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What is my acne really trying to tell me?
by: Robert Kokoska
Most acne products do nothing more than waste money.
Imagine spending hundreds of dollars on creams and
lotions only to find out they didn't really work or
only gave you temporary relief.

Acne remains a serious problem for a lot of teenagers
and even for some adults. Acne destroys confidence,
leaving a person depressed and even suicidal. However,
hope remains for many of it's desperate sufferers.

Acne, like most other skin problems, exists only as a
message that something inside the body isn't
functioning properly. This means acne isn't really
the problem you have to attack. The problem lies
elsewhere inside the body which produces
symptoms such as acne, blackheads and whiteheads.

To make this idea easy to understand, take for example
back pain. Lower back pain shows up as one of the many
symptoms of an imbalance of vitamin C. When someone
feels this back pain, their first thought may be to
use pain killers. That may bring some relief but will
never cure the back pain the same way acne creams can
never cure acne.

The point being that most people don't treat the real
cause of the acne outbreak and will never experience
total relief from the problem.

Everyone with acne knows that when you stop using the
topical lotions, your acne just keeps coming back just
as bad as it did before you used the products but you
still use them because you feel there's no other way
and this means a lot of business for the companies that
make the lotions.

These products simply try to hide your acne rather than
cure it so you must continually rely on their product
for any relief. Other problems with most acne products
include creating new symptoms you must deal with such
as dry skin, itching and peeling.

The only way to cure acne effectively is to fix the
internal problem your body has. When you do this, you
may find not only your acne, but other problems you
have had in the past start to disappear.

When an acne sufferer overcomes their acne problem,
their confidence soars through the roof and they no
longer feel any of the negative emotions such as
anger, depression and frustration that once
tied in with the acne.

It also means alot more money in your pocket. It is
estimated that roughly $100 million is spent annually
in the US on over-the-counter acne treatments not to
mention the many millions more spent on prescription
based treatments and other alternative remedies.

Now that you know what acne really is, you can then
begin to look for the true cause and from there look
for a cure. The good news is that the cause of acne
has now been established.