You Got to Try My Friend’s DIY Zucchini Pimple Busting Mask Because I Saw How It Helped Her!

Zucchini is not only good to eat, but also has benefits for your skin.

If you have been suffering with an oily complexion that is prone to breaking out, then you might want to try my friend’s DIY recipe for this Pimple Busting Facial Mask.  I have dry skin so I can’t tell you from personal experience how it worked, but you wouldn’t believe the striking change in my friend’s formerly shiny, pimple-prone face with how it is now glowing.

The ingredients she used made sense.  After all, the grated zucchini had plenty of helpful antioxidants like vitamin A and C as well as skin-healing minerals from potassium and manganese, an amino acid, which can play a part in spurring the skin’s collagen production.  

The oatmeal was great, being a rich source of vitamins, minerals and lipids, especially for soothing as it mildly moisturizes due to its anti-inflammatory and  anti-oxidant properties. At the same time, it would be a gentle cleanser for aggravated skin due to its saponins.

Honey was another ingredient that would benefit troubled skin since it can kill bacteria with antimicrobial properties, necessary to help those pimples heal while also being a natural humectant to lock moisture in.

The final ingredient she had written down was aloe vera gel.  This was a fine choice since it also had antimicrobial properties for fighting bacteria.


Jan’s DIY Pimple Busting Mask  

1 tiny baby zucchini (about four inches long)
6 tablespoons of finely ground oatmeal to make your own colloidal oatmeal
1/4 cup of water
2 teaspoons of honey
2 teaspoons of aloe vera gel

Blend the zucchini with the water until smooth.  Next, strain and add the honey and aloe vera gel before setting aside.  

Take out your food processor, a coffee grinder or clean your blender and dry first before adding the oatmeal and processing until you get a fine powder. 

Mix about two tablespoons of the powder with ample zucchini liquid (but not all of it) in a small bowl.  Keep stirring until it starts to thicken to a paste.

Apply this mask to your freshly washed face.  Keep this mask on for about 30 minutes until it thoroughly dries.

Store the remaining liquid covered in a jar in your refrigerator to use over the next few days.  This will not keep for too long so put it up front in the refrigerator where you will be sure to see it.

The oatmeal powder is fine stored on your pantry shelf.  

I do hope that you try this recipe because it possibly could be the answer to your skin woes as well!

Likely Ingredients That May Trigger Skin Eruptions Especially for Those With Oily Skin!

Anyone can break out from countless ingredients in products, but those with oily skin need to be extra cautious.  Therefore, I am going to share some common pore-clogging ingredients that could backfire on your attempts to stay clear and yet still be moisturized, especially if you see them near the top of the list of ingredients of any product.  

Oily complexions should avoid cocoa butter, lanolin, petrolatum, mineral oil, shea butter, sunflower oil, evening primrose oil, coconut oil, cottonseed oil, and wheat germ oils.   You need also to watch out for sulfates particularly, sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium laureth sulfate, which often are active ingredients in cleansers, shampoos and conditioners.  

Other typical ingredients that can also make your problem worse and trigger breakouts include isopropyl isostearate, isopropyl myristate, myristyl myristate, laureth-4 and -23, cetearyl alcohol, D&C red #30, oleth-3, and isopropyl palmitate among others.  

Remember that the amount of any ingredient when reading a product label goes from most to the least. After making that determination, if you find one of those problem ingredients among the first seven ingredients on that package, bottle, or jar, then do yourself a favor and look for another one.  Your skin will be grateful.

You should even rethink the type of sunscreen you use.  Mineral sunscreen that can physically block the sun such as one with zinc oxide might be a safer option for your skin type than chemical sunscreens. Ingredients such as octy or oxybenzone, methoxycinnamate and cinoxate that aggravate your skin and bring on skin eruptions.

Read my earlier post on the most helpful ingredients to look for to get your best skin ever!

Two Oily Skin Fixes You Can Whip Up in Your Kitchen!

Is oily skin causing you a problem? If so, I have two simple homemade remedies to help you.  All you need are a few ingredients for two surprisingly effective beauty treatments:  white grapes, skim milk powder, and fresh tomatoes and a blender or juicer.

Take a fresh small tomato and blend or juice it into liquid skin help.  The natural acid does remarkable work in cutting back that excess oil once you dab some on with a cotton ball to your freshly washed face. 

Keep your homemade tomato toner in the refrigerator to prevent spoilage.  This is a refreshing way to cool off as you also help rid your skin of that oil.

Another interesting recipe that I found is wonderful as well.  You blend a few white grapes and then adding enough dry milk powder to make it spreadable to use on your skin. 

The grape solution is more of a mask that you apply to your freshly washed face.  Leave it on and let it dry for a few minutes before rinsing off with cold water.

Do try these simple homemade solutions because you they can help normalize your skin and get you smiling again.

Need a Fabulous Homemade Facial Mask to Treat Oily Skin?

Honey heals, moisturizes and is a natural antibacterial in this DIY Oily Skin Facial Mask.

I have combination skin and am plagued by dryness in parts and oiliness in other areas such as the nose and chin.  In an earlier post, I shared several wonderful masks that I use to help correct dryness and oiliness that you can make in your own kitchen.  This recipe is one that you can feel drawing the impurities out once it is on your face. 

Mix one tablespoon of honey, one egg white, one teaspoon of kaolin powder and two teaspoons of plain yogurt together until thick enough to spread on your clean face like a typical mask. 

Go hide away and relax on the bed while you have this mask on and allow the effective treatment to kick in.  Once you start feeling the mixture tightening,  you can wash it off with lukewarm water and follow with cold before patting dry.

This will help curb back that oiliness nicely!