I'll never sell Benzoyl Peroxide

I think by now, most people that use Benzoyl Peroxide have researched enough about the product to know about its side effects. They just don't want to talk about it or admit it. Much like the elephant in the middle of the room. Other 'brands' on Ebay offer Benzoyl Peroxide as the 'right thing to do' when it comes to acne. Because it is cheap and it works, I don't think I will ever sell it. I know I am going to get flake for this aticle, if it ever gets read, but I'm going to go ahead and write it up anyway. I know that to many of you Benzoyl Peroxide works, but in long and regular use, it haa cumulative negative effects on the skin.                  

Peroxides are unstable compounds of water and oxygen. It breaks down under heat and light. As it breaks down, the oxygen free radical is generated and let loose on the skin. These free oxygen radicals are what kill the P. acne bacteria. This is where the anti-bacterial properties of peroxides come from. Peroxides also bleach hair and skin by oxidation. It also dries the skin out too, sometimes very badly. So if you are wondering about all the Anti-oxidant supplements that people are taking nowadays, then you are also probably beginning to wonder why you are using a Pro-oxidant to treat acne on your skin, and on your face of all places. Without anti-oxidants to stop the chemical process, the free oxygen radicals start a cascade of chemical reactions on your skin. Destabilising skin membrane and the the epidermal layer in general. To put it simply, it speeds up the aging of your skin each time you use a Benzoyl Peroxide product to treat your acne. Think about it, some of you would have already noticed it simply by looking at the what happens to your skin each time you apply it. Young, healthy skin is capable of retaining water and being moist, skin treated with Benzoyl Peroxide is Not.

Why is it so ubiquitiously on shelves everywhere ? I suppose because it is cheap to make. But even until 10 yrs ago, Clearasil was manufacturing a product with a formulation very close to Nixoderm's. It contained yellow sulphur and salicyclic acid. I am completely baffled and lost as to explain why the shift. Also I note that the shift is only in this country (US).

I think that the idea that you have to treat your skin with an acne product that speeds the aging of your skin is unnecessary. And that to think that peroxides don't really age your skin is an ignorant lie. Ask any doctor, pharmacist or chemist and they will tell you that. My point, at the end of all this is, consider Sunkissed Jealousy. It is a completely different mode of action (path of reation) and actually recommended for inflammed sensitive acne skin. It kills the P. Acne bacteria Beacuse it is an anti-oxidant, not in spite of it.

Btw, if Benzoyl Peroxide kills the Acne bacteria, has anyone ever thought of using Hydrogen Peroxide ? At 3% solution it is very potent stuff and is dirt cheap compared to Benzoyl Peroxide products. Afterall Hydrogen Peroxide is used to clean wounds and cuts, besides just bleaching hair. I use it to bleach my skin sometimes and I am always amazed at how fast it works.