Quick beauty and wellness tip: Potato as acne medication

Hello,

Trust you're doing well. A lot of times we have breakouts due to change in weather, or hormones and you wonder if there's anything you can do to it naturally. There are several home remedies touted to cure or reduce acne and one of such is Potato, Irish to be precise.

Potatoes are starchy vegetables rich in vitamin C which is a very important vitamin for skin health, hence it's use in acne treatment.

How to use:

Refrigerate potato for about 30 mins (optional, but it helps as anything cold will shrink the inflammation of a pimple), peel and grate the potato,  then apply it to all the areas on your skin where you notice acne breakouts. Leave on for about 30 mins and wash off with an antibacterial face wash. Do this twice daily and you should begin to see changes within a week.

Exception:

Please note that if your breakout is as a result of an inherent health condition, or bad nutritional habits, this might not work for you. therefore, as always, a healthy lifestyle is really important in prevention and cure of acne.

Other benefits you will get from your potato mask include:

Removal of dark circles and blemishes

treatment of dark spots and pimples

Exfoliation and skin brightening

Treatment of rashes and puffy eyes

Potatoes are also used for hair treatment, but that is gist for another day!

So till next time,

xx

Olubunmi

PS. 

I'm still working on #myhabitin21days, day 5 done! What habit are you forming?