WHY is putting toothpaste on a pimple so effective?
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Well actually there is two main reasons.  The tooth paste contanais mainly to ingredients.  High ionic detergent concentrations(soap and minerals) and essential oils (menthol, alcanfor, etc)\n\nThe high detergent concentration over the blister helps to dry it out in a process call osmosis. This means that all the water inside the pimple is sucked out by the salts.\n\nThe essencial oils, gives you a relief sensantion because absorbs the heat formed by the inflamation of the tisse, and cool down the inflamatory process.\n\nBeware: if the tissue is open, you increase the risk of infection if you add any substances or device, unless is water and plain soap.
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Renewing Cleanser gently exfoliates dead skin\ncells allowing benzoyl peroxide to penetrate pores.\n\nRevitalizing Toner soothes and softens skin while\nremoving pore-clogging impurities.\n\nRepairing Lotion hydrates skin while penetrating\ndeep to stop acne-causing bacteria at the source\n\n\nIn that order :] I wouldn't suggest using Proactiv if your acne isn't that bad though. It made me severely break out.
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Toothpaste, yes, but be careful.\n\nAlthough you might not know it, you could be allergic to something in the toothpaste.  Even if you use it regularly to brush your teeth, you could have a reaction against your skin.  Toothpaste dries out the pimple, so if you want, just put some on overnight.\n\nNever heard of deoderant though.
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rind nutmeg (jaiphal) with unboiled milk and apply on affected area. This works as a magic. Pimples should disappear without leaving a mark.\nMake a paste by mixing honey and cinnamon powder. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. Repeat for two weeks, pimples will disappear forever.\nApply a mixture of 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder.\nMake orange peel paste by grinding it in some water. Apply on and around pimples.\nRub fresh garlic on and around pimples. Pimples will disappear without a mark with regular applications.\nMix 1 tablespoon groundnut oil with 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice to prevent formation of blackheads and pimples .\nApply fresh mint juice over the face every night for the treatment of pimples, insect stings, eczema, scabies, & other skin infections.\nGround drumstick pods and leaves and mix mixed with fresh lime juice, and apply on pimples. This is also good for blackheads and dark spots.\nApply a paste of fresh methi (fenugreek) leaves over the face every night for 10-15 minutes and washed with warm water. This will prevent pimples, blackheads, and wrinkles.\nMix groundnut oil with an equal amtount of fresh lime juice and apply on face. leave for 10-15 minutes and wash. It may be applied daily to prevent formation of blackheads and pimples.\nApply juice of raw papaya (including the skin and seed) on swelling pimples.\nApply fresh lime juice mixed to a glass of boiled milk as a face wash for pimples, blackheads, and cracked skin.\nMix lime juice and rose water in equal portions. Apply on affected area. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.\nApply ripe tomatoes pulp on pimples and keet upto 1 hour, then wash.\nMake a paste of roasted & powdered pomgranate skin with fresh lime juice and apply over boils, pimple, blackheads and whiteheads.\nApply grated potatoes as poultice to treat skin blemishes, wrinkles, boils, pimples, blackheads, whiteheads , etc.\nMake a paste of sandalwood with rose water. Apply on affected area. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.\nMake a paste of ground radish seeds with water and apply on face to remove blackheads.\nApply a paste of ground seasame seeds with water as poultice for inflammation of the skin due to allergies, skin rashes, and pimples.\nApply a paste of fresh fenugreek (methi) leaves in water over the face every night and washed with warm water in the morning for preventing pimples, blackheads, whiteheads, dryness, and wrinkles.\nApply a decoction on the face, made by boiling 1 teaspoon fenugreek (dana methi, methi) seeds in 1 liter water for a few of minutes for preventing pimples, blackheads, dryness, and wrinkles.\nMake a paste of ground orange peel with water. Apply on affected area. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.\nMake a paste of salt in vinegar. Rub it on the pimples. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.\nMake a paste of turmeric powder in mint juice. Apply on affected area. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.\nMake a paste of neem leaves with turmeric powder. Apply on affected area. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.\nApply of fresh mint juice over face every night to cure pimples or acne.\nDrinking of wheatgrass juice may remove acne.
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Depends on your lifestyle. If you brush really hard, do drugs, are bulimic, or eat a lot of lemons/high acidic foods, then yes it would probably be a good idea b/c these things can weaken the tooth enamel and flouride strengthens it. If none of those apply then brushing with a toothpaste that has flouride in it is fine.
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The recommended way to treat a pimple is by using salicylic acid treatments during the daytime (usually 1-2%) and benzoyl peroxide treatments at night (5-10%).\n\nHowever, good quick spot treatment is to use toothpaste (not gel) on the blemish and surrounding area. Leave it on until it dries. Then rinse it off with cool water. That will reduce the redness.
