Best thing to use for acne?!
Question: Basically, anything with Salicylic Acid in it. Check the back of spot products in your Superdrug/Boots/chemist, many don't have this. It's also important to moisturise - it makes spots worse if you don't. Many spot products dry out skin and your sebum pores will over work to produce more oil for your skin if skin is dry, this will lead to an excess and therefore more spots. You can get specialist moisturiser in the shops for spot prone skin or just use E45.
Be very wary of doctor prescribed stuff - when I was younger, the doc put me on these special tablets for six months. When the course had finished my spots came back and he put me on them for another 3 months but it had a terrible affect on my hair and nails - my hair went all wiry and my nails split. Never completely recovered even 10 years on.
Answers: Basically, anything with Salicylic Acid in it. Check the back of spot products in your Superdrug/Boots/chemist, many don't have this. It's also important to moisturise - it makes spots worse if you don't. Many spot products dry out skin and your sebum pores will over work to produce more oil for your skin if skin is dry, this will lead to an excess and therefore more spots. You can get specialist moisturiser in the shops for spot prone skin or just use E45.
Be very wary of doctor prescribed stuff - when I was younger, the doc put me on these special tablets for six months. When the course had finished my spots came back and he put me on them for another 3 months but it had a terrible affect on my hair and nails - my hair went all wiry and my nails split. Never completely recovered even 10 years on.
Drink Lots Of Water
The Sun
Benzyl Peroxide Gel (you can get this from most places like boots etc)
Zynert (From the doctors)
These are the things i have used I only have mild acne but its improved so much since trying these things!
I also use Garnier face lotion with tanning agent in it, it leaves my face glowing
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If you are female then Dianette (also a contraceptive which suppresses hormone production).
Otherwise a facial scrub such as Clear and Clear.
soap and water, rinse and pat dry. always use a good face cream
see the pharmacist there is a lotion with tea tree in that helps i believe
The best thing to use for acne is in my opinion not drug-based. Acne is often caused by a diet high in junk food (particularly sugar and fat) and low in nutrients, particularly essential fatty acids and zinc.
My advice is (if you eat it - I don't know you!) to eat less rubbish, take a decent multivitamin/mineral and possibly a supplement of essential fats. As far as external applications are concerned, a good antibacterial soap often helps.
(Ian Campbell BA (Cantab.), chief technical officer at www.nationalnutrition.co.uk)
Don't touch it.
Use water and soap
It depends on the severity of it, if its a few spots like me then try Freederm is about