Aknemycin Plus : Erythromycin (4%) and Tretinoin (.025%) Solution

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Active Ingredients: Erythromycin (4%) and Tretinoin (.025%). Inactive Ingredients: Mineral oil, petrolatum, paraffin, talc, titanium dioxide, trilaureth 4 phosphate, oleyl oleate, tricetareth 4 phosphate, cetostearyl alcohol and sorbitol.

Items marked with red have tested a 3 or above (out of 5) in comedogenic (pore-clogging) testing.

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October 20, 2011

Pros:

Cheap (NHS prescription in the UK)

Cons:

Made my acne worse, still after 6 weeks

Months after I had to stop taking the Dianette which had worked wonders for my back and chest acne, my skin got gradually worse again. My GP prescriped me the Aknemycin Plus topical solution. Quite difficult to apply to the back, I tried it anyway and didn't see any positive effects so far. In the last few weeks, I realised that my skin got even worse, I have new angry red pimples which I didn't experience that badly before. People often write about initial bad outbreaks and then an improvement but so far I have been taking this stuff for 6 weeks now and there are no signs of improvement whatsoever, just the opposite. My skin is in such a state that I'll go to a specialist next and will ask for Accutane. Aknemycin seems to work for some, maybe it depends on how severe the acne is. So please don't be discouraged, it might help you, I just wanted to add that this was not the case for me.
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January 2, 2012

Pros:

No blackheads

Cons:

Made me breakout
Red, really dry, painful skin ~ Don't use it for one day and skin becomes incredibly oily
Did nothing for current spots

Unless you have light acne or very light acne, don't bother using it, it really did nothing for me at all.
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June 17, 2016
Worst acne medicine I've ever been on
Two stars only because I like the way the bottle works for application. I used this for almost a year and I had absolutely no improvement. If anything, my acne became even worse. Aknemycin made my skin oily at itchy, not to mention it also smelled awful and if you accidentally get some on your lips, you'll be tasting it for the next couple of hours. Also if you have any open wounds (from a recently popped pimple or even from shaving) this medicine STINGS like no other. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.
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December 30, 2007

Pros:

antibiotic ingredient

Cons:

other harmful ingredients

This stuff made me break out like mad after I stoppped using it for a day I think for moderate acne an antibiotic cream alone is much safer this contains stuff that alters sebum production
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