An acne-free face that's evenly toned! My skin is practically perfect!
Written: Jul 19 '04
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Pros: acne-free and shine-free face, skin tone is even, and it's affordable!
Cons: really small tube, lots of chemicals
The Bottom Line: I would recommend this product to anyone who wants an acne-free and shine-free face without waiting 30 days!
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| blue_firefly's Full Review: Clearasil Total Control Daily Skin Perfecting Trea... |
My skin seems to enjoy the thrill of always giving me a hard time! I have an oily face, I get breakouts, and I have an uneven skin tone – the joys of being a teenager. Over the years I have been purchased many acne treatments, but none of them really seemed to work for me. Some of them would claim that in 30 days acne will be cleared (I never did like to wait the 30 days – I always found myself giving up like after a couple weeks because I want to see results sooner), but 30 days later I found that I was $20 poorer because there was no change. Some products I have tried seemed to work, but they only made my face oilier which isn’t good. I am thankful that I when I do breakout, it’s only about 5-8, but still it’s 5 or 8 pimples that I don’t want on my face! About a month ago when I was looking through a magazine, I saw an ad for Clearasil Total Control products. To this day, I still have not seen one commercial on TV for these products. Anyway, I decided to check the Clearasil website to find out more information on these products. The website doesn't have Total Control products listed available in Canada even though they are as I found out later. I checked under the United States section and the product listings were there so I was able to read up more on the products. The All-Day Mattifying Moisturizer is what caught my eye actually because it’s the shine that has been bothering me the most. A few weeks ago I was out with my friend, when I saw the Clearasil Total Control products at Zellers. I searched for the All-Day Mattifying Moisturizer, but it was $12 and I didn't have that much on me! I noticed that not all the Total Control products listed on the site where available though, but out of the ones that were there, they all were affordable, except I didn't have money. When I got home, I checked the Clearasil website again to read up on some of the other products that they had available at the store. A couple days later I went back to that same Zellers and picked up the All-Day Mattifying Moisturizer (which I did a review on) and the Daily Skin Perfecting Treatment because I had the money.
My Experience:
I first put on the Daily Skin perfecting Treatment because it just seemed right to put on the treatment first, then the moisturizer. The first thing I noticed about the The Daily Skin Perfecting Treatment was that it was very small – a 30ml tube. The directions for both products aren't very clear though. They just say "Cleanse face before applying" or something very similar along those lines. I just put four little blobs of the Daily Skin Perfecting Treatment on my face, and spread it all over and massaged it in. There is a mild scent, but goes away once it has absorbed into the face and you don’t need a lot of this product because it spreads easily. Right after I finished applying this, I noticed that my face wasn’t shiny and was very smooth and soft although the package said nothing about moisturizing. Later on I checked the site and noticed it says it does moisturize, but on the front of the box I have, it says it prevents blemishes, evens skin tone, and reduces shine – nothing about moisturizing even though my face was very smooth. Anyway, I then applied the All-Day Mattifying Moisturizer. I did the same thing with it, put four small blobs on my face then rubbed it in. You don't need a lot of this product either because it spreads so easily too. My face was shiny after applying this, but my face is always shiny after applying a moisturizer. About 10 minutes later I went to the bathroom to see if I was having any kind of allergic reaction to these products. To my surprise, the moisturizer had already completely absorbed into my face! I then touched my face, and it was totally smooth and soft! I had never experienced such results so quickly with any other products. There was still a little shine, but it was a "glow" kind of shine. I applied both products again before I went to bed that night. The next morning I woke up expecting to see that an allergic reaction had occurred or something awful like that, but when I looked in the mirror, my face was...AMAZING! My skin tone looked a little more even thanks to the Skin Perfecting Treatment, and my face wasn't shiny thanks to both products! I just couldn't stop staring at my face. Once I was done drooling over how gorgeous my face looked, I touched my face and you know that saying "Smooth as a baby's behind"? Well, that's exactly what my face felt like! I couldn't believe it. I then began to cry because I just couldn't believe that in less than a day, I could see results. The site says that in two weeks acne will be cleared up with use of the Daily Skin Perfecting Treatment. It has a lot of chemicals, but it works so for that I can forgive Clearasil.
Ingredients:
Water, Alcohol denat, C12-15 alkyl benzoate, Lauryl methacrylate/glycol dimethacrylate crosspolymer, Isononyl isononanate, Ammonium glycyrrhizate, PEG-8, Idodecyl salicylate, Polyacrylamide, Corn starch modified, Undercylenoyl glycine, C13-14 isoparaffin, Phenoxyethanol, Xanthan gum, Methylparaben, Allantoin, fragrance, Retinyl palmitate, Laureth-7, Propylparaben, Sodium hydroxide, Acrylates/vinyl isodeconate crosspolymer, Undecylenic acid, Tocopherol, Tetrasodium EDTA, C1 77981. Besides the water, I don’t even know what most of those are and more than half of those I can’t even pronounce.
With continuous use of these two products over the past couple weeks, I have an acne-free and shine-free face that is well moisturized and evenly toned thanks to Clearasil Total Control products! I actually noticed reduction in my acne within the first week and I haven’t seen one pimple since. For just over $20, I now have such beautiful skin that I don't need to wear make-up anymore. Knowing these two products do wonders for me, I am going to throw away all the other products I have. I wish I had discovered these products a while ago because I could have saved a lot of time searching for the ideal product and I could have saved A LOT OF MONEY!!!
Recommended:
Yes
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