Spearmint Tea

I’ve had acne since I was 14. At first it was mild, but after going off birth control for 3 months when I was 19, I developed cystic acne all over my cheeks and jawline.

I’ve tried everything. A multitude of prescription creams, antibiotics, accutane, retinoids… some of these things helped, but came with side effects, and certainly didn’t cure it. My Doctor told me my acne was hormonal and suggested spirolactine, but I didn’t want to deal with the side effects.

I’m now 27 and up until I started the tea usually had between 3-5 large cysts around my chin/jaw/side of my cheeks, and around 5 smaller pimples in random spots.They were painful and unsightly.

I found multiple studies showing spearmint reduces androgens. So I began drinking it everyday. After about a month my acne had improved significantly, but I still didn’t believe it could possibly be the tea and stopped drinking it. My acne returned. Now I’ve been drinking it every day for 6 weeks and my cystic acne is more or less gone. I notice a pimple here and there, but nothing compared to before. I do have to drink it everyday otherwise I notice pimples popping up.

I personally have 0 side effects. I HIGHLY recommend trying it if you’re a woman with hormonal acne, it might just be the cure for you too!

i will share my story first: i was on birthcontrol since i was 15. When i got 18 i suddenly developed very bad acne. I did not know where it came from so i decided to quit with birthcontrol. My acne cleared up so fast and i was so happy. I thought that i defeated the acne problem and that i could continue with beautiful skin. Well i was wrong!! 6 months after quitting birthcontrol i got the acne back. And this time it was worse, i was so sad and i tried almost every supplement there was. I knew it came from the inside and that it was hormonal. 

 

So i tried DIM and after two weeks i saw a small improvement, but i still got breakouts. After a month my skin was again a little better but i still got breakouts and i had a lot of texture. I continued taking the pills but things stayed a little the same, so i decided that i wanted to combine it with spearmint tea. And oh boy, i’m so glad i did. I’m now drinking two cups of spearmint tea and i am taking 250 mg of dim daily and it helped my skin so much!! I’m now drinking spearmint tea for a little longer than two weeks and my skin is so much better. My skin is not perfect yet, but i have been taking DIM for two months and spearmint tea for a little longer than two weeks. I really hope that my skin will clear up completely but I finally have hope again! 

 

Just get pure loose spearmint tea and not from the supermarket but from a tea store. That way you will get 100 % benefit from spearmint tea.