Backne. Don't lie. You know you've had it. Back-acne. The humidity always does it for me. Tiny, painful boils on my back, arms and shoulders, nullifying the cuteness of all my strapless summer dresses. I took action with Nuetrogena's Body Clear Pink Grapefruit Body Wash. It's has a delicious, genuine pink grapefruit scent and is available at stores as pedestrian as Walgreens, where it will set you back about seven bucks. Even if you don't like grapefruit (I'm a grapefruit fiend, myself), you gotta like the way it smells. It smells clean. And grapefruity. For this reason, I prefer this product over other body-acne treatments I've tried, which smell medicated and are so harsh they dry my skin, sometimes exacerbating the problem. Not so with this lush pink stuff. The pink beads suspended in the body wash look like miniature gumballs and gently, gently scrub your skin without over-drying which is easy to do in the middle of a breakout. I'm not sure if there's a grapefruit extract that magically clears your skin, but whatever's in it works like magic. Something tells me it's got to do with the powerful dose of salicylic acid, an acne combatant that' especially effective against whiteheads and blackheads. My skin was clear within a couple of weeks and stayed that way all summer long. Nuetrogena also makes an oil-free foaming face scrub and a body scrub, which I've never tried. I did, however, sniff them in the store (I have a problem, I know) and both scrubs have the same heavenly scent.
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EcoMamaApril 29, 2009
That sounds like great stuff, it is hard to find something that actually works. I'll have to recommend it to some of my friends! Something tells me you'll enjoy @FashionKitty's review of the body scrub you mentioned.