Thanks for all the info and help man, I appreciate it alot!! Yah sure I'll definitely ask around...I was thinking about ordering it online alright but I'll try and go to as many health/pharmacy shops first...and who knows I mightn't need it but yah thanks a million man

lol, Ireland is a bit of a shithole tbh...

lol you cant help where you were born at brotha!

DAY 6-MORNING

WOW my face is looking GREAT! i still havent had any new ones pop up and my left cheek(from the bad yogurt beakout) isnt fully healed but it was really bad and i can tell in about 3 or 4 more days the left side will be completely healed! my right cheek feels so smooth! still have red marks on both sides though. the two on my upper lip are practically gone and the one on the bottom lip thats been my biggest issue(lookin like herps) has reduced in size about 70% and is pretty much just a big scab now! i really dont want to pick it off and make it inflammed. but i can tel it will be healed in 3 days or less! im so excited for this soap! if i were to have given it a complete two weeks i know for 100% sure my face will be completely acne free by then! im going to continue to use thi stuff forever! and the best part is i still have 3/4 bottle left! i havent even used a quarter of it yet not even close! im thinking of starting to put lemon juice on my red marks to start the healing process of those as well. im going to go to walgreens and buy a baby brush soon as well more than likely as soon as this herps looking pimple is completely gone! im really prayin that i dont get any more new ones with this soap!!! i recommened this cleanser to everyone! i cant believe its only been 6 days!!! also i have been eating alot of junk lately. so im waiting for the 2 week mark to hit to see if this cleanser is going to stop any intruding breakouts from choclate and junk to surface the skin! i will keep you guys updated. Ill post again tonight if theres anything new!

DAY 6-MORNING

WOW my face is looking GREAT! i still havent had any new ones pop up and my left cheek(from the bad yogurt beakout) isnt fully healed but it was really bad and i can tell in about 3 or 4 more days the left side will be completely healed! my right cheek feels so smooth! still have red marks on both sides though. the two on my upper lip are practically gone and the one on the bottom lip thats been my biggest issue(lookin like herps) has reduced in size about 70% and is pretty much just a big scab now! i really dont want to pick it off and make it inflammed. but i can tel it will be healed in 3 days or less! im so excited for this soap! if i were to have given it a complete two weeks i know for 100% sure my face will be completely acne free by then! im going to continue to use thi stuff forever! and the best part is i still have 3/4 bottle left! i havent even used a quarter of it yet not even close! im thinking of starting to put lemon juice on my red marks to start the healing process of those as well. im going to go to walgreens and buy a baby brush soon as well more than likely as soon as this herps looking pimple is completely gone! im really prayin that i dont get any more new ones with this soap!!! i recommened this cleanser to everyone! i cant believe its only been 6 days!!! also i have been eating alot of junk lately. so im waiting for the 2 week mark to hit to see if this cleanser is going to stop any intruding breakouts from choclate and junk to surface the skin! i will keep you guys updated. Ill post again tonight if theres anything new!

 

Great news bro, I'm delighted for you damn that stuff seems legit as fuck...yah I'm gonna try and get my hands on this stuff...do you notice any irratation/burning etc after using it?? Oh and does is like foam up kinda after you rub it over your face?? Thanks in advance

no irritation at all no burning at all bro it makes your face feel so good after its rinsed off nice and smooth. it is just a little bit tight feeling on the cheek bones right after i rinse off but by the time i get out of the shower to dry off the tightness goes away. and no it does not foam up. its just really slick and it has a tad bit of red dye in it. luckily im not allergic to dye some people reported the dye broke them out.

Damn sounds like some miracle juice I'm not saying it's the same or it's as effective as your stuff but H&S does kind of the same thing for me, except it does foam up of course lol...I'm gonna stick with H&S x2 a day for a while to see if it can improve and if not I'll go after that stuff...thanks for the help as always

yeah bro if i would have had good results with H&S back when i tried it like you have i would never give it up but unfortunately i didnt

my hibiclens is your head and shoulders LOL im just glad we both found something that seems to be working! i really hope that the redmarks do not stay that long though man. the red marks on the right of my face have been there for like 3 months and i can tell they are like50% less finally. but now that i had that huge breakout on the left cheek and its still not completely gone i feel like the ones the the left are going to be bright red on there for 3 more month i really hope maybe lemons will fade the marks in a few weeks. i dont really want to start the lemons just quite yet all over my face though cause i dont want to mess with the hibiclens at all. so unfortunately i will just have to wait