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Banish Those Pimples Treatment \n\n1Egg beaten\n1Teaspoon fresh lemon juice\n3Tablespoons fresh mint leaves washed and chopped\n1/2Cup plain yoghurt beaten\n\n1. Mix the first 3 ingredients together in a small dish and then into your scalp. \n2. While your scalp is getting treated, prepare another paste of yogurt and mint leaves. \n3. Wash face well. \n4. Pat dry. \n5. Apply the mint paste on your face. \n6. Leave it on for an hour. \n7. Rinse off with room temperature water. \n8. Repeat treatment atleast thrice a week for best results. \n9. Also, make sure to drink atleast 8-10 glasses of water everyday. \n10. Eat healthy and nutritious foods. \n11. You will soon be pimple free
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Yes it does actually! It's DISGUSTING but it helps a lot...I think I put it on my teeth for about 2 weeks, once a day. But only do your front teeth because it's so gross!
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you may think i'm crazy, but this seriously works for everybody i know that has tried it...\n\nDO NOTHING!!  \n\nseriously, the body has an incredible way of managing itself.  we try to make our faces less oily or more moist and less this or more that, and in doing so we mess up the natural balance our bodies are born with (using makeup screws with the balance too) so, if you do absolutely nothing to your face it will seriously clear up.  simply wash your face with water (distilled if you are serious) and nothing else, unless of course you have some nasty oil slick across your face from working on an engine or something.  just use water.   plain old water...  also try not to touch your face too much, and don't pop pimples, they will go away on their own.  once in a while you get one or two, but that is normal human biology, you just have to live with a couple every once in a while\n\ni'm not joking, this will seriously help you... and if it doesn't you haven't wasted any money on a product that didn't work, and you certainly cant do any harm at all either...
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First of all, yes it can.  Pimples are actually dirt and bacteria that get trapped in the hair follicle (pores).  The normal cycle for skin cells to regenerate themselves is approx. 14 days.  So if you continued to get dirt and bacteria in a certain spot, there could actually be two pimples in the same pore on a different cycle.  Secondly, if it is white, that's the white blood cells and puss that have put a protection layer around the bacteria to protect your skin.  It is fine to pop it with a tissue or something.  The problem is that our bodies automatically form scar tissue around foreign substance such as a pimple and the more you irritate it, the more scar tissue will form.  So use a tissue, press gently and then use a bit of alcohol to kill bacteria.
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Well it's best if you see a doctor about that. It's not good to pop pimples because you can get them infected.
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popping it is NOT the answer is why.\nWhen  it comes to a head (white or black cone) it is producing more oil.  The best way to relieve the pressure and open that is by cleansing.\n\nApply a warm/hot wash clothe to the area to "open" the pours.\nGet a gentle cleanser that has "oil remover" and gently in a circle pattern "on and around" it clean it well.  Be sure to rinse with a cooler water, and use a "sea breeze"  toner on top of it.\n\nIF you insist on popping, then do it after the warm/hot clothe and be sure to clean it very well.  That "head" your removing is bacteria (puss/oil). Soapy clean, and "toner" on the area, I actually always recommended Neosproran. You now have created a wound. DO moisturize your clean face at night with a light  anti bac lotion.\n\nZits are internal issues that let you know these things, your diet is not good, your hormones are nuts, you are sick/infection or its mostly genetic (your family had them too).\nI bet if you changed your diet, no grease, those zits would disappear with out an issue.\n\nTo reduce swelling, use a cold pack over a dry wash cloth applied to the area.
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Banish Those Pimples Treatment \n\n1Egg beaten\n1Teaspoon fresh lemon juice\n3Tablespoons fresh mint leaves washed and chopped\n1/2Cup plain yoghurt beaten\n\n1. Mix the first 3 ingredients together in a small dish and then into your scalp. \n2. While your scalp is getting treated, prepare another paste of yogurt and mint leaves. \n3. Wash face well. \n4. Pat dry. \n5. Apply the mint paste on your face. \n6. Leave it on for an hour. \n7. Rinse off with room temperature water. \n8. Repeat treatment atleast thrice a week for best results. \n9. Also, make sure to drink atleast 8-10 glasses of water everyday. \n10. Eat healthy and nutritious foods. \n11. You will soon be pimple free!
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goood genetics....lol.......use toothpaste,not the multicolored one's...the white flouride one's
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When we are young, about ten and under fluoride works systemically, meaning from within.  Because teeth are still developing, the f2 helps with the formation of the enamel and dentin.  Have you ever seen children with white spots that are part of their natural tooth structure?  This is called fluorosis and is just an ingestion of to much f2.  As we get older and our tooth formation is complete f2 works from the outside, meaning it coats and covers your teeth helping them to resist bacteria and make teeth stronger.  Sometimes we use too much toothpaste on our little one's toothbrush, thus leading to the white spots.  The spots are not dangerous, just sometimes unsightly.  The issue with using too much toothpaste on a young child's toothbrush is fear of overdose which can be fatal, even in small doses.  so make sure to use a very small amount on a child younger then six to be sure this is not an issue.
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Rembrant PLUS.  Whitens, not too minty, not too foamy (up till now I've hated ALL toothpastes because of all the foam), full of hyrogen peroxide so it cleans completely and bubbles clean between your teeth.  A little pricey, but worth it in my opinion.
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no. you are actually getting pimples from your toothbrush. certain types of pimples are caused by viruses. your toothbrush keeps touching pimples on your skin, and then touches parts of your face that did not have pimples before, which spreads the virus and results in more pimples.