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Sulfur is the eighth most abundant mineral in the human body. Sulfur is the mineral in the body responsible for beauty. It is the primary mineral in the skin, hair, nails, liver, and pancreas. Sulfur allows for the absorption of all other minerals allowing them utilized more efficiently in the body. Sulfur creates permeability in the absorption of other minerals. Sulfur works synergistically with vitamin C to create collagen. Sulfur helps alleviate wrinkles, and skin damage, including scarring. Sulfur helps repair injured joints, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue. Sulfur helps build sulfur-bearing amino acids, which detoxify the liver, nourish the hair and skin, and build flexible muscle.

Signs of sulfur deficiency in the body include: skin conditions such as acne, brittle hair, dry skin, inflammation, poor skin quality, rosacea, scars, skin disorders, weak nails, and wrinkles. Muscular problems indicating a sulfur deficiency include; arthritis, back pain, muscle pain, nerve disorders, connective tissue damage, and various other muscle/skeletal disorders. Other signs of a sulfur deficiency in the body may present as constipation, free radical damage, infection, insulin/blood sugar challenges, leathery organs/tissue/skin, liver stagnation, liver disease, migraines, , protein deficiency, stress, urinary tract disorders, asthma, and circulatory problems.

From roughly 3,000 B.C. has been used for it's antifungal and antibacterial properties. Sulfur is an effective treatment of inflammatory pimples and acne lesions, gradually eliminating the dark scars left by pimples. During the time of Hippocrates, sulfur was used to treat acne and has also been used to treat other skin conditions such as rosacea, dermatitis, warts and dandruff. Likewise, sulfur was used until 1940 for topical battle wounds and other topical infections until the advent of systemic antibiotics.

Sulfur has been used for the treatment of rosacea for over 20 years, and clinical studies have demonstrated that it is extremely effective in the treatment of rosacea-related papules and pustules (Drs. Ellis and Strawiski). Many dermatologists tailor rosacea treatments to the individual by varying the concentration of sulfur in a given preparation (from 2 percent to 15 percent sulfur). Because rosacea is a chronic disease, treatment must usually be continued for a long period of time. For this reason, Drs. Blom and Hornmark were interested in a non-toxic, topically administered treatment that would be as effective as orally administered drugs such as antibiotics. To date, these medical physicians use topical sulfur as their primary anti-rosacea treatment (Drs. Blom and Hornmark. In a double-blind clinical study of 40 rosacea patients, these physicians found that rosacea-related papules and pustules responded much better to topical 10 percent sulfur than to oral antibiotics. More specifically, they found that with four weeks of topical sulfur treatment, the average number of papules and pustules dropped significantly (from 213 pimples before treatment to 17 pimples after treatment), that this clearing was much better than that attained by treatment with oral tetracycline. In a separate series of clinical studies, similar results were found by Dr. Strauss and colleagues.