DAY 7

left cheek is so close to being completely clear!! since startingthis regimen i went from cheeks and chin loaded with acne and now i only have about 4 total active very small pimples! im so glad i heard about this cleanser!! im going to continue using it every day ill let you know if anything changes. even though i am not COMPLETELY acne free im going to start using my honey again as a mask overnight in hopes that it will start to take away the redness in the marks! overall i love that my face is clearing up but now i just have to live with the marks for a little while hope they fade really soon!

Word. Yeah, I remember the red marks to. It is like all they underlying skin, and was always there, but you never really noticed it or it never was that red because it was buried under dead skin. I recall that those red marks were my last thing before I kicked acne out the front door. Once those heal/pop you should be clear, it can take awhile though, perhaps up to 30 days.

yeah its been quite some time but as long as i dont get any new pimples within that time i will know that they will eventually fade on there own and i want have new ones to worry about when theyre finally gone! so im going to try my hardest just to think of it like that

Day 8

i had a new pimple foring last night and i can already tell that after i used hibiclens last night and this morning its almost completely dried out! this cleanser destroys those new little suckers before they can form and also no red mark after! im really happy about my skin! im about 92% clear of acne! if this cleanser kills all the acne away then in about a month i should have completely clear skin of redmarks! im really excited i found this cleaner! although... a downside. i had really bad stomach cramps the last 2 nights ago.. and i think its because i got the tiniest little bit of the cleanser on my lips and even though i rinsed them off if i would lick my lips later that day i could stay a strong substance (similar to if you get cologne in your mouth) and i would swallow not thinking about it, i ended up have extreme painful stoach pains and i could tell it was in my large intestin bottom left side of my stomach was making really loud noises and hurting alot! im hoping that it doesnt do it tonight although it might not be from the cleanser as i think i ate an old can of beef soup two days ago.. i didnt even bother to look for the date but it was in the way back of the pantry so i should have looked.. so maybe it was old soup.. i will find out tonight if i have cramps again or the next day.. but it should be gone now if it was the soup im pretty sure i got all of it out of my system by now. its weird though both times it didnt happen until 10:30 pm... anyways as for my face! im looking real good!

recall that its 70% rubbing alcohol, so I would imagine it could create a stomach ache, however licking your lips probably wouldnt be enough. I would suggest you eat better, and get off those strict diets, your stomach is probably telling you to feed the damn thing some proteins

yeah you may be right i hadnt ate much protein since i got acne i used to be a prtein fein before acne i ate eggs salmon tuna protein shakes every day. but i gave all that up when i got acne ive lost muscle and weight since then as well. so i will try to start eating more protein and see if that helps im also eating papaya pills now with every meal its supposed to help digestion im hoping this helps as well because the pain was extrememyl terrible in my intestine at 10 pm..

Yo man I was doing a little research about Head N Shoulders and the pH of it and stuff because I woke up this morning with one nasty ass pimple kind of under my chin...and I found this interesting link

http://www.odec.ca/projects/2005/wali5s0/public_html/ph_levels.htm

Head N Shoulder: 6.0

thats pretty good isn't it?? Other sites say it's pH balanced meaning it's around 7 right? That means it shouldn't do much to the acid mantle I think?!?

Great news that you're nearly clear man btw...delighted for you

Yo man I was doing a little research about Head N Shoulders and the pH of it and stuff because I woke up this morning with one nasty ass pimple kind of under my chin...and I found this interesting link

http://www.odec.ca/p...l/ph_levels.htm

Head N Shoulder: 6.0

thats pretty good isn't it?? Other sites say it's pH balanced meaning it's around 7 right? That means it shouldn't do much to the acid mantle I think?!?

