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89 of 90 people found the following review helpful.
After acne for 17 years, I am now 97% acne free
By LA Girl
Just like numerous of the reviewers here, I have tried EVERYTHING over the years, prescription medication (oral and topical), vitamins, Proactive, diet, 2 courses of acutane. Nothing worked, and my skin is very sensitive, and naturally very oily, and scars very easily. I purchased this book over 1 year ago and in the long run understood the reasons behind how acne developed, and the need to use dissimilar productions to control dissimilar phases of the acne cycle.
After putting the scientific info in this book together with other books, my procedure is this:
Morning: Wash 1x with 2% Salicylic Wash – Oil Free Acne Wash, Neutrogena ($5), then wash again with Proactive’s 2.5% BP cleanser. Use Proactive’s toner and 2.5% BP treatment cream, then spf 30 sunscreen.
Evening: Wash 1x with Noxema Triple Clean Cleanser–has Triclosan ($5), then wash again with Glycolic Acid – 7% Glycolic Exfoliating Wash, DDF. ($27, Sephora). Then on occasion use a 2% hydroquinone product to tardily remove scars, but commonly not one thing else at night.
Washing my face twice morning and night with these productions has eradicated the severe acne I had for 17 years. All of these productions are good in themselves (Proactive is good with BP, because their deliverance system gets the BP deep within the pores. The triclosan cleanser is good because it does away with surface bacteria from the skin, glycolin acid is good because it lifts dead skin cells and rejuvenates skin.) But when I ultimately understood that they all had to work together to eliminate acne, and stuck to the program, is when I had awful results. It has been when it comes to a year of 97% acne free.
I am using more merchandise now to make it all work than I applied to, but I am spending SOOOO much less $ than I applied to on acne productions it is amazing.
I have never written a review before. . . But this book has changed my life so much that I wanted to let you recognise what I do so hopefully it may help somebody else.
108 of 114 humans found the following review helpful.
The stuff works, but hard to follow. Thats why I give it 3 s
By Your beauty in your own hands
Important info that will aid you. Read everything! Long post.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy for you to come your way into a brand new start out in life. But before you get into it, let me assure you, it all depends on YOU!
Thats right, you. This book is effective, but only if followed 100 percent correctly. Which is not easy! believe me, particularly after loads of failed undertake and relunctant to follow through due to lack of trust and selfassurance in other “solution”. Thats what keeping galore of these negative reviewer back. The method in this book does work, but only if you follow it systematically daily at the specific hour and specific routine and all the micro details involved in the process. Terry J Dubrow is a great researcher and doctor, but when it comes to communication his points, I find that to be his greatest flaw. His Acne Cure Program, the procedure is not listed PRECISELY clear, he wrote it under the assumption that we know incisively what to use for morning, night, etc… So let me clarify for you my friends.
Morning: Step 1:
S-Acid first, make sure you add a few drop of water, and leave it on face for at least 2 minutes. The ammount listed is the size of penny. Now don’t assume thats sufficient for your entire face. Thats only sufficient for one part of your face, I think more is necessary, so work your way through from forehand “top to bottom” face, nose, cheeks, chin, etc. 2-3 penny will have to be enough. rub gently in circular motion. Leave for 2 minutes. After that, use warm water from shower to wash off the solution.
2) Use G-Acid in the precise same manner as the S-Acid. Make sure you altogether wash off the S-Acid firstborn before adding the G-Acid. The only divergence in using the G-Acid is, it takes a good deal of time for the acid to sink in to effect, so leave it on for 2-3 minutes, then gently scrub off the dead skin cells [you must have rather some since the G-Acid would inevitably help you remove it from clogging" and make sure you cleanse off all the dead skin cells so it doesn't clog up your pores. After you use warm water to efficaciously remove dead skin cells, move onto step 3.
Step 3: [after shower] Apply OIL-FREE moisturizer with Sunscreen at 30 concentration. Make sure you use moisturizer or it won’t work. This is a HUGE step of the cure. By doing this, it will support improve your skin dramatically and in truth help remove the acne a lot more effective. So buy a quality OIL-FREE moisturizer with SPF 30.
Thats Morning. I suggest doing S-acid and G-acid steps for the duration of shower, and do it daily EXACTLY THAT TIME. FORCE YOURSELF INTO IT BY MAKING IT A JOB. A NATURAL HABIT WITHOUT EVEN THINKING. Or else you will unquestionably fail if you don’t do so or waste your time and cash and do not get significant improvement.
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Night time,
Step 1: Use the S-Acid routine [exactly] the same as the morning one. So meaning the S-Acid needs to be washed off.
Step 2: After you finished washing, here is the tricky part.
Grab your BP Gel from your fridge, it needs to be very cold. So if it’s not cold enough, before you take shower at night to implement step 1, put the gel in freezer from the lower fridge and leave it there until you finish showering and using Step 1.
