The Acne Cure: The Nonprescription Plan That Shows Dramatic Results in as Little as 24 Hours [Paperback]

Terry J. Dubrow (Author), Brenda D. Adderly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2004

A Groundbreaking, Four-Step Program that Immediately Helps to Improve Your Skin. Everyone gets a blemish now and then. But for some, acne is a way of life. Now there's a solution! Dr. Terry J. Dubrow, a renowned expert in the field of skin care and director of the Acne Clinic of Newport Beach, CA, offers a comprehensive, safe, and fast-acting, four-step cure for this condition without risky prescription drugs, unpleasant side effects, or major changes in diet or lifestyle. In six weeks or less, this program helps eliminate acne in ninety-five percent of all cases-even the most severe ones. You can see dramatic results in as little as twenty-four hours! Learn how to: * Clear up acne no matter your age or skin type * Avoid future breakouts and keep skin healthy and glowing * Treat breakouts caused by hormonal changes (including pregnancy and menopause), stress, travel, exhaustion, and more * Eliminate razor bumps in men * Effectively cover up blemishes until treatment is complete-tips for both men and women * Take care of your skin using vitamins and antioxidants.

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Everyone gets a blemish now and then. But for some, acne is a way of life. Acne sufferers spend millions of dollars in their desperate hunt for a solution. Often they turn to incomplete over-the-counter remedies or even prescription drugs with dangerous side effects.

Now, there is a cure.

The Acne Cure describes a revolutionary, proven treatment program that, in no more than 6 weeks, eliminates acne in 95 percent of all cases--even the most severe ones. You will see dramatic results in as little as 24 hours!

The Acne Cure is the only book ever to offer a comprehensive, safe, rapid, and almost universally successful method of eliminating acne without prescription drugs, without side effects, without shifts in lifestyle or eating habits, and at little cost.

Whether you're a teenage girl embarrassed to date because of her complexion, or a woman who feels her face is disfigured by acne; whether you're a boy with pimples, or a mature man for whom shaving is torture because of the bumps and lesions of the disease; whether you're White, Black, Hispanic, or Asian, this program is for you. Using the simple, in-home Acne Cure protocol, you can now get rid of your acne--once and for all.

YOU WILL LEARN:

The simple, step-by-step program to eradicate even the most difficult acne
The ideal cure for any age or skin type
The real story of acne: what it is, how it spreads, and what is just a myth
The scientific proof behind the Acne Cure program
Which vitamins and antioxidants help your skin
What really works to eliminate razor bumps in men
How stress affects acne and what to do about it
The best ways to deal with the really tough acne problems
How to eliminate acne scars
In only a few minutes a day, in no more than 6 weeks--and often much sooner--your skin will be healthy, vibrant, and acne-free. Better still, when you follow the simple, inexpensive program outlined in this book, chances are your acne will not return. Even if it does, you'll have no trouble eliminating all traces of it again promptly.

From now on, you never need worry about acne again. Say good-bye to pimples and hello to clear skin.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Acne Cure

"Dr. Dubrow has come up with a wonderful program to treat acne." --Robert Schwartz, M.D., plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Dallas

"A wonderful program based on sound medical science." --Harry G. Preuss, M.D., F.A.C.N., C.N.S., professor of medicine and pathology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., and author of The Prostate Cure and Maitake Magic

"An excellent tome for patients and physicians alike." --Malcom A. Lesavoy, M.D., F.A.C.S., clinical professor, division of plastic and reconstructive surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, and plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Los Angeles

"The Acne Cure provides a sound, logical approach to treating acne." --Kenny R. Mallott, M.D., dermatologist certified by the American Board of Dermatology, Kihei, Hawaii

"We've been using this system in our practice for a considerable time, with wonderful results." --Peter Helton, D.O., dermatologist certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Dermatology, Newport Beach, California

"I recommend this book to all my patients suffering from acne." --Randall D. Haworth, M.D., plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Beverly Hills, California

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (May 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446692417
• ISBN-13: 978-0446692410
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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91 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After acne for 17 years, I am now 97% acne free, July 21, 2004

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LA Girl (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Acne Cure (Hardcover)

Just like many of the reviewers here, I have tried EVERYTHING over the years, prescription medication (oral and topical), vitamins, Proactive, diet, 2 courses of acutane. Nothing worked, and my skin is very sensitive, and naturally very oily, and scars very easily. I bought this book over 1 year ago and finally understood the reasons behind how acne developed, and the need to use different products to control different phases of the acne cycle.

After putting the scientific information in this book together with other books, my routine is this:

Morning: Wash 1x with 2% Salicylic Wash - Oil Free Acne Wash, Neutrogena ($5), then wash again with Proactive's 2.5% BP cleanser. Use Proactive's toner and 2.5% BP treatment cream, then spf 30 sunscreen.

Evening: Wash 1x with Noxema Triple Clean Cleanser--has Triclosan ($5), then wash again with Glycolic Acid - 7% Glycolic Exfoliating Wash, DDF. ($27, Sephora). Then sometimes use a 2% hydroquinone product to slowly remove scars, but usually nothing else at night.

