Green Tea

I really only like drinking chilled green tea in the hot months because it's very refreshing. I buy the Limpton Green Tea which is pretty good and brew my own at home. I usually make a quart at a time and sweeten it with a few teaspoons of sugar and that's it. I feel like drinking this makes my acne breakouts worse, possibly because of the caffeine content, or maybe it's causing my skin to become worse BEFORE it gets better. I'll continue drinking it for a few more weeks but if my skin continues to break out like this I'll have to stop.

I have only started drinking green tea and so far it tastes great but I've not seen any improvement in my skin. I have acne from time to time and it's not necessarily helped. I am not sure how to use it on my face and I don't want to try unless it makes anything worse. It tastes good with lemon or low cal sweetener (i only add sweetener sometimes) and after reading comments on here I hope it gets rid of my acne or at least reduces it.

I've been drinking tea daily since I was in my early teens, and in the past 5 or 6 years green tea has slowly taken over black tea as my tea of choice. I drink it plain, or with a little lemon juice depending on my mood, and I don't notice any discernible difference in my skin. Maybe it's because I've been a tea drinker for so long? I give it three stars because I will always recommend drinking green tea for its myriad health benefits, but as an acne treatment it doesn't cut it for me.

I tried this as a toner a few times, but it just didn't do anything for me. I found it's awesome for hair, though! Makes it soft and shiny :)

Get over the taste and get addicted now! I started drinking one day and never looked back. Try and drink a min of 3 cups a day.

Good for your overall health but didn't cure my skin issue. It gave me hyperacidity. I suffer from acid reflux if I drink it 1s a day.

I used to have really bad skin when i was younger, but after going on the Pill (Marvelon), my skin cleared up an awful lot. Since becoming a vegetarian my skin has been a lot better. I started drinking Redbush tea at night, just because its tastes so good, and i found my skin was getting better! So i started drinking green tea a little more often, but since drinking it instead of normal tea and milk, i find my skin is now worse. I tend to find a lot of my spots are at the lower part of my face, which ive heard is hormonal, but it certainly didnt used to be this bad. Im in two minds whether to continue with the green tea, or to just stop and hope itll go back to what it was before. My skin does feel very smooth, but i have more spots now than before.. Not very impressed at all!!!!

I drink atleast a cup a day and sometimes I actually use the leaves on my face but neither seem to clear it up to make a difference but there are things i like about it and recommend because I know that it does work for some people. First of all I have no idea about the caffine or no caffine thing, I would recomment just buying it as organic as possible though but really I don't have a clue. I don't recomment adding anything to it except POSSIBLY fresh lemon juice, because it can also be good for you and is less likely to mess up the tea. uhmm oh yeah and if as for the antiinflamitory properties of it, i believe it does shrink the size of a bump or cyst so that's a good one, but as for the removing of reddness it didn't work for me, but all these are possibilities :)

Since drinking green tea, I think I have had less acne. I don't have any strong evidence of this, but the perceived effect has lead me to continue. Also, sometimes I will hold the hold my up to deep and cyst like acne spots, it reduces the longevity and helps the healing of skin.

I took this for about 2 months with this best of intentions. After reading in countless places online and on this site about how this can reduce the activity of 5 alpha reductase, by concerting testosterone to DHT, I thought it could work not just for my skin but also for my hair loss. But my acne gradually got worse and bordering on severe. After about 1 and a half I had enough. I don't think this was a case of me not giving it enough time or "it gets worse before it gets better"....it simply got worse and stayed worse. My hormones were raging. I began researching more and read other peoples experiences where they claimed it increased the activity 5 alpha reductase. And as soon as I stopped the worst of it subsided. And then I had great big purple marks from where the worst spots had been and they were just as bad as real spots. I experienced increased sex drive and I also lost a little weight. I advice anyone who is considering supplementing on this to have caution.