Resveratrol Helps Get Rid of Acne

Those red bumps and pus-filled lesions commonly associated with teenage years are unfortunately a common skin condition in adults as well.²⁵³ Adding insult to injury, people with darker skin tones (Fitzpatrick skin types III-V) are more likely to experience hyperpigmentation after inflammatory acne clears up.¹⁷ But recent scientific research involving a topical form of resveratrol may have found a natural solution from a plant used in traditional Ayurveda medicine to treat skin diseases (e.g., psoriasis and fungal infections) to this unappealing and stressful condition.¹⁷

Called bakuchiol cream, this patented form of resveratrol developed from babchi plant seeds was recently tested in a clinical setting on 13 patients with facial acne. Over the course of the 16-week study over 50% of the patients had more than a 35% reduction in inflammatory pimples, and 39% of participants reduced non-inflammatory lesions by the same amount. In all, three of the thirteen patients experienced over 35% reduction in total pimple count.¹⁷

Perhaps even more exciting was that the resveratrol cream significantly reduced the incidence of post-acne hyperpigmentation. While prior to the study only one of the patients had no significant post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, use of the cream healed the inflammatory acne lesions with little or no discoloration in five of the thirteen participants.¹⁷