Zits are annoying, and acne medication can get expensive. Thankfully, many common household items lying around in your kitchen and bathroom are perfect to use as a facial, face wash or on-the-spot treatment to decrease the redness of facial acne and more importantly, prevent future pimples from cropping up on your beautiful face.

Below are eight common kitchen and bathroom items you can use to calm blemishes, many of them au naturale so you aren't putting more chemicals into your body. For extremely potent items, such as garlic juice, be sure to do a spot test on your inner wrist in small amounts so you are 100 percent sure that your skin won't react badly.

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