschka make this statement about their toner “The Clarifying Toner completes the process of oily skin. Clarifying toner assists in normalising skin function and helps to prevent further skin impurities.” So after you have cleansed your skin, and patted it dry, apply a generous spray of Clarifying Toner.  Allow this to dry naturally.

This toner also works well as an after shave.  It would be particularly good for those men with sensitive skin,  who react to pharmacy aftershaves.  If this is you, or someone you know, consider using the Dr Hauschka Clarifying toner and you may also find that it gives you a far better action.

So now we have cleansed and toned, the next step is spot application to help dry these up, fight any bacteria and speed up the healing process.  Our last step will be to help minimise scaring.

100% Pure Tea Tree Oil

100% Pure Tea Tree Oil

Spot treatment for the faster healing  of Acne

We all want something to help those pimples disappear faster, with minimal scaring.  We recommend a couple of options, to help.

The first one is Tea Tree Oil.   I like this particular one because it’s Organically Grown and 100% Pure Tea Tree Oil. We hear about Tea tree and also Manuka oil, but when it comes to acne, it is the Tea Tree Oil to choose, not the Manuka Oil.  Tea Tree oil is drying (just what you need with a pimple), where Manuka oil is oily and leaves an oily residue.

I like to classify Tea Tree Oil as a “first aid kit in a bottle”. It’s the best thing for pimples because its antiseptic, anti-bacterial and when you apply it to your pimple, it will fight bacteria in there and dry the pimple up really quickly.  If you do “deal to”  your pimple, make sure you apply 100% Tea Tree Oil directly to the spot.  If you do, when you wake up in the morning, you will notice quite a difference to that pimple. Most likely you will find that it’s very dry and that the infection fighting properties have already started.

It’s really important when you use Tea Tree Oil (because it’s very irritating to your skin applied neat), that you apply it only to the area that you are wanting to treat. Get a cotton bud and actually put the cotton bud into the 100% tea tree oil and then apply the cotton bud directly to the spot. Try not to get it on your good skin. I know myself that I have really damaged my skin before by applying large amounts of straight undiluted tea tree oil onto it,  so do be careful.

Tea Tree Oil is a product that you do not want to ingest or eat. You do not want to get it in your mouth, up your nose or in your eyes – so you have to be very careful when you apply it to acne or pimples.  A real bonus about this product is very reasonably priced as it’s only $13.75 for 25mls which is great value, as one bottle will last for a long time. This particular product also comes with a dropper and a screw lid. The dropper is inside the package, where the screw lid is on the bottle. It is very important that you always take your dropper off and put your screw lid back on because Tea Tree Oil is so corrosive that after a while, it will eat through the rubber on the dropper. Ive had people who after only two weeks of having their tea tree bottle have bought there bottle in to show me thinking that there is some problem with it, but really its just because they have left their dropper on and the oil has literally eaten into the rubber,  producing a black goo which really is not very nice at all.

Tea Tree Oil is THE Ultimate Product for Spot application.

We have other options as well for spot application, such as the Living Nature “Rescue Gel”. They have made this specifically for troublesome spots and they are marketing this for spot application for acne prone skin. This is great because it has Manuka Oil and Manuka Honey included in it. It’s also nice and antiseptic.  There is information that tells us that Manuka Oil is 10 times stronger then Tea Tree Oil. Now remember that the Manuka Oil is more oily than the Tea Tree Oil, which is dryer.

If using the Living Natures Rescue Gel, make sure you apply it to cleansed and ideally toned skin, ideally a couple of times a day.

Mebo Acne Clear

Heal that spot quickly!

A product that I absolutely Love, that is specifically for healing Acne spots faster, is the Mebo Acne Clear.  Now Mebo products are very very special and we are very lucky to have these here in New Zealand. These products use Stem Cell Regeneration. I found some information about Mebo acne clear that states why Mebo’s products are so unique and they say “Mebo’s unique formulations are the only ointments worldwide that activate stem cell regeneration. Mebo products accelerate the regeneration of stem cells located in the bottom or the hair follicle.  These cells are capable of producing not only the hair shaft but also the daughter cells that create the dermis and epidermis. Stem Cells can repair injured and defective skin by restructuring and regenerating new skin according to the original skins physiological structure.  This speeds healing as well as minimising scarring. Research has shown that the healing process is significantly faster using Mebo ointments.”

I  talked to my daughter about this product, because she has used a few different products for Acne.  I got her to try the Mebo Acne Clear to see what she thought of it and she said that it was very different from the other Acne and skin products she had previously tried. What it did is when you had a pimple it helped it to heal very very quickly and even after one application she noticed a huge change and difference in the healing of the spot. Plus its working from a Bacterial level as well.

So Mebo Acne Clear is a wonderful ointment. Mebo themselves have a whole range of products that have been extensively researched in hospitals particularly with burns and the results have been amazing.

Trilogy Rosehip Oil

So we have cleansed, toned and done some spot application.  My next suggestion is to help your skin to heal faster.  To help with this,  we have the excellent Trilogy 100% Organic Roship Oil. At healthyonline we have seen fantastic results with people who have used this product. Ive  had people (particularly Teenagers) with really bad acne scarring who have come in and after just one month of using Trilogy’s Rosehip Oil have experienced dramatic results.  A lot of them have even had particular family members comment asking them “what are you doing with your skin? I can’t believe how different it is”  This was all to do with the Trilogy Rosehip Oil and the healing that the ingredient Rosehip Oil produces.

These include:  increasing collagen formation, reducing scarring and the healing of tissue.

In fact there was a clinical study done on 20 women over 8 weeks using the Trilogy Certified 100% Rosehip Oil and the results that they found were:

Improved Skin Moisture by up to 40%

Reduced the signs of wrinkles by up to 25%

Improved Skin Smoothness by up to 21%

I personally had the opportunity to try Trilogy’s 100% Certified Rosehip Oil and I loved it.   I very quickly saw big improvements in the general condition of my skin. Not only that though, I also noticed a major decrease in the number of wrinkles and lines on my face even after just a couple of applications. The difference was quite surprising to say the least.

So Trilogy Rosehip Oil is the one I would choose, to help with the reduction of acne acaring, above all else.

Of course in my last video here I talked about the importance of taking a good nutritional supplement that has some good anti-oxidants in it.  Zinc and Vitamin C are very important for your skin and the prevention of acne. You really need to ensure that you are getting these nutrients in your diet everyday, especially if you are someone who has skin problems. I also talked about the importance of cleansing your system of toxins and the importance of a good diet and plenty of water.

Finally I cannot emphasize enough the importance of keeping your hands away from your face! Always wash your hands before you touch your skin.  This is VITAL.  For girls ALWAYS make sure that you wash your makeup off very well, every night.  This is vital.  Never go to bed without first having cleansed your face of the daily grime and any makeup that may be on there.

Kind Regards

Leanne James