All Natural Acne Medications That Can Work Great

By: James Achey

In the United States alone, there are over forty million who struggle with pimples. millions of these people try to remedy acne using chemicals such as antibiotics, prescription drugs, benzoyl peroxide, and salicylic acid.
But on the other hand, there is an ever growing of people who prefer to use herbal acne ointments over traditional remedies. Usually, herbal medications have fewer side effects, and are not as potentially dangerous as some of the prescription medications.
But the problem however, is that the U.S. does little to monitor the herbal supplement industry. Unlike traditional chemical medicines, herbal treatments are not required with any type of mandate to be clinically proven to aid in any way, or even to be safe. An example of this is the ephedra related deaths, and ephedras subsequent ban that happened in the not so distant past.
This lack of regulation results in a wide variety acne products on the market. All of which claim to heal, prevent, or even cure acne with few, or no, side effects.
The truth of the matter is, there are very few herbal acne medicines that are scientifically proven to work. Traditional chemical treatments are still the most effective in stopping acne.
There are only 2 herbal medications that have been clinically proven to help stop acne, tea tree oil and green tea cream.
Tea tree oil is a natural oil, derived from the Melaleuca alternifolia, a specific type of tea tree indigenous to Australia. While it has been used for hundreds of years by the native aboriginals as a treatment for just about anything, it has only recently been accepted by modern medicine as being a viable anti-bacterial agent.
Even though tea tree oil has been suspected as an anti-bacterial agent for some time, A groundbreaking study was conducted in 1990 by I.B. Bassett, which compared tea tree oil to benzoyl peroxide in the treatment of acne. It was found that tea tree oil is as effective as a 5% benzoyl peroxide solution. It takes longer (6 weeks) for the tea tree oil to be as effective, but people in the research claimed to have none of the side effects associated with benzoyl peroxide, such as redness, skin irritation, or dry skin.
This study has helped tea tree oil become a recognized and legitimate herbal acne medicine. Although, there is no need to purchase an expensive cream that contains tea tree oil. Just adding several drops of the oil directly on the pimple has proven to be the best way to apply tea tree oil.
This was the only herbal acne medication that had been proven to work until recently, when Dr. Jennifer Gan-Wong conducted research that shows green tea can also effectively fight pimples.
These findings are relatively new, and are not yet corroborated by additional independent studies. But, this evidence does prove that the herbal anti-bacterial properties of green tea can be an effective medicine for acne.
For those of you who can't make head or tails of the over abundance of herbal acne medicines available, there really are only 2 that have been proven to be effective in treating acne. Green tea cream, and tea tree oil. While many other herbal acne medications may be good to moisturize the skin, or reduce oils, these are the only two that should be considered truly effective acne treatments.

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