Baking Soda

My skin is beautiful after only 3 applications, Once every 2 days.

I used baking powder as a mask for the first time, just added a little bit of water to it and smeared it on. I left it on for about 10 min and washed it off with warm water. The results were incredibly smooth skin and my big acne bumps seemed to be less irritated and not as red. I will definately try this again.

This needs to be used consitently in order for it to work,so use it for a week to see real results. I ran out of Cetaphil cleanser a couple of weeks ago and tried out baking soda with a few drops of water (to make it into a watery paste). It WORKS! My acne scars are so much lighter. I must say that my skin looks a lot better. It feels very smooth,my skin has a better glow to it,and my pores look smaller. I haven't had any breakouts since I started using this.It's honestly a great product.The only thing is that there can be a little irritation after the first few uses of it,but that goes away.Make sure you use a good moisturizer to prevent your skin from being too dry.

The bottom line with baking soda is that it works to an extent. It works great, actually. My face is pretty bad, to the point where I hate leaving the house, I hate going anywhere, just because I don't have clear skin. However, my problem may be different from a few others; I know it's recommended heavily against, but I can't ever help but scratch and pick at my acne. I scratch them until they're absolute, bleeding scars, until they're unrecognizable as acne. And so one day, I was looking at myself in the mirror, saw that I had these awful scabs and scars everywhere, so I tried baking soda and water. I stirred until the mixture was thick enough to stay on my face, but liquidy enough not to crumble to pieces. I spread it on all over, and let it stay as a mask for 10 minutes. Ensure that you remain still, or the mask will begin to "snow" whenever you move. I turned on the water to be lukewarm, borderline cool, and I used only my fingertips to rub in circular motions at my face. If the mask restricted rubbing because of water and paste buildup, I would just run my palm under the water and dab my face at those areas. I pat the towel in gentle, small and rapid pats all around my face. Very gentle, very rapid. No pressure applied at all. After this, I notice the scabs are not black, the scars are not red. The baking soda peeled off the layer of dead skin, and now it's just flesh that needs to heal. Now that it's no longer acne and it's just a cut, I apply Polysporin, and it heals great. You also don't have to worry about that lasting discolouration from old scars; baking soda bleaches your skin and evens out the skin tone. (: I would advise against using it too much. Peeling off skin that is trying to heal too often won't give it a chance to go away completely. But with new breakouts, I would use it more consistently, until the scars are fleshy and you can use Polysporin. I have a piano recital coming up, so I am so, so, SO thankful for Arm & Hammer Baking Sod

Before I start this, some advice which is important that you must know...DO NOT exfoliate when you have inflammations on the skin.This either results in making them much worse, or causing even more acne on your face...I learned that the hard way, unfortunately. :( On a better note though, you have to make sure that you don't scrub whatsoever with this, and even try not to scrub it in, if you have current acne inflammations. It is better to dab it on, to avoid causing furthur irritation; but if you think that massaging it in like a scrub will be beneficial to your particular skin, then go ahead. This is just from my experience and a bit of common knowledge about my acne condition. To make, you simply put some in a bowl, and add a little water until it makes a cement-like paste. Easy as that. :) Then just dab it gently on your whole face or the affected areas. If your skin is sensitive like mine, leave on for 1-2 minutes. If your skin isn't, leave on for a maximum of 5 minutes. Overall, I like this mask. So far, it has been quite effective for my hard-to-please skin...and trust me, hardly ANYTHING works for my acne, especially not chemicals. I have been using a strawberry cleanser for my skin for the past few days, which I got from the book Organic Body Care Recipes. (Which I give special credit for a beautiful face recipe.) Buy the book and check out the cleanser recipe. There are also alot more great recipes from masks to toners, and of coarse cleansers and more...definitely reccommend the book to anyone. ^^ Anyways...I dab the baking soda on over top of the cleanser on all of the affected areas, leave it on, then rinse off. The bottom line is, I find baking soda is effective to clear acne. It bleaches your skin and gives it a more even tone, and shrinks and calms the redness of your pimples. Good luck with it! <3

With proper use, this is a great product. Just be careful to mix with copious amounts of water and rinse off thoroughly, moisturizing afterwords.

I think baking soda is a good general cleanser for oily skin. I just wet my face and use a little bit kind of like a gentle scrub maybe a few times a week. I have very oily skin, but if I use too much or leave it on too long, it can still over dry my skin. The main pro of baking soda is that it's extremely cheap, but can be just as effective as more expensive cleansers with all sorts of ingredients and chemicals in them.

i have tried this for a week and i notice my skin more smoother and clear no redness YAY! then i stopped using it and started to notice BIG NASTY RED SPOTS nah im just kidding :) but i did notice that my little pimples where coming bak and once i used this in two days they were gone

I had this triangular, concentrated area full of cysts that were purple and I have tried everything from hydrocortisone to betadine, nothing works BETTER than this. In about 20 mins, the purple marks were noticeably paler. Since I just started, I don't know how long it would take to completely clear everything so will keep posting.

This isn't a miracle worker for me, but I have been using it for a week and noticed my skin tone looks more even and some of the scars have lightened a bit. I use it every night as a cleanser and once a week I leave it on like a mask for ten minutes. It doesn't burn my skin at all, and it hasn't dried out my skin either. Benzoyl peroxide burned my skin and dried it out. So the baking soda seems to be working. I am going to continue using it and hope for no more acne!