Sugar and Baking Soda, Dirt Cheap Skincare
Since there were so many comments on my baking soda for acne post, I figured I’d follow up on it and say that I think I may have jumped a rush judgment, or at least I think I may have left it on my skin to long, which resulted in the red, irritated mess of a patch of skin that I ended up with after trying it. So many others have said that using baking soda here and there as an occasional acne clearing remedy has really worked for them, that I wanted to get more comments from readers who have tried it and loved it or tried it and found that it really just didn’t work for them.
There is also another staple that everyone usually has around their house that can also come in handy as part of your natural skincare routine, and that is sugar. My best friend since high school has used a sugar scrub on her face now for years, and her skin looks great. She uses sugar simply to exfoliate her skin since it’s granular in nature, and it’s not irritating or drying like table salt or other granular substances would be to the skin, and she loves it. Not to mention, the roughly twenty cent price tag on a good scrub down with table sugar is definitely appealing as well.
Baking soda is supposed to work well on acne lesions and also to help exfoliate and de-bacterialize the immediate area. It acts as sort of an antibacterial agent because of it’s ability to kill small organisms due to it’s volatile properties, and yet it is natural, so it is gentle on the skin as long as it’s not left on the skin for too long (as what I probably did). It can also be used as a paste to put over one single zit, but not a zit that has been popped already since this may just cause additional irritation.
Some people say that baking soda actually helps redness go away, but that was not my personal experience. Baking soda is definitely worth a try though, especially since you have so little to use by putting it on your face since it’s so cheap.