Great news that you're nearly clear man btw...delighted for you

 

hey bro yes 6.0 is a great ph for a cleanser. as long as its not above 7 because 7 is neutral and above 7 is alkaline-what strips the mantle.

im glad that you have good results with it although the only thing i would be worried about is that it has so many other chemical ingredients. but seems how you get away with using it for a while you should be alright with it bro lol but if it starts to fail you i would definately look up a soap that is ph balanced around 6 that has the same active ingredient in the H&S which is poly-something zinc right? i bet they have acne cleansers out there with that ingredient. it would probably do wonders for your face is H&S ever stops working for you. but yeah thanks bro! im still doing good! hope youre getting good results as well!

Phew, thats put me at ease haha...maybe that's why it works so great for some people then...although it is drying as fuck. Luckily (or unluckily) I've oily skin so by after a few hours the dryness is reduced...holy shit man, remember that nasty bitch pimple I mentioned above? List night before I went to bed, while I was puttin on my Sudocrem it was bright red and felt like it had a heartbeat. Woke up this morning, used the H&S and now the redness is completely gone, albeit a little dark dot in the centre and the pain is reduced significantly. I'm sorry H&S for ever doubting you lol Sudocrem does great to soothe and dry out a spot so the combo has once again served me well...yah I'll definitely continue using some zinc based cleanser if it comes to that. Thanks man

haha nice man i diditn know you were cheating on H&S with sudocream! LOL but yeah man i know what you mean with the heartbeat i HATE THOSE when i feel that its almost 100% meaning im going to get a head head on pimple that morning. but luckily i dont get those anymore now that i se hibiclens!

DAY 9

i think its day nine.. lol im starting to not worry about my acne anymore seems how its almost 100% gone! i did however get a small new pimple this morning. nothing to crazy its a very small red bump no head no throbbing nothing! and i feel that hibiclens will zap that crap off my face by tomorrow morning! its probably just because of all the junk i have ben eating for the last 9 days and one little tinty zit shoot im ok with that! haha. now that hibiclens is keeping the active acne away i can also see my redmarks starting to fade on their own without me even putting anythin at all on them to speed up the process which is awesome! meaning the hibiclens isnt hurting the healing process in those!

my right cheek feels so amazing silky smooth its incredible!!! my left cheek! oh ma i used to have patches of ALMOST flat surfaces all over. now the right in the dead middle of them all is silky smooth just like the right cheeka nd i can tell that the sides are almost completely flat and smooth also!! that huge zit that looked like herps on my lip its GONE! just a minor redmark!! this is the happiest ive been with my face in a long time! and when the redmarks are completely gone i will post my before and after pics.

on a plus note also! i did not get any hibiclens what so ever in my mouth at all and i got it completely off my lips had to make sure i dont rub my lips at all im very careful in that area when i wash the mustache and chin now and its safe to say that i didnt have those bad cramps at all last night! THANK GOD! because they hurt like hell! any one that uses hibiclens trust me you do not want this crap in your mouth it really messed up my intestine for 2 days! not enough to go to the doc but stll it hurt more than like a million times worse than a girl with cramps! any way! thats my update today id say my skin is about 94% clear now since day 1 i cant wait til day 14! my acne will be gone forever!!!!

oh also on a side note.. i realized that i have exactly 1/2 of the bottle left after nine days. so a bottle will only last you approx 18 days. maybe a full month if you use it a little more wisely than I. good luck to any one who tried hibiclens i HIGHLY recommend it!

day 10

my face looks the same the left cheek has improved so much! i only have a few active bumps now and they are all on my forehead and one inbetween eye bro. they are all very small though and i feel they will leave really soon. im so happy how much my face has cleared. i started using honey again hoping that it will help with fading my redmarks! because there are alot of them! so wish me luck guys i really have my goal set for clear skin to be in one more month! ill update again tomorrow!

also id like to add that... the sun is a bad idea i think.. atleast right now this time of season. i had a good 2 weeks of sun and my skin was lookin tan face had some decent color in it and it was making my red marks disquised quite a bit. then 2 days straight we had t storms and my face began to explode with acne.. i think that plus the yogurt was the real cause of my bad breakout. i did more research on it and apparently sun makes your skin thicker and tougher and makes it forcully produce more oil. so once i had been out of the sun for 2 days straight my face re adjusted to its normal self and was trying to heal the damage that sun had done.. if it were summertime and i knew id be out in the sun for at least 5 hours at the beach everyday then id say screw it and tan those redmarks off. but if you have active ance and redmarks id say stay out of the sun. it looks like its helping for the days you are out there but then when you stop its terrible.

not to mention i found out now that my tan in my face is completely gone my redmarks are definately brighter... now im just trying to get rid of them naturally staying out of the sun! even when i experimented with just 5 mins outside each day with no sunscreen my redmarks were getting brighter red

Well the sun is important, however I agree, not on the face. Sunburns plus acne are just all around terrible and only exacerbate acne. Get plenty of sun, but always be sure to wear hats and sunglasses, protect your sensitive areas, that being your skin and your eyes.

