Tea Tree Acne Article
I’ve just finished my latest acne article, this one on natural acne spot treatment with tea tree oil. I’ve blogged about tea tree oil a few times in the clear skin blog, and the article basically sums up my previous points and makes a few quick comparisons with topical acne products based on benzoyl peroxide. It’s the shortest of my acne articles, as honestly I’ve had much less spare time than usual in the last week, but I’m sure the information will help those looking for a natural alternative to typical dry-skin inducing products, especially since it works so well. It always takes a day or two for new articles to get approved, but you should probably be able to find it in the acne section of ezinearticles.com pretty soon.
One thing I’ve read from other tea tree users that I disagree with is the main method of application. Many suggest diluting the concentration with water and applying an extremely tiny amount with a cotton swab, etc. This may work if your acne blemishes are extremely mild, but for most acne sufferers, you should simply use straight 100% tea tree oil and apply it directly to your acne spots. The people that tend to get the best results are those that just wet their finger with a drop or so of tea tree oil (press your finger against the top and flip upside down and back) and apply that amount only on acne spots.
The other often-mentioned method is using diluted teat tree oil as a full-facial cleanser. I’m really not a big fan of this method either - using it all over your face similar to the way that acne.org promotes using BP. As with BP, this approach will end up causing dry skin rather than clear skin for most users, and is a dead end road since it’s not going to prevent acne from forming in the first place. Use vitamin B5 acne treatment to take care of prevention, and let tea tree oil handle the spot treatment to quickly eliminate stubborn acne when you’re still just starting on B5. The idea is to get clear skin without needing an overblown “treatment system”, not to make natural treatment into a complicated system of its own.
