Question:
help! Ive been silly with gycolic acid
:eek:
For teh first time i used my new jan marini gycolic cleanser and bioclear lotion and i put too much lotion on and it made my skin very red sore and peely. I decided to put aloe vera gel on but it made the soreness so much worse. I feel really silly for putting so much product on in first place, i under estimated the power of gycolic! I guess the clue 'acid' it the name gycolic acid gives it away a bit!:D :rolleyes:
what can i use to fix my skin? it feels better than yesterday but still a bit sore, red and i have more pimples too. i bought the jan marini to get rid of a bad spot and redness from old spots so dont know what t use now.
I can't really offer you much advice, but when I was younger I used a really really harsh spot cream which burt my face and looked like i'd stuck my head in the oven - yes it was that bad. I think the best thing to do really would be to use some sudacream (sp?) or something suitable for burns.
Because of my wild applications with spot creams when I was younger, my skin can take just about anything now.
I did however slather on a 15% glycolic acid the other week everynight for a week. My skin now looks awful - it's very very dry and flakey and it has made my acne scars redder than ever and also brought me out in more spots. :cmdunno: I too brought it to help my skin, not make it worse.
I don't know!! The things us women put ourselves through!
Try to persevere with the aloe vera. It's moisturising and healing but oil free - I admit it's an odd feeling that something so healing actually hurts when you put it on! Personally I can't take Sudocrem, it would make the spots far worse.
The spots should go as the skin you've burned flakes off. I've had this happen to me with glycolic if I haven't used the right strength or for the right time. It seems to dissolve the skin cells only partly, so that they move around then resettle somewhere else, blocking a few pores as they go!
When all the flaking's gone, things should look a lot better and you can go back to it for a continued improvement (not quite so enthusiastically though:lol: ). In the meantime, when I've done the same, I've used a face cloth - wiped gently over the skin, not scrubbed - to help the flaking go away quicker.
BJx
Yep persevere with the aloe gel. If you want something soothing, add a drop of lavender oil to a big dollop of gel and mix up.
I've had nearly the exact same problem.
I've been using my bha liquid twice a day and think I'v been a bit harsh. Then I went and applied some of my benzoyl peroxide cream on top as well. So I ended up with really red burnt looking patches where I'd applied the bp cream. This will be fine as this is always what happens right after using bp cream, after not having used it for a while. It was bothring me though, because my skin was looking bad and feeling sore and stingy.
So the other morning. I tried some dr hauschka rose day cream. As I remembered that it's supposed to help tone down redness. Anyway after a few hours the redness had dissapeared by at least 50%. And after I'd used it only twice, my skin had healed up SO much, I was amazed. I mean there was patches where layers of skin had been peeled off. These areas look almost normal now though. And I've only been applying it for three days. This kind of damage to my skin (I've had it before, should really just leave my skin alone :rolleyes: ), is the sort of thing that usually takes weeks to heal up.
:eek:
For teh first time i used my new jan marini gycolic cleanser and bioclear lotion and i put too much lotion on and it made my skin very red sore and peely. I decided to put aloe vera gel on but it made the soreness so much worse. I feel really silly for putting so much product on in first place, i under estimated the power of gycolic! I guess the clue 'acid' it the name gycolic acid gives it away a bit!:D :rolleyes:
what can i use to fix my skin? it feels better than yesterday but still a bit sore, red and i have more pimples too. i bought the jan marini to get rid of a bad spot and redness from old spots so dont know what t use now.
Answers:
I can't really offer you much advice, but when I was younger I used a really really harsh spot cream which burt my face and looked like i'd stuck my head in the oven - yes it was that bad. I think the best thing to do really would be to use some sudacream (sp?) or something suitable for burns.
Because of my wild applications with spot creams when I was younger, my skin can take just about anything now.
I did however slather on a 15% glycolic acid the other week everynight for a week. My skin now looks awful - it's very very dry and flakey and it has made my acne scars redder than ever and also brought me out in more spots. :cmdunno: I too brought it to help my skin, not make it worse.
I don't know!! The things us women put ourselves through!
Answers:
Try to persevere with the aloe vera. It's moisturising and healing but oil free - I admit it's an odd feeling that something so healing actually hurts when you put it on! Personally I can't take Sudocrem, it would make the spots far worse.
The spots should go as the skin you've burned flakes off. I've had this happen to me with glycolic if I haven't used the right strength or for the right time. It seems to dissolve the skin cells only partly, so that they move around then resettle somewhere else, blocking a few pores as they go!
When all the flaking's gone, things should look a lot better and you can go back to it for a continued improvement (not quite so enthusiastically though:lol: ). In the meantime, when I've done the same, I've used a face cloth - wiped gently over the skin, not scrubbed - to help the flaking go away quicker.
BJx
Answers:
Yep persevere with the aloe gel. If you want something soothing, add a drop of lavender oil to a big dollop of gel and mix up.
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I've had nearly the exact same problem.
I've been using my bha liquid twice a day and think I'v been a bit harsh. Then I went and applied some of my benzoyl peroxide cream on top as well. So I ended up with really red burnt looking patches where I'd applied the bp cream. This will be fine as this is always what happens right after using bp cream, after not having used it for a while. It was bothring me though, because my skin was looking bad and feeling sore and stingy.
So the other morning. I tried some dr hauschka rose day cream. As I remembered that it's supposed to help tone down redness. Anyway after a few hours the redness had dissapeared by at least 50%. And after I'd used it only twice, my skin had healed up SO much, I was amazed. I mean there was patches where layers of skin had been peeled off. These areas look almost normal now though. And I've only been applying it for three days. This kind of damage to my skin (I've had it before, should really just leave my skin alone :rolleyes: ), is the sort of thing that usually takes weeks to heal up.