Drying Lotion

i bought this to try it out. i have moderate acne i get a pimple here and there. i picked a bottle up at my local NORDSTROM and tried it out that night. When i woke up and washed it of i was amazed at by even the littlest bumps disappeared! My brother as well tried it and it worked just as well on him. And we both have opposite skin types mine being dry and his being oily. So in conclusion it works really well with all types of skin and on any bump or pinple! the only bad thing is that it smells really bad! But it makes up! :)

Whenever I notice a whitehead pimple start to form, I dab this on a few minutes before going to sleep and I wake up to a pimple that's at least 50% flatter. It's almost as though it speeds up the whole start to finish cycle of the pimple, so instead of it lasting up to a few days, it's pretty much gone in just a couple. This is down to an impressive array of acne-fighting ingredients: Sulfur, Zinc oxide and Salicylic Acid - all fantastic ingredients which I always look out for whenever I'm purchasing an acne product. Add to that: Calamine lotion which helps with the inflammation aspect and you can start to see how this works on more than one level. In fact I've used many acne fighting products before but seldom found one that contains so many of the best old-fashioned acne fighting ingredients. The only thing worth bearing in mind - other than the fact that the bottle is not to be shaken before use, is the high alcohol content (a necessary bacteria-fighting evil in this case) which is the transparent layer on top and can be drying to your skin, and the very reason why I don't reapply more than once in 24 hours. I haven't actually read or come across this anywhere, but I imagine as you dip the cotton swab in to reach the bottom pink layer, the alcohol layer serves to sterilizes it, which is useful for those battling a more widespread outbreak and have to dip in repeatedly without going through half a dozen cotton swabs each time. I also believe that as the alcohol coats the pink solution on the end of the cotton swab, and as the very first part of the product to come into contact with your skin, it works to instantly clear away bacteria on the pimple too, giving the pink solution a better chance at working. And work it does! I find myself using this product more during summer, because although dehydrated, my skin is nevertheless oily. And when combined with the year-round heat and humidity where I live, it's like a recipe for disaster as it seems to stimulate the oil production into overdrive mode which leads to the inevitable acne. The ones I do get are usually whiteheads and rarely cystic (the painful red bumps) which is lucky because whenever I have tried this on cystic acne it doesn't make any difference on those. I love how quickly it dries, never transferring onto my pillow, and the bottle is small enough for travel too which is a bonus. I have used it during the day but find it slightly tricky to disguise with makeup, so I tend to stick to overnight use only.  -> My ‘Nordstrom Beauty Top 7 must-have list’ (My 7 favorite beauty products of all time, focusing mainly on my purchases at Nordstrom) <- < 1. Hair Loss Treatment: Divine Herbal Hair Oil < 2. Concealer: ‘Mac’ - Studio Finish Concealer < 3. Lip Gloss: Clarins Lip Comfort Oil < 4. Mascara: ‘Lancome’ – Cilis Booster XL < 5. Anti-Aging Serum: Divine Herbal Facial Treatment Serum < 6. Mask: ‘Eve Lom’ – Radiance Transforming Mask < 7. Face Scrub: ‘Sisley' - Botanical Gentle Buffing Cream

In the past, I've had light to moderate acne and tried tons of different products over the years, including a variety of prescription topical creams and lotions. Surprisingly, this is the best thing I've ever used for spot-treatment. This lotion works miracles on all types of pimples. I've even used it on the tender spots beneath the skin that can become painful blemishes lasting for weeks - but this stuff nixes them before they make it to the surface! It's awesome. And contrary to the other review, I don't mind the smell. Just a little medicinal, but not bad.

I can eat dairy and still try to not look like a teenager because of this serum. I even recommend it for camping trips when bug bites come to haunt you. An all purpose drying serum, I cannot imagine life before it.

Don't listen to the bad reviews. First, I ordered this online and, yes it arrives mixed, but let it stand and it will separate on it's own. **Use as directed** and I'm telling you, my stubborn, under the skin, squeez and nothing ever comes out, month old zit flattened out!!!!!! No burning,or stinging or red marks. Two nights in a row and my face is picture perfect again. One zit was so bad, felt like a grain of rice was stuck under the skin and sensitive to the touch completely went AWAY! seriously just try this! For $17 it's worth it!!!!!

I was so excited to get this product. I had read over 100 reviews and almost all of them were about how amazing this product was. However it has had LITERALLY made no changes to my skin. I've already used it 4 times. I Don't think it was worth buying at all. I am going to return it. When it arrived in the mail the bottle was shaken but I looked online and it said to have the bottle settle. Is did that and I used it afterwards. I don't know if it being shaken messed up the formula but it hasn't worked. Anyway, I am just soo disappointed! I even had my sister use it to see if it worked on her and it didn't! I am going to have to keep searching for my perfect product.

I never write reviews, but this product was so fantastic I want to share my success in case it sways someone to test out this little miracle worker. I have been dealing with some blind pimples since switching birth control pills, which has resulted in a lot of frustration since blind pimples seem all but impossible to get rid of. After getting two between my eyebrows, I was very fed up and went online to research topical solutions that had worked for others. When I stumbled across recommendations for this product on a few websites, I decided to give it a shot. The esthetician I talked to at Nordstrom swore by this brand and even gave me a bag full of free samples, which was awesome! I took the product home and tried it that night. The next day, both pimples had flattened out and were less angry. By the afternoon, both pimples had come to enough of a head for me to safely pop using Q-tips. This is an awesome product!

I couldn't read the tiny worrying on the bottle, so I misused how to apply the first few times. Once I realized you aren't supposed to shake the bottle before using, and you put a qtip in the sediment and put on the acne it really worked! It dried out my blemishes.

This stuff does not work! Anyone with pimples you'd want to try the Mario badescu buffering lotion, that stuff is amazing.

I purchased this product mainly because of the glowing reviews that all said this drying lotion is a miracle worker. I cannot say that a growing pimple disappears all together overnight (that's just unrealistic), but this lotion dries out cystic acne significantly overnight making the temptation to pick at it impossible. Basically the pimple, instead of going through the usual phases of red inflammation to fully formed whitehead, just dries out from the inside out, and eventually the dry skin just flakes off through exfoliation. it works a lot faster than Clinique acne spot solution, but it still takes a day or two. I doubt there is any way you can go to bed with forming cystic acne and wake up with clear skin. The lotion is pretty intense, which may cause unwanted dryness around the application area. I am looking forward to trying more products by this brand again because of the great reviews.

This is the most amazing acne treatment I have ever used and I must have used a hundred! The first time I used it, I had blemishes all over my face and the next morning they were gone! Sometimes it takes more than a night to completely get rid of a blemish but nonetheless it's fabulous. Give it a try, you really have nothing to lose. I'm so happy with my skin now that I use this product.

I used for about a week on the same spot, and the blemish/pimple did not go away. Based on other reviews, it shouldn't have taken as long. Maybe its good for prevention rather than after the fact? Not sure. But will not buy again.