All Natural Acne Ointments That Will Work Wonderfully

In the U.S. alone, there are approximately 40 Million people who battle with acne. Many of these people treat acne using chemicals such as prescription drugs and salicylic acid.

However, there is a growing number of people who prefer to use herbal acne medications over traditional remedies. Usually, herbal remedies have less side effects, and are not as harmful as some of the prescription medications.

But the problem however, is that the United States doesn't do that much to mandate the herbal supplement industry. Unlike traditional chemical medications, herbal medications are not required with any type of observation to be clinically proven to work, or even to be safe. A good example of this is the ephedra related deaths, and ephedras subsequent ban that happened in recent history.

This lack of mandatory observation results in a large quantity of acne products on the market. All of which claim to heal, protect you from, or even cure acne with few, if any, side effects.

The fact of this situation is, there are only a small number herbal acne treatments that are scientifically proven to work. Traditional chemical remedies are still the most effective in stopping acne.

There are only 2 herbal medicines that have been clinically proven to help stop acne, tea tree oil and green tea cream.

Tea tree oil is a natural oil, derived from the Melaleuca alternifolia, a unique family of tea tree found only in Australia. While it has been used for hundreds of years by the native aboriginals as a treatment for just about anything, it has only recently been accepted by modern medicine as being a viable anti-bacterial agent.

Even though tea tree oil has been suspected as an anti-bacterial agent for some time, A markedly innovative study was done in 1990 by I.B. Bassett, which compared tea tree oil to benzoyl peroxide in the treatment of acne. It was found that tea tree oil is as effective as a 5% benzoyl peroxide solution. It takes longer (6 weeks) for the tea tree oil to be as effective, but people in the research claimed to have none of the side effects associated with benzoyl peroxide, such as redness, skin irritation, or dry skin.

This study has helped tea tree oil become a recognized and legitimate herbal acne medication. But, there is no need to purchase an expensive cream that contains tea tree oil. Just rubbing several drops of the oil directly on the pimple has shown to be the best way to apply tea tree oil.

This was the only herbal acne medicine that had been shown to work until recently, when Dr. Jennifer Gan-Wong conducted a study that shows green tea can also effectively fight pimples.

These results are relatively recent, and are not yet proven by additional independent studies. However, this evidence does demonstrate that the herbal anti-bacterial characteristics of green tea can be an effective medication for acne.

For people who can't make head or tails of the over abundance of herbal acne medicines available, there really are only 2 that have been proven to be effective in the treatment of acne. Green tea cream, and tea tree oil. While many other natural herbal acne medicines may be good to moisturize the skin, or reduce oils, these are the only two that should be considered truly effective acne treatments.