Once it’s cold sufficient after applying step 1, Take out the BP gel from fridge or other than as supposed or expected freezer. Take at least 4-5 huge ice cube. I repeat, big ones. Not mini ones or broken ones. Get a good deal of huge ones. Grab your face towel. Put the 4-5 big ice cube and bp gel on your face towel. Grab your ice packs. “I badly suggest humans to get AT LEAST 2 ICE PACK. I suggest 3, but if possible get 6! Heres why, this is important. Each time you apply, I suggest using 3 at a time to cover your entire face, so you treat it all together in beneath 15 minutes. If you only use 1 ice pack, not only do you have to leave it on one percentage of your face for 10 minutes, you have to leave it onto other parts of your face, which compose of 3 main parts, Top forehead, Left Face, Right side Face. So add that all together, without apparent effort 50 minutes. It takes at least couple minutes to implement the gel and ice and everything each time.
Grab all your ice pack, breifly rinse your ice pack with cold water for couple seconds. Dont wash it. Leave the washing at the end when you finish using it, so next time you use it is clean and just briefly rinse it.
Secondly after one use of the ice pack, the ice pack no longer becomes cold. The ice pack im referring to are those “blue” ones or whichever liquid gel color they have. It is ordinarily usable for both hot and cold. So once your blood warms up, or your breathe heats up the pack, it becomes defective. [When you leave the pack over your face, it becomes hard to breathe and you use your mouth to breathe in air, and for the duration of that process, it may heat up the ice pack quicker] So imagine reusing one pack thats not even cold after one tiome usage on other constituents of your face… It becomes INCONSISTENT! So you need 3 ice packs for 3 parts of your face, leave it on together covering your entire face, that way each pack are devoted to each specific area of your problem area. In the book it was not detailed, because it would have no problem treating a couple of pimples with one pack, but with intermediate sufferers, it’s not sufficient.
3 packs. Get extra 3 packs, the reason is, 1 night of cooling is not sufficient to deeply make the pack cold, so if you have 6 pack, you may interchange the pack for rotation which leaves more time for the packs to absorb the chilliness and last longer for the duration of that 10 minute treatment. This is exceedingly important, a lot of times it felt like it wasn’t “effective” or not satisfy when it’s not cold enough. So you will have to keep it cold and feel “fulfilled” inside.
Now down to the actual details of application.
After you grab everything, the packs, ice cubes, cold BP gel, lay down on bed with blanket covering yourself [make it comfortable as you can] relax yourself, grant time to relax, release the tension, and get started running the ice cubes over your forehead, run one full cube per area. 1 cube Top forehead, 1 cube left side of face, 1 cube right side of face. Rerun it with remaining cube on all area of face and rerun it until all the ice are gone, this must make your skin cold to the touch. with a large total of melting water. So place the towel right under your face when you run the ice. Make sure you do this until it in truth becomes cold to the touch, not freezing cold, but cold as in it won’t just fade away in matter of seconds. Once it’s that stage, implement generous amount of BP GEL that are genuinely cold [dont be cheap, put a lot], onto your face, smooth it out, even it out. Do it gently, once thats done. “try not to take too long, your finger due to blood circulation will heat up the gel” then without delay place all ice pack in position, you ought to see a lot of little ice on top of the pack, it’s okay leave it on. Place all packs onto your face. Rest and relax for 10 minutes, undertake not to breathe so much, as it will heat up the pack.just relax, place the pack with resolute determination onto your face so it’s actually “touching” the surface, do not push it acutely though, just tame placement and tame finger keeping to lock down the position of the pack. Dont put entire hand to hold down the pack, that heats it up faster, use fingers to hold the position. let comfortably, so all your pores are open for the BP gel to enter to work itself. Leave it on for 10 minutes minimun [assuming you have entire face covered together]. Once 10 minute is over, I suggest listening to music and knowing the track of the time, so you may guess by which track is the time. Once this is done and becomes your every day relaxation time, things will go very well. I promise you. Whats hard is the experience of the cold pack, it is not a pleasant experience if you mess up or make it not comfortable, thats why I suggest doing it in bed with some blankets to keep your body warm and comfortable while your face is doing the cooling. try to get enjoyment from it. Once time is up, grab the towel, wipe off the excess BP gel and leave the remaining to work overnight. Do this each evening after night shower or before going to bed. Wash your packs, put it in freezer, put BP gel in fridge. And there you have it. Your night time routine.
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If you follow the day time procedure and night time routine EVERYDAY WITHOUT MESSING UP ONCE and doing it ON TIME, it will work, give it at least 6-7 weeks before you say this does not work, galore humans may observe prompt betterment the next day. Sounds easy right? NOT AT ALL! It’s a commitment, peculiarly when it requires all that effort. Just make sure you follow the Morning routine and the night time procedure each single day of the program, on time on track, not leaving out one single step.
It’s not that simple as it sounds, when life and stress comes into play, getting off work all tired, at times you just don’t feel like doing it, peculiarly the cold pack [more so if you dislike it] so make it through, make it comfortable and relaxing, try to take delight in it, strength yourself through and get over it. Conquer your acne.
