How Does Benzoyl Peroxide Fight Acne
Benzoyl Peroxide is likely the most common used anti acne ingredient in all consumer grade over the counter treatments. From big brands like Proactiv, to lesser known product like Exposed Skin Care, they all include Benzoyl Peroxide in their ingredient lists.
What is Benzoyl Peroxide, and how can it help you treat your acne? That’s what we wanted to find out and in this post we’ll share our findings.
You’ll find this ingredient in most cleansers, but also creams, serums and lotions. The primary purpose of Benzoyl Peroxide is to kill of the p. acnes bacteria that exist in your pores which cause breakouts. How does it kill them off?
Acne bacteria can only exist in an non oxygen rich environment, so when a pore is clogged it’s a perfect spot for them to “Do their thing” and cause acne breakouts. When Benzoyl Peroxide is applied to the skin it naturally introduces oxygen to your pores. This in turn kills the p. acne bacteria in the pore stopping a current breakout or reducing the severity of a current breakout. Even though you may clear your skin many dermatologists will recommend that you continue to use a 2.5% solution of Benzoyl Peroxide as bacteria levels can and often will rise after the initial break out is cleared up.
A secondary benefit of using Benzoyl Peroxide in your acne treatment is it can clear out pores of dead skin cells and other cellular debris. Clean pores is the first step to being acne free and not allowing the acne bacteria to cause future breakouts.
To use Benzoyl Peroxide there are several ways. As mentioned many popular brands like Proactiv and Exposed Skin Care used this ingredient in their cleanser. Also there are generic brands you can opt to try as well. I suggest you check out some acne treatment reviews that discuss the active ingredients used in the products they review as well as their over all effectiveness. This will give you a good guideline to start with.
Keep in mind when choosing an over the counter acne treatment it’s not always the first one that works for you. Often one ingredient or another can cause different conditions to occur on different peoples skin so be patient.
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