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A Successful Treatment for Acne

Acne is a true challenge for the aesthetics and also for Medicine. 

The acne frequently is juvenile, called this way because of the time of the adolescence in that it appears. But in fact, you can suffer from this problem at any time in your life.  

The first thing that should be done is to visit a dermatologist, or a specialist. There are many possibilities that treatment can be successful if the specialist can diagnose an apparent cause.

 

So what should we due to cure and to prevent acne buds?  

1. Clean the skin  

2. Take care of the skin.  

3. Eat good and healthy food. 

4. In case of bodily acne, avoid the use of garments made with synthetic fabrics.  

5. Spend more time in the fresh air.  

6. Avoid stress.  

At this moment, they use a series of treatments which include peelings, masks, etc. In fact, all of them, in one way or another, work, but now it’s in vogue to use a peeling with glycolic acid whose natural ingredient comes from sugar cane. The treatment with this product gives good, rapid and visible results in a short time in most the cases, and it helps to prevent facial aging. A particularity of this product is that it is not affected when exposed to sunlight. 

In short, we remember that the famous milk baths of Cleopatra had a similar principle: another natural acid of the same type - lactic acid.  

At this time we are rediscovering those procedures that made the ladies of antiquity mythically beautiful.

 

Daniel Penafiel S., M.D.

E-mail: consulta@drpenafiel.com

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