Washing my face twice morning and night with these products has eliminated the severe acne I had for 17 years. All of these products are good in themselves (Proactive is good with BP, because their delivery system gets the BP deep within the pores. The triclosan cleanser is good because it eliminates surface bacteria from the skin, glycolin acid is good because it lifts dead skin cells and rejuvenates skin.) But when I finally understood that they all had to work together to eliminate acne, and stuck to the program, is when I had amazing results. It has been about a year of 97% acne free.

I am using more products now to make it all work than I used to, but I am spending SOOOO much less $ than I used to on acne products it is amazing.

I have never written a review before. . . But this book has changed my life so much that I wanted to let you know what I do so hopefully it can help someone else.

111 of 117 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The stuff works, but hard to follow. Thats why I give it 3 s, March 20, 2005

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Your beauty in your own hands - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Acne Cure (Hardcover)

Important information that will help you. Read everything! Long post.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy for you to come your way into a brand new start in life. But before you get into it, let me assure you, it all depends on YOU!

Thats right, you. This book is effective, but only if followed 100 percent correctly. Which is not easy! believe me, especially after loads of failed attempt and relunctant to follow through due to lack of trust and confidence in other "solution". Thats what holding some of these negative reviewer back. The method in this book does work, but only if you follow it consistently everyday at the specific hour and specific routine and all the micro details involved in the process. Terry J Dubrow is a great researcher and doctor, but when it comes to communicating his points, I find that to be his biggest flaw. His Acne Cure Program, the routine is not listed PRECISELY clear, he wrote it under the assumption that we know exactly what to use for morning, night, etc... So let me clarify for you my friends.

Morning: Step 1:

S-Acid first, make sure you add a few drop of water, and leave it on face for at least 2 minutes. The ammount listed is the size of penny. Now don't assume thats enough for your entire face. Thats only enough for one part of your face, I think more is necessary, so work your way through from forehand "top to bottom" face, nose, cheeks, chin, etc. 2-3 penny should be enough. rub gently in circular motion. Leave for 2 minutes. After that, use warm water from shower to wash off the solution.

2) Use G-Acid in the exact same manner as the S-Acid. Make sure you completely wash off the S-Acid first before adding the G-Acid. The only difference in using the G-Acid is, it takes some time for the acid to sink in to effect, so leave it on for 2-3 minutes, then gently scrub off the dead skin cells [you should have quite some since the G-Acid would inevitably help you remove it from clogging" and make sure you cleanse off all the dead skin cells so it doesn't clog up your pores. After you use warm water to effectively remove dead skin cells, move onto step 3.

Step 3: [after shower] Apply OIL-FREE moisturizer with Sunscreen at 30 concentration. Make sure you use moisturizer or it won't work. This is a HUGE step of the cure. By doing this, it will help improve your skin dramatically and actually help remove the acne a lot more effective. So buy a quality OIL-FREE moisturizer with SPF 30.

Thats Morning. I suggest doing S-acid and G-acid steps during shower, and do it everyday EXACTLY THAT TIME. FORCE YOURSELF INTO IT BY MAKING IT A JOB. A NATURAL HABIT WITHOUT EVEN THINKING. Or else you will definitely fail if you don't do so or waste your time and money and dont get significant improvement.

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Night time,

Step 1: Use the S-Acid process [exactly] the same as the morning one. So meaning the S-Acid needs to be washed off.

Step 2: After you finished washing, heres the tricky part.

Grab your BP Gel from your fridge, it needs to be very cold. So if it's not cold enough, before you take shower at night to apply step 1, put the gel in freezer from the lower fridge and leave it there until you finish showering and using Step 1.
Once it's cold enough after applying step 1, Take out the BP gel from fridge or otherwise freezer. Take at least 4-5 large ice cube. I repeat, large ones. Not mini ones or broken ones. Get some big ones. Grab your face towel. Put the 4-5 large ice cube and bp gel on your face towel. Grab your ice packs. "I seriously suggest people to get AT LEAST 2 ICE PACK. I suggest 3, but if possible get 6! Heres why, this is important. Each time you apply, I suggest using 3 at a time to cover your entire face, so you treat it all together in under 15 minutes. If you only use 1 ice pack, not only do you have to leave it on one part of your face for 10 minutes, you have to leave it onto other parts of your face, which compose of 3 main parts, Top forehead, Left Face, Right side Face. So add that all together, easily 50 minutes. It takes at least couple minutes to apply the gel and ice and everything each time.
Grab all your ice pack, breifly rinse your ice pack with cold water for couple seconds. Dont wash it. Leave the washing at the end when you finish using it, so next time you use it is clean and just briefly rinse it.

Secondly after one use of the ice pack, the ice pack no longer becomes cold. The ice pack im referring to are those "blue" ones or whichever liquid gel color they have. It is usually usable for both hot and cold. So once your blood warms up, or your breathe heats up the pack, it becomes defective. [When you leave the pack over your face, it becomes hard to breathe and you use your mouth to breathe in air, and during that process, it may heat up the ice pack quicker] So imagine reusing one pack thats not even cold after one tiome usage on other parts of your face... It becomes INCONSISTENT! So you need 3 ice packs for 3 parts of your face, leave it on together covering your entire face, that way each pack are dedicated to each specific area of your problem area. In the book it wasnt detailed, because it would have no problem treating a couple of pimples with one pack, but with average sufferers, it's not sufficient.

