Natural Herbal Skin Care

Can echinacea help you look your best? Traditional uses and modern research suggests that echinacea could help the following skin problems:

• Acne (mixed with chaste tree infusion for hormonal acne, or topically)^(40, 127)
• Skin rashes (topical application for eczema and psoriasis)⁽⁴⁰⁾
• Dark skin spots (hyperpigmentation)^(128, 129)
• Dry skin and wrinkles⁽⁵⁴⁾
• Sores (applied topically)⁽⁴⁰⁾
• Sun damage⁽¹³⁰⁾
• Wound healing (topical)⁽⁴⁰⁾

Native Americans traditionally used echinacea in a topical poultice to heal skin wounds. Now they recommend applying a topical echinacea tincture as well as taking some echinacea orally. Experts suggest you can also add drops of echinacea extract to a homemade skin cream to sooth sensitive dry skin.^(7, 131)