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Reddit mentions of Acne.org 8 oz. Treatment (2.5% Benzoyl Peroxide)
Sentiment score: 8
Reddit mentions: 13
We found 13 Reddit mentions of Acne.org 8 oz. Treatment (2.5% Benzoyl Peroxide). Here are the top ones.
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- Gel based so it goes on smooth, absorbs quickly, does not "clump up," and does not turn white when you perspire.
Features:
Specs:
| Number of items | 1 |
| Size | 8 Fl Oz (Pack of 1) |
| Weight | 0.5 Pounds |
Skin
I'd recommend for skincare to start with the basics : cleanser, moisturizer, and spf.
Cleanser is to clean the dirt, sweat, and sebum off your skin.
Moisturizer is basically to put back into your skin what you took out when cleansing (cleansing removes some good stuff with the bad) and helps keep your skin healthy, a lot of moisturizers contain things that are important in your stratum corneum (the skin that we see) like lipids and ceramides (don't worry too much about this, it's just the sciency stuff, all you really need to know is that moisturizer restores good stuff to your skin).
SPF is to protect your skin from the sun, there are UVA and UVB rays. The SPF rating on a sunscreen is a rating on how well the product protects your skin from UVB rays (rays that cause a burn) and broad spectrum on american sunscreens means that it protects you from UVA rays as well (rays that age you and I believe can cause skin cancer). If you're looking at asian sunscreens, they rate protection from UVA rays with a PA+ rating, and I believe UK sunscreens use a PPD rating although I'm not sure how that works exactly. (basically you want broad spectrum, PA with 3 or 4+ signs, or a high PPD rating depending on where you're getting your sunscreen from).
For product recommendations, I'd say try cerave, they're a good brand and have quite a few options. I'd say try their hydrating or foaming cleanser, and either Cerave PM moisturizer or Cerave moisturizing cream (I'll leave links). Sunscreen is up to you, I prefer physical sunscreens (meaning they contain zinc oxide or titanium dioxide) but they can leave a whitecast. You can try some neutrogena sunscreens, I've heard good things about those too. So I'll put what your routine should be pretty much :
AM
PM
(don't use SPF at night lol)
Once you've got this down and you feel comfortable with it and you're seeing some improvement, you can add a treatment for acne/blackheads (those black spots on your nose, although they could be sebaceous filaments, I can't tell you for sure without pictures). If you want to focus on your blackheads, I'd say try a salicylic acid treatment (look at the ingredients on the back of the products, they should say salicylic acid as the active ingredient, if you need a suggestion, there's always stridex, it's what I use and I like it a lot) Salicylic acid is also a good acne treatment so that may help you clear up your acne too. If you want to focus on your acne, I'd say either try curology (worked wonders for me), or get a 2% or 5% benzoyl peroxide gel, and put it on your acne spots at night.
Hair
Generally what you want is a shampoo and a conditioner. Shampoo cleans your hair, and conditioner helps put back the nutrients in your hair that you stripped out with your shampoo (basically a moisturizer for your hair, it makes your hair feel soft and look nice) I'm guessing the white stuff is dandruff, so for right now I'd go for a head and shoulders shampoo and conditioner, be sure it says anti dandruff, and see how that goes for you.
Chapped Skin
Get aquaphor, or vaseline, or petroleum jelly and slap it on those suckers. It works wonders on cracked knuckles, chapped lips, pretty much anything of the sort. I love it (I personally use aquaphor)
Oily Skin
Oily skin isn't necessarily bad, just a lot of people don't like feeling oily/greasy during the day and try to combat it. A lot of people like the "dewy" look, which is different from oily, it's more like wet skin/glowing from within kinda look. I think your oily skin should calm down once you get a skincare routine set in place tho.
Harmful stuff
From what I understand, there aren't a lot of products that are "toxic" to the skin. There are just things that can irritate your skin or dry it out, which can cause acne or redness and a whole buncha other not so fun stuff. One of the things to avoid is sodium lauryl sulfate in your cleansers bc it's super harsh on your skin and can dry it out. That's an example more along the lines of things you would avoid and why, its just because it's too harsh for you skin. I don't really know of anything toxic and most of it is just stuff made up by companies to get you to buy their products.
I've helped with most of the stuff I can help with, but feel free to run anything by me if you need to, I'm always here to help! You can pm if you need to btw, especially if you plan on getting skincare products other than the ones I suggested bc I can look over the ingredients/reviews for ya and let you know what I think of them without having to teach you all the sciencey stuff lol which can get kinda boring
Links
Side Notes
Be careful when using the stridex pads if you do choose to use them, start with once a week and increase usage from there, as they can dry you out or cause irritation. Same with the benzoyl peroxide. Here is where you'd use either in your routine btw
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Hope this helps!! :)
Dude, seriously:
http://www.amazon.com/Acne-org-8-oz-Treatment/dp/B00164FKWW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1367899611&sr=8-2&keywords=acne.org
Try this stuff. Slather it on your face hardcore. All over your whole face. Rub it in gently, but use a lot of it and rub gently til it's all in. Then moisturize. Do this two times a day you'll see a HUGE improvement.
