BENZOYL PEROX GEL 5% ***RUG Size: 1.5 OZ

by RUGBY LABORATORIES

Product Features

• non-comedogenic
• minimize dryness
• acne process
• benzoyl peroxide

Product Description

BENZOYL PEROX GEL 5% ***RUG Size: 1.5 OZ

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000NVR9GY
• UPC: 005364089562
• Item model number: RUGBY328518
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,505 in Beauty (See Top 100 in Beauty)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great 5% benzoyl peroxide, few extraneous ingredients, and cheap!!, August 7, 2008

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cinephiliagal - See all my reviews

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This stuff is exactly what it says it is: a 5% benzoyl peroxide for acne control, when you need more than 2.5%, but 10% will fry your skin.

I have had better skin with far less acne in the last five months than I previously have had for the last ten to twenty years or more, and I'll tell you how, but let me give some history first.

I had clear-ish skin as a teen, but by my mid-20s I had terrible, hereditary cystic type acne. As I've hit 40, this has been combined with the beginnings of wrinkles. For a while I was frying my skin with 10% benzoyl peroxide. And although it was killing some zits, it was definitely excessively drying and irritating my skin.

Due to very negative experiences I had with dermatologists, I have avoided them since the late 90s. I have very sensitive and dry skin, despite the acne--yet dermatologists would prescribe topical erythromycin in an alcohol base (very drying), 5% to 10% benzoyl peroxide (ditto), 2% salicylic acid gels or lotions (ditto), and high percentage tretinoin (Retin-A)--ALL AT THE SAME TIME, some to be used AM, and some to be used PM, and with some variations on those themes. With these regimens, I developed red, dry, cracking (and oozing), flaky, UGLY skin.

I have tried just about every over-the-counter acne remedy that exists. I tried Accutane. It cleared my acne up for about four months. Then it came back. I tried the birth control pills that supposedly clear up your skin. They made my acne WORSE. After a year on them, with the dermatologist saying "You need to give it time!", I switched back to my old BCPs, and my skin got BETTER. I haven't tried the new Yaz, but their claims are the same--so I doubt if your skin (or mine) would get better on Yaz. I tried Proactive, back when it first came out and it was EXPENSIVE--like $49.99 for a month supply. It didn't work.

NOTE TO YOUNG WOMEN WITH ACNE in their teens and 20s: if you are having skin problems, go to a COSMETIC surgeon who also has a background in dermatology and facial plastic/cosmetic procedures than a dermatologist. I went to two highly rated dermatologists, one who is regularly used as an "expert" on TV (both of whom are professors of dermatology in medical schools here!)--and their approach to my acne was "all acne is like a NAIL, so all our acne treatments are HAMMERS!" Sure, they can diagnose and treat bizarre and uncommon skin disorders and diseases. But they treated my acne the same way they hammered everyone ELSE's acne--and all my skin and complexion did was suffer. Dermatologists cure skin problems, but they don't care about the aesthetic result, in my experience. Cosmetic and plastic surgeons care about the AESTHETICS--that's their job, their SPECIALTY! They know if they screw up, they'll lose patients and their reputation! I wish I'd done this in the first place.

FINALLY, I stumbled on the www.Acne.org web site, and the "Clear Skin" book by the web site's creator and protector, Dan. I bought the book, I tried the techniques, and I have more or less solved my acne problem with some slight modifications from Paula Begoun's skin care techniques. Now I often have no acne for weeks, with just a tiny flare-up once a month for a few days around my period! It is AMAZING!

This is what I currently use:

1. wash my face with Cetaphil skin cleanser (actually, a local drugstore chain's knock-off version of Cetaphil)
2. wipe face with Daily Clean and Clear 1% salicylic acid pads (they don't have to be Clean and Clear; the main point is 1% salicylic acid, which is a beta hydroxy acid exfoliator)
3. Glycolic acid toner (currently from Klear Action Acne Treatment System, distributed by Walgreens as a cheaper alternative to Proactive -- WAY cheaper) -- but any good glycolic acid toner should work; just make sure glycolic acid is either the first or second ingredient in the ingredient list
4. Dan's Acne.org 2.5% benzoyl peroxide in the 16 oz. pump bottle (which is far, far cheaper ounce for ounce than Neutrogena's "On-The-Spot" and is formulated with a lot less ingredients, that don't leave a white residue). I apply it liberally. LIBERALLY. THICKLY.
5a. After the 2.5% benzoyl peroxide lotion dries, I either apply a moisturizer (Dan's jojoba oil based daily moisturizer, which is neither too greasy nor fails to moisturize), OR,
5b. After the 2.5% benzoyl peroxide lotion dries, I apply an 8% glycolic acid alpha hydroxy moisturizer/exfoilator, currently the Walgreens brand

Sometimes I do both Steps 5a AND 5b.

