Does calendula help for acne? Useful properties and contraindications. How to use for acne - recipes for lotions, toners, masks and creams. Real reviews from people.
Calendula for acne is an effective and safe remedy that can be used by both adults and children. It costs quite cheaply: depending on the pharmacy, it costs about 40-60 rubles for a bottle of alcoholic tincture of 40 ml. Dry flowers of marigolds (as the people call calendula) are used to prepare decoctions, tinctures, masks and creams at home.
Does calendula help for acne?
In the photo, the calendula plant for acne
Marigolds are an ideal remedy for any inflammation, wherever it is localized - on the skin or in the throat. Acne is a scourge not only for children and adolescents, but also for adults. They appear on the skin for various reasons:
- excess in the diet of fatty, sweet, muffin, spices;
- hormonal disbalance;
- stress;
- the habit of grabbing the face with dirty hands;
- the use of improperly selected cosmetics;
- the habit of scratching with dirty hands.
With acne, the body often shows that something is going wrong inside: problems with the stomach, liver, pancreas, thyroid gland. Such rashes give a person, first of all, moral discomfort, especially if they are localized in open areas of the body - face, back, décolleté, arms, legs.
The use of calendula for acne on the face allows you to quickly relieve inflammation, remove redness, and bring the skin back to normal.
Calendula is a natural antiseptic and powerful anti-inflammatory agent. To combat rashes, flowers are used - fresh or dried. This plant is a weed and grows easily in areas with any soil. If you have a summer cottage, be sure to plant it.
During the flowering season, marigolds will help to cope with various inflammations, cuts and scrapes will quickly heal, preventing their suppuration. Dry grass is no less effective than freshly harvested: in the composition of flowers there are numerous useful components - phytoncides, saponins, bitterness, resins, triterpene glycosides, mucus, carotenoids, flavonoids, malic and salicylic acids.
Contraindications and harm to calendula
There is a possibility of individual intolerance to pharmaceutical products based on calendula. They are not recommended for pregnant women and women during breastfeeding, as well as for children under 12 years of age.
For external use of home formulations, there are no prohibitions. The only thing, if you are allergic, test the remedy on the bend of the elbow. If after a day there is no redness, itching or rash appears, you can use it without restrictions.
Ways to use calendula for acne
Calendula can be used as an independent remedy in the form of decoctions, infusions and tinctures, or in combination with tea tree oil, chamomile, lemon balm, sage. Auxiliary components will strengthen and complement the effect of marigolds, which will help to quickly solve the problem - to get rid of skin rashes. Further, the features of the use of calendula for acne.
Toners and lotions
In the photo, a tonic with calendula for acne
The remedy is chosen depending on the type of skin: a decoction, an infusion is suitable for dry and sensitive, an alcoholic tincture - for oily and problematic.
The skin must first be cleaned: wash with gel or foam for washing or cosmetic soap. After that, you can wipe your face with a decoction or infusion.
You can also mix one and the other. Rinse your face first. After it dries naturally, treat acne with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol tincture of calendula. This method is suitable for those who have severe rashes, and the skin dries and flakes from alcohol.
Alcohol tincture is not recommended to be used too often, even with oily skin. Once a day, for example at night, is sufficient.
If there are too many acne, and they "sit" literally one on one, try a strong remedy:
- Make a strong decoction of calendula (2 tablespoons of dry raw materials or 4 tablespoons of fresh, pour 1, 5 cups of boiling water and boil in a water bath for an hour).
- Add 1 ml of 100% tea tree oil to it. You will get a two-component liquid.
- Pour it into a sterile dry bottle: a bottle from a pharmacy calendula will do.
- Shake the vial well before using this two-component liquid so that both fractions are mixed to form a water-oil slurry. Soak a cotton pad in it and treat your face.
The result of using tonics and lotions with calendula for acne on the face is magnificent: acne that was in the ripening stage wrinkle and dry out, those in which the head has already come out, break through and also dry up.
Facial cleansers
The same decoction and infusion will do. They need to rinse your face after washing with gel or foam.
The effect of calendula can be enhanced. Make a complex herbal collection by adding chamomile, sage and linden flowers to calendula - 1 part of each component. Mix everything well and prepare a strong broth according to the recipe described above. After each wash, rinse your face with it.
Such a decoction of calendula for acne is also suitable for rinsing the head after washing with regular shampoo. If your hair is oily at the roots and dandruff constantly appears, calendula, chamomile, sage and linden flowers will regulate the work of the sebaceous glands, and if the cause of seborrhea is fungus, then they will cope with this problem.
Creams
In the photo, a cream with calendula for acne
You can make them yourself, but you need to choose high-quality ingredients. If you're looking for an effective preservative-free and fragrance-free remedy, try the following calendula acne recipe:
- Collect the following ingredients: liquid honey (a teaspoon), essential oils of palmarosa, immortelle and geranium (8, 5 and 3 drops, respectively), calendula oil (10 ml), shea butter (20 g).
