Toothpaste has long been used as a spot treatment for acne, or at least more recently it has.  After all, we like using household products, also including Windex.  So I looked into toothpaste, tried it out, researched the ingredients, you get the basic idea.  What I found was not pleasing.  On one hand, toothpaste is an effective spot treatment for acne!

If you have ever used it, you know from personal experience that your zit goes down within minutes, and frankly speaking, you may even feel it going down in size and otherwise.  That’s good, we like immediate results, instant gratification.  But at the same time, that instant gratification comes with a price.

The active ingredient in toothpaste is actually burning and breaking down your skin!  It reduces the size, but leaves a huge red spot to say the least that you can cover up with makeup, but it really shouldn’t be there.  Essentially speaking, were it like benzoyl peroxide, it would ideally kill off all bacteria and get at the source.  But I wouldn’t even give it that much credit.  It is just damaging your skin, and while the inflammation will go down, the zit itself will actually take longer to heal after using toothpaste!