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5.0 out of 5 starsChanged my life
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2019
I never write reviews, but after recommending this to someone for the millionth time, I decided i should at least write one for this. I’ve used this for 3 years now, and I am not being dramatic to say it’s changed my life. I’m a pretty unenthusiastic person, so it means something to get me this excited. I was the person that had “tried everything” for my skin, and this is truly the one thing that’s made my acne totally go away.
The year prior to starting these supplements, I used Murad’s supplements, and my skin improved drastically with them, so I was thrilled and thought they had a customer for life. I thought it was the best my skin could realistically ever be. One day, Murads was on back order, so I scoured reviews to find a back-up, and I landed on this one. The improvement from Murads was such that I’m hooked for life. I’ve suffered since 4th grade—yep, 4th grade, with acne. According to my dermatologist, I have 3 forms: Cystic, hormonal, and as a result of chronic oily skin. Intense regiments helped with acne from oily skin, but the other two factors, I was helpless. At age 20, I did a round of accutane. Apparently, I needed to do a second round, but my lab work got me disqualified—elevated triglycerides despite a very healthy lifestyle. My skin is by far my biggest flaw. As much as I’d like to pretend I’m super deep with all that “beauty is within,” stuff, which, yes, it certainly can be... my skin severely affected my confidence; therefore, it massively affected my happiness. My skin wasn’t as severely broken out at all times compared to some people, but on any given day I had 1-4 cystic spots and 1-10 “regular spots” on my face. It was enough to have me cancelling plans to avoid going out on some days when I was on the higher end.
I was at the mercy of expensive and time consuming regiments to keep it as tame as possible. I spent an hour on coverup daily (acne patches also changed my life bc at least I could help flatten the spots to cover better with make up!).
These supplements take a week or two to build in your system, but the results are incredible!!!
Bottom line—if I take care of my skin and myself (water and decent sleep) the ONLY breakouts I get are hygiene-related (sweating and not washing my face immediately, extra oily skin during certain times of year and not blotting often enough, falling asleep on the couch against my hand rubbing into my face, etc), which are all things I can combat or avoid. All hormonal and cystic acne is a thing of the past. It’s incredible. I mean it, completely gone. That’s the good news. Bad news, I ran out once, it was back ordered, so I scrambled back to Murad, boom. Break outs back. Not like before I started any supplements, but way worse than with Acnetame. Lesson learned, I bought 4 bottles to have as a back-up that I pretend aren’t even there and keep up with my monthly subscription.
I started with 2 pills AM and PM. After a year, I went down to 1 AM and 2 PM with no change, in a good way, in my skin—stayed just as clear. After the second year, I’ve gone down to just 2 at night with the same great results. I read that once you set a baseline, you may be able to wean down, not off, but down a little. This has worked for me. I amp up back to 2 AM and PM before my period and during times of stress or little sleep since once in a while Id get a break out during those times while doing only 2 pills at night. But for me to be able to say “get A breakout” is crazy to imagine. Just A breakout. Coming from many breakouts no mater what, that’s nothing.
In case you’re wondering, as I did, if maybe my skin has just gotten better over the years, I went on a long weekend trip a few months ago and forgot them, and my skin was back to my high school days a few days after I got home. My 32-year-old self would love to have a lot of things I had back in high school, but my complexion isn’t one of them! After a week or so resuming the supplements, I had no new breakouts, and the old ones were clearing more quickly. Another week, and I was back to clear skin. Point is—it’s definitely This product that’s keeping my skin clear. I wish I found these back in 4th grade, but better late than never! Give it time to work, and you’ll be so glad you did!
