St. Ives : Apricot Scrub

The little cuts in your skin caused by this product can create a gate opening for bacteria. Causing more breakouts. Not to mention, if you have inflamed acne.....you should not be using anything that says "scrub" on it. Bad bad bad. It will just create more cuts and irritate your already inflamed acne.

The number one rule for those with acne is to be gentle with the skin. No scrubbing, no wash cloths, etc. This product is everything you should not due. However, sometimes I get an area of peeling skin and it's nice to get all that skin off. Use limitedly.

I bought this a few years ago to use because the current Spectro products that I'd been faithfully using didn't improve my skin and made it dull. I went to Wal Mart, looked at the shelf of products and saw this St. Ives cleanser; read the promising words on the back and bought it along with a Clean and Clear moisturizer. I recognized the St. Ives brand and decided to give it a try. Naive, I thought that it would do exactly as the packaging promised. I thought that for my acne prone skin a scrub two times a day would be best at sloughing off the excess oil and bacteria. Instead, this was much too harsh, the parfum (fragrance) irritating and it only made my skin worse. I broke out along my chin and my forehead got worse. My cheeks became red so I looked like I'd developed rosacea! I've also tried the Green Tea Cleanser but none of them every did any good. I'm sorry to say that St. Ives is not a brand I'll buy in the future :(

I know this product has worked well for many people. Apparently not for me. I became allergic to this facial scrub and I went to the doctor twice for prescription. If are allergic to salicylic acid or have sensitive skin DO NOT use this scrub.

Gritty exfoliants always cause me to get little white bumps all over my face the following day. Everyone always says "thats just old stuff coming to the surface" but the shear volume of pus and the white color (white indicates brand new, old would be yellowish/hard) obviously indicates that it was an inflammatory response to the abrasive material in the scrub.

So, I bought this when it was on sale. I read the reviews when I got home and found it was horrible for sensitive skin, even though it was natural, but I (stupidly) decided to use it anyway...oh, such a horrible idea. I know I'm going to get thumbs downs for this review, but I can't even begin to tell you how bad it is for your skin. It may make skin look OK in the short term, but in the longrun, not so much. It contains apricot seeds to "exfoliate and make skin smooth," but what it ends up doing is giving your skin minor cuts that make it so bacteria enters the skin--causing acne. If you have even mild sensitive skin, DON'T use this!!