Acne Treatments Need Better Scientific Research, Says Study – ABC News
a new study published in the Lancet found that common acne-fighting products lack proper research in documenting their effectiveness.
“The large number of products and product combinations, and the scarcity of comparative studies, has led to disparate guidelines with few recommendations being evidence-based,” lead author Hywel Williams from the Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology at the UK’s University of Nottingham, said in a statement.
Wouldn’t it be great if the skin care business dropped its “sciency” pretentions?
Here is an article by ABC News that points out the difficulty of doing double-blind clinical trials of skin care products. Without them, there can be (according to the standards of clinical research propagated by FDA) no claim of safety or efficacy in treating diseases. But the skin care industry does not adopt that standard and hides behind phony science that is really just a form af advertising-speak. Even where genuine attempts at clinical trials are made, the data are thin and unconvincing, as this article points out.
I prefer to go with natural approaches that have stood the test of time. Nature is not full of valueless gimmicks. They just do not survive.
