This Acne Treatment Hack Is Already in Your Medicine Cabinet

I am not a woman who was ever overly obsessed about acne. To be completely honest though, I never had much and to worry about. As our private lives are now mostly public, (and everyone carries a smartphone with instant capacity to not only take unflattering pictures, but to post them online as well) I can see this could be a bigger deal now than a decade ago. If you have ever used blister bandages you may already have what you need in your medicine cabinet.

Key Points:

  • 1Hydrocolloids are a special type of bandages that absorb excess fluid, like oil and pus, which can speed healing time.
  • 2The rubbery, translucent bandages are frequently sold for blister healing, although they’re also used by medical professionals for more serious injuries, like pressure ulcers.
  • 3While the specially made hydrocolloid acne dots can run up to $30 for a couple dozen single-use dots, a pack of full-size hydrocolloid bandages (which can then be cut into dozens of smaller segments) typically costs around $8.

It was all thanks to the hydrocolloid that the stickers are made of, our experts told us, which got us to thinking: Could there be an even cheaper alternative to those perfect little patches, perhaps something that’s already sitting in our medicine cabinet?

Read the full article at:  https://www.allure.com/story/bandage-acne-hack

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HealthStatus has been operating since 1998 providing the best interactive health tools on the Internet, millions of visitors have used our health risk assessment, body fat and calories burned calculators. The HealthStatus editorial team has continued that commitment to excellence by providing our visitors with easy to understand high quality health content for many years.

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