The Surprising Kitchen Ingredient that Fights Acne
by Phillip Picardi
True or false: We've tried just about anything and everything when it comes to acne. You name it: charcoal, sulfur, benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, oil pulling, and the rest of them. We've even gone out on a more eco-friendly limb, testing things like tea tree oil, rosehip, fruit enzymes, white willow, and blue chamomile. But you know what's funny? It always comes back. No matter how gross our methods get.
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But, it turns out there's one ingredient that we've overlooked in the quest for clear, perfect skin. And it's been right under our nose the whole time! Brace yourselves, Twilight fans...are you ready for this one?
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Yup, it's garlic. Apparently one of the culinary world's most fragrant cooking ingredients is also a bona-fide pore cleanser! In fact, garlic's antispetic and anti-fungal properties have been used for centuries by Indian Ayurveda healers.
But let's not get carried away here-crushing up a clove of raw garlic is only for the most desperate of measures. (In fact, it might actually burn the skin, so be careful!) But it's not exactly like the beauty brands will be sending out loads of garlic-scented and garlic-themed acne products. (That's not very glamorous, now is it?)
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