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Would you try urine as a cure for acne?

After writing the article below on urine as a cure for acne, my niece who suffers from acne read it, and she said she would be willing to try it even though I found it no scientific evidence to suggest rubbing pee on your face cures acne. This surprised me, a lot, and got me wondering how many people would try this outlandish cure.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2024584/does_urine_cure_acne.html?cat=69

If you suffered from severe acne, would you try urine therapy?
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Marked as Best! October 27, 2009 09:06 PM
Hell no. I used to have horrible acne growing up, yet even then, there was one thing that all of my acne outbreaks had in common: they were transient. Even if I woke up one day with a horrible, bulging zit, if I treat it correctly, it'll be gone in the next couple days. And there are plenty of methods that you can try in the meantime -- creams, wipes, cortisol shots if you want to go all out.

This is one of those cases where you have to back up and really think about what you're going to be doing. You are either going to be drinking urine -- the waste products of your body -- or putting it on your face. Leave aside the fact that this isn't the most reliable of sources, and that there's little to no real proof. Even if there was, when there are so many options, it's ridiculous to choose the disgusting one.
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October 27, 2009 11:05 PM
That's why I wrote the article lol When i ran across this suggestion i just had to read into it, and not a single source I found brought up if it was factually affective.
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October 27, 2009 01:27 PM
There is no way on earth that I would do that. My whole head could turn into one giant pimple and burst all over my bedroom before I would put urine on my face. I would just as soon use poop as hand cream, or vomit as hair gel.

There are times when the cure is worse than the illness, and this is obviously one of those times. Can you imagine the smell? How could you even accomplish it without puking all over yourself? Then again, I guess having puke running down your shirt might not bother you if you are washing your face in pee...?

This is not outlandish, it is bizarre and disgusting.
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October 27, 2009 01:53 PM
Urine as a cure for acne? Well, maybe some of us had a mom, aunt, or grandmother, who used to lick their thumb and wipe off a smudge around our mouth when we were kids. From a purely scientific viewpoint, this practice should actually be more disgusting than wiping pee on your face, since saliva typically contains greater amounts of bacteria than urine does. So technically, urine would actually be more sanitary to use on your face than saliva. However, given what we know about urine (it is a waste product that exits our body through our private area) the use of urine for any hygienic purpose may seem completely absurd and almost self-defeating. However, urine has been found to be rich in nutrients, hormones, antibodies, and certain proteins that fight off infections. Also, since urine is a derivative of blood, it contains almost no micro-organisms (unlike saliva, which can be bacteria-infested) and can therefore be used as a topical treatment, as well as an ingestible treatment (which is likely the less favorable alternative). A person’s own urine is the most beneficial treatment for certain ailments since it contains among other elements antibodies specifically from that person’s own body that can help fight off effects of a disease. However, each person definitely has to decide for themselves whether the unpleasant effects (smell, taste, stinging, etc) of urine that may accompany topical application or ingestion during treatment efforts are worth finding a potential remedy or alleviation of the symptoms.
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Source used: http://www.ayurvedic-medicines.org/ayurveda/urine-therapy.htm
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October 27, 2009 05:56 PM
It may seem a bit absurd to some people, but i think that if you are serious about getting rid of acne, you have to give this a try. 
Here is a message board about people have have tested the Urotherapy method: http://www.acne.org/messageboard/urine-thingit-works-t165228.html&st=440
Here are a few links about what some of the benefits are:    http://www.all-natural.com/urine.html
http://www.acne.org/messageboard/Urine-therapy" rel="nofollow"> 
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October 27, 2009 06:13 PM
Rub it on my face? Maybe, as long as it was my own and only if I had really bad acne. Drink it to cure acne? Absolutely not.

Urine is actually sterile (unless you have a bladder infection of couse), so there's no reason for it to be harmful at all. In fact, drinking one's own urine has been a health craze in Europe for a long time. It's said to rejuvenate the body and replenish nutrients that are urinated out. Honestly? I would not drink my own pee, unless I was stuck in the middle of a desert with no other hope for survival. Then I might. It's just the gross out factor that's so bad.
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October 27, 2009 07:07 PM
no. but i have heard about mixing cinnamon and honey and make a paste
but it on the acne over night and watch your face the next day do this for a couple of weeks and it will remove the root of the acne.
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October 27, 2009 08:04 PM
If nothing else was working for me and it was continuing to get worse...then yes I would give it a try...but I would keep it to myself...people are cruel these days.
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October 27, 2009 10:02 PM
NEVER!!!!
That is just rediculous!!! I would think that the only beneficial part of the urine is the ammonia in it.So why not just rub your face with diluted ammonia???
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October 27, 2009 11:22 PM
When acne plagues a smiling face,
We hope it goes and leaves no trace,
About those bumps we fret and fuss,
And try the creams, and icky muss.

They say try honey, or take pills,
This cure will surely give you thrills,
But urine exits to a place,
Has naught to do with a bright face.

I will not try the urine cure,
I'll live with zits instead for sure,
If pee belonged upon my face,
The exit would have been there placed.

For those of you who try this trend,
I hope the pimples will soon end,
But me I to the door will haste,
Won't cover my face in body waste.

by LDM
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