The Causes of Acne Vary

Acne information is readily available across the internet, but do beware of the source; not every website that has information on acne is presenting completely legitimate information.  You may come across a website that is merely trying to sell products and thus they are full of hype about how wonderful their products are and why they work.  At the same time, they may not be presenting you with information that presents alternatives or why the alternative products might be better for you.  Therefore, it’s best to glean your acne information from established authority sites that present the entire picture to you and not just part of it—even if that site presents their information in layman’s terms, a site that presents both sides of a coin is much more trustworthy than a site that is too narrowly focused on their products and claims.

If a site you land on shows bias towards certain types of treatments, then most likely you are not going to gain unbiased facts about acne either.  Any site that you trust should give some sort of declaration as to where they’ve gathered information.  For instance here, on the home page we made it clear up front: “All of the acne information we provide is current and derived from references such as government organizations, national organizations, and scholastic institutions. Therefore, we are able to provide you with the most accurate information on how to get clear skin with an acne treatment”.  We are compiling a reference here without bias to specific products and treatments as any authority site should.  So, before you buy into information posted on other sites, be sure to see if you can identify the sources of their information; any legitimate site will post their references plainly as we have.


Acne Causes Obtained from Trusted Institutions

Here we derive our acne information from trusted institutions such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. National Library of Medicine; together these two government sites present Medline Plus which is a virtual encyclopedia of medical terms, conditions, medications, herbs and supplements.  Additionally we derive information from the Mayo Clinic, the American Academy of Dermatology and other sites recommended by Medline Plus for further information.  We do not simply surf the web for acne information and present it here as truth.  We read from more than one of the trusted sources mentioned here and write a synopsis of the information in terms we hope our readers understand.

Larger manufactures, drug companies and cosmetic companies with extensive product lines often offer an array of products that make use of the variety of active ingredients for over-the-counter remedies for acne.  Since these companies are not simply trying to promote one type of acne remedy, they sometimes have excellent, well rounded information to help educate consumers so they can choose the right acne products.

You should be wary of product manufactures that only produce a certain limited brand of acne products that are all based on the same active ingredient.  These types of companies promote the effectiveness of those products without defining the other types of products available that use different active ingredients.

Websites that only provide information on one brand should also be avoided.  Stick with authority sites like ours that research information from trusted sources and clearly state their sources on some part of their site.