Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Does Bar Soap Work for Acne

Acne bar soaps are much popular products for washing acne and many people who have acne prone skin often decide for their using. Acne soaps are considering ones of the cheapest ways for skin cleaning. They are simple for using and are not necessary to invest a lot of money for their buying. But, question is how much can they be effective and what can you get for this money.

How Much Acne Bar Soaps Can Be Effective

Acne bar soaps which are offered in markets mainly are made by formula where in their structure like main ingredients usually appear:

- Salicylic Acid
- Benzoyl Peroxide
- Sulfur

On the basis of these ingredients stay on you to decide which of these bar soaps will be suitable for your skin type and will help you in treating acne. Additional information for bar soap you can find on its package where you can read for others ingredients and probably won’t have others information that will help you for effective using on that bar soap. Stay on you to decide if it soap will be useful for you.


But, what will happen if bar soap that you will buy is not compatible with your skin type. At best, you haven’t got effect at all in treating acne but in the extreme case with its regular using will brings to overspill drying on the skin and appearance on irritation and redness with that your state will worse more.

After using acne bar soap once, and for a while you will see that it doesn’t influence positive on acne, at him doesn’t valid rule “money back guarantee” with that you don’t give back it product.

When you would be experiment with three differents brands on acne bar soaps and each of them costs 20$, for few months you will spend 60$ for three soaps, but your acne will be further here.

Additional problem at acne bar soaps is that they can easily destroy skin’s pH balance. Skin at people has natural pH between 4.5 and 5.5 on scale between 1 and 14. And natural pH is 7. Anything above 7 is alkaline and anything below 7 is acidic. It is necessary pH to stay balanced and stable and the skin to function the best.

But with using bar soap is very difficult to hold pH balance stable of reasons that it often leave film on the skin with that prevents skin to breathe and punctuates pH balance. It punition on pH balance is reason for appearance bacteria. After few hours body will back own pH balance, but with constant using on bar soaps can have negative and long-lasting consequences and constant appearance on new acne.

The Role of pH in Acne

Acid pH makes environment which is not opportune bacteria to stay in its and it acid environment is ideal for protecting of multiplication bacteria in the skin pores - acid environment is all below 7 pH.

Unlike of it, alkaline pH makes ideal environment for multiplication bacteria - alkaline environment is all above 7 pH.

Commercially available bar soaps have pH anywhere 8 – 10, making them significantly more alkaline than the skin. In these environments that make bar soaps instead to reduce bacteria they still more multiply and bacteria are reason for making acne breakouts.

What Acne Wash Product you should Choose

So that to have effective cleaning on your skin it is necessary acne wash products that have lower pH and will be more effective in destroying bacteria at the skin, unlike of acne bar soaps. If you want to get rid of acne it is necessary to use facial and body acne wash product which have pH closer between 4.5 and 5.5.

If you want to have effective acne treating instead of using commercially acne bar soap you need to use acne wash product, which cleanses your skin, removing dead skin cells and leaving your skin pH as it is meant to be, with that will help you to get rid of acne.



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