Green Tea and Acne
Green Tea is an effective herbal acne remedy used widely for treating acne breakouts. Green tea is an strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Green tea removes free radicals from your body. Free radicals are toxic substances that cause great destruction to your body if can not be removed immediately after the production. Your body undergoes hundreds of chemical processes called metabolism, during metabolism, it produces hundreds of toxic and harmful chemicals. These chemicals accumulate within your skin and hair hair follicles.
Hair follicles are very susceptible to free radicals and get degenerated and acne breakouts occur. Accumulation of free radicals also triggers the sebaceous glands to produce excessive sebum that blocks hair follicles. When hair follicles are clogged and sebum is produced excessively, hair follicles get inflamed. At this juncture, small bumps begin to appear on the surface of the skin called whiteheads and blackheads.
Green tea has long been used effectively for treating several skin disorders associated with accumulation of free radicals. When your drink green tea for treating acne, do not add any sugar to the tea as adding sugar in green tea will reduce the positive effects of green tea against free radicals. Green tea rarely cause side effects, unless until it is taken properly.
May 28th, 2008 - Posted in Acne Information | |
