Ya know, Chlorine.

[Undermine 1]

I had pretty horrible acne on my back, it was numerous and inflamed. Well recently i've taken up swimming at my pool, been doing so for about a week. I checked my back about 2 day's ago, and I was freaking shocked.

The acne was alot milder, redness had faded away and it was healing. So I am thinking, maybe I should wash in chlorine water more often..

[mr.mike 0]

Chlorine kills bacteria.

Its a good sign that you should use some anti bacterial wash on your back when your not swimming.

[alaskacne 0]

Lol this might be kinda crazy, but has anyone ever put chlorine in their bathtub and just layed in it? id do it, if it was safe

[clearlyunclear 0]

  alaskacne said:

Lol this might be kinda crazy, but has anyone ever put chlorine in their bathtub and just layed in it? id do it, if it was safe

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[jeffb 0]

Plus, you'd have terrible fumes.

[alaskacne 0]

What is you just put a small amount in?

[LiLMeiMei 0]

Is it that hard to find a pool?

[alaskacne 0]

LOL i live in alaska, so yes lol. And the one that i could go to, is packed and i would never get in my body acne

[=kat= 2]

ok, I work in a pool, so deal with some of the chemicals and stuff. Putting cholrine in the bathtub is a very very bad idea. The chemicals that are used in swimming pool aren't just cholrine. Alot of the other chemicals that are used in the pool could be beneficial in thier own way. I swim alot and the pool doesnt have much benefit to be as I suffer with dry cysts. Though tbh it can give you some clues on what acne treatment could work better than others.

Cholorine is just the comment name for the chemical which is used in pools, peope have always called it that because it smells like cholrine. It is one of the active ingrediemts although the chemical is Calcium Hypochlorite. Its a basically a calcium and cholorine compund and has alot of other ingredients in to make it safe. If i use this chemical of something I need to have full protective equipment including a gas mask just to put it inot the filter system. It is not somthing to be played about with. If you are looking for an acne treatment to mirror this you would need to look for a drying topical to apply just after a bath, that was alkaline and antibacterial as these are the HTH propeties.

Also, because the HTH is so Alkaline they have to use Hydrochloric acid to balence it out on the system. This also has antibacteirial propertie and could be found in a simlar situation in say a sayllic acid body wash.

Another massive ingredient is actually sodium. As in salt. This is the one I found incredibly useful. As some of my cysts woud get infected. I only discovered this after I had a pericing done and I was told to take salt watrer baths to keep it clean. You dont want to use table salt as its been bleached and shit. Use pure sea salt and put it into a hot bath. The bath is now completly clean from the salt and its actually really good.

My best advice however is just to get to the swimming pool more, it will do you good not just for your skin but for the rest of you. Dont attempt to re create a pool in your bath. I still get it wrong somtimes with an electronic dosing system to do the work. Its just not that easy.

[anise 0]

U can take a bath and add "Chlorine" into it with a ratio of 1:200 (water). Make sure u are in a airy room and separate it from any kinda acid ( which can react with OCl- ion and evolve toxic Chlorine gas)

OR simple use Dettol

[=kat= 2]

dettol with irritate the skin as will cholorine.

The sutff they put in the pools is not pure chlorine. Its a mixture of cholorine and other chemicals which produce that effect.

[jorrellpogi 0]

When I'm 10 yrs. old my classmate told me it's ok to pee in the pool because it has chlorine... so we always pee in the pool during our swimming class and it's cool... very warm water

[=kat= 2]

ewwww

Actually, the germs and bacteria are almost instantly elimnated as a result of the calcium hypochloride (HTH chlorine) still swimming in my own piss doesn't really appeal, i think just getting up and going to the toilet would be fine.

[michael1019 1]

my acne always seems to be better after going swimming

[EHayes 0]

  michael1019 said:

my acne always seems to be better after going swimming

I'm a swimmer, chlorine is overrated

[sayitloud 0]

  EHayes said:

  michael1019 said:

my acne always seems to be better after going swimming

I'm a swimmer, chlorine is overrated

yeah, a friend of mine is a life guard and teaches lessons so he's in the pool alot. and he still has acne. He's gone on accuntane though, so he's getting better.

[region7cards 0]

its seems at summertime when im out in the sun and swimming tha my acne is never a problem i had never had bacne before but then right when school started it just showed up

[matt f 17]

I used to swim 6-8 times a week back when my acne was on the mild level and it didn't seem to help....it really dried my skin out. However I watched the British Swimming Champs recently and all the swimmers seemed to have great skin (body and face) and they were all late teens/earlier twenties.

[TheGoodSon 3]

  On 8/11/2005 at 12:04 AM, jorrellpogi said:

When I'm 10 yrs. old my classmate told me it's ok to pee in the pool because it has chlorine... so we always pee in the pool during our swimming class and it's cool... very warm water

I'm not adding anything useful here.... but LOL!!!!!

[nick93 15]

  On 3/30/2006 at 4:45 AM, region7cards said:

its seems at summertime when im out in the sun and swimming tha my acne is never a problem i had never had bacne before but then right when school started it just showed up

Same situation here. I go from really mild acne during the summer months, to moderate/severe during the school year. I think it must have something to do with sun, but I don't know!! Vitamin D pills didn't seem to help me. If you find something that works for you I'd like to know because it sounds like we might be pretty similar.

[Hunter6932 0]

Depending on your skin type and cause of acne the pool and chemicals in it can be beneficial.  I'm 35 and never had bad acne till I was 28. I'm told it's hormones. I've also spent thousands of dollars on every product under the sun over the past 7 years and nothing works. I recently joined a new gym and started using the indoor pool and hot tub 2 or 3 times a week. My acne is finally clearing up! I think the water and chemicals are definitely helping me. But it's important to note it's not good for everyone. Some people have an adverse reaction and it can cause more acne...I think because my skin is a little oily the chemicals dry it out like nothing else can and it's preventing new blemishes. I also use a good night moisturizer to counteract the dryness and keep my elasticity.