Baking Soda

I have a love-hate relationship with this stuff. On the one hand, it worked well to exfoliate my skin and left it feeling "smooth" and helped kill bad acne bacteria I'm sure. I wouldn't use it very often because even though it temporarily helps your skin, it still causes damage at the micro level. Meaning your outer skin layer, epidermis, has a system already in place to exfoliate, and an acid mantle to protect/disinfect your skin. Rubbing a very basic (ph 9~) solution of baking soda and water will totally throw of your skin's "natural order." So just be gentle if you wanna try this. I really don't recommend you scrub your face every day. Doing so can cause sebum production to go into overdrive/make hyperkeratosis (overproduction of keratin in the skin helping to clog pores in acne) worse -because your skin is attempting in it's own rudimentary ways to heal itself. TL;DR go easy on this scrub treatment, work on acne from the inside-out, be gentle with your skin :)

I've been using Baking soda for about a year now to help lighten my hyperpigmentation and acne scars. For me, baking soda is my best friend and my worst enemy. Heres why: Yes, baking soda works to help lighten your acne scars and fade away that pesky hyper pigmentation, but does not perform any miracles. Like I said, 1 year has gone by and I expected way more results, instead ive only witnessed a somewhat lighter shade to my hyper pigmentation. What it has handed over to me though, without wasting any time I might add, is: Dry, flaky skin Whiteheads and more pimples & itchy, sensitive skin. I have to be honest, I don't recommend this product for those focusing ONLY to get rid of pimples, swelling, whiteheads, etc. Manily because it can make your acne worse. But for those looking for a reprive or permanent fix to their scars and hyperpigmentation, this is your answer!! Just be aware of the negatives that also comes with using this. But hey, everyone skin is different, and I may just have been using it the wrong way. If you truly belive this is right for you, give it a try and it might just work.

it was good but i noticed i have bigger pore i think its to harsh for face

Baking soda will work in a pinch to reduce redness, but I don't really recommend it because it didn't do much for my acne otherwise.

I started using Baking Soda as a Face Mask in hopes to find something inexpensive to help eliminate my breakouts and blackheads. I first put a warm cloth over my face to open the pores. If I am short on time I wet a wash cloth with warm water and dab my face. Then I pour baking soda into the palm of my hand and add warm water. Scoop up the paste and apply it in a circular motion all around my face and nose area especially around the hairline. I leave on for 10 minutes and rinse off in the shower or sink again wiping my face gently in a circular motion. When the mask is on for ten minutes I do feel a slight burn like when you apply astringent but its nothing painful or nothing that results in my face being irritated or red. The pimples that I did have started to dry up and clear away. My face does feel softer and feels clean. So far so good! I also used it in the shower for my body and my skin feels great!

First, I tried mixing baking soda and water alone to cleanse my face. I realize that if your acne isn't "popped" yet, it won't do much to reduce the redness. Remember if your using it as a mask, only leave it on for 5 minutes. Over 5 minutes will burn your skin!! Trust me! (However, if you read below mixing it with honey will reduce the burning effects and thus you can leave it on longer) Secondly, I mixed baking soda with honey and a tiny, tiny bit of water to make a paste. I used as a mask and left it on for 20 minutes. This really lightens your scars in about a week!!!!! Overall, I stop using it because of the after effects of drying and burning that I got. Also because it doesn't help much with preventing acne.

What's more- adding baking soda to a hot bath at any time also helps wash acid wastes out of the body. I tried for throat ache (as I had it every morning in winter). Before go to bed I put some soda- in a wet shawl-then around my neck and the morning after (and since then) I have no more throat ache...

Baking soda might be a hit or miss, but for people with severe acne, don't waste your time. Maybe this will work for people with small blackheads, etc, but for me, I have really bad, sensitive, oil, acne proned skin and baking soda is not my friend.

I am 14 years old with some acne. I literally JUST tried the baking soda with water a couple hours ago. I took a small dixie-cup and mixed some baking soda with a little water and mixed it up. I used a cotton ball and put the mixture over my face, then washed off about 1 minute after. I can see some results already, but it caused a little irritation- but i have VERY sensitive skin. I can tell it helped take away some black heads. I will try this again tomorrow, seems to work well!

After reading rave reviews, I tried this on my harmonal acne. I have a very sensistive and combination skin. It did nothing for my acne but did smoothen my skin out a bit. Mixing it with honey and using as a scrub worked better than leaving it as a mask. For sensitive skin- do a patch test before you decide to try out.