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Treatment - against acne, comedones, pimples - Help for scars and skin damage from acne and other causes

Welcome to this presentation of selected quality products to cure or alleviate acne and scars from acne or other processes: Further down you will also find some general infrormation about acne.

Acne treatment pills

Actimine - to prevent and take away acne Acne is a problem caused by hormonal and other chemical imbalances that effect the whole body. To treat acne effectively, the physiology of the whole body must be balanced. Herbal and diatary supplements can help you in creating this right chemical balance in your body.

This product is a natural dietary supplement that takes away or reduces blackheads, whiteheads and acne. It clears up your skin and prevents or reduces new breakouts of acne. Further it prevents the scarring that is a common consequence of acne.

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Acne is caused by many complex processes that involve different hormones, enzymes, and immune processes. The ingredients of Actimine will help balance these processes and this way cure or reduce the symptoms of acne.

Actimine contains natural ingredients that have been shown to have a positive effect on acne. Clinical trials done on the individual ingredients show that after 6-12 weeks of use, you may begin to notice less oil present in the skin along with a reduction in whiteheads and blackheads.

Nearly 17 million Americans are currently experiencing acne, the most common of all skin diseases - affecting 85% of people between the ages of 12 and 24.

If you are one of these people, we can help. Actimine is a new all-natural supplement that may be helpful for reducing acne and breakouts.

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Newton RX homeopathic acne treatment pills

Cleansing products against acne

At Last Naturals Acne Sulray Treatment Soap 3oz

Product Description: Fragrance-free. For oily and normal skin. Helps clear up and prevent acne. Dries up oily skin. Sul-Ray Acne Treatment Soap with aloe Vera dries acne blemishes and allows skin to heal. Helps prevent new acne blemishes from forming. Safe to use on your face, neck and back where acne and blackheads can form. Sul-Ray Soap is a fragrance-free, natural soap. For best results, use Sul-Ray Acne Treatment Cream after using Sul-Ray Soap. Use only as directed. For the treatment of acne. Suggested Use: Soap hands or wash cloth. Gently wash face from one to three times daily. Because excessive drying of the skin may occur, start with one application daily, then gradually increase to two to three times daily if needed or as directed by a doctor. Leave on face for several minutes. Rinse thoroughly with warm water and pat dry with a soft towel. Ingredients: Sulfur 5%, Aloe Vera, Trisodium HEDTA (a chelating agent)

Acne treatment creams and gels

Total acne treatment packages and product collections

Healthy pores - acne treatment set - This is a Complete set of products against acne to rinse out impurities, boost healing, control bacterial growth and control sebum production. The product set contains a rinsing medium, a treatment cream and pills to nourish and stimulate the skin from within.

Natures gate's acne treatment set

Nature's Gate's Org Natural Results Acne Treatment kit

The products in this 3-piece system are formulated with advanced, acne-fighting ingredients such as Salicylic Acid, Encapsulated Tea Tree Oil and the cutting-edge Oligopeptide-10. Kit consists of: 1) Corrective Cleanser 2) Calming Toner and 3) Controlling Lotion. One month supply.

PRODUCTS TO TREAT SCARS, WRINCLES AND SKIN DAMAGE

Derma-E's Scar Gel 2oz

A blending of allicin, panthenol, and allantoin-botanical extracts which soften, smooth and help diminish the appearance of scars. This light textured gel also works wonders on stretch marks, calluses, and acne.Ingredients: Purified Water, Onion Extract, Glycerin, Allantoin, DL-Panthenol, Carbormer-940, Methylparaben, Triethanolamine, I. Urea, Fragrant OilsInstructions: After thoroughly cleansing your skin, apply derma e® Scar Gel in the morning and evening. Usable under make-up.

Home Health's Scargo Scar Mass Lotion 4oz

Massage Scargo, not more than 3 or 4 times daily, into and around the scar area until completely absorbed. Be persistent and consistent. A scar is not necessarily the end point in the healing process.Ingredients: Olive Oil, Peanut Oil, Lanolin, Camphor, Yellow Beeswax

Replenix Retinol Plus Smoothing Serum 10X

Strong yet soft. Replenix Retinol Plus Smoothing Serum 10x helps minimize the visible signs of aging, renews and smooths the skin, and restores the skin's moisture balance. Because of the level of moisturization, you won't feel any irritation.

Nutraceutics Mister Tricky, 3 Grams, Medium to camouphlage-Dark avne outbreaks, scars and uneven skin color

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Some other items

HerbChina2000.com - Natural Chinese custom designed drugs for acne and specific diseases - In this store you can find natural drugs for many specific diseases in all organ systems, and for systemic diseases. The exact composition of each drug is custom designed for each buyer, based upon information the customer register into a formula. It is highly probable that you will find something in this store for your exact need. Please click on this banner to find the product for your need.

