Anyone know how to get Clearasil to remove spots rather then create them?

Adrian

Does anybody know how to get Clearasil to remove spots rather then create them. IF not then can you recommend a good spot removing product?

Töpher

Clearasil never worked for me. Panoxyl cream is good. As is washing your face with salty water.

galwaydude

i wouldnt go near clearasil if i was you, go out and get a good cleanser and mostureisor.Try dermologica, there expensive but way better than your average rubbish on the markets now as the last thing you wwant to do is try out your skin, that only creates more problems for you

Is1ldur

Depending upon the type of spots you get and your age, I would have a word with your doctor. I used to get these horrible big spots, not really acne, but just get one or two big enormous one from time to time (generally when there was something coming up that I did not want to have a spot for!). Kinda stress-related, etc. Doc said my skin had a tendency for this type of Sebaceous activity!, put me on a course of Minocin tablets, have not had any spots since (touch wood). I think these tablets stop the skin from producing as much oil or stuff. /actually, I better have a look on Google to see if there are any side-effects....

Executive Steve

if it really worked do you think they would be able to sell as much of it as they do???

Don't bother using it if you have any sort of medium+ acne on your face, because all you're doing is aggravating it making them appear redder. Try washing your face gently maybe once or twice a day with just soap.

Puck

Clearasil's useless!

Get a tube of Valderma cream. Wash your face with soap and warm water and put it on and you can feel it working (your face will feel all tingly and... well... "burning" for a bit). You can also get the Valderma soap and use the two together to really kick the **** out of any spots you have. It moisturises too so you won't be all dried out like after some other spot treatments. It works better than anything else I've ever tried.

Also used by Jimi Hendrix I believe.

uberwolf

I believe most spot medicines/treatments initially exasperate the situation before solving it. drawing the problem to the surface, in the form of spots, before it can clear it.

Or am I full of it?

raster

Originally posted by Einstürzende
Clearasil never worked for me. Panoxyl cream is good. As is washing your face with salty water.

Start with Panoxyl 5 then move to 10. If a chemist won't sell you 10 try elsewhere, some say it requires a prescription while others say it is over the counter.

uberwolf

panoxyl is very good stuff
but follow the instructions if you do intend using it.

Skud

Nivea for men face wash did the trick for me... but maybe that's just me. If you looking for a face wash...

Gordon

Three more tips:

1) Wash with hot water to open the pores and rinse with very cold water to close the pores afterwards.
2) Change your pillowslips as often as possible.
3) Stop touching your spots

Kali

Cut out the sugar and artifical flavourings... drink milk or water instead of coke etc. ... thats the only way to stop the ****ers appearing

raster

I believe that the key is washing, washing, washing, to remove the causative excess oil.

This is best effected by hydraulic action (running hot water in shower), not abrasion (scrubbing with face cloth). Don't over do it though.

Emboss

stop eating crap.....
drink lots of water......
mentioned above wash with hot water to open...
cold to close....

don't use crappy products like clearasil....

i know someone who used to use toothpaste and it worked a treat

never tried it personally

Adrian

Thanx ppl for the info. Going ot try the hot and cold water treatment for a while. If thats doing nothing ill get the panoxyl cream. Thanx again.

Adrian

oh yeah might aswell ask, how do I get rid of spots on my head? Any shampoos or anything that get rid?

Emboss

spots on your head? emmm


not sure about that one...i assume it's the head on your shoulders...

maybe go to a GP and ask for something decent....

kano476

wash face with WARM water every night. warm water clears out pores much beter than cold. use some sort of moisturiser. not much of it thought coz it makes skin very oily at times. use an exfoliating cleanser every couple of days Nivea for men cleanser is the business.

drink industial amounts of water. dont have too much salt/sugar. get fresh air every day. i also heard somewhere that fruit and crap like that is good. basically as much viatmins as possible.

I found most face washes i used just gave me dry skin and more spots so i stopped using them. maybe try to use ones with as little perfume as possible cause skin gets really sensitive when you have spots thats prolly why its making it worse.

Neutrogena shampoo for the spots on the head is good. avoid hair gel and wearing hats as much as possible! sudocream is ok for spots but they sometimes burst and spread. stiemycin is pretty good. needs to be prescribed though coz its like napalm for spots.

Hope ive helped.

wiensta

I recommend using tea tree oil.

No chemicals or anything, its just a tiny bottle of the stuff, costs about a fiver.

put a drop of it over the spot and no more spots. The bees knees. Also works for cold sores! No more €8 zovirax!

Also you can get a thing boots make for about €7, its like a mascara tube but with brushes on both ends (its actually more like two bottles stuck on each end.) One end has tea tree oil and the other has witch hazel. Both natural and effective in small quantities.

Of course, you will need to have a good diet. Avoid chips and the like and drink loads and loads of water. Also, try get in the sun whenever its out (might have to wait!)

weemcd

get something called exgoliating cream, its got sugar or salt or some kind of micro beads, id bet you could make it yourself with soap and sugar, anyway it scrubs away all the blackheads and the heads of the spots, and is very effective providing you give yer face a good old scrub with warm water.

DaithiSurfer

burn them off.

Just kidding.
I'm convinced that there is nothing that works for spots.
Tried everything as a teenager and my 19th birthday was the only thing that got rid of them.

Stark

I find excercise helps, all that sweat does wonders.

Stark

I find that excercise helps. All that sweat does wonders.

DMT

Quinoderm...

KlodaX

vitamin b if they are stress related .. ...

IronMan

Exfoliating cleansers never worked for me, your just aggrevating the skin, and making them enflamed. I had them pretty bad, tried every medication prescribed except Roaccutane.
Then I started to drink loads of water, washed my face with Gentle Soap in the mornings (special extra mild soap for your face), took loads of vitamin A, B, and Zinc.

In the evening I washed my face with very hot water and a few drops of tea-tree oil mixed through it (doctor told me never to use powerful cleansers in the morning, they strip off essential oils off your skin (not spot causing oils). I then used Panoxyl 5 afterwards, jesus using it after tea-tree oil used to sting like hell! At first they got worse, but had disappeared after 3 weeks.

I still use the same cleansing procedures, no panoxyl, but I moisturise with Bio-Oil, horrible oily stuff, but it redefines your pores, causes small scars to fade, and for such oily stuff never brings me out in a single spot. Its fairly expensive at about €14 a bottle, but I do find it good.

bahairy

I know exactly what im talking about. i had a spot problem for years and i used to wash my face every day or even twice a day. one day i couldnt be arsed and i left it alone. i had a shower every day and did't use any product. the spots soon began to clear up. i am a medical student with some experience in dermatology and i recently learnd that when washing the face any kind of anti-bacterial product like that can lead to further aggrigation of the problem, it makes your skin all dry and flakey as well,. it can also lead to problems when you keep knocking heads off when washing with a product - this can lead to permenant scars

Skud

polytar is the best shampoo for stuff like that. (for me the teatree oil just gave me dandruff)

galwaydude

Just want to ask someones opinion, i have had acne since my early teens, its not so bad now but i have tried everything from roaccuatne and other treatments like the new n lite treatment andalso clearlight.At this stage im at the end of my teder as im due back for my floow up on the n lite in a few weeks, i cant really afford any more treatments as i have spent the guys of a thousand euro since before xmas on the n light and treatment creams.I get most of my active spots on my next and now getting little feckers on my chest.Going back to the doctor will only cause the vicious circle to start again, as he/she will send me off to a dermotologist.I was advised to stop that treatment as the dermotologist had me on hebiscrub for my neck and check and that stuff is very severe.So any advice grateful as its really affecting my confidence now.