Carley's : Clear and Smooth Skin Treatment

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Active Ingredient:
Benzoyl peroxide (2%)

Inactive Ingredients:
Reverse Osmosis Purified Water, Liquid Natural Soap, Shea Butter; (Butyrospermum parkii), Vegetable Glycerin, Walnut Shell Powder, Propylene Glycol, Apricot Kernal Oil; (Armeniaca vulgaris, Prunis armeniaca), Stearic Acid, Cetyl Alcohol, Aloe Vera Extract, Corn Meal, Mango Butter, Emulsifying Wax, Hemp Seed Oil, Macadamia Nut Oil(Macadamia integrifolia), Xanthan Gum, Evening Primrose Oil(Oenothera Biennis ), Elder Flower Extract(sambucus nigra), Chamomile Powder (Chamomilla recutita), Natural Essential Oils – no artificial fragrances-, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Germall plus (4/10’s of 1%) (diazolidinyl Urea, 3-Iodo-2-propylbutylcarbarmate).

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August 8, 2007

Pros:

Affordable and works

Cons:

Missing one ingredient!!

Ok~I am 33 years old and have been stuggling with acne since my mid 20's. I tried everything from perscriptions to 20 B12's pills a day. Then I came across Carley's. The first day I used it I noticed a difference in my skin. My poors got smaller and my acne cleared up about 80%. I used it for 3 months. And still would have break outs. But, nothing like I used to. Then I was reading about how great Cayenne (capsaicin) was for your skin. So I poured some liquid cayenne in my bottle of clean and clear acne treatment. Within 2 days my skin was completely clear. You do have to be careful with cayenne. It is HOT! WOW does it work.
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July 15, 2007

Pros:

The scrub gives my skin a matte finish and has cleared up my black heads! I've been using the product for 5 months now and my skin has never looked better. I love the simplicity of it as well--just scrub once a day with the treatment and you're done!

Cons:

None

After suffering from skin problems for 12 years now I have finally found my miracle cure! I rave about this stuff to everybody I know. A friend of mine just got hers in the mail and loves her "new" skin already. There are many moisturizers available to combat some of the dryness that may occur as well. I feel so good using this on my skin!
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May 11, 2007

Pros:

Easy to use, not expensive, lasts a long time, smells good, works better than anything I've ever used.

Cons:

None, absolutely NONE.

It's amazing. I've been using this stuff for over 4 YEARS. My boyfriend and I both use the cleanser at night, and the soap in the morning in the shower. It's sensitive enough for my boyfriend's sensitive skin but works well for my combination skin. I will never use anything else!!!
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March 30, 2007

Pros:

This product is the only product that has ever worked on my cystic acne including ProActive. I absolutely love it!!!

Cons:

None!

I absolutely love this product. I have had cystic acne my entire life and I have tried everything including ProActive. I have a very strong allergy to Benzoyl among other things and ProActive was too strong for my skin. I did a lot of research on the net and decided to try Carly's. With it I received a sample of the day and night lotion (which I was scepticle about considering most lotions are my enemy) and to my surprise I loved that too. I noticed my cystic acne began to be less frequent and when I did have a breakout it was less painful and did not stay for nearly as long as they previously did. If you have cystic acne I would suggest trying this and it's so affordable you don't really have anything to lose. Good luck!
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January 11, 2007

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This is the best face wash on the market 100% gauranteed. I have been using this product since 1999. No other product could keep me clear for even two weeks. This has worked for going on 8 years. I love it I love it I love it. Thanks Alot guys!!

Cons:

To be honest, if you use this product exactley how the label describes to. Then there is no Con that can be seen. Now if you try to abuse it and use it to much or keep it on to long, then it may cause minor irritation. But it says so on the label

The bottom line is I have gone through 3 girlfriends since 1999, I have converted all 3 to this product do to the simple fact it works. I didn't think it could get any better, then a few years ago they added in the natural soap. If these guys keep on inventing new things they will have the face wash capitol of the world. They already do in my book. Again I just want to thank you guys alot for creating this product!!
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November 28, 2006

Pros:

The "Industrial Strength" treatment is an amazing exfoliate and I use it every day. This product was a last ditch effort for me and what a life savor it turned out to be.

Cons:

As far as I'm concerned, there are none. I'm a guy so I could care less about any flowery fragrances. As long as it works, I'm happy.

If you are reading these reviews then you are probably searching for a better acne treatment, just as I was about 1 year ago. Give it a try, for $26 how can you go wrong.
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November 7, 2006

Pros:

All-natural. Feels great!

Cons:

The natural essential oil fragrances of lavender irritate my skin.

Would work for most people. I am in the small percentage of people who have extreme skin sensitivities.
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August 14, 2020
Great products!

