Ingredients
Mother Nature's Strongest Natural Acne Treatments:
Dandelion - Dandelion has more calcium and iron then spinach and is loaded with Vitamin A and C, (which are great for the skin). It is also a diuretic, allowing cells to expel toxins. This means that it will help you cleanse the liver, removing harmful toxins and chemicals from your body and decrease acids in the body allowing for proper hormonal balance. This means that you will have less acne.
Green Tea - Green Tea is a powerful antioxidant that aids in reducing inflammation. It allows your body to heal open sores better. It is an exceptional job in removing toxins and bonding with harmful free radicals. In essence, Green Tea has been found to help the body regulate itself and help the body maintain balance. This will help balance your overactive hormonal imbalance that has been causing unsightly skin blemishes to appear.
Mangosteen - Mangosteen has been considred one of many miracle fruits being imported from the Far East for its medicinal qualities. It is rich in xanthones, which have powerful antibacterial properties that reduce certain kinds of acnes, such as Propionibacterium acnes and Staphylococcus epidermidis.
Noni - One of the strongest antioxidants of the world, the noni fruit is exceptionally potent. It also has anti inflammatory properties, which, like Green Tea, have been shown to speed the healing of a pustule. This herb clears acne, boils, eczema, blotches, bleeding and cracking. Noni also contains xeronin which has been proven to help form a specific protease which removes dead tissue from burns, speeding recovery. This may have the same affect on acne.
Vitamin A - One of the most important vitamins for skin care, Vitamin A specifically aids in the repair and growth of skin tissue. Not only that, Vitamin A will help strengthen your body’s immune system and help your body fight infection. It has been used extensively in cosmetology and cosmetics for decades to make your skin healthy and rid it of acne.
Vitamin B5 - Also known as Panthothenic acid, vitamin B5 is an essential metabolite found in all living cells. It has been shown to help metabolize fats as well as break down acne causing chemical called, sebum (emitted by skin and when out of balance cause acne). Too much sebum actually causes acne. But, keeping sebum in balance can be essential for clean pores and reducing acne. It also decreases oil on skin.
Biotin - An important metabolite of fats Biotin bonds with several enzymes for metabolism. The major benefit of biotin as a dietary supplement, however, is in strengthening skin, hair, and nails. In this role, biotin helps form and maintain chemical structures known as "crosslinks" within the main protein found in skin, hair, and nails (keratin). Maintenance of these crosslinks helps to promote skin, hair, and nail strength.
Apple Cider Vinegar helps improve the liver, thus improving the skin. By detoxifying the liver your liver maintains hormone and enzyme levels in your body more regularly. Apple cider vinegar is a blood cleanser, reducing free radicals and blood toxins, clearing them from your body before being absorbed by your skin cells. Contains antimicrobial and antibacterial properties which help purify the skin and reduce irritation and infection. It is also loaded with important skin vitamins E, A, B, and beta carotene (a skin healer related to vitamin A).
Licorice Root extract possesses natural anti-inflammatory agents that can soothe skin affected by blemishes. If also assists in limiting the production of irritants in the body that contribute to the formation of acne.
Garlic is becoming part of the foods commonly attributed to relieving every ailment, a modern panacea of scientific study if you will. Garlic has been increasingly linked to almost every preventable disease, problem, or illness. The sulfur compounds prevalent in garlic (responsible for its pungent odor) reduce cholesterols, triglycerides, and complex fats. They also are essential and hard to find complexes that the body uses to detoxify the bloods stream. This fat break down and antioxidant activity has been attributed with Garlic helping to clear the skin of some of its deep seated problems.
MSM - Another sulfur related compound, MSM is vital in protein metabolism. It is also an essential ingredient for collagen (necessary for skin health and vibrancy) and is part of the structural foundation of skin, hair, and nails. As a supplement it may increase your body’s ability to repair itself and maintain healthy collagen levels, especially as you get older.
Witch hazel - Witch Hazel extract has astringent, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antibacterial, antifungal, and anesthetic properties, making it indispensable for a variety of different medicinal and cosmetic uses.
Glucosamine - Glucosamine supplements are most often used for arthritic joint relief. However, they are also a collagen enhancer, increasing chondrocytes (cartilage cells) to produce more collagen. Since collagen production reduces as we age, and collagen is essential for skin elasticity, this ingredient improves the vibrancy and youthfulness of your skin.
Milk Thistle - There is considerable evidence that a healthy liver is essential for regulating bile levels in the body, and essential for maintaining healthy fat stores in and around the body’s vital organs, not to mention detoxifying the glands and hormone/enzyme releasing organs, allowing the body to perform at its peak. It is essential to maintaining a level of balance that affects everything from metabolism to immune function. One of these theories suggests that a healthy liver is directly related to clear skin, as the skin is just a symptom of a problem, or healthy skin is a reflection of balanced hormones. Milk thistle regulates liver toxins and cholesterols, aiding in healing and regenerating damaged portions of the liver, and cleansing it.
White Willow - The natural version of aspirin, white willow in supplements serves to enhance the effects of other ingredients in the supplement, increasing absorption, and potency. It also is an anti inflammatory, important for the healing of open acne sores, and reducing the chance of scarring.
DMAE - DMAE is found in numerous drugs that are known to stabilize cell membranes. It has been reported to aid in memory and has anti-aging effects. Its overall effects are still being reviewed, but it is chemically related to choline, and related to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and may help restore that necessary neurotransmitter.
Alpha Lipoic Acid - A naturally occurring enzyme produced in the mitochondria of cells. Its inclusion in the body as a free floating antioxidant capable of linking with Vitamins C and E makes it one of the most important supplemental antioxidants. In natural form our body produces enough to maintain the mitochondria of the cell (the cell’s powerhouse). When taken as a dietary supplement Alpha Lipoic Acid acts as a free floating anti oxidant capable of intra and extra cellular activity. It has been shown to prevent cellular damage, and reduce oxidative stress (which leads to aging).