Acne.org : Cleanser

okay so i ordered the whole regimen, ive been on it for about 3 weeks. The cleanser drys my face so much! My face is always flaky when im done using it! i feel like it strips my skin! okay i figured out though that i was washing for to long, but still, not a fan. i have combination skin, this cleansers good for only oily skin, not dry!!!!!!!!!!!! i personally like cetaphil cleanser, becasue it doesnt foam, i feel ones that lather dry my skin out to much.

I really wanted this to work! I just need a stronger, medicated facial wash for my thick, oily skin. I need constant exfoliation and this is just too gentle for me. I'm sure it is great for people who do require a gentle wash.

I loved this cleanser (and the entire 3 step process). However, about 4 months after using the products on a daily basis i developed contact dermatitis. My eyelids were red, itchy, scaly and dry. It looked like I had eczema. I thought it was being caused by my eye make-up; either the shadow or the liquid liner. I stopped using them but the problem continued. I did some research and found that one of the top allergens that cause this type of dermatitis is quaternium-15. I began looking through all ingredients on the products I used daily. The only product this showed up in was the acne.org facial cleanser. I stopped using it immediately and within 3 days my eyes had cleared up. The cleaner was a great product and I'm disappointed I can no longer use it. However, acne.org may want to consider removing this awful chemical. I have seen other posts where people complained of the same type issues but assumed it was the benzoyl peroxide gel. It's not! It's definitely the cleanser.

I bought the cleanser and used it twice a day for three months. While it did a good job of cleaning my skin without leaving it flaky, I gradually noticed that my eye area was looking dry and wrinkled. I had very few wrinkles in that area normally. However, I never made the connection to the cleanser because I usually followed the regimen with a gentle moisturizer around the eyes. But over time, even the moisturizer couldn't keep the dryness and lines at bay. I decided to stop using the cleanser and switched to Eucerin Redness Relief. Within two days my eyes felt less dry. Within one week all signs of dryness were gone -- as were most of my lines!!! PLEASE realize that ANY product can cause sensitivity and sometimes it's not immediately obvious. Had I not switched I would have been walking around with very tired and dry eyes and have not known why. Dan is to be commended for all his hard work on these products and I still use his BP once a day. But for me -- this was a no-go.

I was excited to try this, but as each day went on my skin got dried and more irritated. There are a few red-flag ingredients in this cleanser (propylene glycol, quaternium-15) which are probably causing me to break out. Another negative is the smell. It smells very much like a bitter lemon (this is because of the plant extracts). Overall, I can't recommend it. There are better cleansers out there like Spectro Jel (purple bottle) or Olay for Sensitive Skin.

So I've only used this three times, but it was so painful that I wanted to write a review. This cleanser seemed so innocently gentle and creamy when I was lathering it in my hands, but I was in AGONY the moment I touched my face! After the 10 painstakingly slow seconds - I could not get this stuff off fast enough!! That being said, my face felt fine once I got it rinsed off, and after my face dried, my skin felt great! It really works as a cleanser - got my makeup off without burning my eyes (not that I put it in my eyes or anything but still) and it left my skin feeling pleasantly tight without feeling overly dry. I do not have sensitive skin, nor am I allergic to any of the ingredients. My skincare routine prior to the regimen was Cetaphil's Oil Control Foam Wash (which I highly recommend) and Epiduo: a prescription of 2.5% adapalene and BP. Since my skin is accustomed to BP products - which this line is intended for, I did not expect that the cleanser would hurt so much! The treatment and moisturizer stung a bit, which I expected due to my slight flakiness from my old routine, but this cleanser was SO PAINFUL! It felt like it was penetrating my skull and giving me a headache! I'm going to continue to try to use this - perhaps the addition of a moisturizer to my routine will tone down the flakiness and make the cleanser hurt less. I really want to give the regimen a wholehearted try, but if I can't stand it, I will be switching back to my old cleanser.

I have been using this product for almost a month and my face is rashed up. I thought the rash would have cleared by now, but it hasn't. I didn't realize that one of the ingredients is oak bark abstract, which I am highly allergic to. 😢😢

Hey

There are too many surfactants,one of the being coco-betaine. This ingredient was labelled irritant of the year by the American dermatology association. Look it up This is a very basic foaming in cleanser that will be all right for some, drying for many and highly problematic for a few. You may think that because it doesn't contain SLS are parabens that is better than Cetaphil (foaming or gentle) but it does contain quaterium 15 which is a preservative in it for Melda Hyde releasing agent. I would rather parabens. I would rather SLS over coco-betaine. So am I saying that Cetaphil daily foaming cleanser for oily skin or Cetaphil gentle cleanser is better than this? Yes, I am.