posted 05-10-2003 12:41 AM            

Before you all go out and order Mary Kay, unless this has been reformulated, it is just basically another benzoyl peroxide cream. I used to sell it myself, but it is really no different from Oxy, or any others, except maybe a slightly lower strength than some.

posted 05-10-2003 01:55 AM            

It got rid of everything gross in my face, from huge lumpy 'chains' of blazing zits to the blackheads. I'm still amazed by how quickly 10 years of serious heartache was ended so quickly!! If it worked for me, there have to be others it can work for and that's why I posted about it. To share something that might work for you too!

posted 05-10-2003 03:08 AM            

BTW, do you also use their mask? I have never found one better than their #3 for oily skin. It is absolutely sensational. I always used to use it before I went anywhere special because my pores were tightened, my oil reduced, and I had a nice matte finish to my skin afterward for many hours. I lost touch with my rep so I don't have access to it, which is I guess why I was so overly concerned about anyone else having to rely on a seller to get Mary Kay. It's not anything you can just go to the store and buy or have a doctor write a prescription for.

posted 05-10-2003 06:43 PM            

I just know, like you, that the gel just works great! I can even have a huge one forming and it will never come to a head... It will just go back down and then be gone. It got rid of those little hard oil plugs in my pores too... I took awhile but finally they just came out. I get an occasional zit, (not even every week!) but it's very small and gone with an extra dab of gel... Even when I sometimes fall asleep with makeup on (an action that would have cost me about 20 new 'mountains' in the past!), the gel keeps me clear! The Mary Kay masks work great too. They do dry up oil and tighten pores very well.

I have about 30 Mary Kay ladies in my area! But you do not need someone selling in your area to order Mary Kay. All anyone has to do is Search for Mary Kay online and find consultants (with addresses and email addresses/web sites)on the Mary Kay site. Even consultants 1000 miles from where you are will send you merchandise with free shipping if you contact them. I know, I've bought and gotten free samples from out of state consultants, when mine were nowhere to be found.

posted 05-10-2003 10:12 PM            

WHY?! People are willing to run out and spend all that money on lengthy B5 routines (and I don't know what all else of vitamin overdoses which have who knows WHAT long-term effects on the body!!) which sound more like torture, as well as ridiculous massive cutbacks in an otherwise healthy diet. Not to mention slathering faces with stinky raw eggs, and taking medications that have VERY long health risk lists; getting painful injections in their faces for zits and scarring... BUT people get OFFENDED when I write that an $8 gel has cured my 10 YEAR BATTLE with SEVERE acne!! And for anyone who might COMPLAIN that I don't know what 'severe' is, I can tell you 30+ zits and several of them mountain ranges of connecting under-skin tunnels!! I have ice-picks too.

posted 05-13-2003 11:49 AM            

Since reading the posts about acne I've learned a lot of things. BP and the affects it has on your skin is one of them. So, there I was going through my cabinet and tossing things that the majority said didn't work and kept the things that people said did. MK Acne Gel treatment is one of them. And let me just say, its been about 2 weeks now, and my skin is not only pimple free but the old scars that I once had, have faded tremendously. I"m in love with it and I'm so happy with the results.