Okay, so I've been using lactic acid peels for a few months and I use a fan brush to apply it. I recently bought a mandelic peel and a mandelic/salicylic acid peel and on the instructions for the mandelic peel it says to apply it with a q-tip. The other peel just says to apply it without specifying what to use. To me, using a little q-tip seems a bit time consuming and pointless. I've also heard people that use their hands or cotton balls/pads. But wouldn't cotton balls just absorb a lot of the product?

I guess I'm just wondering what you all use to apply your chemical peels and what works best for you personally? I've loved using my fan brush so far, so I think I'm going to go ahead and use that with my mandelic peel, even though the intructions say to use a q-tip.