If you’re like me, you not only get acne on your face now
and then, but all over your body as well. Although I normally
only get acne on my face and back, I’ve had at least some
amount of acne on just about every area of my skin at one
point or other in my life. My feet, legs, and (ahem) genital
area seems to be the only places to escape it completely so far.
While there is a certain relief to that fact, having acne on my
scalp, back, butt, chest, stomach, and shoulders is not exactly
fun. For this reason I’ve done plenty of experimenting with
acne body washes.
Oh, the joy of acne body washes knows no bounds. They come in
different sizes, shapes, colors, smells, and flavors. Well,
okay, I’m not sure about the flavor part, but there certainly
is a wide array of acne body washes to choose from. The search
is easily narrowed down when you consider the active ingredients
involved. Most acne body washes use only one of two different
active ingredients; salicylic acid or benzyl peroxide. Everything
else in the wash is just for style points.
Having used plenty of different acne body washes, I consistently
come back to the ones that use salicylic acid. This is somewhat
counterintuitive, because benzyl peroxide seems to work best with
the acne face washes I’ve tried. I’m not really sure why, but
salicylic acid just seems more effective for body acne than anything
else, even though its only moderately effective for facial acne.
I prefer the acne body wash that ‘Phisoderm’ makes.
So my acne prevention and treatment routine is a benzyl peroxide
acne face wash, and a salicylic acid acne body wash. So long as I
use these washes daily, I’m able to reduce the acne I would be
getting by somewhere around 90%, which is great. However, there is
still that 10% or so that gets by, and I can’t really seem to do
much about it. The acne on my back is especially hard to prevent;
no acne body wash gets rid of it completely.
It seems to help a little if I use lotions and other skin care products
in addition to an acne body wash. I like using ones with aloe vera and
vitamin E. If I apply lotions like these soon after using an acne body
wash, it seems to boost the overall anti-acne effect.
Keith Londrie II has put up three informative web sites so that you can learn more about acne and it’s control. For more information please visit http://acneinformation.info/ as well as http://acne-solution-treatments.info/ and http://stop-your-acne.info/ for more detailed information.