Skin Irritants to Avoid
The Mayo Clinic, one of the biggest website online about health just released a new article about the Top 10 skin irritants. Those substances were studied very carefully to evaluate how often they result in cases of dermatitis on the test subjects.
This study is actually revealing for acne sufferer too because everything that can be responsible for the swolloing of the skin can greatly aggravate the acne condition.
Here are the 10 most irritant substance according to the Mayo Clinic.
- Nickel
- Gold
- Balsam of Peru
- Thimerosal
- Neomycin Sulfate
- Fragrance mix
- Formaldehyde
- Cobalt chloride
- Bacitracin
- Quaternium
Now i understand that most of theses substances or material mean nothing to you, but i would strongly suggest you head over to read the original article, each of these substances are very well detailed.
The original article can be found here: http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2006-rst/3268.html
As an acne vitim, it can be very informative and practical to learn what to do to avoid exposing your acne to the previous substances.