Are you suffering from severe acne? Then you are probably frustrated with the hosts of medications, treatments, and ointments that just doesn’t seem to work. You might want to try this simple acne remedy: milk of magnesia.

A 16-year old boy with cystic nodular acne claims to have experienced great improvements after applying milk of magnesia on his face before sleeping at night. The mother of the boy claims that her son who have been under the care of a dermatologist have not looked this good in years.

Apparently even if they have spent lots of money to cure his son’s problem, nothing works better than the home remedy: milk of magnesia. It may sound too good to be true but their claim is not so hard to believe because milk of magnesia (aka MoM) is best known for its laxative action. The MoM is a solution of magnesium hydroxide and the reason of its ability to cure acne is still unknown.

However there have been reports that the laxative properties can treat seborrheic dermatitis. Seborrheic dermatitis is a a skin problem characterized with redness and flakes caused by yeast on the skin. This skin condition usuall appears on the forehead, chin, scalp and eyebrows.