Treat Acne with Coconut Oil and Nano-Bombs

San Diego, CA, April 14, 2010 -- A natural product found in both coconut oil and human breast milk lauric acid -- shines as a possible new acne treatment thanks to a bioengineering graduate student from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The student developed a smart delivery system published in the journal ACS Nano in March capable of delivering lauric-acid-filled nano-scale bombs directly to skin-dwelling bacteria (Propionibacterium acnes) that cause common acne. Read more at: http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=932

On Thursday April 15, bioengineering graduate student Dissaya Nu Pornpattananangkul will present her most recent work on this experimental acne-drug-delivery system at Research Expo, the annual research conference of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Jacobs School of Engineering
• UCSD
• UC San Diego
• Acne
• coconut oil
• lauric acid
• liposome
• nanotechnology
• nanoengineering
• nanoparticles
• gold nanoparticles
• Propionibacterium acnes
• Research Expo

[LGMCBrixton]

Why does everything to help cure have to be a drug produced and patented by big pharma? Lauric acid occurs naturally in virgin cold pressed coconut oil, and it is cheap. It also includes a very effective delivery system. It's called 'your finger'. Just rub it on your acne and it will be gone in a matter of days. Not a lot of profit for big phama, sorry, but probably just as effective.

[mkup4ever]

There are skincare products now on the market that contain Lauric acid but without the nano gold delivery system. Can acne sufferers benefit from these products? I know they will not be as effective, but will they have some effect on acne?