Acne Treatment Reviews

What is Clean and Clear Acne Spot Treatment?

Do you ever find yourself walking up and down the skin care aisle and find yourself looking at the same products over and over again hoping one will jump out at you? Unfortunately its all too hard to tell whether an acne treatment is going to work for you, because we all know what works for one doesn’t work for all. And if you’re like the majority of Americans these days you don’t have the money to try out every one of those products, so you have to make this one count. So to determine whether a product is worth investing your time, money, and, maybe the most important, appearance on, its important to find out what makes this product unique. Clean and Clear Acne Spot Treatment is an acne fighting medication that is meant to disperse oils that reside on the skin and clear out pores.

Ingredients

The only active ingredient in this product is salicylic acid (2%). This ingredient is often found in acne treatments because of its effectiveness as an exfoliant, meaning it gets rid of dead skin cells. It penetrates the follicle and sheds dead skin cells from within, keeping the pores void of any cellular debris and reducing the number of blockages that causes breakouts on the skin.

The inactive ingredients include alcohol, Ammonium Hydroxide, Benzalkonium Chloride, Butylene Glycol, C12-15 Alkyl Lactate, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Capryloyl Glycine, Cedrus Atlantica Bark Extract, Cetyl Lactate, Cinnamomum Zeylanicum Bark Extract, Cocamidopropyl PG-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dehydroxanthan Gum, Fragrance, Glycerin, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract, Laureth-7, Phenethyl Dimethicone , Phenoxyethanol, Polyacrylamide, Polysorbate 20, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, PPG-2 Isoceteth-20 Acetate, Propylene Glycol, Sarcosine, SD Alcohol 40-B, Tetrasodium EDTA, and water.

From what we can tell this product carries ingredients used in most acne treatments and doesn’t have anything unique to set it apart from the rest.

Side Effects

 As with almost all acne treatments this product may cause side effects. Despite the claim that this product will not cause over-drying of the skin, many users experience dried out skin pretty early on.

Is Clean and Clear Acne Spot Treatment worth buying?

As with most acne treatments, you get what you pay for. There is a reason Clean and Clear Acne Spot Treatment only costs $6.99, and its not because the makers at Clean & Clear are just trying to give you a good deal. This product is at such a low price because it would be considered a low-quality product. One tip-off that this product is likely sub-par and that it is trying to be hyped up is the fact that on the website there is a claim that “100% of people in a clinical study showed improvements as early as day one!” As a Communications teacher in college taught me: Always stay away from the absolute. This product will not clear away everybody’s acne, and that statement shows as proof that a company can rig a clinical study to give whatever outcome they want. More accurately this product may clear some people’s acne to an extent. What many customer reviews agreed on was that this product will likely work the first time you use it, but those results diminish the more time goes by. Many users experience no positive effects from this treatment because, as previously stated, you get what you pay for.