I do this regimen at bedtime and when I get up, except on the days I work (3 twelve hour shifts as a hospital nurse). Then I only do it at bedtime, because even though Dan's 2.5% BP doesn't leave a white residue like Neutrogena's On-The-Spot, it's still difficult to get foundation over it looking natural, because you have to put the BP on so thickly.

When I have flare-ups, I spot treat or treat my whole face with this Rugby 5% benzoyl peroxide from ABC Wholesale Amazon Merchant. If I do the 5% BP, I only do it once a day during my bedtime routine; the morning routine remains the same, with 2.5% BP.

None of these products need to be expensive, either. The Cetaphil knock-off Walgreens Gentle Skin Cleanser is about $5.99 or $6.99 at Walgreens or CVS. The Walgreens "Nature's Finest" Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream (8% AHA of 70% Solution) is $5.99. The glycolic acid toner came with the Klear Action Acne Treatment System, which is going for $9.99 on Walgreens.com right now (sale=$9.99; it's normally priced $18.99) and compares to Proactive, Neutrogena's Complete Acne Therapy System for $22.99 (walgreens.com), AcneFree Severe Acne Treatment System ($29.99), Clean & Clear Advantage Acne Control Kit ($19.99 @walgreens.com), or University Medical AcneFree Clear Skin Treatments ($19.99 @walgreens.com). The cheapest one by far is Walgreens Skin Essentials 3 Step Acne System, which is $12.99 at walgreens.com, has a glycolic acid toner, and seems to work on the same principles Dan has on his acne.org web site. You can buy 2.5% BP and 5% BP much more economically if you buy Dan's Acne.org 2.5% BP and ABC Wholesale's Rugby 5% BP here, on Amazon Merchants.

Last but not least, go to http://www.cosmeticscop.com/learn/art.asp?ID=138 to find Paula Begoun's Battle Plans for Fighting Acne At Any Age which explains everything I said here, better. Paula's earlier book Don't Go To The Cosmetics Counter Without Me explains what you need to know about treatment for acne (and rosacea, and wrinkles, etc) and it reviews a ton of name brand cosmetics and skin care products. She used to be very impartial about everyone else's products, and the sections on skin care are worth the price, imo.

I hope this helps someone. I hope you don't learn all this twenty years too late, like I did. Get Dan's book Clear Skin, or go to not-for-profit Acne.org, read about the regimen, read Paula's skin care stuff, experiment a little to customize to your skin, and buy inexpensive products like this Rugby's 5% benzoyl peroxide and the other products I've mentioned above, whichever are cheapest and most economical. May God strike me dead with a bolt of lightning RIGHT NOW if I'm lying, these are all the info and products that you will need, and you will avoid spending a lot of $$, emotional suffering, and skin damage that I unfortunately didn't avoid.

Oh, by the way: for back, chest, shoulder, and upper arm acne, I use the Wal-Mart Equaline brand of 2% salicylic acid pads (Compare to Stridex Maximum Strength in the black and blue container for guys). I use 4-6 pads. It sounds like it is too strong, but the skin on your upper chest, shoulders, and back is tougher than the skin on your face. At least in my case. I use the Equaline store brand because you get 90 pads for $2.86, as opposed to the brand name Stridex Extra Strength 55 pads for $3.99 or $4.99. The men's skin care/acne products seem to always be cheaper than women's, too.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Product - Shipping is a RIP OFF, May 6, 2010

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Suzannimal (Winter Park, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

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I love this stuff, and I jumped as soon as I saw it was back in stock. It works great, honestly. I usually order 10 tubes at a time.

But to charge $5.00+ PER ITEM to ship? That is insanity!!! And I know it hasn't always been like this. Why the change? I don't know. I can only assume it's to rip people off and I am not happy about it.

4.0 out of 5 stars can't believe it's working...., August 15, 2011

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Carlo (los angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BENZOYL PEROX GEL 5% ***RUG Size: 1.5 OZ (Health and Beauty)

i tried CVS product for acne plms, it was HORRIBLE!, didn't work for me NEVER buy CVS product for acne ever AGAIN!. so, i tried this product "RUGBY", hoping it works...FINALLY IT DOES!. only one things is that it PEELED off because of DRY but with lotion it HELPS. thanks to RUGBY for the great ACNE product. please have it in stock FOREVER!.