Get Rid Acne – 5 Most Common Ingredients in Acne Fighting Products

While different acne products work in different ways and are therefore based on considerably different substances, going through the listed ingredients of a majority of them reveals a number of common occurrences: ingredients which are bound to be present in some form in almost every acne fighting product.
Perhaps the commonest ingredient in acne products – occurring even in the so-called ‘natural’ acne products is alcohol. The role of alcohol in the fight against acne seems to be one of removing oils (and other elements of dirt) that ordinary soaps are unable to remove, seeing that it is accumulation of such oils and other elements of dirt that is responsible for most cases of acne that get worse. Alcohol is the element which is responsible for that stinging effect that most acne products tend to induce. Talking of alcohol as an ingredient in acne fighting products, it is important, however, to note that use of acne products containing it might be discouraged for the more advanced cases of acne.
Another rather common ingredient in acne products is benzoyl peroxide. What benzoyl peroxide does in the fight against acne is to rid the skin of the bacteria that tend to be resident on it, out of the appreciation of the fact that it is such bacteria that are responsible for deterioration of acne in most cases – from being a ‘just a disfiguring condition’ into being actually a potentially painful condition.