I don't have terrible acne but worse than most and it's cleared it all up, my face feels great and it's also drastically decreased the presence of blackheads. This stuff is a godsend.
Good luck!
Edit: I just saw u/Scumteam14 adding a few notes about what you tried that may make my answer irrelevant, so please follow with what they said, They know their stuff. I will leave the recommendations if someone else has a similar case and is not sensitive to the actives I mentioned.
I would recommend benzoyl peroxide - https://www.amazon.com/Acne-org-Treatment-2-5-Benzoyl-Peroxide/dp/B00164FKWW
Add it to your current routine after cleansing and before you moisturize. Apply it liberally, all over your entire face, not just on individual breakouts. Wait 10 minutes for it to totally dry then moisturize.
It might make your skin a bit red for the first few weeks but your skin will get used to it.
EDIT: As for the facial brush, I wouldn't recommend it while you have active inflamed acne.
The acne I had sounds similar to how you describe yours, cleanse > benzoyl peroxide > moisturize every morning and night is what brought mine under control.
Honestly thats understandable, but from my 10 years of trial and error i found that its never provides a consistent complexion. Changing variables such as diet, vitamins, sleep, water, non-comedogenic products, washing 1x daily , twice daily, not at all seem to always lead be back to square one.
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I hate using chemical products as well but, the chemicals provide reliability. This is what I use now. keep in mind that this regimen i got 95% clear consistently, quit because i thought i didnt need it anymore. only have the nightmares bumps come back and have to go through the whole process again. which put me back 4 months just to get clear again. And I did this 4 times, dumb me...
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1, cerave foaming face cleanser
2. paula choice salicydic acid
3. acne.org benzyl peroxide gel
4. cerave nightime pm moisturizer stacked with cerave moisturizing cream.
5 paula choice aha gel for exfoliation.
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Instructions.
Use 1,2,3 wait 10 mins, then 4 day time
then at night or when u take shower use 1,2,3,5,
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Good luck.
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links below
cleanser
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pm
heavy moisturuzier
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Ugh, I hate that you spent money on that spray because it looks like bullshit to me. Alcohol is an irritant and so is menthol.
As for the video, most people on this sub are going to recommend AGAINST physical exfoliation on acne. It can cause micro-tears and make your issue worse.
In my personal, non-medical opinion, body acne is different from facial acne. Whereas facial acne has a lot of causes- hormones, whatever- body acne seems more linked to bacteria because it is worse if you play sports or work out a lot or whatever. I have even read some say that it can actually be a localized staph infection. Yikes! For that reason, I think benzoyl peroxide treatments are more effective than salicylic acid treatments because BP is more antibacterial.
As for a recommendation, I agree with the video that you should cleanse the area with a mild, non-scented soap, but dont scrub! Just wash it as your would your face. Then, I would find a leave-on benzoyl peroxide treatment. At most drug stores this is going to be a spot treatment and you're going to pay $5-$10 for like, one ounce of the stuff and it sounds like you have a large area to cover. Instead, I would look into this stuff acne.org treatment because you get a lot of product for not much money. Shower with your gentle soap, then dry off and apply this stuff. May want to wait a bit for it to settle in, and then apply a mild moisturizer after, if your skin gets too dry.
Best of luck.
That's a wash. Get something like this. Also be careful with it. It's easy to fuck up your skin by using too much.
It looks like a mix of folliculitis caused by malassezia (fungal acne) and bacterial acne. I'm not sure but all products below are safe for skin with fungal / bacterial acne.
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This one is really good, and comes in a massive bottle: https://www.amazon.com/Acne-org-Treatment-2-5-Benzoyl-Peroxide/dp/B00164FKWW/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1549141161&sr=8-3&keywords=acne.org+treatment
i use acne.org treatment whenever i feel like i am getting a breakout. its very light, and seems to work well.. usually just put it on before bed (after showering).
http://www.amazon.com/Acne-org-8-oz-Treatment/dp/B00164FKWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323116104&sr=8-1
Just get this. I've been using for a good 8 years.
http://www.amazon.com/Acne-org-Treatment-2-5-Benzoyl-Peroxide/dp/B00164FKWW
http://store.acne.org/single-items/treatment
You can definitely use that, although this would be cheaper ($10 more for 3x as much). Whether or not you use BP and SA on the same day is up to you. If you find the combo drying, then skipping the SA on BP days is a good idea.
I would go with benzoyl peroxide. Get one that can be used all over the face (such as Acne.org's) and start by using it every other night before moisturizing, and once your skin tolerates it more - usually about a month - you can start using it every day. As with any skin treatment, it'll most likely take a couple months for you to see any changes, it's annoying but don't lose hope.