La Roche-Posay : Effaclar Duo

I have rather severe acne clustered only on my forehead, and the area between brows. I started using this product since the beginning of November. It's weird that I start to get acne at the beginning of November for two years straight now. After 2 months of consistent usage of this product, I finally got rid of the stubborn forehead acne. I use this product twice daily in combination with La Roche Posay's Effaclar Duo cleanser and Neutrogena's Moisture (Oil free) lotion. At the same time, I make simple honey mask every night before bedtime, and let it hang on my face for roughly half hour. And I highly recommend to eat extremely healthy for about a month just to remove the toxins in your body. Though you will not see immediate effects of eating healthy, but that will help with your overall body well-being, and after about a month since you start to eat healthy you will begin to see smoother skin that glows. As well as a good sleeping pattern improves the way your skin looks. Make sure you re sleeping at a time when you usually sleeps, and no later after 1 AM(personally).

This is the only thing that has worked on my forehead acne, I am 36 years old and have always struggled with acne, I highly recommend this product!!

Im a girl and im 16 years old (if that makes a difference) and ive had moderate acne since the 8th grade meaning i wake up with about 3-5 new zits every morning. not the little clogged pore kind but the bigger redder white head kind. yuck. that and i have quite a few (but not too bad) acne scars. Before i started using this stuff i had gone to the derm multiple times and theyve given me different types of antibiotics (which didnt help) and retin-A (which only dried out the acne and my skin along with it). finally i got fed up and ordered Proactiv. Proactiv was expensive and it only helped me a little bit but it wasnt strong enough and none of my close friends or family could notice any positive changes in my skins appearance. One day i noticed my older brother (19 years old with really bad acne on his cheeks whod also gone to the same derm as me which did nothing for him) had much much clearer skin than usual and i asked him what he was using and it was Effaclar Duo. Hes been using it for about 6 weeks now and his skin still has some pretty bad scars but most of his white heads are gone and some of his scars have faded. Ive used this stuff for about 3 weeks now and the first week i used it about once every other day because it made my skin dry and flaky at first but i gradually upped the applications to twice a day and my skin isnt dry anymore. from the first couple of days i noticed that instead of the regular size and amount of zits popping up on my face i was getting less and smaller pimples and as the weeks go by im getting less and less pimples coming up. I love this stuff! it really works! most products dont do what they say but Effaclar does exactly what it says and now i have hope that my skinll get better finally! I recommend!!!!

This product is terrible. I've spent the whole summer using it because my dermatologist told me it was THE solution to my acne issues. It simply destroyed my skin and I went from a bad case of cystic acne to scars and disgusting whiteheads all over my cheeks and jawline. I was so disfigured I couldn't even face a mirror or sleep because it hurt. Now that I've stopped using it, my skin looks terrible  '"hypermygmentation all over the face'" + it is oversensitive and I can't put anything on it.

I am only 13 but my face is covered in acne it works like nothing i have ever tried but i havent really ever tried a really good quality product. All iv tries are the stuff off the shelves at the drugstore I RECCOMEND THIS PRODUCT TO ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY!!!!!

I decided to review this today because I had a major breakout 4 days ago that I had picked at in frustration :( big bumps and bad redness that weren't even covered by foundation and concealor. I didn't even want anyone to see my face. Today the redness is all gone and my skin is flat. :) I still obviously have the purple/faded red marks to show for it but I'm so much happier. I love this product. In less than a week it has improved my confidence a lot.

I have struggled with acne since I was in fourth grade. My father had horrible skin so I guess I got it from him. I have tried so many products and wasted so much money. The only thing that worked was Accutane but the side effects were horrible. I can honestly say this stuff is amazing. My skin feels and looks so much better. I would recommend this to anyone. I am so glad I found this at CVS and decided to give it a try. Best decision I ever made.

It is my favorite product from the whole line and I use it twice a day as my daily cream, thus under I put some moisturizing day cream for acne prone skin (previously Rev Acnosal, Effaclar H and now trying out Pergam Acnell) as I find it too light to keep my skin moisturized enough, especially in winter or when using topical skin treatments. It keeps my oils under control. Specifically noticed when sometimes due to my laziness after washing my face/having shower I haven't put this cream immediately on, within an hour my T zone becomes oily like a pancake. Also once while traveling I was in a country where they do not sell LRP products at all (and I didn't know that) and I ran out of my Effaclar Duo - you can't imagine how horrible my skin became just in one week without the cream! Due to overproducing the oils my pores became clogged and I got pimples everywhere - even where I usually haven't got! And I kept all the rest of my routine the same. I should note down I like the new Duo plus version better than the old Effaclar Duo, as it lightens the redness on my cheeks (sensitive skin) and acne scars. After one year of using it my old scars on the forehead and cheeks have become almost invisible, on the chin not so much but only because my acne isn't cured and pimples and cysts keep popping up there (hormonal imbalance). I give only 4 stars because it doesn't moisturize enough for my personal preferences. Otherwise it would be 5.

I was using this more or less 3 months and I didn't saw any progress. Do not put too much hope in this product. I think this is not for real acne problem, maybe just for skin with few pimples.

Had acne on neck still at 37 yrs having tried almost every med and over counter product this simple cream actually works. I use it with toner and gel cleanser my skin is clear at last!