25 foods, spices, or oils that help to cleanse your skin of blackheads

Milk of magnesia mixed with thyme, tea tree oil, mint, coriander and lemongrass help to defeat blackheads. Alternatively, these twenty-five foods, spices, or oils listed below help to cleanse your skin of blackheads. Toothpaste gets rid of blackheads as well as toothpaste made of sage, baking soda, and salt mixed with crushed sesame seeds as a masque left on for three to five minutes. But here are some other alternatives to try. There may be one mixture that works best for you from these traditional folkloric remedies.

Be sure to test your skin for allergies with each ingredient. Never leave a mixture on your face that might irritate your skin. This is especially important when using any ingredient that is salty or acidic. Your face may need to have a dab of alkaline milk of magnesia rather than acid or salt.

Blackhead Cleansers

1. Witch hazel
2. Salt
3.  Baking soda
4.  Lemon Juice
5.  Orange and Lemon Peel Zest
6.  Neem oil
7.  Tea tree oil
8.  Aloe Vera
9.  Turmeric (as a paste made with water)
10. Coriander
11. Radish seeds with a few drops of water crushed into a paste
12. Neem oil (used commonly in India)
13. Egg white and raw, unfiltered honey
14. Cinnamon and cloves mixed with raw honey
15. Milk of magnesia swabbed on the spot where the pore is with the blackhead. Let it dry and wipe off.
16. Magnesium citrate powder, for example, Natural Calm (615 mg).

Use one tablespoon of magnesium powder mixed with a few drops of water to make a paste for your pore.
17. Zest of citrus--ground orange or lemon peel mixed with a bit of water
18. Lemon juice on the pore left to dry several hours
19. Make a toothpaste of salt and water. Let it dry on the pore overnight.
20. Cucumbers sliced in wheel shapes on your pores
21. Oat meal and avocado mashed with egg white--let dry and rinse
22. Olive oil and honey (if you have dry skin)
23.Whipped to standing peaks egg white alone--let dry and wash off
24. Sea or rock mineral salt and water as a paste

25. Mashed avocado mixed with raw sesame seed oil on dry skin

Make a masque of any of these mixtures. Leave on your skin for a few minutes. Test for allergy. If there's no redness or allergy reaction, apply on the area where the blackheads are located. Rinse off every few minutes until the blackhead is washed away. If there's irritation, don't use again. Try milk of magnesia on a small area of your skin where there are blackheads. Begin by putting a dab of milk of magnesia on your skin.

Add one or two drops of tea tree oil mixed with water. In Aromatherapy and in Ayurvedic solutions, also used to get rid of blackheads are coriander, thymus vulgaris, peppermint, and lemongrass.

See the Aromatherapy site for skin care. Look for a spice that kills bacteria but not your skin. Blackheads form when your pore is too large. Shrink your pore with an ice cube for a few seconds.

Add a few drops of tea tree oil to a cup of distilled water. Tea tree oil helps to get rid of acne by destroying the bacteria on the skin. Read more about tea tree oil at the Tea Tree Oil Uses site. You can find information on the uses of neem oil (rubbed on the gums in India) at Discover Neem. In India people chew on neem twigs.

The twig acts as a neem oil toothbrush. Oils of various tree twigs, fruit, and various plants have been used (and exported) since Neolithic times among the great civilizations of the Indus, Sumeria, and Persia.

Wash your face with crushed sesame seeds. Sesame oil also gets rid of bacteria on the skin or gums.If you have an oily skin, instead of smoothing an antibacterial natural oil on your face, dry up the sebacious follicle with a solution like milk of magnesia, egg white, lemon juice, citrus peel, ground sage, or a simple and inexpensive paste of salt and water.

Clean Blackheads Away with magnesium citrate powder and water. Mix a tablespoon of Natural Calm magnesium citrate powder with a few drops of water. Apply the paste to your enlarged pores. Let dry overnight and rinse off. You can read more information about magnesium citrate powder at Natural Calm. Also check out my nutrigenomics blog and/or my book excerpts blog.

Buy magnesium citrate powder from most health food stores or online. Dab a few drops of neem oil on your blackheads. See the site for medicinal uses of neem oil at Neem Medicinals. Additional uses of neem oil for skin issues is at the Indian Neem Tree Company™.