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I discovered Castile soap last year....LOVE IT! I cut up one of my bars so my friends could try it and they all love it too. Mine is a Palm-Olive Oil bar with no detergents, dyes, fragrances, animals products. It lasts forever too...I've been using the same bar since early December and I have a looong way to go before it's done.

 
I too have these little zits/bumps on my forehead and they have been there for nearly a year now.. I haven't gone to the dermatologist but I think I might if I can't find what I am looking for... what should I do?:icon_roll

 
my skin's worse. i think now it's something i need to deal with internally, so i'm gonna start taking the acne prescription i got :( /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 
aww thats sucks, i was gonna do the same but my brother went to the doctor about his acne even tho he ent got anything to worry about:icon_roll anyway they give him some cream and i tried it and that really messed up my skin! i dont know what to do with mine its like iv got spots that only go and come bk in the same place on my cheeks, some have been there ages and just wont go:icon_twis

 
UPDATE:

Well I just thought I'd see how the ladies who were using Dove soap were doing?

I started using the Clarins stuff that I mentioned in my previous thread but it turned out that it wasn't the soap making my skin break out it was the stupid BC the doc put me one! Aargh!

My skin is back under control now as I've gone back on to Dianette after the Marvelon wrecked it and I'm back using Dove Sensitive again yippee! My skin looks really nice again - bit dull but that's because I'm anaemic at the moment not because of the soap.

I stand by Dove soap and will never stray again! The Clarins made my skin very oily but didnt break me out but the Dove sensitive stops breakouts, stops excess oiliness etc.

I would recommend the Sensitive over the Original cream bar as the sensitive is non-comodegenic (sp?!), hypoallergenic, fragrance free, 1/4 moisturisers and has only half the ingredients that the original bar has

 
I agree, I strayed away from my dove for Aveeno, but I still think my skin looked better with the dove. And less oily.

 
You could be over doing it with the skin care. When ever that happens to me and I back off on using some things it straightens back out again and usually ends up looking better than ever. It sucks because I just love playing around with all that skin care! :laughing:

 
Well i continued to use dove and my skin got better, infact its better than it has been in ages! i only get the odd pimple now so all iv got 2 do is get rid of those damn acne scars.

 
I don't know why but I love soap- especially all the natural soaps you can get now, I buy them all the time....but for the most part, I wash up with shower gels and liquid soaps or cleansers. Using a nice bar of pretty awesomely scented soap is more of a "treat" thing for me, especially on the face. And it does feel like it's really getting you clean! Whole Foods has a great selection, and two online brands I like are RiverSoap.com and PrettyBabyHerbalSoap.com I think the natural soaps, especially the ones loaded with shea butter and olive oil etc aren't harsh like detergent based soaps...

However, someone mentioned castile soap and I wanted to mention a face cleanser I just did a review on, by Desert Essence. It's called "Thoroughly Clean Face Wash" with green tea amd sunflower. There are two of them, the other one is for oily skin, it has more tea tree oil. The one I'm using is yellow and I love it. It gets all the makeup, even mascara, you use so little to get a nice silky lather and your face does not feel dry or stripped. The top 3 ingredients are Castile soap, olive oil, and coconut oil. I don't even need toner after this. It's great stuff!

 
same here!!!

i stopped using it, but i'm gonna start back up again. little_lisa was kind enough to send me a kiss my face soap which i LOVE (makes my skin so soft) and it's not making it worse, but it's not getting better, either, so i'm pretty sure it's still something i need to fix internally.

i'm gonna get back on dove, though, and see how that goes.

vanessa, glad to see it's working for you!

becky, i'm glad your skin's gotten better!

jen, sounds interesting. the one with tea tree oil, does it smell? i was using a tea tree oil face wash and couldn't get over the scent!

 
I'm still using my Dove! It is great, doesn't make my skin feel dry and gets off all my mu without using a separate toner, which is too much for me sometimes. This is something I definitely plan to keep using. :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 
Its funny, I usually stand there in the aisle carefully opening things, just a little bit, because I hate to buy anything without smelling it first...but I didn't even consider the tea tree Thoroughly Clean Wash, it was for oily skin and I don't have oily skin so I wasn't interested in it...but the one I did buy also has tea tree oil, just a much smaller amount, but I couldn't smell it. It has a nice, fresh, soapy and slightly floral scent...it smells very clean. I am really impressed with it and want to try more Desert Essence, based on how great this is. Which Kiss My Face soap did you get from L Lisa?

 
I´ll join you guys and switch to Dove Soap. Right now I´m using Cetaphil Gentle Cleansing Gel. I heard a lot of good things about it but I honestly wasn´t that impressed so I´m just gonna use the Dove Soap from my shower. wish me luck, ladies :satisfied:

 
Its only been a couple days and I can already see the difference, my skin is clearer and the general texture is better! Oh why didn't I listen to my derm when he told me to stick with dove a long time ago??:icon_scratch:

 
it's funny cos so many people are scared of using soap on their face, I think we've been scared off by big companies wanting to make lots of moeny. If it's mild enough for a baby then it's fine for my face! So many derms recommend Dove soap and I think as long as you moisturise adequately then anyone is fine to use it unless you have any allergies to certain ingredients of course

 
andi, let us know how it works for you!

buttercup, glad it's working for you!

vanessa, very true!

so far so good for me, too :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> i'm happy because my skin's finally clearing up!

 
yes! my skin has been HORRIBLE since october or november or whenever it was from stress and i never had acne before. i've been using it for the past week and it's been workinggggggggggg! i'm so happy.

 
wow! i've used dove b4 .. .and didn't realli see a difference ... i bought the pink one .... maybe .. i'll give it another try

 

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