Useful qualities
Lemon is often used in traditional medicine recipes and traditional cosmetology. It contains a lot of vitamin C, useful organic acids, calcium, magnesium, iron and essential oils. Does lemon help against acne that breaks out on the face and causes a lot of inconvenience?
Lemon helps get rid of acne
It helps, and many creams, scrubs, masks and other cosmetics are made from lemon juice or oil.
This citrus has excellent antiseptic properties; bacteria cannot live in its acidic environment and die. Acids participate in cleansing the epidermis, exfoliating dead cells, which promotes their rapid renewal.
Thanks to this quality, lemon helps to cope not only with pimples, but also with the marks that often remain after acne.
If you regularly smear your face with lemon, red spots on your face and even age spots and freckles will whiten. Lemon also has an immunostimulating quality; its juice helps remove harmful toxins, making the skin healthier and looking much better. These citrus fruits are often used in the treatment of acne and as a preventive remedy.
Useful properties and options for masks with lemon
To answer the question of whether lemon helps with pimples and acne, you should understand its beneficial properties. Thanks to the components contained in its composition, the famous citrus has:
- cleansing effect - citric acid in juice helps to increase the rate of renewal of the epidermis, acting as a peeling. It perfectly removes dead cells of the upper layer of the skin, removes impurities and excess oil on the skin, narrows pores;
- whitening - used to lighten hyperpigmentation, helps to significantly reduce the redness of spots left after acne;
- antiseptic - achieved thanks to the acids in the composition of citrus (bacteria are not able to survive in such an acidic environment);
- immunostimulating - a whole storehouse of vitamins, especially vitamin C, have a beneficial effect on the local immunity of the skin and its appearance, actively removing toxins.
Indications and rules of use
Lemon juice successfully fights acne, blackheads and blackheads. It is often used to reduce sebum secretion in case of increased fat content of the epidermis and to narrow pores. Lemon is used for acne spots; it can also be used to treat skin with the initial symptoms of aging. After this citrus, the skin of the face becomes fresh, tightened and matte.
Lemon is also used for acne spots.
Lemon juice for acne can be used in its pure form or diluted with a small amount of water.
Before applying it to your face, you need to wash your face with your usual cleanser. To enhance the effect of citrus, you need to open the pores as much as possible; to do this, you can wet a towel or napkin in hot water, apply it to your face and wait until it cools completely.
After this, lemon juice is carefully applied to the face, but without affecting the delicate skin around the eyes. You can prepare the juice or wipe the skin with a cut slice.
A special lotion is also suitable for blackheads on the face, which is easy to prepare yourself; all you need to do is add a spoonful of lemon juice to a glass of water. This lotion can be used up to 2 times a day; it perfectly tightens pores and removes oily shine.
If you add 1 tsp to such a lotion. baking soda, it will perfectly dry out pimples on the face and reduce the inflammatory process. Lemon essential oil for the face is also very useful; just add just 5 drops to your favorite cream, lotion or toner.
Lemon is great for whitening skin
Lemon is very effective against post-acne, it whitens perfectly and will be indispensable in the fight against age spots that often remain after acne. A cotton swab is soaked in lemon juice and applied to the stains; if a burning or slight tingling sensation is felt, the juice can be slightly diluted with water.
It is advisable to combine external treatment of pimples with eating lemon. At the same time, the body will be cleansed of many toxins, digestion will be normalized, the body’s defenses will be strengthened and, accordingly, the condition and color of the facial skin will improve, pimples and inflammation will gradually disappear.
It is best to drink a glass of clean water in the morning, with the addition of 1 tsp. citrus juice. And adding a spoonful of any honey to this drink will enhance the healing properties of citrus. It is also useful to drink tea with lemon, but in order not to destroy all its beneficial qualities, add it to slightly cooled tea, and eat a slice along with the zest.
Lemon essential oil also helps against acne, especially if mixed with other oils. For problem skin, it is useful to mix citrus oil with burdock, sea buckthorn or almond oil. And for dry skin, castor, olive or linseed oil is more suitable. It is enough to mix 2-3 drops of each type and apply this mixture to the face for only 20 minutes, then wash with warm water.
Lemon for acne, properties for the face
But this is all lyricism, our task is to figure out how lemon will help in the fight against acne. In my opinion, there are two points to consider. You can apply lemon to your face, or you can take it internally.
I tried applying it to my face, but didn’t notice the desired effect. What lemon did well with was acne spots (more details below, in my review), but the acne itself will not go away from lemon.
Why is this happening? After all, it would seem that lemon is a strong acidic environment, and in such an environment everything should die mercilessly. The reason is that the bacteria located in the pore, which is why the pimple appeared, are too deep and lemon juice cannot easily reach them.
When acid comes into contact with the skin, it begins to exert its properties precisely on the surface of the epidermis and cannot penetrate the clogged pore.
The conclusion here is simple, a pimple has appeared, there is no need to engage in useless treatment, but use already proven means that kill bacteria deep inside. I have already written about such medicines, and I gave examples of very cheap medicines; personally, I am not a fan of overpaying :)
So why do you need lemon then, you ask? And this is where the fun begins. I already mentioned at the beginning that lemon copes very well with acne stains, so we will build on this.