SkinCareRx - a huge store of skin-care products - In this online store you can find products to prevent, treat or alleviate nearly any skin condition. If you did not find a product suited for you presented at this page, you probably will find something useful here.

Strawberrynet - This is perhaps the biggest and most comprehensive cosmetics and skin care store on the net - cosmetics and skin-care of most brands for good prizes and also many products against acne and other skin conditions.

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ROSACEA - Rubactum - Rosacea is delated blood vessels in the skin. This is seen as a distinct redness and distinkt great vessels. It developes gradually and can eventually be complicated by inflammation and infection. These pills stimulate the vessels to constrict more dynamically and to repair damage due to the condition.

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Some information about acne

What is acne

The hairs on the skin extends out from a tubular structure down in the skin called a hair follicle. The hair grows outwards from the bottom of the hair follicle. Around the side of the hair follicle there are glands that produces sebum, the smearing substance of the skin. The sebum normally leaks out of the follicle through the same opening that the hair extends from.

For reasons no one completely understands, follicles sometimes get blocked by sebum which has been oxydized by the air oxygen and thus become solid. This is especially common in the puberty when the production of sebum is very great due to hormonal secretions. Sebum (oil) which normally drains to the surface now assembles in the follickle, and bacteria begins to grow. Both whiteheads and blackheads start out as a "microcomedone" - a lump of hard blocking sebum.

An increased keratinization of the skin epidermal cells also seems to be a component in the blockage of the follicles.

When the trapped sebum and bacteria stay below the skin surface, a whitehead is formed.

A blackhead occurs when the blockage is not total, the trapped sebum and bacteria partially open to the surface and turn black due to melanin, the skin's pigment. Blackheads can last for a long time because the contents very slowly drain to the surface.

Either way, blackheads and whiteheads are filled with trapped sebum and bacteria.

The bacterial growth increases, and the follickle gets inflamed and filled with inflammatory cells and products in addition to the sebum. This stage of the process is called a pimple. The pimple eventually tears up and drains to the surface. If the inflammation has destroyed the skin around the pimple, a scar is formed.

What Causes Acne?

Since acne consists of several components that exist together, the cause of full developed acne will also consist of several components. First of all something must cause the increased production of sebum. Secondly something must cause the increaased tendency for sebum and components from the epidermis to form plugs or comedones. One important causing factor of these two ingredients is an increase in hormones called androgens (male sex hormones). These increase in both boys and girls during puberty and cause the sebaceous glands to enlarge and produce more sebum. Hormonal changes related to pregnancy, or starting or stopping birth control pills can also cause acne.

Another factor is heredity or genetics. Researchers believe that the tendency to develope acne can be inherited from parents. For example, studies have shown that many school-age boys with acne have a family history of the disorder. Certain drugs, including androgens and lithium, are known to cause acne. Greasy cosmetics may alter the cells of the follicles and make them stick together, producing a plug.

A third causeing factors are bacteria that infect the swallen glands, making them inflamed and thereby produce fully developed pimples. But bacteria on the skin and in the folicles are not necessarily harmful. Some bacteria may infect the skin, and other may create an environment that hold the harmful bacteria away. Therefore a lack of some types of bacteria together with an overpopulation of other bacteria is a causing factor of acne.

The bacterium propriobacterium acne is a normal inhabitant of the skin. It nourishes itself from the sebum, and by an increased sebum production, the amount of this bacterium increases. The bacterium produces free fatty acids that irritate the follicle tissue making it inflamed. It also atracts white blood cells that penetrate from deeper layers into the follicles. But by this penetration they make openings from deeper areas in the skin into the follicles. Irritating substances from the bacteria therefore penetrate to deeper skin layers, making the inflammation widen its area.

An over-eager washing can take away substances in the skin that hinder harmful bacteria to grow, or take away beneficial bacteria that hold the population of harmful bacteria down. Therefore an exaggerated habit of skin washing also contribute to aggravating acne.

Acne treatment drugs

Modern acne treatment drugs has the aim of attacking every stages in the acne process: hindering fatty sybstances to accumulate in the pores. hindering infection, alleviating inflammation and stimulating repair of dammage.

They can broadly be divided in rinsing media, topical treatment creams and oral pills. If you need products in one, two or all tree cathegories, depends upon the seriousness of the acne attack. These products can be made of wholly natural ingredients, pharmacologically cyntetic ingredients or a blending of those.