- Melt the shea butter in an enamel bowl. Let cool for a few minutes and add calendula oil and honey into it, mix well.
- Add the prescription essential oils and mix well again.
- Pour the mixture into small jars and store in the refrigerator.
The result is a cream-balm with a very pleasant texture of universal action. It is suitable for all skin types:
- Problematic - relieves inflammation, dries acne;
- Dry, prone to peeling and cracking - softens, heals wounds;
- Combined and oily - normalizes the production of sebum in the T-zone;
- Normal - tones, moisturizes.
Such a cream is stored for no longer than 3 weeks and always in the refrigerator.
Ice cubes
For making ice, any recipe from the above will work, except for cream balm. Prepare a decoction or infusion from calendula or from a complex herbal collection, cool, pour into molds and freeze.
Use ice cubes to tone the face and neck and décolleté after pre-cleansing. Do not expect any powerful effect or instant disappearance of acne.
Exposure to ice made from a medicinal decoction will improve blood circulation at the site of exposure - the skin will turn pink almost immediately, but the antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effect is in the background.
Home masks
The easiest way is to prepare 2 masks: from the petals of marigolds, from blue or white clay, and instead of water, use a strong decoction of calendula.
Preparation of a calendula petal mask:
- Collect the flower baskets and remove the green part, only the petals and center should remain.
- Grind the raw materials. Ideal if you do it in a blender.
- Apply the resulting gruel to the face, avoiding the area around the eyes.
- Keep the mask for half an hour, then gently remove it with a cotton swab dipped in calendula broth.
Making a clay mask with calendula:
- 1 tbsp clay (blue or white, sold in a pharmacy), mix with a strong decoction of calendula, you should get a thick homogeneous substance.
- Apply the mask to your face. The area around the eyes should be kept clean.
- Keep the mask until dry, then rinse with clean water and pat dry your skin with a towel.
- Treat your face with calendula broth and let it dry naturally.
Real reviews of calendula for acne
Calendula helps with acne perfectly. You can enhance its properties by dropping a couple of drops of pure tea tree oil into a decoction or infusion. The resulting product is recommended to lubricate the areas of the rash until the acne disappears. However, people often come up with their own recipes. They are happy to share them, as well as the results of treatment. Here are some indicative reviews about calendula for acne.
Tamara Yakovlevna, 56 years old
This misfortune has visited me quite a long time ago. The doctors had: they prescribed various ointments, including those from the fungus, but the condition worsened. Itching was also added. In the end, my butt turned into one continuous wound. Once I was cleaning the cupboard in the kitchen and found a bottle of calendula. I decided to try it. So what to do? It won't get any worse. I smeared the scratches, as soon as the itching became unbearable, relief came. And so for a week. Once again I felt my buttocks and was surprised, the skin became much softer: the scratches healed and even the crusts disappeared in a week. The redness went away by the end of the month, the skin is clean again. Now I keep this tool always at hand. And I also bought dry flowers, a couple of packs - just in case.
Dmitry, 31 years old
Pimples on my head appear frequently. Wash your hair at the wrong time, and that's it, it's right there. The doctor says there are some problems with the channels through which the fat is separated. They are constantly clogged, because oily seborrhea. However, he still has not found an effective means for me to be tormented by these boils. Calendula decided to try it when I saw that my fiancee was regularly rinsing her head with some kind of herbal decoction. It turns out that she pours 2 tablespoons of marigolds into a saucepan, pours 2 cups of boiling water there and sends all this to a water bath. The grass languishes for half an hour. Then she filters it and rinses her head with this after washing. Her hair is excellent - strong, shiny, silky. I read about how to apply calendula for acne, and decided to give it a try. I have been using this broth for a month now. My head less often - once every 3 days. Previously, I had it fat by the end of the first day. No acne. Dandruff also decreased. Great effect. The main thing is that it costs a penny.
Olesya, 23 years old
Acne has been plaguing me since childhood. As soon as the doctors did not treat, they do not go away and that's all. I seem to be healthy, but these endless rashes are just awful, and my face is ugly. I used to wipe it with an alcoholic tincture of calendula, but it dries out the skin a lot, so that it begins to peel off. The effect was - redness turned pale, acne dried up, and then I stopped smearing my face, and everything came back. At some point, I decided to try regularly washing myself with calendula decoction, and treat only acne with alcohol tincture. The result surprised me. The dryness is gone - my skin is naturally normal with an oily T-zone, the redness has disappeared, and there are only a few pimples left. I think I will bring them out to the end and continue to wash my face with a medicinal broth so that they do not appear again.
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Calendula against acne is quite effective. People use this plant to fight rashes not only on the face, but also on the body and even the head. The result is clear skin. True, if you have some kind of internal disease, one of the symptoms of which is acne, you need to treat it in parallel. Calendula removes only external manifestations. If the disease is inside the body, the rash will appear again and again.