Lemon mask for acne spots
You can use the juice separately, mix it a little with water and apply it directly to problem areas, but I don’t like this method. I prefer to mix the components, due to this the efficiency increases many times over.
Mask made of white clay and lemon juice.
I already wrote about white clay once, but I didn’t mention lemon there. And now his time has come :)
For the mask you will need:
- 5 teaspoons of white clay.
- Strongly brewed black tea.
- Lemon juice
In a container convenient for you, mix the ingredients so that you get a paste. Add lemon juice and tea in equal quantities. You can do it without tea, but in my opinion it’s more effective.
If you overdo it with tea and juice, the mixture may be too liquid, and applying it to your face will be problematic.
Apply 2-3 times a week, keep on face for 15 minutes and rinse with warm water. feel after rinsing, use your favorite moisturizer. But, as a rule, thanks to lemon, dry skin can be avoided.
Thanks to clay, this mask cleanses pores and improves complexion; by the way, it is thanks to black tea that the skin becomes softer and more elastic. Lemon additionally moisturizes and nourishes the skin with microelements.
properties that can be described, but for me there are three main goals that I pursue when using such a mask.
- Cleanses pores, thereby preventing acne.
- Accelerates skin regeneration to heal scars.
- Fighting stains.
It can also be noted that the skin becomes more elastic, velvety, and the color is evened out. In a word, a wonderful mask .
Remember, when your face is covered with acne, the mask is no longer a help, in this case it is necessary to kill the bacteria, for example, with these means: link1, link2.
Above is the mask I use to acne blemishes There are many other types of masks, which we will discuss below.
1. Honey and lemon.
Required:
- 5 spoons of honey.
- 3-5 spoons of lemon juice
Heat 5 teaspoons of honey in a water bath and mix it all with lemon juice. You need to keep it on your face for 10-15 minutes.
This mask brightens the complexion and gives the skin freshness.
2. Rejuvenating mask:
- Egg yolk.
- Olive oil.
- Lemon juice.
Mix all components in a bowl and apply for 20 minutes. Frequency of use as needed. As a rule, 3-4 times a week.
The components of the mask moisturize the skin, nourish it with microelements, give it elasticity, and tighten wrinkles.
Option for using lemon for acne
Everyone knows perfectly well that lemon is rich in vitamins, so why doesn’t anyone eat this wonderful fruit?
For example , bacteria are a key cause of acne as they create inflammation. Many have noticed that during a cold, subcutaneous pimples appear, this is due to a weakened immune system.
This means our task is to help the body maintain immunity. Thanks to vitamin C, your immune system will work like clockwork, any viruses and bacteria will die without even having time to do anything dirty :) This is of course ideal , in practice, some viruses will survive and pimples will appear, but! they will be small, and small ones are much easier to treat, you yourself know this very well.
This is only part of the properties of lemon. You can also note improved digestion and a powerful antioxidant effect.
How to take lemon?
A couple of slices a day will be more than enough. You can put it in tea, for example. It is especially important to eat in the autumn-spring period, because it is at this moment that the immune system is weakened.
Nothing fancy here, all the rules are elementary.
Lemon masks
Citric acid for acne is often included in cosmetic products; it is very important to choose them for each skin type. Before applying the mask, your face must be thoroughly cleaned of dirt and makeup and steamed to open the pores. While the mask is on your face, it is advisable to lie down and relax slightly; such procedures are carried out up to 2 times a week for at least 2 months.
Lemon and honey mask for oily skin
For oily skin, an anti-acne mask with lemon and honey is suitable.
You need to take half a citrus, squeeze the juice out of it along with the pulp and add any honey in the amount of 5 tablespoons.
The components are mixed and applied to the face for 10 minutes, then washed with cool water. And if you mix 2 tbsp. honey and milk and add a spoonful of lemon juice to them, you will get an excellent mask for acne. Use it in the same way as in the previous recipe.
For oily skin, the following mask is also suitable: mix the juice of half a lemon with egg white. The mask is carefully applied to the face alternately in 3 layers, each layer should dry well. It is convenient to wash off such a mask with a cotton swab dipped in green tea.
Lemon and honey help people with dry skin very well against blackheads and pimples if you add a little sour cream.
For dry skin types, add sour cream to the lemon and honey mask
All components are taken in equal parts and mixed well, the finished mask is applied to the skin for 25 minutes, and then the composition is washed off with warm water.
If you have dry skin, then a mask made from warm milk and oatmeal (3 spoons each) is suitable. Add juice from half a lemon to this mixture. After 15 minutes, wash off the mask with warm water.
You can simply mix juice and sour cream in equal parts, apply this product for 20 minutes, and then wash it off.
To cleanse pores and get rid of inflammation, you can prepare a product based on juice and bread or brewer's yeast. Add 3 tablespoons of warm milk and dry yeast to the container, adding a spoonful of squeezed juice. The finished mass is applied to the face and washed after 15 minutes.
Fruit juice
Lemon juice for acne is used as a single remedy. You can see for yourself whether lemon helps against blackheads by trying a simple method - wiping your face with juice. First, the skin should be cleansed and then fresh juice should be applied, which is left on the face for a quarter of an hour. This product is used exclusively for oily skin, as it has a strong drying property. If there are small inflamed pimples on the face, in addition to comedones, a burning sensation may appear.
Lemon juice is used as a remedy
