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Got Acne? There’s An App For That

Posted by: Leonora Epstein Filed in: style
12:10PM, Tuesday February 9th 2010

Are you a victim of cell phone zits? Now there’s a new iPhone application that can potentially combat this problem while you engage in the very same activity. Called AcneApp and developed by dermatologist Greg Pearson, the program emits red and blue nanometer lights, which are thought to help treat acne by destroying bacteria. Sound like some invention from a science-fiction comedy? Well, the $1.99 app hasn’t been thoroughly tested and even Pearson himself expresses doubt as to whether it works, explaining, “This would have to go through a lot more clinical study before I could quantify its efficacy.” In addition, dermatologists aren’t sure that this particular type of light therapy really works in treating pimples.

So what do you think? Is the AcneApp the stuff of futuristic fantasies or a potentially helpful skin treatment? [Daily Mail]

comments

FranCan
wrote on February 9 2010 @ 12:16 pm: [report]

My beautician uses a lamp that produces such kind of light in order to help your skin heal after a treatment such a epidermabrasion, but I’m pretty sure the lights in her lamp are a tad more powerful than the iPhone screen lights…

Riley
wrote on February 9 2010 @ 12:27 pm: [report]

Gullible? There’s an app for that.

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on February 9 2010 @ 12:29 pm: [report]

@Riley: Really?!

.....s*it.

dizzy
wrote on February 9 2010 @ 12:32 pm: [report]

Blue and Red high-powered lights have been proven to help eliminate acne, but only at certain wavelengths, and it is important that such lamps are UV-free. This looks bogus to me.