Natural Home Skin Care Remedy
By Nadia Cyrus

Natural home skin care is now preferred by many people as their remedies. It is because the immediate taking drugs and medicines may contain harmful ingredients. As we all know, our skin is our initial defense against sickness and physical injury. In spite of its softness, it can actually act as it is supposed to when it come to protecting us. This makes skin very important organ. We have to use safe medicines for our skin ailments. It is generally known that traditional medicines and techniques are not good enough to treat skin ailments, yet there are many adverse side effects to modern medicines. So, this is a good idea to choose another solution, that is natural home skin care.

A bruise is caused by an impact to any part of the body, resulting to blood pooling to the affected part due to damaged nerves and blood vessels. These eventually heal themselves. Before this happens, a lot of pain and discoloration occurs to the affected area. The home skin care tips below are very useful  for bruises.

Cold And Warm Compresses

In order to lessen the appearance of the bruise as well as reduce the swelling, you can apply an ice pack on the area that was injured or bumped. This natural home skin care remedy of applying ice

packs and cold compresses to areas that have suffered bumps is a well-known natural home skin care remedy. The immediate application of this natural home skin care remedy is strongly recommended because the fact that icing the injury constricts the blood vessels thus reducing the blood spilling out from them. Applying an ice pack within 24 hours helps to reduce much of the discoloration of a bruise.

Apply the ice pack on the injured area for fifteen minutes and then let the area warm naturally for about ten minutes. Re-apply the ice pack and repeat the process four to five times for the first day that you are injured. This natural home skin care method for bruises works well if followed by a warm compress the next day. About 24 hours after incurring the injury, you can switch to warm compresses to dilate the blood vessels in the injured area and to improve the circulation. You can use a heating pad or a washcloth dipped in hot water and then wrung out to make warm compresses.

This natural home skin care remedy is effective and easy to do. Many traditional doctors may also recommend along with the ingestion of traditional medicines. Without the drugs, and if you you can bear with the pain of the bruise, you can try this method of natural home skin care.