Choosing An Acne Treatment Product

How do I choose and acne treatment product? How do I know that the acne treatment product prescribed to me is the right one or is the doctor just getting a kick back from the pharmaceutical company?

As much as I hate to say it, it is the truth. There are many doctors out there that recommend acne treatment products based on what they get from the pharmaceutical company that wants them to market their product. Where do you think all those ‘free samples’ the doctor gives you comes from? The pharmaceutical companies give it to them so they can in turn give it to you so that you wind up wanting to buy.

The other problem that you are going to have is just the sheer volume of acne treatment products that are on the market today. Just take a visit to your local drug store and look at all of the choices you have. But here is the one question that you should be asking:

Which acne treatment product is just treating the symptoms and which one of the acne treatment products is actually designed to cure my acne?

That’s it! That is the question you should be asking any time you buy a product or get a prescription from the doctor. Remember this, I am sure you have heard me say it before:

Treating acne and finding ways to cure acne is a multi-billion dollar a year industry for the pharmaceutical companies. I also have to tell you that I believe that they are more interested in treating the symptoms of acne than actually finding ways to cure acne. Why do I say this? Simple, there is no money in a cure; if the pharmaceutical companies actually cured something then they only get a one time purchase by the consumer. But if they create something that helps ‘treat the symptoms’ then you have to buy a refill every month. Think of the money that generates for the companies. Now you know why they really do not have a vested interest in finding ways to cure acne.

Worse yet is that a lot of the time these acne treatment products actually cause more harm then good or are painful. Chemicals are caustic in nature and by simply reading the contents label of the acne treatment product you should be able to decipher whether or not it would be a good idea to use or not to use that particular acne treatment product.

Just take a look at this: One of the more common chemicals used in so called ‘acne treatment products’ is Sodium pyrithione. But check out the following information that I found about its toxicity to humans:

Toxicity to humans, including carcinogenicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and acute toxicity

Why in the world would you want to put something like that on your face?

Or what about the most popular and most used acne treatment product; benzyl peroxide also spelled as benzoyl peroxide.

Benzoyl peroxide is highly flammable, explosive, toxic and a possible tumor promoter and may act as a mutagen, and should be handled with care.

Now granted, they take great pains to minimize this by mixing the chemicals but it still does not alleviate or remove the risks. So again I ask you; why would you put this on your face?

What most people that suffer from acne fail to realize is that there are natural and homeopathic acne treatment products out there on the market. The reason you have never heard of them is because the pharmaceutical companies stand to loose billions of dollars if you did. So they spend millions of dollars a year lobbying and burying the information and even more millions on kickbacks and advertising to get you to buy there products instead.

Listen, the next time you are considering buying or using an acne treatment product, please take the time to do a little research and find out what it is that you are putting on your face!