Salicylic Gel Chemical Peel - Enhanced with Green Tea Extract and Tea Tree Oil (20% Strength)

This product is not for beginners and not for sensitive skin, if there is damage on the skin, then first take care of healing! I have a lot of experience in cosmetology, and I know what I'm talking about! I liked the packaging, made of paper and glass, very natural and pleasant to the touch! There is a film to protect against opening, so you can clearly see that no one has opened the product before you. I liked the smell, it smells like tea tree. The composition is good but very rich, be careful if you have allergies! I have oily skin with large pores and comedones, the peeling gave me partial frost, the maximum peeling was on the 3rd day. On the first day I wiped my face with a slightly acidic product for proper healing, from the second day I made masks with aloe and applied oily healing creams (I have from Obagi with glycerin) and sunscreen during the day. The pores were cleaned and decreased by 70% on the forehead by 90%. I am very pleased with the result and the product! It definitely works and is strong enough!

Wow, this stuff is strong.To give some background, I used a 70% glycolic acid peel from another brand and it was also strong but it tended to burn the skin more and would take longer to peel. It was also less visible. Moreover, I had to leave it on for longer duration(7-10 mins) to see peeling .But with this one(20%), within a minute I could feel the burning. I neutralized it after a minute as it was quite strong. Turned my face a little red. And ok the third day, I can see layers peeling off from my skin.I am surprised that this is peeling more than my glycolic acid peel

Age: 29Skin type: oily/dry, mixed; cystic acne; moderate scarringColor: yellowFirst and foremost, I would like to recommend the following review for other advice and instructions; it is what I have been using as a guide:5.0 out of 5 stars Effective Product September 3, 2012By Rong D. TanAmazon Verified PurchaseI want to start out by saying that I was super paranoid about trying this product. I have never had a professional peel (too poor, just a grad student); groupon sucks in my area so there was no hope of that ever changing; and I was afraid of burning my face off and making everything worse. However, I recently went through a super stressful, prolonged time in my life and whatever control I'd gotten over my acne was lost and I now have lots of scars and have been struggling with new cystic outbreaks. I read the reviews and thought I would try this.I must say, the tea tree oil smell is very strong; I swear it smells like eucalyptus too but I don't have the bottle near me so I can't say for sure if that's also an ingredient; if I remember correctly there are several herbal ingredients listed besides tea tree. Anyway, if you are sensitive to smells this might not be the best product for you.I have been using this now for a few months. I have been using it about twice a week for about three minutes. I don't like to go longer than that because I still feel like my face might burn off if I do; however, I have had no lasting ill-effects with this approach and length of application thus far.I did not tell anyone I was trying this product, in case I burned my face off and had to call into work for a few days and didn't want people to know it was my own d*mn fault. So, a few weeks ago someone actually commented that my skin looked much better and that my scars seemed to be faded. I had not changed anything else in my routine.I believe this person wholeheartedly, so I take it that it is working. I would not have said that I had noticed a significant difference in my scars, but since this comment was totally unsolicited and unprepped, I think it is worth noting. I did notice that this product helps control my cystic acne. Not much else does. I was previously using a glycolic acid peel of 12% but this seems to be doing a much better job.I know it sounds like a broken record, but I do have to emphasize the sunscreen caution that goes with using this product. Two reasons for this: first, the public health one. Using this product increases your susceptibility to the sun's harmful rays, which can cause skin damage in the first place. Use an SPF of 30 or higher that is water resistance and UVA/UVB protective, EVERYDAY when using this product, EVEN IF IT'S CLOUDY or you don't plan to be outside very long!The second reason is hypocritical based on the above first reason, I admit, but educational nonetheless. I said earlier I had not noticed the scars fading much although my friend mentioned it out of the blue. However, as I write this I am on vacation. I have been lax about sunscreen (hypocrisy, I know!) BAD IDEA!! My scars stand out so much more now than before!!! I am not using the product here but now even as I get a little tan, the scars are standing out soooo much more, so I guess the product really was doing something to fade them, and now I have to backtrack when I get home. Not to mention the other health dangers of being sloppy about sun protection.So there is my review; I know some people have questioned the sincerity of some of this brand's reviews, but I assure you I am a real person and that my story about being stupid about sunscreen is real. Hope this review helps some people, whether deciding to use this product or maybe just sunscreen :-)***UPDATE***I would like to add that this product lasts a REALLY long time. I bought it at the end of October and I just realized (in March now) that I have still not run out of my first bottle, although I started using it only once a week in January. I also lost my brush and started using those cotton pads from Walgreens, which I think absorb and thus waste more product. But I still have a lot of acid peel left. No idea how much longer it will last.

The negative reviews either received a bad batch, have far too sensitive skin, or far too tough... But many are simply using it wrong. "Burned and had to remove after 20 seconds..." "Made my skin red and peel..." Umm, yes. You do realize you purchased a face PEEL?By all means, follow the directions and start slow. But my fair, hyperpigmented, combination, acne-prone, aging skin very quickly became tolerant to the peels. I've tried salicylic, lactic, glycolic, and TCA. I have professional peels scheduled over the next 8 weeks (because I never had one and I want to compare) so I decided to clear my pores with the salicylic peel before I begin those.The description may say for hyperpigmented skin, wrinkles, etc but it's pretty much the same description they use for all of their peels. ***Salicylic is for breaking up the skin cells and clearing the junk that clogs your pores.*** It's your face. Do your research. If you have expectations beyond that, try the other peels.I'm able to use this for about 10 minutes, layering it every few. Then I get impatient and wash it off with cold water and put a cold cloth I've had waiting in the freezer over my face for a bit. I could probably go longer, to be honest. My skin gets red (does not frost), gets dry, flakes off by day 2 much like a sunburn or overuse of acne products. When I have severe acne (often because this causes my skin to purge), I go back and dab the peel on those spots around day 3, and they dramatically shrink! The flaking lasts a week, depending on how often I go back over spots or if I moisturizer enough. I exfoliate with a washcloth or scrubbing gloves by days 5-7 otherwise I will flake longer than that. I'm now using it every few days on my nose and my skin has adjusted. No longer dry in that area and pores are tight. Blackheads are leaving. I will continue to use this every other week so my skin won't get so congested again.The TCA is by far my favorite but requires about 10 days of down time and I haven't been able to complete a series of 3-4 of them yet to see the results I want. With this peel, however, I can still leave the house and be using something that seems to work better than any other acne treatment.These peels, a gentle face cleanser, oil free moisturizer (with sunscreen), and Vit C serum is all my skin needs at the moment. And I thought I needed all the stuff that I spent thousands of dollars on in this last year alone (Fresh, Lush, Pericone MD, PCA, Burt's Bees, Philosophy, Proactive, IPL facials, microdermabrasion, so many products that I can't remember).It's not an overnight miracle, but the best for me so far.

This works well. Follow the instructions and have a good moisturizer ready post-treatment. That's it!