When In My Routine Should I Apply An Acne Spot Treatment?

For those that deal with blemishes and use blemish spot treatments, when combined with all the other products you may be using, it can be hard to determine at what point in your skin care routine to apply an acne spot treatment. Here’s the best time in the routine to use your blemish product to get the most benefits.

If your acne spot treatment goes on clear (such as our Anti-Cyst Treatment, Post-Breakout Fading Gel and Daytime Blemish Gel), it can be used during the day. Many spot treatments, however, have a white color to them that make them best used at night.

For morning use: Perform your normal skin care routine (cleanser, toner, serum, and moisturizer/sunscreen), let the skin dry for a couple minutes, and then dampen a cotton swab or tissue and lightly wipe the affected area. Next, apply the spot treatment, let it dry, and proceed with makeup. The idea here is that you want the active ingredients of the product to be able to properly penetrate into the skin which is why you wipe away your previous products… Read more

Is a Cortisone Shot the Only Option for Treating Acne Cysts?

Of all the types of acne someone can get, cystic acne is both the most frustrating to treat and can be the most damaging to the skin.

What is cystic acne? Those hard, painful blemishes that develop deep within the skin, often appear on the chin or jaw line, and can linger for weeks.

Cystic acne, whether chronic or intermittent, is one of the most frustrating types of acne lesions to deal with.  What happens in cystic acne is not a pretty picture. It is typically triggered by a surge in hormones, such as occurs during a woman’s menstrual cycle. For some unknown reason, the skin’s oil glands become hypersensitive to this cascade of hormones, and react by overproducing sebum–so much, in fact, that the oil gland itself becomes engorged, swollen, and hardened with the excess. Unable to push the extra oil into the lining of the hair follicle (which leads to the surface of the skin via pores), the gland bursts underneath the skin. This causes acute inflammation and irritation, and leads to the redness and soreness of cystic acne. Because these lesions start so deep in the skin, scarring (red, dark and purple marks) is an all-too-common side effect.

Read: How Can I Fade My Acne Scars?

They are most often resistant to most topical acne treatments since products designed for treating acne generally work on the surface to dry out the bacteria – but in the case of cystic acne, the infection is not on the surface of the skin but rather down in the deeper layers. Have you ever used a drying spot treatment on a cyst to not only find that you’re still left with the sore bump on the skin, but now you have dry skin on top?… Read more

Night Time Spot Lotion Zaps Zits Fast!

Renée Rouleau Night Time Spot Lotion is formulated to reduce surface-infected blemishes overnight and was recently put to the test in the Spring issue of New Beauty Magazine. They studied the product and then gave it to two testers to try it on their own blemishes and the verdict came back that Night Time Spot Lotion “dries out pimples in next to no time!”… Read more

VIDEO: How To Cure Painful Acne Cysts

Our Anti-Cyst Treatment is extremely effective for treating stubborn cystic acne.

Read: Get Control of Cystic Acne Before it Scars Your Skin… Read more

New Product! Post-Breakout Fading Gel

We’re excited to launch this amazing new product to fade acne scars and dark marks. Traditional blemishes usually last 5-7 days but the red, dark or purple scar leftover (made worst if you picked at it) can linger for weeks–or even months.

Post-Breakout Fading Gel is a paraben-free gel that uses powerful anti-inflammatories and mild exfoliating acids to fade and lighten stubborn dark marks, with continued use. In our independent study, volunteers who tested the product found when they used Post-Breakout Fading Gel every day for 30 days, they got approximately a 50% quicker recovery than when using nothing at all. (When compared to blemishes that occurred at the same time, but were not treated with the product.)

What’s in it?

AHAminoPlex™ - Glycolic/Amino Acid complex provides superior cellular turnover with minimum discomfort or irritation

White Tea Extract - Anti-inflammatory tea to soothe signs of redness and irritation… Read more

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