I have been using carley’s for about a month now, maybe a little more than that.  First of all, my acne is fairly mild now due to the fact that I take birth control.  Before carley’s, I was using the Neutrogena pink grapefruit exfoliating scrub which actually helped my skin a lot overall.  I would moisturize with their “Sensitive Skin” moisturizer which is still one of the best I’ve ever used.  Anyways, I was tired of getting the random and unnecessary breakouts so I decided to look around for something involving a more structured routine for acne.  I stumbled across carley’s and decided to give it a try.  Well, I can definitely say that overall, my skin texture and appearance has improved drastically.  I follow the routine exactly as instructed (it’s very easy to use) and use the natural soap on my body as well since I can get small breakouts on my chest and back occasionally.  My skin looks great!  I have also been using the morning and evening moisturizers and they’ve been great and not oily at all.  

I do still get the occasional breakout but it is way more manageable and within a day or two, the pimple dries up and is barely visible.  I will still use a BP spot treatment cream to spot treat but it’s rare that I have to do so.  

overall, I love these products and will continue to use them indefinitely.  I still have a little over half a bottle of the medicated treatment left, it really lasts!  The natural soap is cheap for me to buy in bulk and I swear by it for smoother and clearer skin.  

this is definitely not a “miracle product” and of course results will vary since most acne is hormonal as we all know.  If you want to improve your skin’s texture and lessen break outs, give this stuff a try!  Not to mention, the owners of the company as so nice and responsive to any emails with questions or comments.  I highly recommend carley’s! 

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October 7, 2019
Good potential, impossible transition. Maybe later?
I tried Carley's based on the great overall acne.org review rating, and what I learned after looking at their ingredients and approach. But, it didn't work out for me. I think that my skin is going to need a while hidden from view to make the switch from a conventional benzoyl peroxide regimen to Carley's products, or just a loooooong transition period of sloooowly phasing down my BP regimen and phasing up Carley's, over a couple months--something that I'm not going to be able to do anytime soon. I'm a very very veery natural and holistic-health person, but I swallowed the proverbial pill and got on BP in order to get consistently clear enough to a) do atrophic scar treatments (in the past, I would break out badly after microneedling); and b) move and interview for new jobs and make new friends. Once clear on BP, I thought, 'Ok, now I can go back to my healthy natural cosmeceuticals, and Carley's seems good.' But, no, that was a mistake. I really like the ingredients and what they're doing, but right now I have to return everything because I started to break out worse than ever while I was on Carley's, so I had to stop.
 
Once I started to break out, I read many, many of the 1-star acne.org reviews for the Industrial Strength KickA** scrub, to see what other people were experiencing -- a lot of people complained of getting tons of small hard red little bumps all over, about 7-14 days in. That is exactly what happened to me; so it seems there's a consistent type of skin response out there. The first 14 days were perfectly fine for me, but then literally overnight, the bumps and stinging started. The bumps were so dense and sudden, it felt like a rash. But, I don't think I'm allergic to BP, because I've been on a Face Reality BP regimen for a while. I don't think I'm allergic to any of the herbs or oils in the scrub, because I've either used them before or am familiar enough with them to not suspect them as problems. I didn't think I'd get a purge period, because my skin was already really clear from BP. So, I really don't know what caused the breakout. Perhaps it was the sudden use of oils and ph 7 products after using no oils and ph 5-ish products for so long? 


So I got a million little superficial bumps on my forehead, temples, ear area, neck, and jaws, and eventually they spread more toward the center of my face on on my back and chest too. I stopped the Kickass and just used the natural soap for a couple days, to see if the bumps would go down; they just stayed put, no real change. Then I added in the sample of the MSM cleanser they sent for a few days, and that seemed to be having some effect, but not enough to take hold; my skin was responding really inconsistently day to day. I know that skin needs more time to get used to a new product, but I quit all Carley's after 20 days, because the bumps were starting to grow, and I couldn't risk them all turning into cysts, because that would have been a horrorshow. So, I went back to my BP regimen, and now I'm almost completely cleared up again after 4 days back on that. Phew!!!!
 
I am keeping the Sea Buckthorn / Rose Otto / Broccoli moisturizer (I think it's the "anti-aging / acne prone moisturizer"?) , because I like the ingredients a lot. I little does go a long way. I'm hoping (fingers crossed) that I can incorporate it into my BP regimen to help nourish my skin, since it gets pretty dull looking with BP over time. It's non-comedogenic too, according to the long list of comedogenic ingredients that Face Reality programs tell you to avoid.
 
 
 
 
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August 24, 2018
Great Scrub
Worked by itself for about six months on my face as a scrub/cleanser. After a good amount of scars I had to start using Panoxyl 10 (original formula) after scrubbing with Carley's to control my moderate acne.
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