Life in a big city can affect an individual in many both physical and mental ways. They usually go hand and hand and what affects one will definitely, in a certain time frame, affect the other.

But let’s focus on our skin issues, the way dust, pollution and other chemical non eco friendly that exist in the lower atmosphere attack our skin.

First the wind, the level of humidity, depending on the local weather, rain, snow, cold or hot temperatures manage to create a change in our skin cells activity that want to adapt and protect the facial surroundings by creating a secretion called sebum. This is mainly a protective act but with the constant changing in the atmospheric conditions, diet, the food we ingest, and a very complex chain of other factors, sometimes can lead to an excess of this secretion that in association with the daily dead cells and some bacteria that live on the skin’s surface, can cause sebum to remain trapped between the skin layers, erupting to the surface in another composition, reflected by purulent burst and leaving a small tissue scar.

The good news is that today, you can choose from a vast diversity of skin cleaning cosmetic products, laser treatments, and facial surgically interventions or other therapies more and more bizarre…

One natural and pain free acne treatment consists in Aloe Vera.

Aloe Vera is a juicy plant original from the Arabic peninsula, southern parts of Africa and Madagascar that was used from antiquity in serving alternative and holistic approach of medicine. Nowadays it is used in most of the revitalizing and wrinkle-free cosmetic products, but there are reports that say Aloe Vera in mixture with other substances can help type one and type two diabetes sufferers.

These magical proprieties come from its lecithin, mannans, polysaccharides and anthraquinones content. The leaves of Aloe Vera are fleshy and thick and come in many varieties of green chromatics. The leaf margins are full of small thorns and their flowers can only be produced during the hot summers, having a yellow colored tubular corolla.

As a cosmetic product Aloe Vera appears in many forms. Most of the liquid, but there are even Aloe Vera pills and gel.

This natural product is used for medicinal purposes because of its accelerated healing processes skin damage reconstruction and as an acne treatment.

Aloe Vera in acne treatment comes mostly as a liquid substance and it has many properties. First of all, applied on the already clean facial tissue, it can reduce the redness and the inflammations  and then as it dries and lets itself absorbed by the skin, it can give the tissue the necessary building cell blocks that remake the damaged surfaces.

Aloe Vera is an expensive cosmetic product but its effects can be clearly visible by the user. Of course it is essential to remember that acne cannot be cured with Aloe Vera or any other external cosmetic facial treatment, but only internally.