What's the difference between white willow bark and black willow bark?

Question by Me: What's the difference between white willow bark and black willow bark?
I'm not sure what's different about them or if they're the same thing, and I want to use whichever works best for acne.

Thank you!


Best answer:

Answer by oldtimekid2
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_willow they are just two different species of Willow trees (similar to how green grape vines and red grape vines are different species of grape vines). It also points out that both Black Willow and White Willow barks have Salicylic Acid (what Aspirin was first derived from before they made it from chemicals), but I've never heard of either one helping for acne.
Part of the hard problem with acne is that there are different causes for acne including hormones, oil on the skin (either made by the skin or from the environment), diet, and many other things... it's hard for any single product to take care of all of those causes without a variety of side effects (eg. dry skin, etc). Granted, you could try a number of skin health supplements like Biotin, Silica (commonly from Horsetail), Squalene, Borage Oil (specifically for the GLA, Gamma Linoleic Acid), Hyaluronic Acid, MSM, L-Cysteine, Collagen, and most antioxidants (like Vitamins A and C among others). Good luck and I hope I helped!

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