3 packs. Get extra 3 packs, the reason is, 1 night of cooling is not enough to deeply make the pack cold, so if you have 6 pack, you can exchange the pack for rotation which leaves more time for the packs to absorb the coldness and last longer during that 10 minute treatment. This is extremely important, many times it felt like it wasn't "effective" or not satisfy when it's not cold enough. So you must keep it cold and feel "fulfilled" inside.

Now down to the actual details of application.

After you grab everything, the packs, ice cubes, cold BP gel, lay down on bed with blanket covering yourself [make it comfortable as you can] relax yourself, allow time to relax, release the tension, and start running the ice cubes over your forehead, run one full cube per area. 1 cube Top forehead, 1 cube left side of face, 1 cube right side of face. Rerun it with remaining cube on all area of face and rerun it until all the ice are gone, this should make your skin cold to the touch. with lots of melting water. So place the towel right underneath your face when you run the ice. Make sure you do this until it really becomes cold to the touch, not freezing cold, but cold as in it won't just fade away in matter of seconds. Once it's that stage, apply generous amount of BP GEL that are really cold [dont be cheap, put a lot], onto your face, smooth it out, even it out. Do it gently, once thats done. "try not to take too long, your finger due to blood circulation will heat up the gel" then immediately place all ice pack in position, you should see some small ice on top of the pack, it's okay leave it on. Place all packs onto your face. Rest and relax for 10 minutes, try not to breathe so much, as it will heat up the pack.just relax, place the pack firmly onto your face so it's actually "touching" the surface, dont push it aggressively though, just gentle placement and gentle finger holding to lock down the position of the pack. Dont put entire hand to hold down the pack, that heats it up faster, use fingers to hold the position. let comfortably, so all your pores are open for the BP gel to enter to work itself. Leave it on for 10 minutes minimun [assuming you have entire face covered together]. Once 10 minute is over, I suggest listening to music and knowing the track of the time, so you can guess by which track is the time. Once this is done and becomes your everyday relaxation time, things will go very well. I promise you. Whats hard is the experience of the cold pack, it is not a pleasant experience if you mess up or make it not comfortable, thats why I suggest doing it in bed with some blankets to keep your body warm and comfortable while your face is doing the cooling. try to enjoy it. Once time is up, grab the towel, wipe off the excess BP gel and leave the remaining to work overnight. Do this every evening after night shower or before going to bed. Wash your packs, put it in freezer, put BP gel in fridge. And there you have it. Your night time routine.
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If you follow the day time routine and night time routine EVERYDAY WITHOUT MESSING UP ONCE and doing it ON TIME, it will work, give it at least 6-7 weeks before you say this doesnt work, some people may notice immediate improvement the next day. Sounds easy right? NOT AT ALL! It's a commitment, especially when it requires all that effort. Just make sure you follow the Morning routine and the night time routine every single day of the program, on time on track, not leaving out one single step.
It's not that simple as it sounds, when life and stress comes into play, getting off work all tired, sometimes you just don't feel like doing it, especially the cold pack [more so if you dislike it] so make it through, make it comfortable and relaxing, try to enjoy it, force yourself through and get over it. Conquer your acne.

If you dont do so as told, getting lazy or don't feel like doing the BP gel with cold packs, or only doing morning today, tomorrow night time, etc etc with any inconsistent combination, you are wasting your time and money on the product. Because it won't heal like that, it takes ongoing penetration with the morning routine and the night time routine to work together.It works each time little by little, and by the end of the program, you see a dramatic result. It's not a overnight magic for all people. So if you do it consistent for 4 days, then decides to stop for 2 days, and redo it. Thats... Read more ›

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This program works, but use it in moderation., August 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Acne Cure (Hardcover)

I struggled with acne for 17 yrs, and the program outlined in this book gave positive results in less than one week. It has even made those dreaded "cystic" ones a thing of the past. However, I do agree that it is a fairly harsh regimen. I would consider my skin to be VERY durable and not irritated easily at all; yet at about the two week mark, my skin started to peel and get really dried out.

My suggestion to anyone wanting to give this a shot is to use the full protocol sparingly when first trying it out (perhaps every other evening) or try what another reviewer suggested and slowly add each component to your cleansing ritual. I personally use a 2% salicylic wash by Neutrogena every AM and on every other PM (like I said, I have tough skin). On the evenings I don't use the salycylic wash, I use an extremely mild soap and will alternate between using the glycolic acid and the benzoyl peroxide.

Sounds confusing? Well, it takes a bit of commitment to keep it straight, but the results are very much worth it. Up until about 4 months ago when I started this, I had no idea what it was like to wake up in the morning and not dread looking at what had sprouted up overnight. Another reviewer commented that it was difficult to find the acids - I had to go to a skin care specialist to get mine. However, I have noticed that sephora.com sells glycolic acid by several different makers; sephora is on the pricey side, so you might want to look around some more.