Tazorotene (Tazorac, Avage) Reviews

I have been using this product faithfully for three years, each or every other night. I wash with a prescribed benzoyl peroxide wash and then apply. At first it took my skin some time to adjust and for all the new lesions to come to a head and go away, but then my face, my back, and my buttocks are doing much better.

Any smallmeduim acne is completely gone (I have cystic on back, buttocks and rarely face) and ALL acne on my face is gone, in fact my face looks fantastic.

I always get compliments on my skin and its tone, from EVERYONE and I am a very fair, sensitive skinned blonde. The secret to the redness is to start slow, every other day, give it time and be CONSISTENT. Over time things will balance out.

I also wonder whether people that were having problems with drying have tried applying a non acne producing cream on their skin first, letting it absorb and then applying the Tazorac. I do this if I ever have dryness or itching.

Also, going off and on it is horrible for your skin, so either stick with it or move on to other products. Otherwise you'll always be starting over from scratch and getting all the negatives of the beginning and never get the full benefits of what the product is intended to do. It does fabulous things for increasing blood to the face and if you have problems with broken blood vessels from sun or redness they have lazers that can quickly zap those away with no pain or recovery. This has been a life saver. I have tried EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been using Tazorac (.5%) cream for over 2 years now. It has worked the best of all meds I've tried - and the list is large: OTC meds (Benzoyl peroxide & salicylic acid), Retin-A Micro, Tetracycline & numerous Birth control pills have done no good. My derm prescribed Tazorac for use once per day in the evening all over and Benzaclin for spot treating during the day. The combo made my skin VERY red and peely, but cleared up most of my acne, and my skin got used to it and stopped peeling and becoming so irritated.

I used to get several pimples on chin, above mouth, between eyes & sometimes on forehead all at one time. For the first few months of using Tazorac & Benzaclin, acne was great. The peeling and redness subsided when I stopped using the Benzaclin. 2 years into the treatment, I am looking for something else, or to increase my concentration to the .1% cream. I've started developing acne on my chin again that is quite severe and hard to go out in public with. I'm also starting to peel and get red again, which means I can't really cover the acne with make-up because it peels off. I normally leave the Taz on all night long since I've been using it for so long my skin is used to it, but I wonder if maybe I should use it for only 15-20 minutes and then wash it off like some other people have mentioned doing.

The thought of trying Accutane freaks me out - the side effects seem way to scary - suicide tendencies from an acne medication!?!?! What's up with that? For someone who turns into a bit of a psycho right before my monthly cycle, I can't imagine trying something for acne that has a history of depression & suicide - not to mention joint pain and damage, etc.

Ahh acne is frustrating, but Tazorac has helped me for a couple of years, and that's more than I can say for any other acne med!

Not bad! I think this is the best topical and the second best acne medication next to accutane. It does make skin peel, and as my derm said many its ineffective on many people, but I was lucky. I noticed results in like 3 days. Go ahead and risk it! It works miracles on some, and horrors on others but try it...

I used this stuff for a few weeks and its peeling my face and making my mild acne worse. It worked the first day and then it got worse. its expensive as [censored] too.

My derm told me to wait 8-12 weeks for results. Somehow I endured the side effects for that time period, and I temporarily had no more bumpiness on my forehead and nose. However, the day or two after I used it, my skin would look weird, a little red and worn. I recently got off Tazorac to try more organic methods of skin care, which of course, are not working as well as I'd like. My skin was slightly better on Tazorac, but now my skin does not get extremely dried out and I don't have to slip away to the bathroom during work to find where my skin is peeling. Mixed results requiring a lot of patience.

ive been using it for 6 weeks now and im still breaking out horribly.. its bringing everything tot he surface and leaving little red areas all over.. the red areas then get white but i cant pop them because theyre in the skin!.. my face is soooo sensitive now and it hurts all the time.. i can barely use a little makeup on my face without it hurting more, feeling gross, or without having my skin peel. i try to reduce the redness with the makeup.. covering everything up wont work.. and its been bringing all the whiteheads to the surface of my skin but doing nothing to get rid of them and its been making some pores big... grahhh i dont know if i should stop using it or continue with it.., i might need toi be on it longer to see results but i couldve had results by now if i was on accutane... thats my next step

Tazorac is the best stuff I have ever used for clearing my skin-- I literally stopped breaking out completely. But It made my skin super sensitive to wind and cold. I live in TX but got married in NJ in Jan, and it was 17 degrees and my skin got totally windburned, so I went to my mom's derm to make sure I looked ok for the wedding. He switched me off Tazorac b/c he said it was too irritating, and put me on azelex. Didn't work-- started breaking out. So he switched me to Klaron, now I get blackheads. I am going to give the Klaron another month, after that, I am going back to Tazorac.

Yes, the first month is rough, and sun and extreme cold are no good, but the stuff absolutely made my skin look clear. I got complements all the time! but it does get irritated...

I have been using this cream for 6 months. At first it cleared my skin up (only moderate acne), about two months later I developed the dryest skin I have even seen on my skin. I was so red and dry it looked bruised. I stopped putting the cream in that area and received a presciption for the dryness, but Now my acne is coming back near my laugh lines, and it is the worse acne ever, and tazorac is not helping.

This is by far the best treatment I've used yet. I HIGHLY recommend the CREAM over the GEL. I've experienced both and the gel is absolutely horrid. Doesn't seem as effective, leaves face VERY greasy, and overall leaves face looking like crap. The cream makes face a bit shiny after applying...but I just usually wait about an hour after I apply at night and then "pat" my face with a towel, and my face doesn't look "greasy" or "shiny" at all. Basically I use it every 2 nights, apply at night, to entire face....YES it does sting a little, but not worth avoiding the product, because the [censored] does indeed work.

i've been using tazorac with benzaclin for the past two years, and they've completely cleared my face! it only took about a month for my face to be completely clear, and i would highly recommend this stuff :D