Rinsing media

There are several types of rinsing products to choose from.

The simpleast of these are acne treatment bars to be used by the daily was, These bars contain substances soluted in the soap that can help to dissolve the cloges in the pores and substances that fight bacteria.

Then you have rinsing solutions, usually called acne wash, especially made to dissolve the plugs in your pores, and to make the environment in your skin unfriendly to bacteria causing infection. Some of these products are just products to rinse your skin with one or more times a day after the regular wash. Others are ment to remain on your skin until the next regular wash.

If your skin is heavily plugged by comedones or the acne process has produced heavy amounts of fatty deposits on your skin you can ocationally use stronger rinsing media like acne peels or acne shrubs. With these media you can dissolve and shrub away the stuff clogging the pores, and also take awat excessive horny layers and hard fatty deposits that make your skin surface irregular. These media contain strong dissolving substances and mineral powders with an abrasive effect, and should be used cautiously so that you do not hyurt your skin.

Acne treatment gels or creams

After the was or rinsing, you can apply some treatment product that shall remain on your skin during the day or during the night. Many of these products are also suitable as foundation for make-up. The products have varying physical consistency and are often called acne creams or acne gels. The products have these effects:

- Making your skin soft and elastic.
- Protecting your skin against the environment.
- Acting further to dissolve the clogging of your pores.
- Alleviating inflammation and soothing itching or burning sensations.
- Killing the bacteria causing infection or make an environment hostile for the bacteria.
- Stimulate the skin to clean itself from within.
- Stimulating the skin to heal.
- To be used as a isolating layer between the skin itself and cosmetics

Oral drugs or supplements

Supplements taken by mouth to nourish your skin and to stimulate healing processes may be useful. The effects of these supplements is more or less the same as that of nourishing creams.

- Making your skin produce more fluid sebum so that the comedones dissolve from within.
- Stimulating the immune system to fight bacteria and to clear out impurities in the skin tissues.
- Stimulating your skin to heal,
- Giving your skin building nutrients necessary to heal.
- Having an antibiotic effect that kills bacteria.

Natural ingredients in acne treatment drugs

Often several natural ingredients with the same effects, but with different workig mechanisms are combined in a product to increase the therapeutic effect and reduce eventual side effects. Here is a short survay of natural ingredients found in acne treatment products.

Azelaic acid (Azelex): This substance stimulates the division and renewing of cells in the follicles and the skin. Thereby it causes the comedones to be pushed out. It also works against the bacteria infecting the skin by acne.

Bioflavonoids: These are antioxidant substances produced by plants that protect against tissue damage. Many of these give fruits or other plant parts bright colors. Bioflavonoids are often included in oral or topical acne treatment to counteraqt tissue damage and ease healing.

Gum guggul extract: Gum guggul is the resin from the indian Commiphora mukul tree. Gum guggul extract used in oral products have an anti-biotic effect against the bacteria infecting the skin by acne. It also helps against tissue damage and promotes tissue healing.

Echinache extraxts: Extract of the herb Echinachea is a mild ingredient often used in topical products to dissolve the comedones and to counteract bacterial growth.

Extracts of the herbs Aloe Vera and, Viola tricolour and Rose hip oil, are often used to reduce inflammation and to stimulate healing.

Methylsulphonyl methane: This substance furnishes sulfur in a form usable in the rebuilding of skin damage. It is often combine with molybdenium to ease the use of this suplfur.

Plant oils: Evening primrose oil, Olive oil, Flax seed oil, Borage oil, Soy oil, Wheat germ oil are used in ora or topical products for several purposes. They contain essential fatty acids and vitamins that stimulate healing. The oils can also help to dissolve the comedones.

Lechithine: Lechitine is a blending of phospholipids. These phsopholipids are very important builing blocks of the cells in the body and also contain smaller elements used as effector tools and hormons in many processes. Lechithine is used in oral products to stimulate rinsing processes in the skin and to stimulate skin reduilding after damage.

Salicylic acid: This substance is an antibacterial effectors found widespread in the nature. It is used in topical products to dissolve clogs in the pores and to help fight bacteria.

Sulfur: Sulfur is used in cleansing products to dissolve comedones, dry up the skih and to rub away irregularities. It can cause too much peeling and can irritate the skin.

Tea tre oil: This is an oil containing essential fatty acids obtaind by steam destillation of leaves of the Australian plant Melaleuca alternifolia. The oil helps to dissolve the comedones, works against bacteria and fungi. Iea tree oil has very few side effects.

