I'll bet right now that you know all sorts of information about acne; what causes it, ways to combat it, stuff like that.
What I'm also willing to be is that mostly everything you know about acne is dead wrong.
The wool has been pulled over our eyes long enough so here are some of the actual acne myths holding us back.
Acne has to deal with hygiene/Washing your face will help with acne This is just plain bad information that keeps getting circulated around.
People see pimples on their skin and immediately think they're not clean.
In fact, washing to much will cause you to have even more breakouts.
It's actually healthier for your skin to not wash your face besides in the shower or if you want to get excess makeup off.
You will eventually outgrow acne For some people, this is actually true.
Once they leave adolescence, their hormones calm down enough where they stop having breakouts.
However there are millions of people in the world that are adults that still suffer with acne.
Acne is only skin deep Ah now we're touching upon some of the real myths.
Acne does appear on your skin, yes, but it stems from far more serious problems inside your body.
Dead skin, excess oil and even bacteria, none of these would be around to cause acne if you took care of the problems inside.
There's no connection between diet and acne At last we come to my most favorite myth of all.
Now when I talk about this myth, I don't mean eating a chocolate bar will cause breakouts.
I'm talking about a real, proven, bona-fide connection between diet and acne.
It's almost criminal how negligent our medical community has been with this myth; they site a week long study in 1971 as evidence that there is no connection between diet and acne.
Meanwhile many other people in the rest of the world, dermatologists included, have successfully treated and cured, I say again, cured acne by following simple diet plans that eschew all of the processed junk that we have in our diets today.
It's also a widely known fact that developing countries, countries without many processed foods, experience far lower levels of acne in their population.
These are the real acne myths that are pushed upon our country.
Why? Because the acne treatment companies are much more interested in forcing us to keep buying their products instead of actually curing us.
Here's a fun fact to chew on as a last thought: All OTC acne treatments in Europe that contain benzoyl peroxide in them have been banned over fears of long term effects.
Why is it still a staple treatment of acne in the US?
What I'm also willing to be is that mostly everything you know about acne is dead wrong.
The wool has been pulled over our eyes long enough so here are some of the actual acne myths holding us back.
Acne has to deal with hygiene/Washing your face will help with acne This is just plain bad information that keeps getting circulated around.
People see pimples on their skin and immediately think they're not clean.
In fact, washing to much will cause you to have even more breakouts.
It's actually healthier for your skin to not wash your face besides in the shower or if you want to get excess makeup off.
You will eventually outgrow acne For some people, this is actually true.
Once they leave adolescence, their hormones calm down enough where they stop having breakouts.
However there are millions of people in the world that are adults that still suffer with acne.
Acne is only skin deep Ah now we're touching upon some of the real myths.
Acne does appear on your skin, yes, but it stems from far more serious problems inside your body.
Dead skin, excess oil and even bacteria, none of these would be around to cause acne if you took care of the problems inside.
There's no connection between diet and acne At last we come to my most favorite myth of all.
Now when I talk about this myth, I don't mean eating a chocolate bar will cause breakouts.
I'm talking about a real, proven, bona-fide connection between diet and acne.
It's almost criminal how negligent our medical community has been with this myth; they site a week long study in 1971 as evidence that there is no connection between diet and acne.
Meanwhile many other people in the rest of the world, dermatologists included, have successfully treated and cured, I say again, cured acne by following simple diet plans that eschew all of the processed junk that we have in our diets today.
It's also a widely known fact that developing countries, countries without many processed foods, experience far lower levels of acne in their population.
These are the real acne myths that are pushed upon our country.
Why? Because the acne treatment companies are much more interested in forcing us to keep buying their products instead of actually curing us.
Here's a fun fact to chew on as a last thought: All OTC acne treatments in Europe that contain benzoyl peroxide in them have been banned over fears of long term effects.
Why is it still a staple treatment of acne in the US?
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