Herb Magic: Can Green Tea Control Acne?

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For thousands of years, the Chinese have used green tea as a remedy for all kinds of ailments, but in the fairly recent past, the Western world has finally woken up to the marvels of green tea, and, wonder of wonders, we have learnt that green tea is an excellent natural remedy for acne. Get a load of this: “Recent results of a study presented to the American Academy of Dermatologists and conducted by Dr Jennifer Gan-Wong of the Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines find that green tea topically applied to the skin appears to work as well as benzoyl peroxide to control acne.”

Dr Gan-Wong conducted her study in 2006, which seems to have been a good year for the battle against acne generally, because in August, an article appeared in the Archives of Dermatology quoting Dr Hasan Mukhtar and his team, who said, “There may be some green tea benefits in human skin products.” Dr Mukhtar is a professor and director of research in the dermatology department of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Such are the learned ladies and gentlemen who have taken the fight to acne. The thought alone does me a load of good. But that’s digressing from the subject of green tea and acne. Research has proved green tea to be a powerful antioxidant particularly rich in a substance called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which fights bacteria and eliminates free radicals. This in turn reduces the eruption of blackheads and zits, and keeps pores unclogged.

For me, the best thing about green tea is that it can be used in any form – applied locally as a cream, swallowed as a pill, or simply drunk as tea. And it performs the same functions each time – fights bacteria, detoxifies, and kills free radicals. With such potent anti-acne weapons, who wouldn’t try green tea as an acne antidote?