If I smeared my face in toothpaste will it reduce my acne?

Question

If I just took a bunch of toothpaste and rubbed it all over my face like a mask would it work?

Answer 1

A "bunch" of toothpaste? Good to see tax dollars are going towards effective education.

No, the toothpaste is likely to have a detrimental effect on your face. Why do you think it burns when you get toothpaste on your skin?

Stick to something a bit more tried and tested, like, oh facial cleansers?

Note that excessively drying your skin (removing the oil from it) will result in dry damaged, cracked skin that looks worse than when you had acne. Cut down on the high sugar foods and use a moisturising facial wash.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Dry and/or greasy skin due to poor oil composition of the skin. Thick greasy oils clog pores, lack of oil leads to dryness and irritation. You need thin oils to moisturize while dissolving and clearing gunk in your poors. Try fish oil or seafood. 2 tsp fish oil a day or 4 servings of seafood a week. Stick it out for at least 2 months; it will take a long time to replace all your oil. Any effect after 1-2 days is temporary or random; so even if it makes you break out a little at first, you haven't given it a full try yet.

In the short term you can wash and moisturize well, but that will only go so far. Plus excessive washing can be drying and excessive moisturizing can be clogging. Use a small amount of a light moisturizer, made with oil not jelly or grease. Often that means soybean oil or mineral oil. Mineral oil means mined from the ground. So soybean oil is usually better, though mineral oil won't cause too much harm. Clean with soap and water, not a harsh acne cleanser. Even then they only work so well. So you really need the seafood.

Antibiotics aren't really good for bacteria long term, they'll come back in force after. Short term they may help. After you get off them find some kefir with acidophilus listed first or 2nd to replace the friendly bacteria they destroyed. Studies show less illness when you have these bacteria, even outside the stomach in places such as the lungs and elsewhere. You want friendly bacteria to fill the void when the antibiotics stop, not harmful ones.

In the short term you might also try 100,000+ iu retinol vitamin A (a megadose, and too much for normal use) or one of the acne drugs that is similar to retinol vitamin A. It's some minor harm to your organs, but it helps against bacteria on your skin. At least it doesn't have the other long term drawbacks to your skin that antibiotics and many scrubs do.

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Answer 4

That's an urban legend. Some people will swear that toothpaste helps in preventing (or even killing) acne because of the peroxide used in making the toothpaste.

What I always do is, wash my face with COLD water and pat it dry. Then apply ammends powder (any powder will do actually). The reason is when we sleep at night, our faces are smashed against the pillow and the oils on the skin start to clot and form a pimple (or acne).

Washing the face with cold water and then using powder keeps the face dry through the night (well, unless you sweat).

Try that for a month, and see what happens.

Answer 5

Applying toothpaste onto allready existing acne would help to dry out the acne, one word of advice though, use white toothpaste.

Answer 6

Well, i never had acne myself i had the opposite- really dry flaky skin when i was about 15. My best friend did have really bad acne though, always going to his doctor about it! He had lots of tablets and stuff for it and they weren't helping much. I suggested he use baby powder (same way as The First suggests) as it's really good on sensitive skins and it did work, his skin was so much clearer, of course not overnight but it really helped. I did the opposite, I used baby oil on my skin as suggested on the back of the bottle and it did wonders for my skin :-)
I guess baby's have pretty perfect skin so it must be worth a try!
GOOD LUCK xxxx

Answer 7

u no i heard that before and it does work what you do is pop your pimple and just put the toothpaste on that pimple not all over your face then leave it overnight(better off doing it at night) and the pimple will get really small and no red marks im honest.

Answer 8

I wouldn't do that, anyway toothpaste has never worked for me. http://www.totalproducts.unfranchise.com has a great skin care line and products to clear up acne.

Answer 9

Hahaha, doesn't that make you wet the bed at night? I think we used to smear toothpaste on peoples top lips in the nights to make them do that.
But that would be mean, so don't do it, you hear me.

Answer 10

Uh...... sure. Go ahead and try it! It probalby works best if you sleep with the toothpaste on your face. It'll have more time to sink in.