Finding The Best OTC Acne Medicine

There are hundreds of alternative acne treatments on sale today which claim to clear your spots in no time at all and many Internet sites are filled with page after page of testimonials from satisfied customers. The problem however is that the best acne medicine for one person doesn't necessarily work for someone else. It doesn't matter what claims the people who sell alternative treatments make because the truth is that nobody knows whether or not a particular treatment will do you any good at all until you try it. In other words, for most of us, it's simply a case of hit and miss.

So if you do not want to go down the traditional acne treatment road, or have tried the antibiotics and topical treatments recommended by your dermatologist without success, what do you do?

The chances are that you know a number of people who have suffered from acne and cured it or who are suffering from it now and are in the process of curing it. If this is the case then your starting point might well be to simply pick their brains and learn from their experience. You can try some of the things which have worked for them because they could well also work for you, although treatments that work for one person do not always work for the next person.

If you do find something that works, remember that curing acne is normally a long slow process and treatment can become quite expensive. Products however vary widely in price and so you should find out what the active ingredients are in the treatment which is working for you and then shop around to see if you can find cheaper alternatives which contain the same active ingredients.

Proactive Acne Cream Treatment Many people believe that there is no really effective cure for acne and so the best answer is simply to do nothing and to let nature run its course and wait for your acne to disappear by itself. This is one solution but it is certainly not the best solution and without doubt a proactive acne cream treatment should be your first line of attack. Read more

What Can I Do To Clear Up Acne Scars In many cases acne is a mild or moderate condition which will disappear with time and treatment leaving behind no visible signs of its presence. In other cases however acne lesions and pimples will leave you with permanent scars. Read more

Pulsed and LHE Acne Therapy In cases of moderate to severe acne normal over-the-counter treatments are often of little use and sufferers need to turn to more advanced treatment options. In addition, many sufferers with even mild cases of acne are also turning to modern advanced treatment techniques which are proving increasingly popular. Read more

Finding The Best Treatments For Cystic Acne Cystic acne (full name: nodulocystic acne) is an uncommon form of severe acne characterized by cysts which can be very large and occasional measure several centimeters in diameter. Read more

Is The Connection Between Chocolate And Pimples Fact or Myth? For years there have been many myths floating around about pimples (also known as acne, spots and zits) but just what it fact and what is fiction? Read more

Using A Natural Comedonal Acne Treatment Treating any form of acne can be a long and slow process and the key here lies in the word 'treating' rather than 'curing' because, although you can help to reduce the effects of acne in both the short and long term, curing acne is essentially a matter of giving nature a helping hand and waiting for the condition to run its course. Read more

Is It Possible To Cure Hormonal Acne? The simple answer to the question of whether or not you can cure hormonal acne is yes and no. Read more

Try Using Steam For Acne If you are anything like me then when someone mentions using steam to clear acne then you conjure up a picture of trying to steam clean your face in the same way that you might steam clean your curtains which sounds pretty painful. Read more

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Is Acne Hereditary? - Islam Online
8 Feb 2010 at 6:08am

Is Acne Hereditary?
Islam Online
"This is why many people are turning to traditional medicine to cure what modern medicine has failed to cure." David Njagi is a Nairobi-based freelance ...

Healthbeat Report: Options for Treating Acne - ABC7Chicago.com
4 Feb 2010 at 8:51pm

Healthbeat Report: Options for Treating Acne
ABC7Chicago.com
... dermatologist, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. There's some newer acne products that are getting a lot of attention. ...

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Fed warn Lilly about medicine's promotion - Indianapolis Star
3 Feb 2010 at 12:13pm

Fed warn Lilly about medicine's promotion
Indianapolis Star
The FDA also issued warning letters in recent days to Sanofi Aventis about the acne medication BenzaClin, and Meda AB for its nasal spray Astelin.
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