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y popular demand, home remedies article #2. While not being a replacement for medical attention, you should always seek your doctor when you feel you have to and please take these home remedies with a grain of salt.  Here you go and enjoy.

Acne and Blackheads:
-Rub the acne area with a fresh  garlic clove.
-Drink at the very least 8 8oz glasses of water a day.
Even more in the summer.
-Mix one part of cinnamon into 3 parts of honey.Use as a scrub.
-Dab a small amount of toothpaste (paste, not gel) on pimples before bed; this helps dry out the pimples.
-Pour a little salt into a small bowl, add a few drops of water and mix till it turns into a paste.  I’ve heard using a little toothpaste (paste, not gel) to this mix gives it a little extra kick.  Use this recipe to exfoliate.  Do not leave on overnight.  Wash your face and rinse off.
-Baking Soda as an exfoliate
-Vitamin E gel tabs.  Use as a facial moisturizer.
-Honey and oatmeal as a facial scrub and exfoliate.

Dark Circles Around Eyes:
-Cucumber slice. Cover eyes with cucumber slices.  For 15
minutes.
-Potato slice. Cover eyes with Potato slices.  For 15
minutes.
-Lead a healthier life style. Get plenty of sleep, water
and a multi-vitamin
wouldn’t hurt.
-Make a paste out of 1 tsp. tomato juice, 1/2 tsp.
pineapple juice and 1 tsp. of flour.  Apply around eyes.
Leave on for 10 minutes before rinsing.
-Moisturize with extra virgin olive oil or vitamin E.
-Try used Chamomile tea bags (cool bags) over eyes for 15
minutes.

Energizer:
-Try eating an apple or 2
-Mix 1 tomato, 1 orange, 1 clove of garlic.  For best
results, use a juicer.
-Aloe Vera Juice.  One of natures best detoxifiers. 

Gum In Hair:  There a few of these.  Here they are
-Try using baby oil
-Try peanut butter
-Non stick cooking spray
-Ice
-A mixture of baking soda with  water.  Rub it in hair,
brush it out.

Mosquito Bites:
-a paste of baking soda and water.
-aspirin capsule.  Works well with bee stings.   But for
bee stings,try to remove  the stinger.
-Use calamine lotion.

Hangover:
There seems to be a lot of these also but I cold tell you
what I
used to do for a hangover.  I am not suggesting you try it
but it worked
for me.  First off, you wake up with a sour stomach and
massive headache.
Alcohol dehydrates, so its time to replenish your body with
water.  Try a
glass of water with one tablespoon of sugar.  Water to
rehydrate, sugar for
the sour feeling in your gut.  Sometimes I will take
something for the
headache.  Aspirin or Advil whatever you want.  Next,
ice-bag for my head. 
I used to stick my head under cold running water in the
laundry sink.  When
your stomach is settled down a bit, and depending on how
your feeling, time for breakfast.

Bad Breath:
-Try some parsley.  This food garnish is rich in
chlorophyll, a green plant compound that kills the bacteria
that cause bad breath.
-Use the juice of half a lemon, one teaspoon of salt.
Gargle.
-Brush your teeth with a couple pinches of baking soda.
When done, brush again with regular toothpaste (optional).

I’m sure this is the tip of the iceberg, but these are the
ones I know of.  These home remedies are in no way a
replacement to a Doctors care so if you feel that you might
need to see a Physician, please do so.