Mario Badescu Skin Care Drying Lotion
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Badescu WORKS for Breakouts!
Adult acne is so frustrating, so annoying! I think it's worse than when one is in their teens or early twenties. It is normal to see a young person with blemishes, but once you pass the age of forty it is rather unusual and certainly embarrassing. For the most part, my skin was quite good in high school, but I had cyclical and occasional breakouts when my routine changed. I knew how to deal with them: I pulled out my Neutrogena "Facial Cleansing Bar for Acne-Prone Skin" to gently but thoroughly deep-clean skin. I would follow with Bonne Bell's amazing "Ten-O-Six" astringent. For tough blemishes, I used Benzoyl Peroxide. Usually by morning or the next day the defect(s) would be on their way out. I would use a mask or an exfoliator to rid my complexion of any dead skin which was left behind. Skin at that age is much more resilient, far more able to handle heavy-duty products. (Keep in mind that Benzoyl Peroxide, while highly effective, will actually bleach the color out of clothing!) But breakouts at an older age are not so easy to control--Benzoyl Peroxide is much too harsh for my skin now and would leave me with horrific, scaling skin. Enter Mario Badescu's revered "Skin Care Drying Lotion." It works directly on blemishes without over-drying and causing havoc. It contains Salicylic Acid (basically just aspirin), Calamine Lotion to comfort, Camphor, Zinc Oxide (an agent present in diaper-rash ointments to dry skin with tenderness) and Glycerin. To achieve best results, wash the affected area(s) and apply moisturizer as usual. Do NOT shake the bottle to mix the pink sediment with the rest of the product. Using fresh Q-tips, dot only the pink substance on blemishes and allow to dry. Keep on overnight and remove by washing in the morning. Blind pimples will disappear; those which have already come to a head will diminish as well, without affecting your entire complexion. This works well for acne on your back and décolleté. It is also highly effective as a treatment for mosquito bites. — 1 month, 3 weeks agoThis review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 0 of 0 people said helpful
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What's all the hype?
I got this product after I had seen it raved about on youtube and in magazines. Everyone made it sound like this miracle product that would completely dry and clear up your pimples overnight. For me though, it acted just like any other spot treatment would. It would dry up my pimples just a tiny bit, and that's it. For me this was not as amazing as everyone said, and I am not sure if I would even repurchase this. One of the reasons I think that people love this so much is that it does feel like it is doing something because it kind of makes your breakout sting a little bit. But overall this was just an ok spot treatment for me, and definitely not worth all of the hype. — 6 months, 1 week agoThis review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 0 of 2 people said helpful
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This pimple lotion is great. But it's not perfect. It's nice in the sense that it does work but it chooses when it wants to work. For example, say I have five zits on my face (gross I know) and I dab this lotion on them. Three of them will reduce in size and kinda scab up and go away, and one, nothing happens, and the last, a whitehead surfaces. So all in all, I think it works nice. — 1 year, 6 months agoThis review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 5 of 5 people said helpful
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