Homeopathic Methods
Before talking about homeopathic methods and remedies, we shall first make the difference between the good homeopathic approaches and the strange, or let’s say “neuter” ones. So the day to day methods, which are also called homeopathic just because they don’t involved drugs and medication, are good things because they are in fact related to properly cleaning our faces and acne-affected skin areas. But, on the other hand, they are also not quite effective in severe forms of acne, as they just simply clean the skin and calm it.
On the other hand the so called homeopathic remedies, such as plants or fruit masks and juices and so on, haven’t yet been proved by scientists to have benefic effects for the skin in the fight against acne. That is why we will shortly present you only the day by day methods that would help you have a cleaner skin, and not also the so called homeopathic remedies.
For us these “remedies” haven’t represented the solution and that is why you are not able to offer you information about them. If we started to promote something we had not used till present and we did not in fact trust, we would be rightfully called hypocrites.
So the homeopathic or day to day methods that people (should) use against acne are the following:
• Soap and water. As strange as it may sound, soap and water could be considered the first most common and most important, on the other hand, homeopathic methods for treating acne. What is that? It’s simple! We all, acne sufferers or not, must clean properly our skin. The soap and water simple formula should be applied once or even twice a day for cleaning the skin and removing the excess oils (sebum) that the sebaceous glands produce and that cause oily skin, but also the formation of acne. It’s a simple but important thing to clean our skin; that’s why we should never forget that.
• Benzoyl peroxide. The benzoyl peroxide-based products represent some of the most common over the counter anti-acne treatments. They are usually prescribed by doctors for less severe, mild acne outbreaks. Benzoyl peroxide represents in fact a chemical from the organic peroxide family and it is a radical initiator. It should be diluted in an ointment so that the resulted benzene peroxide could be used as an acne treatment. In the U.S. the most common concentrations for benzoyl peroxide is 2.5% to %10 for treating acne.
The qualities that have made benzoyl peroxide an anti-acne common product are the fact that it represents an anti-bacterial agent and the fact that it dries out the skin’s excess sebum.
• Salicylic acid. The salicylic acid, which represents also the most important ingredient from aspirins, is helpful in correcting the abnormal shedding of the skin cells. It in fact helps the pores to get unclogged and it is as well helpful in preventing lesions. Both the benzoyl peroxide and the salicylic acid should be used continually because they are not effective on the sebum production, so when you stop using them their effects stop as well.
• Sulfur. This chemical element doesn’t smell too good and it has also the strange color of yellow. But it is not the color, but the smell that has also made the acne sufferer to use sulfur only with other homeopathic agents such as alcohol or salicylic acid. However, as a component, sulfur appears in most of the over the counter treatments for acne.
• Alcohol and acetone. These two chemicals are used in fighting acne because of their de-greasing properties. Alcohol has a mild anti-bacterial property, as well. Alcohol and acetone are used in many over the counter medications; while alcohol is sometime used also alone, acetone is only rarely used as a single product for fighting acne.
There exist also homeopathic remedies, which some acne sufferers sometimes use, although they haven’t yet been medically proven. The home-made homeopathic treatments are likely to be on our grandmas’ tastes, but we do not recommend them in fact.