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6: Pounds each of ground lupines and beans that Ovid suggested be applied to the face in his recipe for “a certain cure for spots and pimples.”
1651: Year the author of Delights for Ladies claimed that an attorney with a red, pimpled face was cured in 14 days by putting salt in his socks, because it cooled his body temperature.
1957: Year Clearasil became one of the first advertisers on American Bandstand.
1835: Approximate year the term “acne,” from the Greek word meaning “facial eruption,” entered common parlance, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
33: Number of people who consumed an elixir of menthol and sulphur in 1907 to cure their acne. Results were excellent, but a side effect was diarrhea.
1935: Year Time magazine lamented that after 3,200 years, “doctors, in plain words, do not know the cause of acne, nor its cure.” The writer also noted that “doctors think that acne is tied up in some way with sex.”
1936: Year an ad claimed that Lux soap prevented “dangerous pore choking.”
1943: Year an Oregon physician said that taking a large dose of vitamin A orally would cure acne. Today's treatments involve retinoids, which are derivatives of vitamin A, applied topically.
1950s: Decade in which oral antibiotics became a popular acne treatment.
1970s: Decade doctors often prescribed a sunlamp as a cure for acne.
26: Percentage of teenagers in 2001 who believed tanning was one of the best ways to cure acne. (Over time, this actually makes it worse.)
1978: Year John Belushi impersonated a zit in Animal House by squeezing a powdered doughnut out of his mouth.
1988: Year Michael Jackson wrote in Moonwalk that he was “subconsciously scarred” by his acne and it “messed up my whole personality.”
1991: Year future stars Rebecca Gayheart and Jared Leto were in a Noxzema commercial together.
40: Number of celebrities who have worked with Proactiv, including Jessica Simpson, Katy Perry, and Sean Combs.
2008: Year MTV's True Life: I Have Acne followed the struggles of three people. Previous topics included eating disorders and Tourette's syndrome.
2010: Year an American study found that a cream containing lauric acid—found in coconut oil and breast milk—effectively treated acne.
2 to 5: Number of Frutels—chocolates containing antioxidants that supposedly fight acne internally—in the suggested daily serving size.
8: Percentage of pediatricians in a 2010 study who erroneously believed that eating chocolate causes acne.
From magazine Allure
Edited by Cherryx, 20 January 2012 - 11:27 AM.
, reading about it i think he took accutane
