Unblemished: Stop Breakouts! Fight Acne! Transform Your Life! Reclaim Your Self-Esteem with the Proven 3-Step Program Using Over-the-Counter Medications [Paperback]

Katie M.D. Rodan (Author), Kathy M.D. Fields (Author), Vanessa Williams (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2005

It's a fact: Acne affects at least 50 million American men and women of all ages, ethnicities, and skin types. Yet so few of us understand why we have acne, and what we can do to treat it. Did I wash my face the wrong way? Did I eat too much chocolate? Will that expensive new cream really work? Will my face ever look better?

In Unblemished, Drs. Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields -- creators of Proactiv Solution, the country's #1 selling acne-care product -- refute some of the most common misunderstandings about acne and present a groundbreaking guide using only over-the-counter medications to banish breakouts forever. Based on proven medical research and their extensive personal experience treating patients, the Rodan and Fields approach works in three basic steps. Rather than spot-treating blemishes and pimples reactively, their system -- individualized for every skin color, type, and age -- treats the entire face using an easy-to-follow regimen that is designed to attack acne at its source so you can get the clear, beautiful skin you've always wanted.

You can change the face of acne -- and you can change your life.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Stanford-trained, Bay Area dermatologists Rodan and Fields have demonstrated their over-the-counter acne-treatment products to mass audiences on television, and their telegenic charm carries over into this chatty but deeply knowledgeable and practical book. In defining what acne is (technically, a disease that makes use of bacteria), Rodan and Fields discuss their own skin histories, their families, their friendship and their professional beginnings: "So there we were in 1987, the only women in our practices (all our other colleagues were men), and the women patients flocked to us because we understood what they were going through. Plus we love makeup and skin-care products and pampering and we’d never tell our patients to stop wearing their makeup or stop going for facials if it made them feel better." They worked years on a "spot-kill" product that worked pimple-by-pimple, before realizing that "by treating the full face daily, continuously, with a combination of medications, acne can be stopped at the source." The rest of the book explains their Proactive Solution and Multi-Med Therapy regimens, and maps them onto various demographics, skin-types and problem areas, from "Babies and Children" to "Perimenopausal and Menopausal Women." They are careful to take "Acne’s Psychological Aftermath" into account, and offer glossaries of product ingredients and technical terms. Annoying testimonials feel spliced in, but Rodan and Fields write with intelligence and care, and push their products in the clear belief that they work.
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Review

"Revolutionary....In addition to debunking skin myths, Rodan and Fields advise on how to eradicate and prevent acne."

-- Elle

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books (March 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743482050
• ISBN-13: 978-0743482059
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #487,195 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, November 23, 2009

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Don Vargas (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unblemished: Stop Breakouts! Fight Acne! Transform Your Life! Reclaim Your Self-Esteem with the Proven 3-Step Program Using Over-the-Counter Medications (Paperback)

Much better than "The Acne Cure," which I also reviewed. Provides lots of information and different regimens for many different skin types. Surprisingly, though from the creators of Proactiv, the book provides recommendations for a number of products. Nearly everything in the book can be found here on Amazon or at Walmart or Target.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book., November 2, 2009

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Jay S. - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Unblemished: Stop Breakouts! Fight Acne! Transform Your Life! Reclaim Your Self-Esteem with the Proven 3-Step Program Using Over-the-Counter Medications (Paperback)

This is a good book, but it just overviews the normal 3 steps to fight acne...and gives lists of OTC products you can buy. If your acne isnt that bad then its worth it--but everything I tried from this book didnt work for me!! (It helped but didnt clear me up completely.) The ladies that wrote this book made Proactiv.

5.0 out of 5 stars "Unblemished" is a great common sense approach to acne self-care, November 1, 2009

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Victoria Elbrecht Rodan + Fields Level 5 Foun... (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unblemished: Stop Breakouts! Fight Acne! Transform Your Life! Reclaim Your Self-Esteem with the Proven 3-Step Program Using Over-the-Counter Medications (Hardcover)

"Unblemished" is a fantastic book everyone should have on their bookshelf. The doctors and Lori Bush share years of skincare experience and their incredible knowledge with us,projecting the great warmth and candor as they are known for. Luckily, she and Katie Rodan didn't stop at just treating acne with Proactiv, which is the world's most popular acne treatment. They now have amazing anti-aging products addressing fine lines, wrinkles and sun damage and they are now givivg US the opportunity to partner with THEM and everything Rodan + Fields undertakes is sheer brilliance. [...].