DAY 12

my face is still getting better every day. as fast as the right cheek cleared up my left cheek is just taking a bit more time! it sucks! i have absolutely no bumps on my right cheek and all the redmarks are like slippery smooth feeling but on the left side theres spots that also have that slippery feeling but then also i can tell that there are bumps still BARELY though id say they are 90% healed. in about 4 more days maybe my left cheek will feel exactly like the right cheek. then after that i will have 100% no acne! once the redmarks are completely gone in about a month i will have 100% clear smooth new skin that ive been waiting for forever! i just hope that they redmarks will fade faster than a month i need a job but its so hard for me to face people with these terrible marks all over my cheeks! any ways! im glad i dont have many bumps any more. i have gotten 1 new pimple thats very small yesterday and its already healing and almost gone i doubt it will leave a redmark. other than that ive had no new pimples! hibiclens really does work guys and gals! once i find what works for redmarks i will let you know. im really trying to do a lot of research on how visine helps temporarily.. theres got to be something made with the same ingredients to lighten blood vessels permantly.. hmm ill let you guys know what i find.

Interesting...

Working in health care ive never seen this stuff though i dont work in surgery which is where it would be used as you have said.

I started using Dr.Bronners Organic Tea Tree Liquid soap just yesterday. I bought it for my back because when i run at night i have to wear like 3-4 sweatshirts/heavy sports wear to stay warm. I also wear a ski mask as it is cold. Although it has been a very mild winter (which i am taking advantage of) this stuff helps keep ya warm when the temps are almost 0 degrees or below.

Bundled up as such made my back break out badly. I got this to help as im trying to stop using topicals like differin. I decided to use it for my face too as my ski mask probably could/can lead to break outs as well from sweating, nose running etc.

The smell isnt the greatest but i just put on a cologne. Working nights now means i dont wana come to work smelling like a tree.

Overall im satisified. No breakouts. And this stuff is supposed to help for healing and a whole bunch of other stuff. However do not use on open, cracked skin as it will sting. This i learned when i used 100% Tea Tree oil back last year. I never diluted it also which is a MUST. I think the soap is diluted just right and lathers very nicely. Just make sure you wash it off completely. Pat dry good as well or else you will get a residue from what ive heard.

But still curious on pH. Owell i hope it works. Though if it doesnt i wll diffinitely try your cleanser because im trying to move away from ones that contain menthol and other chemicals. They dont irritate my skin BUT they can interact with other products you put on your skin and can decrease their effectiviness which i just learned.

oh yeah? well good luck bro!

DAY 14

2 week mark!

so far so good hibiclens completely eliminated all the irritated inflammed acne that i had 2 weeks ago which im so happy about! i barely have any bumps on my left cheek my right cheek has maybe 1 very small whitehead on the outermost side and my chin is practically clear minus a few clogged comedones. overall my face clear about 92% since 2 weeks ago. i am almost out of cleanser i believe i only had the 8 fl oz bottle for 10 bucks. so 10 bucks lasted me a litte over 2 weeks. im definately planning on getting some more. unfortunately this cleanser doesnt help much with clogged pores and redmarks. so i will have to start my search for something to get rid of clogged pores.. and the redmarks i know wil just take a lot of time to heal. its very very very annoying to see these redmarks even though i dont have any bumps on them.. i just wish they would go away. any ways thats it for 2 weeks.. i may leave this thread alone until another week ahead and update weekly instead of daily.

i highly recommend this cleanser to anyone! once again its called hibiclens(in the states) not sure what its called out of the country. its main ingredient is 4% chlorhexidine gluconate and its usually in the band aid aisle of your pharmacy or supermarket. good luck to any one else dealing with the crap ive had to deal with!

