Adult Acne Blog - thebroadroom.net: White tea seems to help my acne
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, herbalist, or otherwise medically trained person.
I am an ordinary person who has suffered from adult acne since 1995 and have found no solution to my acne through conventional medicine.
Here is part of a post I put in the Beauty Blog today:
Now about the white tea. This is coincidence, but I bought some Celestial Seasonings White Tea (here is the tea page at the Celestial Seasonings site...no affiliation) at a health food store, drank a cup of it a few nights straight, and my (adult acne) skin seemed noticeably better.
I thought, bleh, whatever...because with adult acne, it's usually difficult to pinpoint one factor that makes your skin better or worse.
But I did have the thought to drink more of this stuff during my placebo week of Yasmin. Why not? It couldn't hurt.
My skin really was better, this placebo week. In fact toward the end, when typically my skin would really start to feel the placebo week, I forgot I was on placebo week. It was that good.
I have both the Peach and the Pear versions of this (naturally, one works as well as the other). And they're both delicious, considering I'm a coffee drinker not a tea drinker. (Note: white tea contains caffeine.)
Now, I am a little excited, of course (adult acne sufferers know this feeling). But I DON'T want to present this as a cure for acne. It isn't. And I doubt drinking tons of this stuff will "cure" your acne either. (Adult acne sufferers have a tendency to seek miracle cures.)
This is one small thing that I've tried that shows results. It's coming after I overhauled my diet and changed my birth control.
I've tried green tea btw; I didn't notice a difference in my skin (probably there was one, but not as dramatic).
Looks like I have a new evening beverage. :)
There's something else I wanted to mention here. Someone was nice enough to write me and tell me that she discovered that her adult acne was caused by food allergies.
She got a battery of allergy tests done...turns out she was allergic to several things such as tomatoes and milk products.