Vitamins and minerals: Both oral and topical acne treatment drugs often contain vitamins or vitamine-like susbstances or minerals, as vitamine A, C, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, D, E, folic acid, beta-carotene, copper, zink and selenium. These substances are working tools in the body, and they may effectivize cleaning processes and regeneration from damages excerted by acne. in addition many of these substances are anti-oxidants that protect the skin against damages. Vitmine E and A also help to reduce inflammation. Zink seems to be the most effective mineral for acne treatment.

Pharmacological ingredients used in acne treatment drugs

Also farmacologically syntetioc substances are used in acne medicines. These are very effective, but carry a heavier risk for side effects. Drugs containi9ng these substances are often bound to prescription.

Adapalene (differin): This subsrance slows down the accumulation of dead skin cells in the follicles and thereby reduce the tendencies to clog the pores. It can cause irritated skin and scaling, especially if the skin is exposed to sunlight.

Antibiotics: Antibiotics are used both in topical and oral products to fight the infetious element of acne. Topical antibiotcs have fewer side effects than oral ones. Antibiotics used against acne are tetracycline variants, erythromycin, clindamycin, Stievamycin, sulfacetamide and trimethaprim.

Bezoyl peroxide: ¨The substance imostly used in topical acne products to kill bacteria and dissolve comedones. Benzoyl peroxide often produce dryness and irritation in the skin. Thes side effects may however go away after some times use.

Resorcinol: Resorcinol is used in cleansing products to dissolve comedones and other irregularities. It can cause too much peeling and can irritate the skin.

Vitamine-A-derivates: (Tretinoin, tazarotene and similar substances): These are syntetic derivates of the A-vitamine type retinoic acid used in topical products. They stimulate the celles in the outer skin layer and in the lining of the pores to divide. This cell proliferation has the effect of pushing out the comedones clogging the pores. It may also stimulate healing of damages caused by acne and of other types of skin damage. The drug can however itself cause side effects like itching, brurning, redness, scaling and thin skin if not used with caution.

Some other acne treatment methods.

Laser treatment may be used to reduce scars caused by acne, and also to stop the acne process. The laser actually does as follows: to burn away the follicle sac from which the hair grows, to burn away the oil producing sebaceous gland, to induce oxygen formation in the bacteria causeing pimples.

Popping pimples after having made a puncture with a needle. This treatment may cause spread of infection and scarring if not performed very gently and anticeptically

In the fiftieth and before, x-rays were often used to treat severe acne. The treatment was reported to be effective, but it was dangerous. X-rays work by killing cells. The cells that produce excessive sebum were partially killed or biochemically crippled, so that the over-production of sebum was reduced. They also killed cells in the immune system, so that the inflammatory reactions was reduced. And they possibley killed bacteria. However, the x-rays could easily have too much effect so that the skin was damaged, and it could hurt the genome in the skin cells and thereby cause cancer.

The ingredients of actimine

Vitamin A- Vitamin A has been shown to reduce sebum production and the buildup of keratin in the follicle. Vitamin A is more effective when used in conjunction with Vitamin E and Zinc.
Actimine Contains: 5000 IU

Selenium and Vitamin E- When there is a Vitamin E deficiency in your body, your levels of Vitamin A will stay low, no matter how much you are supplementing into your diet. When Vitamin E is restored to the diet, Vitamin A levels normalize- this is why it is important to use these vitamins in combination.
Actimine Contains: 50mcg & 200 IU

Vitamin E - is important for its interactions with Selenium, which is an important antioxidant trace mineral. Selenium has been shown to have a function in the enzyme glutathione perozidase. This enzyme plays a crucial role in preventing acne inflammation. Those who experience acne usually have low levels of glutathione perozidase. After supplementing Vitamin E and Selenium into your diet, acne can be significantly diminished. (1)

Zinc - Zinc is a very important nutrient for the health of the skin. Zinc is involved in the proper metabolism of testosterone. When zinc levels are low, there is an increase in the conversion of testosterone to DHT. It is known that DHT stimulates the manufacture of sebum and keratin which are primary factors in causing acne. Only certain forms of zinc have proven to be effective. These include effervescent zinc and zinc gluconate. (2)
Actimine Contains: 10mg

Methylsulfonyl Methane.- Has been shown to improve the permeability of cell walls which allows nutrients to flow in and out of cells with ease. This helps deliver nutrients to the cells and dispose of wastes. Actimine Contains: 1500mg

Gum Guggul Extract.- Studies have shown that Guggul Ext can effectively help with nodulocyctic acne. A study with 20 patients showed that Guggul is more effective that Tetracycline. (3)
Actimine Contains: 50mg

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