I'm little bit worried that hibiclens will be immune to our acne if we use it every day. Have you experienced that hibiclens is not working? I'm worried it's just like BP which is at first is working like a miracle. What about German products called Sebamed? It says that the pH is 5.5. I use Sebamed for body wash and it's good (I no longer experience dry and itchy skin on my body). They also have Sebamed Clear Face range for acne, haven't tried it since I still have my usual face wash.

well people that have wrote on this org about hibiclens before said that bacteria did not get used to this cleanser.

from my knowledge this is a very different cleanser then most ot there

the main ingredient completely destroys bacteria.

how ever ive been using this for 2 weeks and it does NOTHING for clogged pores.. i may get C&C exfoliator scrub wash to combine with the hibiclens.

im still using hibiclens though because it completely eliminates the inflamed acne on the spot!

i have no idea about the german product youre talking about. sorry wish i could help! but the ph being 5.5 yes that is very good for the skin to wash with

although if its a boy wash there may be some ingredients in the wash that are not safe for the face.

if the face wash is also ph 5.5 then i wold get the wash recommeneded for the face and try it out if i were you.

good luck man!

Just to clear something up. Our bodies are hosts to bacteria, they work together, even bacteria on our skin is in somewhat a positive thing. The thought that acne is caused by dirty skin is flat out wrong. Alcohol is the main ingredient in Hibiclens, so you are right, bacteria will have a hard time dealing with it. I don't think any topical treatments will clean out the deep pores (except for clay masks). The reason being is because the pore is blocked deep in the skin, somewhere that soap can't reach. The only way to rid those deep pores is by allowing the pore proper function again, by allowing it to do its job. I believe soaps only prohibit skin from fully functioning correct, among other things like DHT spikes.

screw that dude i dont want any bacteria on my face period no gram or neg AT ALL LOL hibiclens has been doing great with the inflammed acnes but you are right it definately does not reach into the pores. to clear the clogged comedones so i just bought non iodized sea salt. i read alot of reviews saying it helps clear out clogged pores and closed comedones plus you told me like a month back that it was a good way to imitate the ocean water which gets me clear practically in less than a week.

so i already to a patch test with sea salt on my chin (a cluster of comedones) to make sure i do not breakout from sea salt. tonight or tomorrow im going to start filling up a big container of warm water and mix in some pure california sea salt and dip my face in it for a few minutes occassionally giving a slight rub where my closed comedones are right before i use hibiclens that way it will clean out my pores really good, exfoliate my skin and i can use the antibacteria cleanser right after to make sure no bacteria enters the pores.. if this doesnt work i may go buy clean and clear morning burst. ive been playing around with that on my forehead for the last 3 days and its made my skin feel ultra soft on my forehead.. although i dont have much closed comedones there so im not sure if its actually cleaning out the pores or not.. any ways im really hoping this helps so my new regimen will be

AM:

hibiclens

PM:

container of ssea salt dips/ scrub

hibiclens

honey mask-overnight

ill let everyone know how it goes after about a week or so.. my redmarks still are not realy changing at all.. its really putting me down..

maybe it just seems that way because im looking at them every single freaking day but its really hard not to look at my face.. i also check to make sure i dont have any new clogged pores or inflammed acnes coming up so its tough not looking in the mirror...

any ways

DAY 17

i have a few new pimples about four on my chin

and what appears to be like raised red bumps? on both of my outer cheek bones.. they havent gone away in a while..

the four on my chin are really irritating me because its in the same exact spot where there were huge pimples before... they healed and didnt leave a redmark and then about 2 days after they were completely gone they formed again... its really pissing me off.. anyways.. over all my cheeks are still looking pretty decent(no new acne) but the redmarks are still there taking forever.. im really really really thinking of get lactic or glycolic acid peels from perdeming.. im going to try and go to the doc tomorow maybe and ask him what he thinks about them.. if he says do not use them then im going to ask for finacea(i dont have rosacea) cause ive heard it helps alot with red marks.. anyways i hope everyone else is doing better than me(emotionally) ive been a big baby lately because my redmarks are making me look so ugly...

have a good day!