Acne Wash for Face with 2% Mandelic Acid & 2% Salicylic Acid - Professional Grade, A.H.A. + B.H.A. Facial Cleanser for Acne Prone Skin (90+ Day)

This face wash is one of the best salicylic acid washes I've found that is fragrance free. It's gentle, effective, and cleared my active pimples within a week. A lot of the negatives reviews seem to be from people who didn't use it correctly, so I want to give some pointers so you can get the most out of this product:- DO NOT USE IF YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO ASPIRIN. Salicylic acid is from the same family of compounds.- DO NOT USE IF YOU ARE PREGNANT OR TRYING TO GET PREGNANT. Salicylic acid is not safe for use during pregnancy.- ALWAYS DO A PATCH TEST BEHIND YOUR EAR. Even if you don't have a known allergy to any of the ingredients, it's better safe than sorry.Okay, so with all that out of the way, here's what I did to get the best results:- Don't use this as an actual "cleanser". It's a treatment face wash, and it's not really a good idea to use anything with Salicylic acid to remove makeup either, especially around your eyes. This is true whether you have sensitive skin or not. Instead, use a makeup remover (or cleansing oil or whatever) to remove the makeup first, then do a quick wash with a really creamy cleanser (I used CeraVe Hydrating), THEN use a dime-size amount of the Neutralyze and apply it like you would a face mask (avoiding the eye area, lips, nostrils, etc). Leave it on for 1-2 minutes and wash it off, then follow up with a moisturizer IMMEDIATELY on WET skin and let it dry. This will help prevent your skin from drying out since you essentially "triple cleansed". Even better if the moisturizer has ceramides in it. If daytime, follow up with sunscreen after the moisturizer dries. If nighttime, you're good to go. Maybe do another layer of moisturizer.- If you're not wearing makeup, you can do a spot cleanse with a creamy cleanser around your eyes and then apply the Neutralyze on the rest of your face.- Don't use it in the same routine as tretinoin/Retin-A, adapalene/Differin, or any retinol for that matter. They will inactivate each other and dry the crap out of your face for good measure. Use it the morning after retinol or maybe the next night, just not at the same time. You can use it with Benzoyl Peroxide, but tread with caution, since BP is drying as hell.- Start off with once every other day. If that works for you, great. If not, then you can slowly build up to once or twice a day. Not everyone needs to use this twice a day to see best results.- Active acne will calm down first, within a week or two. Blackheads and sebacious filaments will take a bit longer and any dark spots (post inflammatory hyperpigmentation or eythema/redness) will take the longest to go.- If you start breaking out worse with the use of this product, and you've done all of the above, and ruled out any allergies, you may just be purging, especially if you've never used Salicylic Acid before. This means whatever pimples were underneath your skin and were going to surface at some point anyway are coming up all at once. Again, this is true whether or not your skin is sensitive, and it doesn't mean that this is a bad product. Give it a chance and stick through it for 6 weeks, because that's generally how long salicylic acid takes to show best results and in most cases, it gets much worse before it gets better. Moisturize your skin, don't overwhelm it with too many active ingredients, and you should be fine.After going through all of the above, if you still hate it after 6 weeks, by all means toss it.Sorry for the wall of text, but I hope the above info helps someone!P.S. This is also amazing for softening up keratosis pilaris (AKA chicken skin or goose skin) on your arms and legs.Absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this product and I hope they never change or discontinue it.

Good face wash! Lathers well. Helps keep my face clean and blemish free.

I don't particularly have acne prone skin, however, I am really into skincare and wanted to try this system out before I allowed my teenaged daughter used it on her skin. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised about my experience. It wasn't as drying as most many acne products I have seen and tried. I have combination skin and my skin isn't very sensitive and I had no issues with it irritating my skin. What I did notice was that it helped even out my skintone even more. And it has lightened up some of my dark blemishes. Now what really impressed me was the clearing serum! I do not have large pores whatsoever but I swear my pores look so much smaller than usual. My makeup has been looking smoother and more effortless with little to no foundation used. I do use moisturizers and oils to finish off my routine when I use these products for more moisture and hydration but that's about it. I have my daughter trying it now. Hopefully she will have just as good of an experience as I have. So we shall see. I would recommend using this for acne prone skin and even those with no issues with acne...mainly for maintenance and for ladies when that time of the month comes around. That is when I use it the most. Hope this helps!

As a "mature" lady, who has had extremely oily skin since hitting puberty, I have tried almost everything that is available. Most don't work as advertised, and are extremely over drying and irritating to the skin. I've even tolerated the skin irritation to attempt to control the acne.I found this product, and the wipes of the same brand, and figured that they would be another disappointment. Within a week, the pimples were smaller. I still have pimples after 3 weeks of use, but they are MUCH fewer, and smaller, less cystic, and not painful, and they are pretty easy to hide with a little makeup.The reason I am giving the product 5 stars, even though my skin is not clear, is the texture of my skin has drastically improved for the better! My very large pores have shrunken to the point that they rival the skin of someone who is not plagued with oily skin.I am actually convinced that, given enough time, the acne/pimples will continue to decrease in size and number, to the point I might just get the occasional one. I have decades of dealing with the issue, and nothing has seemed to lessen the oiliness, or acne like this has.I do use the combo of the cleaner and wipes, morning and night, and in using both, my skin does not feel oily when I wake up in the morning, or at the end of the day, so the product is aiding the condition from the deeper skin structures to the surface, hence why I believe in time, I will continue to see even more improvement.It takes a small amount of the cleanser to clean the face, so it does last. There is no harsh smell, and what is there is pleasant.Most people have acne until they reach a certain age. I never outgrew the problem. (Darn it!) But this product has been the best I have found, for my issues. Maybe it will help those like me that have dealt with it for decades.