jsmithson

I've never heard of salt being helpful for acne or oily skin. I would definitely not add salt to the diet because over the longer term it can raise your blood pressure and cause strokes! Most people s...

Cherry picking hixhikari's reply, I would agree about the importance of HA (hyaluronic acid). I've had tremendous success hydration wise making my own HA mix with water. The best moisturizer I've ever...

I notice that the trial finished in April but no results have been posted by the company. I'm very interested to see what happened!

  Wow, what a dynamite study!   A good guy who used to come here said there was evidence for a constant sebum excretion rate. I don't remember the studies myself. This guy even performed a...

Have you tried benzoyl peroxide?

Wow so here I am 4 years later responding to the thread I started! It's amazing news that this drug has finally made some progress clinical trial wise. I actually wrote this one off since nothing happ...

If you have oily skin your water barrier is probably not working properly so you get dry skin. I'm not sure if the oily skin is a cause of TEWL or a symptom of some other problem which also causes TEW...

Hello, I'm in need of 3 things: - a good moisturizer (I'm going on a low dose of accutane shortly) - a really good sunblock with high SPF, because the summer is coming up and I have pale, sensitive sk...

Great info, I've been looking into this too and it explains many things about chronic excessively-oily skin. The big reason why it's so hard to control is the fact that for most people, it's caused by...

I purchased the Tanda acne and regenerating light therapy device back in 2008 before it was FDA approved in the US (it is now though),   Interesting that you are a new user since a few days ago...

Yo! It's jsmithson, back with yet another interesting topic! I came across a new science study about a Korean light therapy device in the British Journal of Dermatology: "The clinical and histolog...

... I live in the UK = free healthcare ...   At least until the conservatives privatise the NHS...

It's amazing what you find when trawling pubmed     The key point is that a reduction in sebum was found through taking lactoferrin: a milk protein.   I'm about to start a 400mg per ...

Hey y'all!   Just came across a clinical trial for this topical drug that is due to finish in the next few months. It is an anti sebum drug that works operates on melanocortin receptor 5 (I've n...

Hi,   I am a 28 year old female. Throughout my entire teenage years I had the clearest skin ever and only started having acne around age 23. That was also around the time I first went on the birt...