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Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. Model Gigi Hadid does it. Actresses Selena Gomez and Amanda Seyfried do, too. Olivia Munn also used to apply ...

Gigi Hadid does it. Selena Gomez and Amanda Seyfried do, too. Olivia Munn also used to apply toothpaste to her pimples but has since wised up to this acne treatment hack. The stars, they’re just like ...

Toothpaste can irritate and dry out the skin, worsening acne. Triclosan in toothpaste is less effective than other acne treatments. Hydrocolloid patches absorb fluid and reduce inflammation to heal ...

While toothpaste may dry out pimples, it may irritate the skin and have other risks. You’re washing your face before bedtime and spot the beginnings of an angry red pimple. What should you do? The ...

Most of us have heard a number of beauty myths over the years that some seem to swear by. But one of the most prominent is that using toothpaste as a spot treatment will get rid of pimples overnight.

Remember the trick of putting toothpaste on your pimples overnight, which purportedly dried out acne? This old-school tip is enjoying a resurgence as a skin hack on TikTok and other social media ...

It’s one of those old skin care tricks that pops up whenever people talk about home remedies for spots. But does toothpaste get rid of pimples? Or are we doing more harm than good? According to Dr ...

Still treating your zits with toothpaste? According to a dermatologist, the old-school method (which might contain the dangerous compound triclosan) is likely to just make your blemishes and skin in ...

There were a lot of things I did in middle school that I thought were pretty smart—like using a code word when writing poems about my crush, having a different-colored binders for every single class, ...

“Using toothpaste for acne typically does more harm than good,” says S. Tyler Hollmig, MD, the director of laser and cosmetic dermatology at the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School.