Botchla

heh.. when i posted this topic i never even expected anyone to read it. now it's almost 14 freakin pages. amazing.. hehe

hey viejo.. glad to hear you're at least having some success with the regimen. the reason for the order of using the products is for two reasons really. the first reason is that salicylic acid removes...

yes, i'd be very careful of what you use just coming off of accutane. maybe the two that you had come up were just a fluke or something? i dunno.. i wouldn't start using a product unless it became a r...

i used the neutrogena clear pore wash (3.5%) and it didn't work for me. i still broke out.. even after using it for a long period. in fact, after using it for about 4 weeks, it just got even worse. ...

i thought i would post this, a quote taken from the site malia posted in another thread.. i guess this could explain why some people have trouble on this at first. Start or Switch Acne Products Con...

Troopa, from now on you are officially known as "Rambo Skin".

3 minutes? wow.. now that would really dry out my skin badly. as for how long the products last me, a tube of the BP wash lasts forever, probably 2 months. the SA clearing scrub goes quicker, that l...

oh yeah.. i mean if your skin was clear to begin with, no sense in doing this really. you can get rid of blackheads in other ways. this regimen is for those who are still having problems with active b...

i think holydiver has a point. you may or may not have an initial reaction depending on your skin i guess. i would stick with it more than like 1 week though. that really doesn't give it time to work....

hmm.. yeah there's really no way to tell for sure what is doing it.. but i have noticed since using the C&C regimen that my skin never gets oily at all, even after a full day. so that might be it,...

to wash the stuff i just stick my face under the faucet and rub it off.. some sinks i guess maybe you can't do that though.. it would take forever getting the SA wash off if you tried to do it by putt...

harp, i think that was the only person who had trouble with it, and they only used it for 36 hours or something? who is to say that wouldn't have happened anyways? 36 hours or 2 days isn't really long...

personally i don't think it does much to fade red marks.. i think they just faded away naturally within time. it took a couple weeks maybe like 2 or 3, but when my skin became clear, i didn't have to ...

mustangsally: of course i don't wear makeup myself but i have heard that the C&C continuous control (BP wash) does a good job of removing makeup. i'm not sure about the SA wash though.

it was not severe, maybe on the upper end of mild, beginning of moderate. probably about 10 active things at any given time.

#1 point while following this regimen is DO NOT PICK OR SQUEEZE anything you may have (unless of course it's one of those that you can see the white head and needs to be popped, but be very gentle!). ...

blackbird is right, your "skin" may get used to it, but your "bacteria" doesn't. and that's the issue anyways. as blackbird mentioned, it causes an oxygen reaction which kills the p. acnes bacteria. ...

i just want to add that i'm past the 12 week mark on my regimen and i'm still clear. i've only had 1 breakout on this and it was a week or two after i got absolutely fried lobster red out in the sun. ...

hah! quite possibly! i think it must be sold-out day or something cause i went to target to get a few things and they were sold out of half of the stuff i needed. great!

yeah, meeraboots found that one out.. in canada they only have 5% which i think should do just fine.. also yeah, i just recommend only doing the BP at night, and the SA twice a day. good luck!

hmm.. maybe you could just push your night routine up to about 5pm/6pm or whenever you get done with your activities?

yes, my face is still 100% clear on this regimen. it works wonders for me. white_hype, if i notice my face is sweaty or something, i usually just wash my face off with just plain water.. it seems to...

and botchla - i'm not \"knocking\" your regimen   nah, i wasn't talking about you.. i was just talking in general. you didn't even really say anything besides it would wreak havoc on *your* skin...

So Botchla, do u feel that the C and C clearing wash is better than applying benzoyl peroxide cream or gel?....u know , the type u leave on as opposed to wash off?......   i'm not going to say w...

personally, i've found that other SA and BP products didn't work too well. i think the others have found that too. the 2 C&C products seem to work excellent together for some unknown reason. i wou...