You might have made tremendous efforts fighting and struggling with your acne problem and finally got rid of them but they may have left behind another problem for you – Scars. Some of you would be tired of applying various ointments and creams that claim to remove your scars but did not find any major success yet. While some of you would be confused regarding what to buy and what not.
With an outburst of scar removing treatments, available in the market it becomes difficult for you to decide the best product according to your skin type. You usually go for the product whose advertisement made a mark in your mind or the one recommended by your friend. Then you find out, that the thing which works for others might not work for you in the same way.
To help you out of this situation, you can surf different websites on internet and go through the customers’ reviews. Search the treatment with specification to the type of acne scars and your skin type like some ointments have microdermabrasion in them that is meant for the treatment of very deep acne scars. The aim of the product would be to exfoliate your skin and remove the scars gradually.
There are many lotions, scrubs, gels, creams, moisturizers, cleansing agents and other treatments available in the market that get deep into your skin pores and remove dead skin clogging, bacterium and toxins present there. This is the blockage in the skin pores, which is caused due to bacteria or dead skin that lead to the formation of acne.
You need not suffer from your acne problem anymore. Just go to the nearby pharmacy or chemist and get one topical product for yourself. What needs to be given attention is do consult your dermatologist or go through the reviews in the interne before actually using any product.
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If you are a prolonged acne sufferer, you might have tried different products by now. If you have succeeded in ending up your acne problem then it’s quite good but if you are still struggling with acne treatment and products you might have wasted too much hard money of yours, by now.
Here is good news for you; you can cure your acne without wasting your money. Following are the simple steps that can help you solve your problem, at your home, using the things that are easily available in your kitchen or food area.
• Mix any of the herbs, Butternut, Burdock, Cleavers, or Echinacea with 5ml tincture and apply it thrice a day on the affected area.
• Take some orange peels, dry them in sun and then make a paste using water. Then, apply it on the acne prone skin.
• Expose your whole body to the sun for a few minutes. It will help to remove the bacterium and the oils present in the acne and hence they will dry up.
• Take one teaspoon lemon juice and one teaspoon cinnamon powder. Make a paste and apply it on the affected skin regularly. Be patient and your acne problem will solve within three weeks.
Some of you may have doubled your worries because you might have mistaken your mild acne or simple bumps as a problem of severe acne. You need to know here that worrying about anything will take your stress level high and high stress levels further propagate the formulation of acne. So, it would be wise that you get the affected skin diagnosed before making out any conclusion.
Its diagnosis is very simple; you just visit a dermatologist, he will observe the bump or lesion and may press it a bit to get an idea of its severity. You can also diagnose it by yourself. If you notice a small cyst or a rounded lesion, then it’s severe. Other than this, there are various grading scales available in the market to check the severity of acne. Three of these are mentioned below.
1. Leeds acne grading technique: It counts and then categories the lesions into two groups – inflammatory lesions and non-inflammatory lesions. It ranges from 0 to10.
2. Cook’s acne grading scale: It makes use of the pictures to grade the severity of the lesion. It ranges from 0 to 8.
3. Pillsbury scale: It is a very simple scale that just classifies the severity of the acne from 1 (least severe) to 4 (most severe).
Acne is the most common problem that initiates in the teenage, affecting more than 85% of teenagers, and frequently goes up to adulthood. The cause of acne is generally an increase in the number of male sex hormones, which individuals of both sexes accrue during puberty. Females are prone to acne at the time of their menstrual cycle. In most of the cases, acne decreases over time and tends to disappear. There is, however, no particular way to find out how long it will take to disappear entirely, and some individuals may continue to suffer from it well into their thirties, and even late forties.
Sometimes, acne may act as a precursor to pimples or vice versa. It is then very important to get their treatment done, leaving no scope for them to appear.
There are different treatments for pimples, some of the most common and effective treatments are:
Use of salicylic acid soap: It is very effective for the bacterial and fungal pimples i.e. the pimples caused due to skin infection. It just requires washing your face regularly with salicylic acid soap.
Use of Antibiotics: If the skin infection is caused by staphylococcus or other bacterium then, using antibiotics is a better option.