In the beauty industry, you’ll find lavender pretty much everywhere. It’s blended into bath salts to help alleviate our aching muscles, mixed into calming facial mists to soothe our skin, used as an aromatherapy oil to potentially keep stress at bay, and added to fragrances to help bring back memories of our grandmother’s garden. Although the plant has been used for thousands of years, more recently, it’s getting a lot of attention for its apparent abilities to help reduce breakouts. But lavender being the magical “cure” to a breakout-free complexion seems too good to be true, and sadly, that’s because from what we know, it is. Whilst lavender in skin care does have its uses, it might not be the cure-all for acne or breakouts that some had hoped.
Is Lavender a Good Ingredient to Use For Acne?
Like with many topics and ingredient deep dives in the skin-care industry, the answer as to whether lavender is good for acne isn’t so simple. “Some laboratory studies and animal models suggest that lavender oils may possess antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, potentially…
