Clean & Clear : Persa-Gel 10, Maximum Strength

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Active Ingredient: Benzoyl Peroxide (10%). Inactive Ingredients: Carbomer, Disodium EDTA, Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose, Laureth 4, Sodium Hydroxide, Water.

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

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August 16, 2009

Pros:

None

Cons:

Left red scaley patches on my cheek and more bumps poped up and white heads

Sucks
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August 16, 2009

Pros:

It cleared up my big bubbles within 2 days. ILOVEIT!

Cons:

NONE

Try it????
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August 14, 2009

Pros:

Cleared up my skin
gets rid of pimples and those annoying big bumps that hurt
works relatively fast on little pimples

Cons:

leaves a mark of the pimple. sort of like a scar that goes away after a while, but they tend to leave a 'brown' mark
using it too often (more than 2ce a day) leaves face red and often dry

This product has become a part of my daily skin care routine, and I have to say, it's one of the best acne products I've used. I was surprised to see how fast it worked when I first started using it (little pimples were 'gone' in about 2-3 days). But what I've noticed in the time that I've used it (and maybe this is just me), but when the pimples are 'gone' or the swelling has gone down, they leave a brown ish mark or scar, which takes a while (if ever) to disappear. This might just be me, because I have relatively white skin for an asian girl, and the marks it leaves are really noticeable on my white skin so it makes me angry. But overall, I'd say this works fairly well
August 13, 2009

Pros:

Will dry out small pimples virtually overnight

Cons:

This is personal experience, but I used this product once a day for a week and my face started getting red patches and skin started severely peeling and itching. Reduced application to once every other day but still no change, extreme dryness.

When I used this product on my skin it didn't agree with me, but that not saying it doesn't work. I think I'm just sensitive to high doses of benzoyl peroxide because even when using a moisturizer it didn't help with the redness and itching. I reduced usage to just being a spot treatment but still the redness and irritation continued, switched to a 2.5% bp treatment and that worked for me. So if you're not sensitive to the product it may work for you, but if you start getting redness and severe peeling I would discontinue usage because you may be sensitive to the product. I guess you never really know until you try.
August 13, 2009

Pros:

none

Cons:

dries skin very very badly

made my face red all over, like a rash. makes my skin peel. it gets some pimples to go away but leaves your face red and peeling
August 9, 2009

Pros:

It worked pretty much the first couple of days.

Cons:

A little bit of drying.

I have only a little bit of acne on my cheeks and forehead, but after using this product for only about 3 days, I have seen amazing results! I use this product right after using neutrogena oil free acne face wash!
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August 8, 2009

Pros:

It cleared up my pimples better than anything I've ever used.

Cons:

A little bit drying.

I really like this. I used to have moderate acne, and this cleared it up to mild, if any at all. I still have 1 or 2 bumps, but this definately works. Get it!
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August 7, 2009

Pros:

clears pimples

Cons:

can be drying but i put it on my oily tzone where i have my acne so im good

itz an amazing product! does not dry my skin and reduces pimple size , ive only used it for like 2 weeks and a half so i havent seen huge results yet
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August 6, 2009

Pros:

- Great for spot treatments
- Gets rid of those little pimples that aren't quite noticable but other acne products miss

Cons:

- Can be sort of messy I suppose? I put it on before bed so I just have to be careful not to rub it off.

I've always struggled with a stream of acne across my forheads and cheeks. I have TONS of freckles, so they camaflodge the acne. It's not noticable unless you run your fingers across my skin because they are very light pimples. However, this is something that just seemed to never go away no matter how hygenic I was. Luckily, I found out about this little treasure. I remember the morning after my first use I could already tell that nearly all my unnoticable acne was gone! I loved it! I used it on my larger pimples and while there was a redness for maybe two hours max after washing this product off, the redness was dramatically lower and the pimple was healing within hours of washing my face. I bought this at Target on sale. I'd recommend waiting for this to go on sale because I find that it frequently does. This bottle should last for quite some time if you are frugal about your use. Sidenote: I use this product before I go to bed as a spottreatment. I wash it off in th
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August 2, 2009

Pros:

Didn't dry out my skin and it didn't make my skin worse

Cons:

Didn't do anything. It sucked

Don't buy it unless you barely have any pimples at all. My skin is oily and I have moderate acne. I'm guessing this was designed with a less severe case of acne in mind. It felt like I'd just put on a sticky layer of gel and it didn't even do anything.
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