How to Reduce Acne Scars at Home ?

Acne is one of most common problem faced by all teenagers, and the scar it leaves behind is deep and difficult to remove. You can go for plastic surgery to lighten the dark spot, but doing so is not advisable and here is happy news for you, you can reduce that acne or any other mark on your body by just adopting the following methods which can be easily done at home using the ingredients which are commonly available in everybody's house.

Make a paste of sandalwood with rose water and apply it on the scar before you go to sleep and leave it over night. You can even make a paste of sandalwood paste with black gram paste.

For deep acne scars use lemon juice. Wash your scars using warm water, apply a coat of lemon juice on it using a cotton ball leave it for 10 minutes and wash it off. You can even mix little honey if you want to. Make sure that you apply sunscreen before going out as lemon can dry your skin and make it photosensitive.

Applying cucumber with honey or lemon juice with honey is also helpful; honey also helps to lighten chicken pox scars. But people having oily face can avoid honey.

Make a face pack of gram flour, curd, and turmeric and lemon juice and apply it on the affected area and leave it for 10 - 20 minutes and wash it off with cold water. Cold water tends to close your open pores. You can eve steam your face before applying this pack and wash it off with cold water. This will surely work like magic.

Mix 1 teaspoon of sour cream, yogurt, ground oat meal and little drops of lemon juice and apply it on affected area and wash it off after 15 minutes.

Gently rub baking soda on your scar for sixty second and rinse off. This actually acts as micro dermabrasion treatment for your skin and it is totally free of cost and can be done at home.

Smash pineapple and apply it on your face and leave it for 10 minutes, wash it off using warm water. It helps in fading acne mark as pineapple contains ascorbic acid.

Apply a sandalwood paste mixed with turmeric and apply it on the scar.

For skin infection scars smear some tea tree oil on the scar or apply cocoa butter.

Hope these tips are helpful, make sure that test these on your skin and then use, as many people may have some allergic reactions to some of the above products.

Make sure that you drink at least 7 to 8 glasses of water every day as water purifies your blood, keeps skin plump, removes toxins and builds new skin cells.