Have you heard of using toothpaste a baking soda to get rid of acne?

Question

someone told me that a toothpaste and baking soda mask will get rid of acne... is that true? how do u make it how long should u leave it on if it really works and if u have any other remedies that are simple and can be done without having to spend more that 15 dollars i would be very thankful

Answer 1

it's better to use something with salicylic solution in it..3 or 4 dollars at the drugstore

Answer 2

Try these, if that one doesn't work!

Acne Prevention Tips

Use a honey mask on a weekly basis. Honey is considered as a disinfectant and a great way for healing pimples. It can also kill bacteria found in your skin.

Cut your hair short if it’s long. Hair has oil. When you are moving, dust particles often culminate in your hair, and as your hair touches your face, neck, or forehead, it can provoke acne or worsen an affected area.

Take a powerful multi-vitamin twice every day; the biggest organ—your skin—requires proper nutrients to stay healthy.

Take vitamin A daily. It both protects your skin and prevents acne. Plus, vitamin A reduces sebum production.

Avoid over washing and rubbing or scrubbing your skin excessively. Acne is not caused by not washing or by having dirty skin.

Some people, especially students, have claimed that their acne grows worse when experiencing stressful situations. Advise: if it’s in your power, cut down on stress.

Drink 8 glasses of water everyday. Water helps to clean and hydrate the skin.

Avoid alcohol-based creams and lotions.

Either change or wash your pillowcase everyday.

Eat food rich in zinc. A deficiency in zinc may cause acne breakouts.

Add a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables to your daily diet.

When you are undergoing much stress, breathe deeply. It has been discovered that there exists a direct connection between acne and stress.

Exercise regularly, for it helps your blood to circulate and to remove toxins.

Eat a well-balanced diet to reduce the reoccurrence of acne.

Choose your cosmetics very carefully. Sometimes what you wear to disguise acne can actually turn out to be the root cause of a skin disorder.

Acne Home Remedy Tips

Put ripe tomato pulp on your pimples, and keep them there for as long as one hour. Next, wash the treated areas.

Apply the juice of raw papaya on your swelling pimples.

On and around your pimples apply fresh garlic. Pimples will fade away when this treatment is used regularly, not leaving a mark.

Drink wheatgrass juice; it can remove acne.

Create a paste from orange peel by grinding the peel in water. Then, apply this paste on and around your pimples.

Answer 3

NATURAL ACNE PROTOCOL
1/ Never, ever touch your face.
2/ Use 3 facecloths to wash your face, one to soap on, one to soap off with very hot water, one to rinse off with ice cold water, in that order, once a day.
3/ If you are under 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A once a day with a full meal
4/ If you are over 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A twice a day with a full meal.
Do not get pregnant while taking vitamin A. Do not take any more, like Accutane, it will stop you growing.
5/ Never, ever. pick, squeeze or pop your spot. Read number 1 again.
6/ Do this for 90 days.
7/ Invest in a brand new pillow and 2 new or more pillow cases to �double bag' your pillow. HOT wash every couple of days.
Source:
A bit of advice given to me as a teenager, a bit of science as I am studying allergic reactions and vitamin A is a part of that. A bit of research: I sat in a lecture at the back and watched the acne prone pick at their faces, those with the worse acne touched their faces 32 times in an hour, the clearest complexions didn't touch their faces even once. I have circumstantial evidence that acne is the result of dermatophyte transfer from hands to face...where it does not get washed off and is well fed by hormones, sweat a
nd oil...just a hypothesis... But it would explain why vitamin A is so effective as vitamin causes skin to remove dermatophytes.

The secret is never to touch the spots

Tips on how to treat acne and achieve perfect clear skin in as little as 7 days?

Answer 4

Neutrogena on the spot treatment, it works wonders and its only about 5 dollars at target, its worth it!
as for the toothpaste and baking soda...Uhhh thats a hickey remedy hahah

Answer 5

I've done this before. It doesn't get rid of the acne, but rather if it's a big bump it makes it smaller... stuff like that. Reduces redness. It won't hurt to try it though.

Answer 6

I have hearf of that, don't know the details, but if you scrub baking soda on ur face it makes it really smooth and Toothpaste, dries out your pimples, so they are both really good remedies!

Answer 7

i'm not sure about the toothpaste...
but i know that bakingsoda is a good scub.
after that use a mint steam as a pore opener, or toner,
and use a tab bit of honey as a real help.
the honey has enzymes that helps with getting rid of acne.

Answer 8

I have heard that using toothpaste will lessen the redness of acne.

Answer 9

I've heard of it, and even got desperate enough to try it once. From my experience it doesn't work. Products with benzoyl peroxide, like Neutrogena On the Spot treatment work much better.

Answer 10

Benzoyl Peroxide is the best, and its cheap. Also use toothpaste at night, before you got to sleep for spot pimples, it shrinks them.

Answer 11

If you have badly harsh acne on your face or on your neck then you need to attempt Walden' plan