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It works. it really does work. i use just glycerin soap and water. And my face has cleared. I believe it could work for anyone. Cut back from the amout of products you use on your face. you will see a result in a week. here is what you do...splash your face with cold water, Later the glyerin soap (with a bit of vitamin E or aloevera), wash your face..and..rinse..Its that easy. This might sound horrible but..Also..avoid makeup for a while. Think about it. You have breakouts..and you are putting another product on your face that could compound the breakout..It just doesnt make any sense..but yeah..Avoid makeup, to mosturize, use pure shea butter (go to an african store. they most likely have the REAL stuff.)..just use a tiny bit..and i promise, your face will get better. My face used to look like a freak show for acne. thier playground. but now? all gone. the scars are fading too. Please try it..even if its for one week. if it doesnt work, i will sincerely apologize.

And..if you could wash your face only once a day, prferably at morning...Then..at night..use a wash clothe and just splash some water on it..wipe your face gently several times..and that should be it..once again, apply the shea butter afterwards..since your going to bed, the effect kicks in more.

 
From experience I can say I would NOT use soap and water. All it did was dry my face out and made it feel really tight. I used to use propha ph? and that worked wonders...but I have not been able to find it since.

 
All I use it Pears Soap and water and then to moisturise I use either Nivea, Vaseline or Ponds....And yea I've also been using those wince I've started caring about what my face looks like...lol...:icon_redf
 
thanks for your replies, everyone!

vanessa, you're probably right. i've had bad reactions to olay. thanks for letting me know, though!

empericalbeauty, is there a specific brand of glycerin soap you use?

sherice, actually, tonight for the first time in a week, my skin feels a bit dry, but nothing a little moisturizer couldn't fix. i'm gonna continue using soap. if my face is dry for another week, i'm gonna stop.

 
I forget its name, but if u go to a health food store, it most definitely will be there. its uber cheap ($1.49)..And it has a whole lot of variation to select from(aloevera, vitamin E, chamomille, olive oil...you name it)

 
well me personally i have always had normal skin. i went to school to be an esthetician and learned to never use a soap of any kind on the face. due to it ripping the skin of its natural oils and stuff.( making dry and breakout worse). but i have also learned that you should use whatever suits your face. if soap seems to work best or face wash. just remember if you start a new face routine, in the begining it may break out more while the impurities and dirt are getting out. good luck hun.

 
Update:

Well I stayed at my friends house on Saturday, she is a trained beauty therapist and when she saw that I was using Dove soap she looked at me in horror. I asked her why she was shocked and reeled of the stuff about it being 1/4 moisturiser and being dermatologist recommended and stuff. She said that if you use any soap on your face you might as well use bleach. She mentioned that when she was in college (a few years ago) they did tests on all different cleansers, face soaps etc and Dove came out as one of the worst products to use.

I have noticed recently that my face has become really crepey - I thought it was perhaps my moisturiser but Jemma, my friend, said that it is my cleanser. Now I'm thinking about going back to Dermalogica, which I used a few years back and I quite liked, but don't know what to do!!

 
*CRINGE* really??? :icon_eek:

I just don't know what to do what with all the products out there - I mean how do you know if it's just a hyped up product or if it actually is ok for your skin? Should I go back to Dermalogica?

 
I just want it to go back to being clear! I'm not expecting it to perform miracles and I definitely don't want a toner - I think it's an unnecessary product - just a cleanser and moisturiser, I might just get the Dermalogica Special Cleansing gel and use my Olay moisturiser as it's non greasy. I don't like the greasy residue left on my skin by every other moisturiser I've tried. This should be ok shouldnt it?

 
when i was in school we had to use dermalogica products and to tell you the truth i didn't like their face wash. it dries out my skin. and i used the one for norm. to dry.

 
ive been breaking out lately and mom also says that its because ive been using facial products. When i used to use just water and some soap i never broke out.

 
I actually just remembered that I have some Clarins Gentle Foaming Cleanser that's quite good and a good moisturiser by them - I think I'll try them and see how I go before wasting any more money on products!

 
i think that would be a good idea. soap is really not good for your face though some people say it works well for there face. i don't even use soap on my body just body wash. i've used face washes before in which didn't work well for me and i broke out some like clean n clear. i don't know what it is but whenever i used it when i was younger it broke me out. sometimes you just have to go through some until you find the right one for you.

 
soap isn't drying my skin out the least bit. sometimes, i'll go to bed without putting moisturizer on after i've watched with soap and even in this really cold winter, my skin doesn't dry out.

i think i'm gonna go get the glycerin soap that was mentioned earlier with olive oil. what do you think, kim?

 
Well I used my clarins stuff this morning and my skin feels so much better! not sore and tight! I think maybe it wasn't suited to my skin - if it works for some people though that's great! I feel like my skin is shouting "relief!!!!" lol

 
I use soap and water. I agree that store bought soap isn't that good. I always used to use that until I started making my own. I then began to read the ingredients in store bought soap. On Irish Spring the first ingredient is SOAP :icon_eek: Now I don't know what some of the things are in there, but I do know exactly what goes into mine. My favorite facial soap is the one with dead sea mud, shea and cocoa butter, and a lot of olive oil.

 
hows everyone getting on with dove? iv been using it for 2 weeks and im not sure if its breaking me out :icon_cry:

 

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