Tweet If you’ve ever read one of Dr. Perricone’s books about skin care, he delves into a lot of healthy alternatives to cosmetic surgery and expensive procedures, and really concentrates on supplementing the body inside out to achieve good skin, whether your goal is to maintain a great complexion at any age, to hold off the aging factors of the skin such as sagging and wrinkles and sunspots, or even to help with other skin problems like eczema, rosacea, and acne. One of the common denominators in most of his literature is how you should take a good vitamin...
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Vitamins for Acne
There are vitamins which can dramatically help you if you have acne prone skin. This category contains information on those vitamins for acne, and how or where to get the best ones.
Vitamin C Being Touted as Good for Skin
Tweet Vitamin C is sort of one of those vitamins that became a staple for many of us, through either a multiple vitamin, or a single supplement, going back to our childhood, when many people believed vitamin C helped to fend off colds and/or shorten their duration. I for one, still believe that vitamin C does this as well. However, news is coming out also touting vitamin C’s benefit to the skin. I already believe this because I’ve said numerous times in this blog that I believe drinking lemon juice in my water has immensely helped my skin, and...
Antioxidants and Acne
Tweet I’ve been really interested in theories that antioxidants in fairly high doses can benefit people with acne. I began to get interested in this when I started reviewing a product called Acnezine, which is an herbal supplement which uses this as some of its basis for clearing acne naturally. It is essentially a potent antioxidant formula which helps to clear the skin by attacking free radicals which cause inflammation in the skin, among a host of other bad things that it does to the skin, including accelerated aging and wrinkle formation, aggravating acne and acne rosacea, and causing...
New FDA Vitamin Regs Affecting Acne Vitamins?
Tweet Recently, the FDA has stepped up and tightened regulations for herbal supplements, dietary supplements and vitamins, so this could logically include a lot of vitamins or supplements for acne prevention and treatment if they fit the FDA’s target criteria. But so far, not to worry, they are not going to be taking away supplements, what they are doing is actually a protective measure to make sure that vitamins and supplements have what they say they have and nothing that they say they don’t have in them, for safety and consumer protection purposes. As of June of 2007, the...
Multivitamins for Skin and Acne
Tweet It is estimated that nearly 80% of people in the US take some sort of daily multivitamin. Vitamins are a huge industry, and there is a reason why : Many people really believe that multivitamins help them in one way or another, and feel good about taking a multivitamin to help round out the vital vitamins and minerals they may not be getting in their average daily food consumption. These vitamins can be incredibly helpful in the fight against acne, acne rosacea skin care, and just generally maintaining the health and overall integrity of the skin over time. What...
Vitamin C Necessary for Skin’s Cellular Repair?
Tweet I read an interesting article the other day about the importance that many skincare specialists think orally taken vitamin C can benefit the cell turnover and cellular strength of the skin. They addressed vitamin C both in topical form and orallay taken form, and said the oral form is important to get the skin to repair on a cellular level as it contains nutrients which enable these mechanisms to work more efficiently. As we age, and as our skin comes up against factors like acne and other skin damagers that can leave scars, the integrity of our skin...
Antioxidants and Acne
Tweet We’ve talked before about antioxidants and how they can help a person with acne get clearer skin, but they can also help a person with acne scarring and pitting to speed along the healing and recovery of their skin as well. How do antioxidants help everyone’s skin, including acne sufferers? Well, antioxidants are a powerful weapon against one of our skin’s worst enemies, the free radical. Free radicals are created by environmental toxins, the foods we eat, UV sunlight rays (one of the worst offenders) and a bevy of other bad environmental factors too numerous to name. What...
Evening Primrose Oil and Skin
Tweet Evening primrose oil, or as it is otherwise known, EPO, is an all natural flower plant that is used for it’s qualities of soothing and healing, internally. It is supposedly very useful for some skin conditions, including eczema which is a dry, scaly and flaky skin condition that is pretty tought to treat. Evening primrose oil has a substance in it called gamma linolenic acid, which is actually a natural compound which is currently an approved natural medicine for the treatment of eczema over in Britain right now. It is suggested that you just take whatever the recommended...
Dietary Supplements : Definition
Tweet You’ve undoubtedly read that there are certain “dietary supplements” which can supposedly help clear your acne up, and are probably curious if they really work, are worth the time, money and hope, and if they are safe. Well, I thought it would be good to go over exactly how the government regulating agency the FDA actually defines a “dietary supplement” – whether it claims to help with acne or other skin conditions, or has other purposes in human health promotion. A dietary supplement is one that is sold over the counter (OTC), and is taken voluntarily by an...
Nutritional Supplements for Acne
Tweet A lot of people who have acne seek out natural nutritional supplements that will help their acne clear up and maybe even help their skin out in other ways as well. If you walk down the vitamin aisle at any grocery or drug store now, you probably see a few vitamin formulas or nutritional supplement formulas for acne or for basic skin care and beauty maintenance. Most of these nutritional supplements are formulated with ingredients like natural herbs, botanicals and vitamins that have historically shown a property which helps the skin to defend itself against free radicals. Say...
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