Beauty Tips For Body Care
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375771/Hello everyone. I thought I would share with you all this research article I had come across a little while back while looking for possible treatment options for acne scars. I had severe acne back when I was a teenager (currently in my late 20s), and while an eventual round of Accutane effectively cured my acne struggles, I was left with very noticeable rolling acne scars along my cheeks and forehead. I'm currently a poor graduate student, so both the time required and expense for many acne scar treatments were not feasible.In this paper, the researchers had their patients apply 0.025% retinoic acid and 12% glycolic acid to their faces for 12 weeks. The authors recommended to build up slowly to an overnight application of the treatment, washing it off earlier in the night if the application became intolerable. The results in some of the pictures, especially for some of the patients with atrophic scarring, were fairly impressive. This might be useful for people with skin tones that don't respond well to laser treatments (the main population focused on in the paper was Indian).I've been following a milder variation of this protocol for several months now, using a combination of my Curology prescription (0.02% tretinoin/5% vitamin C/4% niacinamide) and Paula's Choice 8% AHA gel. While not as impressive (my scars are at this point almost a decade old), my scarring is becoming much less noticeable, and a lot of the rolling scars are becoming more level with the rest of my skin. At some point when I get good before/after pictures, I will post them.I just thought I would share this option with people as a possible way to improve acne scarring topically (with some research to back it up) that would avoid both excessive cost as well as long recovery times.
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