I'll start the review from right at the start. I came off the contraceptive pill 10 months ago. Then WHAM, two months later, I started to get spots, I'd never suffered from them before, even as a teenager, so I was mortified. I made sure I washed my face every night, but they just kept getting worse and worse. Until my face resembled that of little angry red volcanoes!!!!
To overcome this, I bought the usual teenage spot products, stuck to a cleansing regime, and it still made no difference. I then took to making sure I didn;t wear any face make-up, which as any girl knows can be a real self concious problem when you have spots. And as I work with the public every day, I felt even more in the SPOT light ( no pun intended) I bought myself some more expensive cleansing products, Virgin Vie,
which I have always used in the past before the spots, and its always been great. But even this wasn't helping.
Then 3 months ago, I fell pregnant, and the spots got worse, even to the point I was getting them on my chest and back, and sometimes they were so painful. But by now I was convincing myself it was just the pregnancy hormones, and that it would settle down, but 2 months later, no difference. Even my customers mentioned how I looked, not so bluntly, but that classic ' you don't look very well, you look ever so tired, etc etc'.
I woke up one morning, stared at my fetching face in the mirror, and thought, I have to do something about this, by now I had tried everything. No make up, drinking plenty of water, vitamins, every spot cream under the sun, sometimes even just a wash with water and nothing else. But nothing helped. It made me realise how down it must make teenagers feel, as they're at the age when they take everything to heart, and of course everyone wants perfect skin.
I went into my local beauty Salon one morning and begged her for a miracle, she firstly asked if there was any reason my skin was like that, and I said it could be a hormonal thing. She recommended the Dermalogica range to me. She ran through which items I should use, now I was a bit taken aback when I realised that a full size cleanser was £18, let alone adding on toner, moisturiser and spot cream!!!! She reasured me that each bottle would last around 9 months, but if I wanted something cheaper, to go with the Kit, which had miniature bottles of each product in it and cost £19.00 altogether. I was told this should last around 3 months. I decided to go ahead and buy it.
Getting my little kit home, I opened it. It contains:
Dermal Clay Cleanser - 50ml Multi Active Toner - 59ml Oil Control Lotion - 22ml Medicated Clearing Gel - 10ml two sample sachets - anti-bac cooling masque and gentle cream exfoliant.
Dermal Clay Cleanser:
Use this first, it's a wet wash, clay substance. It's no good for eye use, so no good for make up removal, but I use a seperate product for getting rid of my eye makeup. You only need a little bit of this, and it makes your skin go cold, but feels so refreshed and clean after.
Multi Active Toner:
This is in a spray bottle, and again is a light refreshing product that you just spritz onto your face.
Oil Control Lotion:
This is a light moisturiser, doesn't feel at all greasy, and afterwards the overall effect of using the 3 products is wonderful, my skin just felt so clean, I can;t even explain what I mean by that.
Medicated Clearing Gel:
You use this at night, and just out a tiny amount on your spots, this is to help calm them down and dry them out.
Now I'm a very sceptical person when it comes to sales, as places will say anything for you to buy their products, but boy oh boy was the Salon right. This stuff is like magic, it really does work. I have been using it for a week, and yes I do still have spots, but they are so faded and nearly gone that I am over the moon. I think another week and it'll be great. I will definately be buying the full size bottles next as when you split the cost over the 9 months it'll last, the cost is very reasonable.
My Kit cost me £19.00, but I am sure different salons charge different prices. You can find your local stockist by logging on to the dermalogica website and typing in your postcode. They have a massive range, and it really is worth speaking to your salon about any skin problems as they will recommend the correct products for you to use, they have everything under the sun, from dry skin to greasy, from firming to skin protection.
Give it a go, it worked for me.
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i been using normal/oily skin kit makes my face soft!!!
mistymoosy 12.01.2007 14:25
Thank you for your advice, I am always searching for something to help my son's spots, but so far only a strong course of anti-biotics does the trick, which is not the best thing. I will definately give this a go
Jan 11th, 2007
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