Acne.org : Treatment (Benzoyl Peroxide - 2.5%)

It didn't work for me. I have taken about 1 hour each day for the past 3 months putting on Dan's Regimen. IT WAS THE BIGGEST WASTE OF TIME. WORKED FOR 2 WEEKS, AND THEN EVERYTHING CAM BACK. This is very frustrating, waste of time and money

I have very sensitive skin and I believe I could be allergic to BP. I get redness, itchiness, swelling, dryness, and a little crusting. I used to use Clearasil Acne Treatment Cream 10% BP, but it didn't go too well. I tried Dan's 2.5% BP and received the same side effects. Even though BP gets rid of my pimples quickly, the side effects of BP are really bothersome for me. I still try to stick to the reigmen as close as possible, but I use a lot less BP instead of a lot of it. I've found out using less works well for me. If I apply any more than a little BP, the side effects gradually worsen, and I had to stop using it at one point because it got pretty severe. Sometimes, I'd wake up several times during the night with a really bad itch around my face. I had a family member ask me about my face at one point because my whole face looked red as a tomato for an entire week before I lowered the dosage.

Let me start off by saying I have been an avid user of acne.org's BP since I was 15. It helped tremendously when I was a teen. Im 23 now and I dont know if the formula has changed or its my skin but this just isnt cutting it anymore. My skin is always dry. Mind you, I have extremely oily skin. No moisturizer has been able to help me get over dry skin. Not even trying adding jojoba oil to it. I feel BP has aged me 5-10 years. There are too many cons that outweigh the pros. Sadly, as I have been an avid supporter of this community. Time for accutane....

i had severe acne for years and started dan's regime with panoxyl. the first week was the worst - my skin became really red and inflamed and the worst thing was i had to go out like this in public. i was also flaking like crazy. also i started to get really bad wrinkles under my eyes and around my mouth - even after slathering my face with jojoba oil morning and night. these wrinkles are permanent and i have huge ones under my eyes to this day (and it's been about 3 yrs since i stopped using bp). if ur wondering i'm in my mid-20s so it's nothing to do with natural ageing! bp made my skin really itchy and gave me hyperpigmentation - which took years to get rid of.. don't get me wrong, bp does help with acne but does so in a really aggressive way, which cannot be good for ur skin in the longterm... it also stopped working for me after a few years and i got the worst breakout in my life.

I wanted to like it, but it just isn't as good as other BP products like clinique. This BP is horrendous at stopping breakouts from happening while you're out and about. I would be out having fun, go to a bathroom and be embarrassed to see a few pimples had risen. So I could never feel secure about my face using this stuff when I was out. I will say that it is quality ingredients, it's gentle and goes on clear, I wish I could like it, but it's just not good enough.

I've had stubborn acne for a while now and thought I'd finally give BP a try. I ordered this because of all the good reviews I saw. The first night, I put it on, closely following the regimen. I only used a pea-sized amount as directed and went to sleep. The next morning, I woke up with mild itching and my face was tinged a little red for the whole day but it wasn't major. That afternoon, I came home and put it on again after a shower (I hadn't put it on that morning so there was more than a 12 hour difference). That evening, I started to notice the itching was persistant and getting worse. The redness wasn't subsiding either. Another 10-12 hours later, I put it on again (pea-sized amount as usual) and went to bed. The next morning was horrible. I woke up and my face was puffy, red and itching like crazy! Thankfully I didn't have to go anywhere but it was awful! I immediately stopped using it but there hasn't been much change. I woke up this morning and my face was still very red but I think the swelling went down a bit. However, now my left eyelid is swollen. In the end, I didn't see much improvement in my acne either but I was only using it for three days. I think I may be allergic to BP since a while back I had a similar reaction while using an Oxy cleanser with BP but my doctor attributed it partly to seafood. I suppose anyone trying this really has to be careful and make sure they're not allergic first.

Well...I have been using this product for 4 months, and have been following the regimen to a T. Gentle, waiting between applications, etc.. The only positive I can come away with is the ease of applying a gel BP. Very smooth. I only really broke out in my chin area, so I started only applying there. It never made my acne better. Just consistently stayed the same, and there were new breakouts everyday. I have little flesh colored bumps on my forehead so about 4 weeks in I started applying the BP there as well hoping to get rid of them. Oh boy. I never break out on my forehead. Massive eruption. Everything from whiteheads, to red bumps, cysts, blackheads, you name it, my forehead's got it. And now both of my temples have these strange cysts, they are not painful, just about 5 huuuge bumps. I can deal with the flakiness, but the texture of my skin is horrendous. My pores look huge and I just kind of look aged. Ugh. I really wanted this regimen to work and I do believe Dan is a great guy for sharing his success with the world. I have no doubt that this works for alot of people, just look at the logs. I suppose this just wasn't meant for me. Le sigh. :/

Watch out the amount of BP you tried to use, maybe just try to apply the medicine on the spot rather than whole face.

I have more sensitive skin but I thought it would still be okay since some people with sensitive skin were able to use 10% b.p. with some success. I wanted to be on the safe side and only bought the 2 oz just to try it out. The first few days were fine, no burning as I gradually increased the dosage of the b.p. for my face. However when I got up to 2/3 of my finger, my face started to burn so bad. I washed it off immediately, but it still didn't feel much better. It was only after I rubbed some aloe on that I felt better. This product wasn't for me. I would recommend for someone who isn't sensitive to benzoyl peroxide

I also find the dispensers to be disappointing. The large dispenser pump was stuck so I had to remove it from the bottle, wash the treatment lotion off it (thus losing a fair amount), and dry it then prize it to open by twisting the inside of the tube and the outside. Then with the small travel size dispenser, the foil seal over the top was stuck inside the lid, and I couldn't get it out without resorting to finding some tweezers, it was so far inside. And then the pumps on the 3 large dispensers I got are different, so they don't match.