Altnative Healing
Cheri and The Acne Support Group:
It sounds like you are doing every thing you can to balance your life
with diet, exercise and skin care.
Every Acne Product sold attempts to do several "basic" things:
1. Clean the skin and open the skin pores.
2. Kill existing bacteria.
3. Moisturize or add back the PH balance to the skin.
Most products use CHEAP ingredients to "clean" and "kill bacteria" (i.e.
alcohol, benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid).
One BIG problem that comes with these products (i.e. Proactive) is once
the skin pores is open and the bacteria is killed (via cheap
ingredients), moisturizers or PH balancers CLOG the skin pore again.
Most "natural" or chemically produced "moisturizers" or other creams use
"fillers" or "carriers" that are designed to increase the sensation of
the product to decrease "dryness, or roughness." This is achieved by
adding parabens, beeswax, glucose, glycerin, cheap oils, forms of
alcohol, or petrolatum products.
There is NO POINT to a skin care regimen if the regimen clogs the pore
once it has been open and the bacteria has been killed.
Skin produces its own natural oils to moisturize, protect and help heal
itself. DO NOT use make up, creams or other products that COVER UP or
clog the skin pore.
READ PRODUCT INGREDIENTS
1. Avoid products with ingredients that are cheap or unintelligible.
2. DO NOT get caught up with marketing hype (i.e. Proactive).
3. Acne products are regulated by the FDA. Thus, the "active" ingredient
is limited to several CHEAP ingredients that you can by off the retail
shelf.
If you want to try a high quality product that has HIGH QUALITY,
EXPENSIVE ingredients, contains NO fillers or additives, fragrances,
stabilizers, and is developed to MATCH the natural skin oils and balance
skin PH WITHOUT clogging skin pores go to:
If you have any questions email me:
Herb Man Dan