Treating Acne Scars

Your skin reflects your inner health, and will reward these efforts with a healthy, gorgeous glow. However, some degree of trauma to the skin is, alas, unavoidable. The soft, flawless skin of a baby does not stay that way, and sooner or later we all pick up assorted scars and blemishes.

While some of these may be astronomical and vital such as the scars that can corollary from a cut or injury requiring sutures, smaller scars such as acne scars can be dealt will effectively and in most cases eradicated using simple home remedies.

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To a large degree, this is folk wisdom: not necessarily the sort of thing your house physician would be able to tell you about, but tried and true remedies such as your grandmother might have used.

Treating Acne Scars

Olive Oil

Rubbing 100% pure virgin olive oil into a scar 2 or 3 times a day can minimize or even eliminate it, even if the scar is quite large. This works best on 'fresh' or new scars, but is worth a try even if the scar is older.

Vitamin E Oil

Vitamin E is the 'skin vitamin', and vitamin E oil is probably the best known and most tested scar remedy. You can buy vitamin E oil capsules at any drug store; the cheap kind is fine, and it doesn't seem to make a incompatibility either the oil is from natural or artificial sources.

Break open a capsule and rub it into the scar, once or twice a day. (And while you're at it, swallow a capsule each day as well, along with some vitamin C - both very good for the skin). The vitamin E rehabilitation is virtually guaranteed to work for most scars. Don't bother with creams or lotions that contain vitamin E, however - using pure vitamin E oil is economy and more effective.

Lemon Juice

Some reconsider this to be the most efficient remedy for small scars and skin discoloration. Lemon juice plainly and gradually bleaches the skin, and this makes it efficient for unavoidable types of scars that are essentially darkened or discolored spots.

It will not totally get rid of raised scars or indentations in the skin, but it can enhance their appearance. You can squeeze some lemon juice onto your finger or a cotton ball and apply it directly to the scar.

Treating Acne Scars