Beautiful back?
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enjoys freebies · Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:32 am Quote

Hello all!

I am very unhappy about my back Sad

Basically when I stopped using Birth Control my back started breaking out really bad.

Since then I started using a Salicylic acid body wash and I am exfolianting regulary. This has helped a little bit with the breakouts, but the problem is that my back is full of pigmented spots after the blemishes healed, they are red and brown.

Is there anything else I can do to help the marks disappear/prevent breakouts ?

Would really appreciate your help with this one!
Aga

enjoys freebies · Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:36 am Quote

Hi Aga!

I am in the same situation as you. I have gone off birth control pills after being on them 20 years, and my face, back and chest have been breaking out very badly. Hopefully someone here will have some advice.

Smile

enjoys freebies · Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:42 am Quote

Hello MystyPines!

Fingers crossed someone has some advice for both of us Smile

Wouldnt it be great if we could get our backs to normal and show it off for the summer Wink

Aga

enjoys freebies · Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:25 pm Quote

You know what? If Vitamin C serums are great for fading spots on our faces, wouldn’t you think that it would also work to fade the spots from the rest of our bodies? Of course, I’m thinking it would be way too expensive to waste my precious CSRx Vit-C serum to smear all over my back. But I bet it wouldn’t cost much to make our own Vit-C serum for non-facial purposes!!

GuapaGirl (Liz) is the one that tracked down this recipe originally (I think she found it somewhere on MUA) so I can’t take the credit, but I *can* repost it here:

1.5 g L-ascorbic acid
5ml glycerin
5ml distilled water

Dissolve C powder in the water, mix with the glycerin and you have 12% C serum. Store in small, tightly closed bottle in fridge. Make new batch every 2 weeks or sooner if you see a yellowish tint to serum.

I saw the L-ascorbic acid powder at my local Whole Foods the last time I was there, a large bottle of it for about $9.99USD. You can get a bottle of glycerin in the vitamin or first aid section of most pharmacies, supermarkets or health food stores for less than $4.99USD, and a gallon of distilled water is available in the bottled water aisle of the supermarket (they sell it to be used to prep baby formula) for less than $1.00USD. Once you buy the ingredients, I bet you'd have enough to make dozens and dozens of bottles of Vit-C serum! Way cheaper than paying for one bottle of CSRx or Skinceuticals Vit-C serum.

I think I'll buy the ingredients while I'm doing my grocery shopping this week and make up a batch to use on a couple of red spots on my legs (legacies from a couple of particularly heinous ingrown hairs I had last month).

As I said, in theory, Vit-C serum used on your back should fade marks and brighten the same way that it works on one's face. But if I'm totally wrong, I'm sure one of the ladies here will set me straight!!

Carrie

enjoys freebies · Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:25 pm Quote

Hi Carrie,

Sounds like a great idea!

I was wondering about VIt C myself, but like you said I dont want to use my regular Vit C ( I have the CSRx as well) on my back Smile

THX for the recipe, and the whole list og places where to get ingredients! So cool!

I am going to try and make my own and apply it to my back!

Let me know if it works for your legs Smile

Aga

enjoys freebies · Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:29 pm Quote

Oh, I wonder, do you have to store regular Vit C in the fridge?

aga

enjoys freebies · Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:50 am Quote

if you're only looking to get rid of acne scars and you don't have sensitive skin i would strongly recommend NEO-STRATA HQ GEL.

I've been using it since i was 17, now 25 and it's the best thing on the market.

If you have existing acne it won't work. you have to have smooth skin for it to work.

In fact, it works on any scar on your body.

Use it twice a day, morning and night but don't expect to see results till the end of 2 months.

Good luck

Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:37 am Quote

Aga wrote:

Oh, I wonder, do you have to store regular Vit C in the fridge?

Don't think so. Just tightly capped and away from light should do....

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