I’ve got spots on my back and a few on my face, whats the best treatment for them? I’ve been using Clearasil for two weeks now and I don’t know if it’s helping or it’s acting as some sort of placebo. Would the Clearasil cream help the spots on my chest?
I haven’t had serious acne ever and now it has just appeared on my chest: Is this normal?
Thanx!
Quinoderm always used to work for me. Surigical spirit might be an idea. Both were available from Boots last time I checked, but that was a couple of years ago.
If it doesn’t clear up after a while, I’d go and see my GP.
Surgical spirit (denatured ethanol)
Quinoderm (benzoyl peroxide and hydroxyquinoline sulphate)
Surgical spirit (denatured ethanol)
Quinoderm (benzoyl peroxide and hydroxyquinoline sulphate)
Is It normal to have spots on your chest?
Wash your hands after using quinoderm…
instead of just wiping them on my beautiful bath towels. Please.
(Took me a while to figure out what was causing bleach spots on my towels. Culprit was my son and the “bleach” in his medication. I can’t recall its name (medication, not son) but the peroxide in the quinoderm might cause the same problem.)
Is clearasil ‘3 way’ a good cream to use for my spots?
It does, as all my teenage duvet covers/ pillowcases would testify to if they hadn’t been dumped. It also burns like hell the first few times, but that just makes you feel like it’s working.
Montezuma. No idea whether Clearasil is any good. Back in the 80s, Quinoderm was much stronger than the Clearasil products, but it’s been 15 years. Chest spots are, AFAIK, relatively rare (especially at your age). Hence the “see your GP” bit if you can’t beat them up with sterilisation and spot cream.
I’m also in my 30s and am waging a small war against what my GP affectionately refers to as “not only backne, but frontne, too!” (gee, glad I could make you laugh, Doc…)
He referred me to a derm, which is ideally what I’d recommend for you, too. (Although my UK friends tell me it can take an act of God to get a referral under NHS.) The derm says that although it’s unusual, there are a certain percentage of men who end up with acne in adulthood, and he finds these patients more difficult to treat without prescription meds. Right now I’m taking an oral antibiotic, which seems to do the trick all by itself. I’m also prescribed a retinoid cream (called Tazorac in the US, but I think it has another name - Zorac? - in the UK), which I’ll start transitioning to in another week or so - neither the derm nor the GP (nor I, really) is keen on my taking an antibiotic long-term. Once I’ve stayed clear for a few weeks on the creme, I’ll reduce it gradually.
With luck, that’ll be enough without resorting to isotretinoin/Accutane/Roaccutane, the 800-lb pharmaceutical gorilla. I went through a 16-week round of that at 20 and it lasted me a good 10-12 years, but the stuff’s pretty toxic.
(1) Soap and water to dry them out
I’ve tried every sophisticated toner, beauty product, pharmacy product, cleanser, essential tea tree oil, toothpaste left on overnight, household Dettol disinfectant spray this year. The only thing that really works is soap and water - don’t ask me why.
(2) T-Zone moisture cream
This stuff contains tea tree oil (natural antibacterial) palmarosa oil and organic soy. Tea tree hasn’t been that effective for me before, but this stuff really works. I think it may be the palmarosa - it’s supposed to heal skin very well and soothe inflammation, which is exactly what this stuff does. It’s only moisturiser but it seems to double up as some sort of miracle cream. On holiday I applied it to loads of scratches and cuts I got bushwalking, and it miraculously soothed and healed them.