If you do not do so as told, getting lazy or don’t feel like doing the BP gel with cold packs, or only doing morning today, tomorrow night time, etc etc with any inconsistent combination, you are wasting your time and cash on the product. Because it won’t heal like that, it takes ongoing penetration with the morning routine and the night time routine to work together.It works each time little by little, and by the end of the program, you see a dramatic result. It’s not a for the length of one night magic for all people. So if you do it consistent for 4 days, then decides to stop for 2 days, and redo it. Thats not good. You will have to do it every day consistently. Thats the key. Thats the difficult part. Thats why I give it 3 star. The morning and night works together. You can’t stretch the time among those two. It’s meant to be together like a couple, if you seperate it, you will only waste time and get frustrated. So do yourself a favor, get the book, read the stuff, so you get convinced, follow through what I suggest, and do as incisively and consistently, you will see result. It’s that simple. It’s why it works for those people on the reality TV, because they are forced to stick to the program STRICTLY adherd.
I recognise all this may seem perplexed with so much detail, but believe me, it’s worth your trouble, re-read ONCE and undertake to grasp and memorize the entire stage correctly. It is a lot more simple and well elaborate than how the book put it specifically when it comes to the application of the program.
I hope this helps you guys.
—————– Overall ————-Terry J. Dubrow is legitmate and what we call “real deal”, hes actually something. If you ever watch “the swan” from the reality television, he was part of that impressive transformation!
I’m sure if you put yourself into his hands, he will heal you, because he unquestionably knows how to do it correctly and forcing you into habit. It is not ofttimes his book that have issues, it’s the reader who have issues following through precisely his routines precisely. I don’t blame you guys for that, because most times hes not very clear on the actual routine, and it takes rather a few thinking and re-reading to understand the program correctly. [At basi I applied it wrong for a long time, I applied the G-acid both morning and night and boy was that a foolish mistake]
Waste of time and money, because his application instruction is not very clear, but through a lot of indepth reading and exploration it becomes clear, so do not assume his application instruction are clear, or you’ll make the fault you wont want to make, wasting time and cash and growing lack of selfassurance in a program that works of followed correctly and thoroughly. So I’m making it clear for you. So not every one reads the same, secondly this book placed a lot of special and significant stress on the elaborated information, the actual indication on the program is very short, but the comprehensible statement concerning acne is used to convince and motivate readers to follow through the plan. That is why I still commend persons to buy the book even if you recognise the “routines” precisely, because following through is a test of reputation and strong will plus commitment and dedication. If you arm yourself with the knowledge, you’ll gain confidence, consequently more comfortable to follow through his program. It takes a lot of commiment. Sorry to say, If you see this Dr Dubrow, not everyone has that “excitement” or intense desire and dedication/trust necessary to with great success and efficaciously follow through your program. People get burnt out after each failed attempts, which I assume is rather a lot… So the actual performance of applying the materials listed in this book becomes a problem for a lot of people. The idea of putting a ice pack and running ice cube over your face is not a pleasant routine for long-term. Not everyone likes that experience, peculiarly if initial one didn’t go right.
This book works on curing and eliminating existent acne. The trick is, do the other stuff he suggested to prevent new ones from formation. If you may keep yourself from formation, you will heal it. Formation is due to internal aspect of your body. It all depends on the stuff inside your bowel. Ever seen rotten food? Well it’s not surprising to get acne when your body cannot with great success eliminate those waste out of your system. What goes in needs to come out, in all parts. Most of the time, what goes in may not come out fully, only 30 percent. So make sure you work on that first, fixing your internal body.
So fellow friends, remember, the key is doing incisively on time and precisely, most significantly consistently. If you read to here, I thank you for reading my review, hope it is helpful to you, wish you the best and you is worthy of success. 
32 of 33 humans found the following review helpful.
This program works, but use it in moderation.
By A
I was struggling with acne for 17 yrs, and the program outlined in this book gave positive results in less than one week. It has even made those dreaded “cystic” ones a thing of the past. However, I do agree that it is a reasonably harsh regimen. I would consider my skin to be VERY lasting and not irritated effortlessly at all; yet at with regards to the two week mark, my skin started to peel and get in truth dried out.
My suggestion to anybody wanting to give this a shot is to use the full protocol sparingly when basi attempting it out (perhaps each other evening) or undertake what another reviewer suggested and tardily add each element to your cleansing ritual. I personally use a 2% salicylic wash by Neutrogena each AM and on each other PM (like I said, I have tough skin). On the evenings I don’t use the salycylic wash, I use an exceedingly mild soap and will alternate amidst using the glycolic acid and the benzoyl peroxide.
Sounds confusing? Well, it takes a bit of dedication to keep it straight, but the results are very much worth it. Up until regarding 4 months ago when I started this, I had no idea what it was like to wake up in the morning and not dread looking at what had sprouted up overnight. Another reviewer commented that it was difficult to find the acids – I had to go to a skin care specialist to get mine. However, I have noticed that sephora.com sells glycolic acid by assorted dissimilar makers; sephora is on the highpriced side, so you might want to look around a great deal of more.
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