What concentration of Benzoyl Peroxide should I choose?

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You already know that Benzoyl Peroxide comes in different concentrations, regardless to its form – gel, solution or cream. Basically, as far I as I understood from some other blogs and forums, Benzoyl Peroxide may be produced in the following concentrations:
Benzoyl Peroxide – 2,5%
Benzoyl Peroxide – 4$
Benzoyl Peroxide – 8% (more common in USA)
Benzoyl Peroxide – 10%
If you are seeking for medical help in treating acne, and you find a doctor who wants to prescribe you some Benzoyl Peroxide based products, then he’ll choose one of those concentrations I provided, depending on your skin condition.
At a 2,5% concentration, Benzoyl Peroxide is known to be effective in easy and mild form of acne, with some spots on your skin. I suppose it’s more for casual usage, when you need to treat some light for of acne.
At a 4% concentration, Benzoyl Peroxide is optimal for an oily skin, with acne affecting your front, nose or shoulders. In this concentration it has a evident drying effect, so pay attention at the dose you are about to use and contact your doctor in case something gets wrong and you feel discomfort, hard itching, redness.
In concentration of 8 to 10%, Benzoyl Peroxide becomes a very powerful remedy, yet very active. Keep in mind it is not recommended to overdose your Benzoyl Peroxide-based cream because there is the possibility of some adverse reactions to appear.
Also I would like to touch a subject that I plan to develop further in this blog - Benzoyl Peroxide’s Precautions: Benzoyl Peroxide in a 100% concentration, applied on skin, becomes extremely toxic and is a substance considered to induce skin cancer and malign structures. I repeat – only in 100% concentration. Not in 2,5 or 10% as we use in treating acne. Those doses (from 2,5 up to 10%) are considered to be skin-safe and actually are the most cost-effective acne treatment

How did I found that Benzoyl Peroxide treats acne?

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It took me a little while to find out that this substance may totally change my skin and improve its condition in less than three months. Yeap! Three months!
Is it a too long time? I don't know. I'm not yet really sure about all the benefits of Benzoyl Peroxide, but I noticed that after I used my Benzoyl-Peroxide-based cream, it was different and my acne were more evident.
So, i read a lot of articles on internet about the cheapest and the most effective method to fight acne. I found in some articles at acne.org that Benzoyl Peroxide may be a good choice if you try to get off your red spots. I decided to give it a try and so I discovered BP's effects on my own skin
I started to use it frenetically in the first days.
My cream has a 4% concentration of Benzoyl Peroxide, it's not the highest concentration at which this remedy is released (there a re more concentrated creams as 5%, 10%) and I noticed from the first application some itching and redness.
So, I announced my mom and sister about my new remedy and asked them to took some observation on my skins' evolution - will it improve or I just got another useless product.
Also, one of my criteria was to find the cheapest product which can stop my acne. Benzoyl Peroxide products seemed to me most cost-effective than any other I tried before. A tube of cream (40 grams) is about to cost you some 5.5 euro or less than 6.5 $ in Europe. I'm sure in USA the prices are, also, somewhere around this average.
In my next posts I'll try to share with you all my knowledges on Benzoyl peroxide side effects and products which contain this substance.