Hibiclens : Antimicrobial and Antiseptic Skin Cleanser

THIS WILL NOT CAUSE BLINDNESS IF YOU GET IT IN YOUR EYES!!!! This is used for surgical scrub for patients and caregivers hands sometimes. That is why this warning is on here, not to be used in or near eyes during surgical procedures where it can pool for long periods. If you get it in your eyes: RINSE WELL. THAT IS ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE

This is the first time reviewing anything on this site. I am telling you to stay away from using hibiclens on your face. I overthought my personal regimen and decided to us this. The first few days my few pimples dried up and fell off. I thought I had a staple... I was wrong. I noticed that this stuff dried my face and shrunk my pores to a tiny size. The small pores sound good, right? Wrong. After two weeks I am having a terrible break out. My face hasn't looked this bad in quite a while. I'm not sure if it was from irritation or from closed off pores, but this product definately wasn't right for me. There is a reason why more people don't use this. Please consider before buying.

At 27 years old, after 13 years of severe cystic acne, my skin is finally clear. I began using Hibiclens about three weeks ago and have not had a single pimple since. Normally, my chin is covered with painful, inflamed cystic acne. I use the product by wiping it on my skin with a cotton ball. I let it sit on my skin for 5-10 minutes and then wash off. While it is on my skin it does feel drying but as soon as I wash it off my skin feels amazing.

The main ingredient in HibiClens is Chlorohexidine Gluconate, an antiseptic that is used in the treatment of folliculitis. For those who dont know, folliculitis is the inflammation of your follicles and is caused by another bacteria called Staphylococcus Aureus. S. Aurues is known to be highly resistant to antibiotics and several other topical ingredients, like benzoyl peroxide- which only kills the bacteria Propionibacteria Acne. IF you feel as though your face is red, inflamed, and may have puss and bp is not helping, Hibiclens is definetly a great alternative. I have found that my lesions were caused after i didnt shave for a while and thats what gave me these red bumps that looked like cysts. As long as i shaved and used hibiclens, i was good to go. if you feel you have the same problem, this may help for sure.

I actually discovered this by accident after my bf left his bottle of it by the sink and I washed m face with it because we had no other soap. Literally the next day my skin was less oily and many of the sore acne spots and cysts had either gone completely or were much less red and irritated. After a week I looked as if I never had acne in my life and I have had it for 20 long terrible years! I tried everything throughout my life to keep it in check, but absolutely nothing worked ever except this! I could cry right now because I am so thankful for this product! I also use it when I shave an area of m body because I always got terrible painful shaving rashes and ugly ingrown hairs in embarrassing places- I just use this after I shave and- No more bumps!! Try this product! I see in the reviews it does not work for everyone, but it's cheap and really worth a try!!

I had very nice skin 7 months ago...I didn't even have to wear much foundation at all, but I was taking topamax to prevent stress-related migraines and unfortunately, had an adverse reaction that didn't show up until several months after I was on the medication. I started getting sores/cystic acne on my forehead, cheeks, and a bit under my neck. I had a lot of scars and redness. I am allergic to so many medications that the dermatologist basically told me that I had to take accutane or else he couldn't help me. I said no to accutane, so he tried to give me other antibiotics, but failed to recognize that I could not take them because they were in the same family as things I am allergic to. I gave up on the dermatologist and decided to take things into my own hands. I was doing research online and found this website, so I joined and started to read the reviews of different products. This one had a high rating, so I picked some up and only after a couple of days of using it, it started to smooth out my skin. I still have red spots and scars, but as for the actual acne itself, this stuff helps! It is less painful and I believe it has taken the infection out of my face. I have still got a long way to go because my acne was really bad, but there has been a definite improvement due to tapering off the medication and adding hibiclens to my regimen. It did kind of dry my skin out the first few times I used it, but I just put some lotion on at the end of my skin cleansing regimen and that solved the problem. Now it does not dry it out because my skin has adjusted to it. I took other peoples advice and got some of those cotton pads and that is what I rub on my face after I have let the hibiclens sit on it for a minute or two and that helps to exfoliate dead skin and also it will take the pus out of the middle of whiteheads without having to pick at them. Do not follow with a salicylic acid cleanser like neutrogena because it will make your skin burn!!!

I had been using this product on my face because I seemed to have begun getting what I figured to be cystic acne and excessive closed comedones on my forehead. I figured since it can be used on cysts that may exist on other parts of my body, it would surely help my face. I actually figured the cysts on my body and the cystic acne on my face was connected. Nevertheless, I continued to use hibiclens on my face because I had read it was a great alternative to BP and was having little to no luck with BP for some odd reason (pre-hibiclens, BP was a god-send). Hibiclens cleanses well and seemed to curb the closed comedones but after 6 months of religiously using it, I'd routinely get at least 2 excruciating large cystic acne lesions somewhere on my face. They'd last about 2 weeks before somewhat subsiding (though not completely) and two more would appear. I couldnt understand why this was happening when my health was perfectly fine. I figured it to be a late onset cystic acne case and stuck to my Hibiclens to cure it. Also, I'd notice that if I'd get a small pustule, it would take a good month to heal. Now understand, I scar easily so the round-the-clock appearances of cystic acne RUINED my forehead (loads of hyperpigmentation) and we know that the longer an acne lesion remains inflammed on your face, the higher chance for lasting acne scars. Luckily, I took the chance and stopped using Hibiclens altogether after a year! Would you believe the cystic acne cleared immediately!?!?! I havent gotten anything close to cystic acne since - 6 mons. now. I still suffer from closed comedonal acne and blackheads but a combination of bp and salicylic acid works just fine. And it works fine now because I've stopped washing my face with Hibiclens, as I once was. I just want to make sure I shared this so as to make sure no one else reading reviews on this site inflicts undue scarring of their skin due to the inflammation hibiclens has the potential for causing.

I tried this seeing the reviews and hearing good things, but I really didn't see any improvement whatsoever. I did only give it a few weeks but I stopped taking anything else while I used this product. Then I noticed my skin was getting a bit worse and because I didn't want to use this product and my old ones, I stopped using this. Also it bothered me that you couldn't let this get near your eyes or it would damage them. It wouldn't hurt to try it though.

It works!

I cannot live without this product. I've used everything from powerful oral antibiotics to tea tree oil for my HS, and nothing worked even close to as well as this product. It is a dream come true, after 10 years of pain and embarrassment.