IODINE-BASED SCAR CURES

People here have had great success healing scars and other blemishes with iodine alone, but there are other things you can use with iodine to make it work better. Please be gentle with these powerful products, especially for visible scars.  Please make suggestions for improving this list!

1. IODINE. Some on this forum have said internal iodine works as well as topical iodine for scars. I would do both.

2. PENETRATORS, such as DMSO and Emu Oil, cause topical iodine to enter the skin.

Emu oil is often used alone for scars. It is soothing and moisturizing. It is good for acne. Emu oil is more gentle than DMSO, but DMSO is more effective as a penetrator.

Dr. Jonathan Wright says DMSO mixed 50/50 with iodine will make keloid scars go away. DMSO should be used with caution because it is such a strong penetrator. If there is any contamination on the skin, the DMSO will cause that to enter the skin too. http://www.tahoma-clinic.com/iodide.shtml 

""Keloids' are abnormally thick scars, sometimes as much as an inch thick, that can form after injury. Although anyone can get a keloid, they're more common among blacks than other ethnic groups. Rubbing SSKI into a keloid at least twice daily will ultimately flatten them down to a "normal scar", but it can take many months to a year for particularly bad ones. The treatment goes faster if SSKI is mixed '50-50' with DMSO."

3. NEEDLING. This means using needles to punch holes in the scar tissue, to break it up.. This can be done with a tiny hyperdermic needle, with a tattoo gun, or with a Dermaroller. A Dermaroller has a cylinder with about 200 needles on it, and you roll it over the skin to make thousands of microscopic punctures. Dermarollers come with various size needles, and you should get one with needles 1.0mm to 1.5mm long. Good Dermarollers are about $100 on Ebay, where they are sometimes called Derma Roller or Skin Roller. Most are knock-offs, because the original is very expensive. The Dermaroller can be used as a penetrator too, if you apply iodine, etc., to the freshy punched needle holes.

http://www.dermaroller.de/Page2.htm (the original)
http://www.clearskincare.com.au/skin_needling.html 
http://www.microneedle.com/

4. SOOTHERS. If the treatment is too irritating, back off or use a topical soother such as Aloe gel.

5. CLEANSING. There is plenty of info at CureZone on cleaning out the colon, liver, and kidneys.

6. COFFEE ENEMA. Besides cleaning the liver, people always talk about how amazing this is for the skin.

7. DIET. The 3-day-facelift, anti-inflammatory diet from Dr. Perricone might help. It is mostly salmon, salad, and berries. If you can bare to eat sardines, those should have a similar effect. Some people like sardines.  
http://www.nvperriconemd.com/index.cfm?action=home.the_nutrition

8. SUPPLEMENTS. Jarrow makes a product called BioSil, that is excellent for improving the skin. It is a liquid silicon you take internally.  You take 6-20 drops in an empty capsule, because it tastes too bad to take it any other way. http://www.jarrow.com/biosil/

If you need to rebuild collagen, then Dr. Mathias Rath recommends high-doses of ordinary (cheap) vitamin C, along with some ordinary amino acids: Lysine and/or Proline.

You can use hair-mineral analysis to see if you are low or high in any minerals, then you can supplement with whatever you  need more of. For example, low zinc could cause skin to heal poorly.  http://meridianvalleylab.com/mineral_accu-min.html

9. AGNIJITH. This is a topical burn-scar treatment from India. http://www.padanjaly.com/

10. CASHEW EXTRACT.  This is a topical treatment for scars, moles, etc., from the Philippines. http://www.rccamazingtouch.com/

What Else?

There are certainly many other effective remedies and categories missing from the list; such as Traditional Chinese Medicine. Please help improve this list. Thanks!