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Onions can make you cry if you cut them with a knife or hold them near your eyes or if you see one onion make a noble sacrifice for another onion set to a stirring soundtrack. Onions aren't all tears and bad times. They have a lot of positive attributes. Onions have antimicrobial properties. Eating onions is also good for the old ticker. They are often used as a fix for poor appetite and have been used to treat asthma. Studies have shown that eating onions reduces your risk of colon cancer as well.
Onions, because of their antimicrobial properties, work great on skin and can help prevent acne scarring. In a study, doctors treated some surgery scars with their usual medicine (petroleum jelly) and other scars with onion extract. The jelly worked better than the onions, but the onions worked better than nothing at all. What can we glean from this? Onion extracts don't work as good as petroleum jelly as far as scar treatment goes, but it works better than nothing at all.
In the study, they used the jelly and the onions on surgery scars that were at least 4 centimeters long. Most pimples aren't that big. (Onion extracts and onion juice should be able to treat mild acne with some success.)
Here is how to treat acne with onions:
From Beautiful Skin Blog
Take 1 tablespoon of onion juice, 1 tablespoon of carrot juice, 1 yolk and 1 tablespoon of olive-oil. Mix all ingredients carefully and put on the face. Wash the mask from face in 20 minutes. This mask has tonic effect.
Why is this green?
Onions have very little packaging waste. Some acne treatmentsare very wasteful. Look at those disposable alcohol-soaked pads. Each pad is covered in chemicals, wiped across the face and disposed of. Some soaps can't be fully removed even with of our water treatment systems and can damage ecosystems. Onions, on the other hand, are fairly harmless, unless you are a microbe.
